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90_HB1600 30 ILCS 105/5.449 new 605 ILCS 5/4-508.1 from Ch. 121, par. 4-508.1 Amends the State Finance Act and the Illinois Highway Code. Requires the Department of Transportation to sell to the Toll Highway Authority any property, at its fair appraised value, that may be used by the Authority to expand certain toll highways. Creates the Northeastern Illinois Strategic Regional Arterial Road Improvement Fund and provides that the money from the property purchases shall be deposited into this Fund. Requires IDOT to use the money to improve Strategic Regional Arterials in Northeastern Illinois. Effective immediately. LRB9005173NTsb LRB9005173NTsb 1 AN ACT in relation to transportation, amending named 2 Acts. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding 6 Section 5.449 as follows: 7 (30 ILCS 105/5.449 new) 8 Sec. 5.449. The Northeastern Illinois Strategic Regional 9 Arterial Road Improvement Fund. 10 Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by 11 changing Section 4-508.1 as follows: 12 (605 ILCS 5/4-508.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 4-508.1) 13 Sec. 4-508.1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 14 in the event the Department obtains or has obtained fee 15 simple title to, or any lesser interest in, any land, rights 16 or other property under the provisions of Section 4-508 of 17 this Code in connection with a project involving the planned 18 construction of a federal-aid highway and that project ceases 19 to be a federal-aid project, the Department is authorized to 20 convey title to, or any lesser interest in, all such land, 21 rights or property, regardless of whether any construction 22 has taken place, to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority 23 without compensation when such conveyance is approved in 24 writing by the Governor. 25 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to property that may 26 be used to expand the Illinois toll highway system by 27 extending Illinois Route 53 from Lake-Cook Road to Illinois 28 Route 120 then east to Interstate I-94 or that may be used to 29 expand the Illinois toll highway system by extending the -2- LRB9005173NTsb 1 North-South tollway at Illinois Route 120 to the 2 Illinois-Wisconsin border near Richmond, Illinois. This 3 property shall be sold to the Illinois State Toll Highway 4 Authority at the fair appraised value of the property and the 5 proceeds shall be deposited into the Northeastern Illinois 6 Strategic Regional Arterial Road Improvement Fund, a special 7 fund hereby created in the State Treasury, to be used by the 8 Department subject to appropriation to improve the Strategic 9 Regional Arterials in Northeastern Illinois. 10 (Source: P.A. 83-1258.) 11 Section 99. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.