Division 9 - State Funding Of Road District Bridges
(605 ILCS 5/Art. 6 Div. 9 heading) DIVISION 9. STATE FUNDING OF ROAD DISTRICT BRIDGES
(605 ILCS 5/6‑901) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑901)
Sec. 6‑901. Annually, the General Assembly shall appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the road fund, the general revenue fund, any other State funds or a combination of those funds, $15,000,000 for apportionment to counties for the use of road districts for the construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length, as provided in Sections 6‑902 through 6‑905.
The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the several counties of this State for the use of road districts the amounts appropriated under this Section. The amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the total mileage of township or district roads in the county bears to the total mileage of all township and district roads in the State. Each county shall allocate to the several road districts in the county the funds so apportioned to the county. The allocation to road districts shall be made in the same manner and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications as are provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", approved March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to the allocation to road districts of the amount allotted from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund for apportionment to counties for the use of road districts, but no allocation shall be made to any road district that has not levied taxes for road and bridge purposes and for bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates permitted by Sections 6‑501, 6‑508 and 6‑512 of this Act, without referendum. "Road district" and "township or district road" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.
Road districts in counties in which a property tax extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road district was levying at the required rate and continues to levy the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the property tax extension limitation. The road district also becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not obligated under Sections 6‑902 through 6‑904 and for which local funds have not been committed under Section 6‑905 within 48 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution to road districts.
(Source: P.A. 96‑366, eff. 1‑1‑10.)
(605 ILCS 5/6‑902) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑902)
Sec. 6‑902. The highway commissioners of the several road districts, in cooperation with the county superintendent of highways of their respective counties, shall select the bridges to be constructed with moneys allocated under Section 6‑901. In the selection of bridges, the highest priority shall be given to the safe and expeditious transportation of school pupils. The second priority shall be the movement of agricultural equipment and products; the third priority shall be given rural free delivery mail routes; and, the fourth priority shall be meeting the anticipated traffic needs of the general public. The county superintendent of highways, in cooperation with the respective highway commissioners, shall prepare, or cause to be prepared maps showing the bridges selected and shall prepare or cause to be prepared the necessary plans, specifications and estimates of cost of such construction, all of which shall be submitted to the Department for approval. The type of construction selected shall be adequate for present or reasonably anticipated traffic needs as determined by the county superintendent of highways and the respective highway commissioners and approved by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 79‑1491.) |
(605 ILCS 5/6‑903) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑903)
Sec. 6‑903. With the approval of the Department, a road district may use funds allocated under Section 6‑901 for the payment of any indebtedness incurred after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1976, in the construction of any bridge selected under Section 6‑902 as a bridge to be constructed under Section 6‑902 and the payment of engineering costs incurred in connection therewith; but if the road district desires to use such allocated funds for this purpose it shall follow the same procedure in expending moneys secured in the creation of the indebtedness as if the construction was to be paid for directly with funds under Section 6‑902.
(Source: P.A. 79‑1491.) |
(605 ILCS 5/6‑904) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑904)
Sec. 6‑904. The Department of Transportation shall notify the county superintendent of highways of each county of the apportionment and allotment under Section 6‑901 for the purposes stated in Sections 6‑901, 6‑902 and 6‑903, as soon as possible after the allotment is made. Any payment made pursuant to such apportionment may be utilized by the county in accordance with the needs of the county in a manner satisfactory to the Department. However, if any county, after having been given reasonable notice by the Department, fails to expend such funds in a manner satisfactory to the Department, no further payment of such funds shall be made to such county for bridge construction purposes until it corrects its unsatisfactory use of such funds.
(Source: P.A. 79‑1491.) |
(605 ILCS 5/6‑905) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑905)
Sec. 6‑905. The amount of grant for an approved road district project shall require at least $1 of local funds committed to the project for each $4 that may be allocated under Section 6‑901.
(Source: P.A. 81‑1509.) |
(605 ILCS 5/6‑906) (from Ch. 121, par. 6‑906)
Sec. 6‑906. So much of the amount apportioned to a county under Section 6‑901 that is obligated under Sections 6‑902 through 6‑904 and for which local funds have been committed under Section 6‑905, within two years from the date the apportionment is made, shall, upon certification by the Department, be paid to the county treasurer, who shall apply those funds to the payment of such obligations. Any funds allocated to a county under Section 6‑901 that are not obligated within 24 months under Sections 6‑902 through 6‑904 shall revert to the Road Fund.
(Source: P.A. 84‑1308.) |