Public Act 100-0127
 
HB2725 EnrolledLRB100 06424 SLF 16463 b


  
    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
 
    Section 5. The Recreational Trails of Illinois Act is 
amended by adding Section 50 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 862/50 new)
    Sec. 50. Federal obligation limitation. The Department may 
enter into agreements as necessary with the Federal Highway 
Administration, or any successor agency, for the purpose of 
authorizing federal obligation limitations for projects under 
the federal Recreational Trails Program; provided however, the 
Department and the Illinois Department of Transportation shall 
enter into an inter-agency agreement to closely coordinate the 
obligation of projects authorized by the Illinois Division 
Office of the Federal Highway Administration to maximize 
federal funding opportunities.
 
    Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by 
changing Section 3-105 as follows:
 



    (605 ILCS 5/3-105)  (from Ch. 121, par. 3-105)



    Sec. 3-105. 
Except as otherwise provided in the Treasurer 
as Custodian
of Funds Act, all money received by the State
of 
Illinois from the federal government for aid in construction of 
highways
shall be placed in the "Road Fund" in the State 
Treasury. For the purposes of this Section, money received by 
the State of Illinois from the federal government under the 
Recreational Trails Program for grants or contracts obligated 
on or after October 1, 2017 shall not be considered for use as 
aid in construction of highways, and shall be placed in the 
"Park and Conservation Fund" in the State treasury. 

    Whenever any county having a population of 500,000 or more 
inhabitants
has incurred indebtedness and issued Expressway 
bonds as authorized by
Division 5-34 of
the Counties Code  and 
has used
the proceeds of such bonds for the construction of 
Expressways in
accordance with the provisions of Section 15d of 
"An Act to revise the law
in relation to roads and bridges", 
approved June 27, 1913, as amended
(repealed) or
of Section 
5-403 of this Code in order to accelerate the improvement of

the National System of Interstate Highways, the federal aid 
primary highway
network or the federal aid highway network in 
urban areas, the State shall
appropriate and allot, from the 
allotments of federal funds made available
by Acts of Congress 
under the Federal Aid Road Act and as appropriated
and made 
available to the State of Illinois, to such county or counties 
a
sum sufficient to retire the bonded indebtedness due annually 
arising from
the issuance of those Expressway bonds issued for 
the purpose of
constructing Expressways in the county or 
counties. Such funds shall be
deposited in the Treasury of such 
county or counties for the purpose of
applying such funds to 
the payment of the Expressway bonds, principal and
interest due 
annually, issued pursuant to Division 5-34  of the Counties 
Code.

(Source: P.A. 86-1475.)