(605 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-1)
Sec. 1.
It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination,
that in order to promote the public welfare, and to facilitate vehicular
traffic by providing convenient, safe, modern and limited access highways
designed for the accommodation of the needs of the traveling public through
and within the State of Illinois, that it is necessary in the public
interest to provide for the construction, operation, regulation and
maintenance of a toll highway or a system of toll highways, incorporating
therein the benefits of advanced engineering skill, design, experience and
safety factors, to eliminate existing traffic hazards, and to prevent
automotive injuries and fatalities, and to create The Illinois State Toll
Highway Authority, as an instrumentality and administrative agency of the
State of Illinois, and to confer upon and vest in said Authority all powers
necessary or appropriate to enable said Authority to carry out the
foregoing stated legislative purpose and determination.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 2748.)
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