House Sponsors: MOORE,ANDREA-GARRETT-BEAUBIEN-MATHIAS-OSMOND AND GASH. Senate Sponsors: PETERSON-KLEMM Short description: COUNTY HIGHWAYS Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides for the establishment of special service areas for certain privately owned or maintained roads in unincorporated areas in subdivisions that were platted before January 1, 1959 in counties under township organization. Provides procedures for establishing the special service areas, for expending funds on the areas, for issuing bonds to raise funds, for letting contracts, purchasing materials, and employing labor to work on roads in the areas, for increasing tax rates to fund the areas if necessary, and for dissolving the areas. Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the county engineer may, on proper application, permit a person or agency to temporarily close a county highway in accordance with regulations adopted by the county board. Provides that in counties of fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the county board may adopt alternate and less stringent rules for roads and streets in subdivisions that were platted before January 1, 1959, but not constructed. Provides that these less stringent rules determine whether these streets and roads may be included in the township or district road system. Provides that written consent of adjacent owners may not be required, as the highway authority shall determine, to allow a person or persons, society, or association having a permit to do so to plant flowers, shrubs, or trees in a median or in those portions of a highway where direct access from the adjacent property is not provided. The highway authority with jurisdiction may place signs giving notice of who is doing the planting. Effective immediately. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 91-0775 Last action date: 00-06-09 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status