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92_HB5239
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1 AN ACT regarding transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Local Mass Transit District Act is
5 amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 3610/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352)
7 Sec. 2. As used in For the purposes of this Act:
8 (a) "Mass transit facility" means any local public
9 transportation facility, whether buses, trolley-buses, or
10 railway systems, utilized by a substantial number of persons
11 for their daily transportation, and includes not only the
12 local public transportation facility itself but ancillary and
13 supporting facilities such as, for example, motor vehicle
14 parking facilities, as well.
15 (b) "Participating municipality and county" means the
16 municipality or municipalities, county or counties creating
17 the local Mass Transit District pursuant to Section 3 of this
18 Act.
19 (c) "Municipality" means a city, village, township, or
20 incorporated town.
21 (d) "Corporate authorities" means (1) the city council
22 or similar body of a city, (2) the board of trustees or
23 similar body of a village or incorporated town, (3) the
24 council of a municipality under the commission form of
25 municipal government, and (4) the board of trustees in a
26 township.
27 (e) "County board" means the governing board of a
28 county.
29 (f) "District" means a local Mass Transit District
30 created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
31 (g) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass
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1 Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
2 (h) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any
3 political subdivision created by compact between this State
4 and another state, which is a body corporate and politic and
5 a political subdivision of both contracting states, and which
6 operates a public mass transportation system;
7 (i) "Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more
8 local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act,
9 composed only of Madison, St. Clair or Monroe Counties, or
10 any combination thereof.
11 (j) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a
12 transportation system or systems owned and operated by an
13 interstate transportation authority, a municipality,
14 District, or other public or private authority, employing
15 motor busses, rails or any other means of conveyance, by
16 whatsoever type or power, operated for public use in the
17 conveyance of persons, mainly providing local transportation
18 service within an interstate transportation district,
19 municipality, or county.
20 (Source: P.A. 82-783.)