Chapter 605 — ROADS AND BRIDGES

(605 ILCS 5/6-512.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-512.1) Sec. 6-512.1. Upon a petition signed by not less than 5% of the legal voters of a county having established or establishing a county unit road district and directed to the county clerk, requesting a referendum on the question of i…

(605 ILCS 5/6-513) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-513) Sec. 6-513. The county board, in any county having the commission form of government in which a county unit road district is established, may issue bonds of the county in an amount not exceeding 2.875% of the value, as equalized and a…

(605 ILCS 5/6-514) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-514) Sec. 6-514. Whenever any county has elected to abandon township organization and the newly elected county board has created road districts as provided by law, and any township therein which has boundaries that were the same as the bou…

(605 ILCS 5/6-515) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-515) Sec. 6-515. The highway commissioner and the road district clerk of any road district, without submitting the question to the electors thereof for approval, may authorize by resolution the issuance of refunding bonds (1) to refund its…

(605 ILCS 5/6-516) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-516) Sec. 6-516. The resolution authorizing the refunding bonds shall prescribe all details thereof and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within the road district sufficient to p…

(605 ILCS 5/6-517) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-517) Sec. 6-517. The refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds to be refunded on the basis of dollar for dollar for the par value of the bonds, interest coupons, and interest not represented by coupons, if any, or they may be sold at …

(605 ILCS 5/6-518) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-518) Sec. 6-518. The refunding bonds shall be of such form and denomination, payable at such place, bear such date, and be executed by such officials as may be provided by the highway commissioner and the road district clerk of the road di…

(605 ILCS 5/6-519) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-519) Sec. 6-519. Whenever any refunding bonds are purchased and cancelled, as provided in Section 6-518, the taxes thereafter to be extended for payment of the principal of and interest on the remainder of the issue shall be reduced in an …

(605 ILCS 5/6-520) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-520) Sec. 6-520. Money which becomes available from taxes that were levied for prior years for payment of bonds or interest coupons that were paid or refunded before those taxes were collected, after payment of all warrants that may have b…

(605 ILCS 5/6-521) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-521) Sec. 6-521. The highway commissioner and the road district clerk of a road district may take any action necessary to inform the owners of unpaid bonds regarding the financial condition of the road district, the necessity of refunding …

(605 ILCS 5/6-522) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-522) Sec. 6-522. Sections 6-515 through 6-521 of this Code shall apply to any road district other than a county unit road district, regardless of the law under which it is organized and operating, and shall constitute complete authority fo…

(605 ILCS 5/6-601) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-601) Sec. 6-601. (a) On the petition of 25 legal voters of any road district to the district clerk he shall order a referendum on the proposition for or against an annual tax not to exceed .167% of the value of the taxable property, as equ…

(605 ILCS 5/6-602) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-602) Sec. 6-602. If a majority of all the ballots cast at such election on such proposition are in favor of such special tax, then the township board of trustees or highway board of trustees, as the case may be, or the highway commissioner…

(605 ILCS 5/6-603) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-603) Sec. 6-603. The county clerk, when making out the tax books for the State and county tax for the collector, shall in each year extend the special tax in separate columns against each taxpayer's name or taxable property in the district…

(605 ILCS 5/6-604) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-604) Sec. 6-604. The treasurer of the district, before receiving any of such fund provided for in this Division of this Code, shall execute a good and sufficient bond, with two or more sureties, to be filed with the district clerk for the …

(605 ILCS 5/6-605) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-605) Sec. 6-605. The tax, when collected shall be paid to such treasurer as fast as collected, except such rate per cent as shall be allowed for collecting the same and such tax shall be known and kept as the permanent road fund of the dis…

(605 ILCS 5/6-615) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-615) Sec. 6-615. Whenever a special tax shall have been levied under the provisions of this Division of this Code, the highway commissioner of any road district may, by agreement with the corporate authorities of any municipality of less t…

(605 ILCS 5/6-616) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-616) Sec. 6-616. All surplus funds remaining in the hands of the treasurer of the district after the completion of the construction of any road provided for under this Division of this Code, shall be turned over to the regular road fund of…

(605 ILCS 5/6-617) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-617) Sec. 6-617. To repeal the special tax, once levied, 25 legal voters of the road district shall petition the district clerk. Such petition shall contain a request for a referendum. The district clerk shall order a referendum on such pr…

(605 ILCS 5/6-620) Sec. 6-620. Validation of certain levies. (a) Any road district tax that was authorized by the electors at an annual or special town meeting during the years 1975 through 1979 for a period not exceeding 5 years, but that was not re-authorized within 5 years aft…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701) Sec. 6-701. Motor fuel tax funds allocated for use in road districts shall be used for one or more of the purposes stated in Sections 6-701.1 through 6-701.9. (Source: P.A. 80-691.)

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.1) Sec. 6-701.1. (a) The construction of any township or district road located within the road district. (b) The construction of grade separations and approaches thereto which avoid or replace grade crossings at intersections of town…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.2) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.2) Sec. 6-701.2. Maintenance of any township or district road as defined in Section 2-103 or any grade separation constructed as provided in Section 6-701.1, subject to the approval of the county superintendent of highways and the De…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.3) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.3) Sec. 6-701.3. Payment of administration and engineering costs which the county superintendent of highways may incur, with the approval of the county board, to carry out his duties under the provisions of Sections 6-701.1, 6-701.2 …

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.4) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.4) Sec. 6-701.4. With the approval of the Department, the payment of any indebtedness hereafter incurred in the construction of any road or grade separation selected under the provisions of Section 6-701.1 as a road or grade separati…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.5) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.5) Sec. 6-701.5. Any township may also turn over a portion of the money allotted to it to a local Mass Transit District if the township is a participating municipality in such District pursuant to the "Local Mass Transit District Act…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.6) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.6) Sec. 6-701.6. With the approval of the Department of Transportation, the payment of the principal and interest on bonds issued for construction or improvement of township or district roads or grade separations located within the r…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.7) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.7) Sec. 6-701.7. The placement, erection and maintenance of signs or surface markings or both to indicate officially designated bicycle routes along township or district roads. (Source: P.A. 77-734.)

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.8) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.8) Sec. 6-701.8. The formula allocation for township and road districts for the distribution of motor fuel tax funds, provided for in Section 8 in the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", may be used by the highway commissioner, subject to the cond…

(605 ILCS 5/6-701.9) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-701.9) Sec. 6-701.9. The township's share of any project constructed under Section 3-104.3 of this Code. (Source: P.A. 80-691.)

(605 ILCS 5/6-702) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-702) Sec. 6-702. Payment of money to each county by the Department of Transportation for the purposes stated in Sections 6-701.1 through 6-701.8, shall be made as soon as possible after the allotment is made. Such money shall be utilized b…

(605 ILCS 5/6-801) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-801) Sec. 6-801. The highway commissioner may acquire any lands, rights or other property necessary for the construction, maintenance or operation of any township or district road or necessary for the locating, relocating, widening, alteri…

(605 ILCS 5/6-802) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-802) Sec. 6-802. When the highway commissioner deems it necessary to build, widen, alter, relocate or straighten any ditch, drain or watercourse in order to drain or protect any road or road structure he is authorized to construct, maintai…

(605 ILCS 5/6-803) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-803) Sec. 6-803. For the purpose of making surveys and the determination of the amount of property necessary to be taken or damaged in connection with any township or district road project, the highway commissioner, his agents or employees…

(605 ILCS 5/6-803.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-803.1) Sec. 6-803.1. Surplus public real estate. A road district may sell surplus real estate owned by the district as provided in this Section. (a) In road districts in counties under township organization, at an annual or special towns…

(605 ILCS 5/6-804) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-804) Sec. 6-804. When in any county a county unit road district has been created, the county has the powers provided in Division 8 of Article 5 of this Code to acquire property and rights therein for district road purposes. (Source: Laws 1…

(605 ILCS 5/6-805) Sec. 6-805. Township road districts. Township road districts may acquire the fee simple title, or any lesser interest the district desires, to any land, rights, or other property incidental to road district purposes by purchase or gift. (Source: P.A. 90-439, ef…

(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, or any other State funds, or a combination of those funds, $60,000,000 for apportionment to…

(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 Sectio…

(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 …

(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 …

(605 ILCS 5/6-905) Sec. 6-905. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1509. Repealed by P.A. 103-853, eff. 8-9-24.)

(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 4 years from the date the app…

(605 ILCS 5/6-907) Sec. 6-907. Lapsed funds; use. Lapsed funds under Section 6-906 shall be used to provide additional monetary assistance to townships and road districts that have insufficient funding for construction of bridges that are 20 feet or more in length under 6-901 of …

(605 ILCS 5/7-101) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-101) Sec. 7-101. Streets and alleys, including bridges and other structures, which are or will become part of the municipal street system may be laid out, established, constructed, reconstructed, altered, widened, relocated, improved, main…

(605 ILCS 5/7-202) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202) Sec. 7-202. Motor fuel tax funds allotted to the several municipalities shall be used for one or more of the purposes stated in Sections 7-202.1 through 7-202.22. (Source: P.A. 85-1010.)

(605 ILCS 5/7-202.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.1) Sec. 7-202.1. The construction and maintenance of State highways in the municipality, or the maintenance of federal secondary highways. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/7-202.10) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.10) Sec. 7-202.10. The payment of the municipality's share, not to exceed 50%, of the cost of any federal aid transportation project either now existing or hereafter established within the corporate limits of the municipality, which…

(605 ILCS 5/7-202.11) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.11) Sec. 7-202.11. The payment for investigations requisite to determine the reasonably anticipated need for any of the work described in this Division. Such investigations may include, but shall not be limited to, the making of tra…

(605 ILCS 5/7-202.12) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.12) Sec. 7-202.12. The payment of engineering costs in connection with all work described in this Division of this Code. The municipality may contract for such services with any Professional Engineer. (Source: P.A. 77-1371.)