Illinois Compiled Statutes 605 Roads and Bridges: Article 4 - State Administration Of Highways

Division 1. General Powers of Department

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101
  The Department shall have the powers and duties stated in Sections 4-101.1 to 4-101.16, inclusive. (Source: P.A. 78-315.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.1
  To have general supervision of highways to which this Code applies under the provisions of Section 1-103 heretofore or hereafter constructed or thereafter maintained...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.2
  To prescribe rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, relating to the examination and qualifications of candidates for the office of county superintendent of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.3
  To aid county superintendents of highways in establishing grades, preparing suitable systems of drainage and advise them as to the construction and maintenance of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.4
  To cause plans, specifications and estimates to be prepared for the construction and repair of bridges and culverts when requested so to do by...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.5
  To investigate and determine the various methods of highway construction adapted to different sections of the State and as to the best methods of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.6
  To compile statistics relating to highways throughout the State and collect such information in regard thereto as it shall deem expedient. (Source: Laws 1959,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.7
  To approve and determine the final plans, specifications and estimates for all highways to which this Code applies under the provisions of Section 1-103...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.8
  To let contracts in accordance with law for the construction of highways. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.9
  To prescribe a system of auditing and accounting for all highway moneys for the use of all county and road district officials, which shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.10
  To consult with other highway authorities relative to any question involving highways. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.11
  To make investigations to determine reasonably anticipated future need for federal aid highways and State highways. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.12
  To aid at all times in promoting highway improvement throughout the State and perform such other duties and have such other powers in respect...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.13
  To publish maps in convenient forms showing State and other highways for use by the public and, in its discretion, to fix a charge...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.14
  To obtain, subject to the provisions of the "Personnel Code", approved July 18, 1955, as heretofore or hereafter amended, all employees necessary in the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.15
  The Department of Central Management Services shall procure for or in behalf of each State highway employee, without cost to him, public liability insurance...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-101.16
  To prepare or cause to be prepared and maintain or cause to be maintained a schedule of priority of needs in the selection of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-102
  The Department may prepare, in accordance with the regulations of the designated authority of the United States Government, the project statements, sketch maps, surveys,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-103
  Any contracts that may be entered into for the construction of highways shall be let after due public advertisement to the lowest responsible bidder,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-104
  Subcontractors' trust agreements. This Section applies to subcontractors' retainage amounts expected to be equal to or greater than $20,000. Upon the contractor's receipt of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-105
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-358, eff. 8-13-09. Repealed by P.A. 98-877, eff. 8-11-14.)

Division 2. State Highways

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201
  The Department, in addition to, and not in limitation of, its general powers has the powers stated in Sections 4-201.1 through 4-201.20. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.1
  To determine and adopt rules, regulations and specifications for State highways not inconsistent with this Code. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.2
  For serving through or State traffic, to designate as part of the State highway system and to locate, construct and maintain highways to connect...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.3
  To relocate any highway, or a part thereof, in the State highway system on a new location or on a different highway. For the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.4
  To enter into contracts covering all matters and things incident to the location, relocation, construction, repair and maintenance of State highways; including, subject to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.5
  To lay out, construct and maintain, as a part of the State highway system, highways and entrances which will connect any State highway, now...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.6
  To divide the State highway system into sections or districts for the purpose of repair and maintenance and to repair and maintain such sections...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.7
  To purchase, rent, acquire and maintain all equipment and material incident to or necessary in the location, relocation, construction, repair and maintenance of State...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.8
  To purchase and acquire quarries, gravel pits, sand pits, cement rock or other natural deposits of road material to be used in the construction...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.9
  To construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire and to operate without charge to the public, ferries over rivers and other waters upon any State...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.10
  To provide for the lighting of State highways or portions thereof, when in the Department's opinion it is necessary for the convenience or safety...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.11
  To number or renumber all State highways; and each State highway shall always be designated by a number. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.12
  Except as provided in the Illinois Adopt-A-Highway Act, to place, erect and maintain on highways all traffic control devices and signs authorized by this...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.13
  To construct, maintain, and operate bridges, on State highways a part of the Federal-aid highway network, across any stream between this State and any...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.14
  (a) To construct, maintain and operate rest areas on State highways. In the operation of rest areas, the Department is authorized to prescribe reasonable...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.15
  (a) To provide for the preservation of the natural beauty of areas through which State highways are constructed, and to acquire the fee simple...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.16
  Land acquired for highway purposes, including buildings or improvements upon such property, may be rented between the time of acquisition and the time when...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.17
  To lease as lessee from the Illinois Highway Trust Authority any project at any time constructed or made available for public use by the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.18
  To acquire land adjacent to the right-of-way on a federal aid system outside the central business district in an urban area of 50,000 population...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.19
  To issue permits for the establishment of telephone service at rest areas on the State Highway System where proper access to and from the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-201.20
  To conduct demonstration projects on public streets and highways designed to test and develop new technology for road and curb construction, reconstruction and maintenance....
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-202
  Additional mileage may be added to the State highway system in the manner provided by this Code. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-203
  The Department may, in its discretion and as funds become available for construction and maintenance, add additional highways to the State highway system by...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-204
  Whenever any highway becomes a part of the State highway system, the Department shall file in its office a description of such State highway....
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-205
  In all cases where State or through traffic upon a State highway runs through a municipality, the Department shall locate a route upon existing...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-206
  When advisable to serve traffic needs, any State highway route in or through a municipality may be relocated upon other streets in the municipality...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-207
  On all State highways the Department shall construct and maintain all-weather surfaces at boxes used for the receipt of United States mail. The Department...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-208
  The Department may select streets in municipalities to form routes leading from business centers therein to State highways running through such municipalities and may...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-209
  No person shall wilfully cut, excavate or otherwise damage that portion of any highway under the jurisdiction and control of the Department, including the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-210
  Except where the right of access has been limited by or pursuant to law every owner or occupant of property abutting upon any State...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-211
  Any permit issued by the Department to construct an entrance or exit, or both, under the provisions of Section 4-209 shall designate the location...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-212
  Failure to comply with the provisions of Sections 4-210 and 4-211 and the permits issued thereunder is a petty offense for which an additional...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-213
  Any person or an agency of this State which operates a motor vehicle designed or used for the carriage of more than seven passengers...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-214
  Whenever any highway is laid out, widened or altered in accordance with this Article, the Department shall cause a plat thereof to be made...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-215
  The Department may file with the governing body of any municipality or county a map of any territory within 1/2 mile on either or...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-216
  If, as a result of the removal of snow from the travelway of any State highway, snow is deposited along the shoulder or edge...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-217
  The Department may contract with persons growing row crops on land adjacent to State highways to buy standing strips of such crops to remain...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-218
  The Department shall establish a pilot program to evaluate the use of calcium magnesium acetate made from corn for the purpose of clearing roadways...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-219
  Context sensitivity. (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to ensure that Department of Transportation projects adequately meet the State's transportation needs,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-220
  Bicycle and pedestrian ways. (a) Bicycle and pedestrian ways shall be given full consideration in the planning and development of transportation facilities, including the incorporation...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-221
  Mix designs. To the extent allowed by federal law, the Department specifications shall allow the use of recycled asphalt roofing shingles received from facilities authorized...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-222
  Recycled asphalt roofing shingles; cost savings; prohibitions on use in asphalt paving. (a) It shall be the goal of the Department, with regard to its...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-223
  Electric vehicle charging stations. By January 1, 2016 or as soon thereafter as possible, the Department may provide for at least one electric vehicle charging...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 223
  Electric vehicle charging stations. By January 1, 2016 or as soon thereafter as possible, the Department may provide for at least one electric vehicle charging...

Division 3. Planning and Programming

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-303
  Investigations made by the Department to determine the reasonably anticipated future need for federal aid highways and State highways may include, but shall not...

Division 4. Construction and Maintenance

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-401
  All State highways shall be constructed of sufficient widths to meet the requirements of the reasonably expected traffic thereon. The widths of travel ways...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-402
  When any State highway route through a municipality has been designated, the Department shall supervise any construction performed on such streets by the municipality...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-403
  Whenever local traffic conditions within any municipality through which or to the corporate limits of which any State highway is located, in the discretion...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-404
  By agreement between the Department and the proper authority of any municipality, park district or other municipal corporation, the construction of any street upon...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-405
  The Department shall maintain all highways in the State highway system either with its own forces or pursuant to an agreement or contract entered...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-406
  The Department is authorized to enter into contracts with any municipal corporation, terminable in the discretion of the Department, for the municipal corporation to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-406.1
  The Department may surrender jurisdiction over the right-of-way and improvements of all or part of a State highway, street or road to a municipality...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-407
  The Department may temporarily close to traffic any portion of a State highway for the purpose of constructing, repairing or making improvements thereon. When...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-408
  The Department may, upon application by the proper authorities of any local governmental agency, issue a permit to such agency to temporarily close to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-409
  The Department may enter into a written contract with any other highway authority for the jurisdiction, maintenance, administration, engineering or improvement of any highway...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-410
  Demonstration project. The Department shall implement a demonstration project, under which 20 of the contracts arising out of the Department's 5-year project program for...

Division 5. Property Acquisition and Disposal

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-501
  The Department, in its name, or any county may acquire the fee simple title, or such lesser interest as may be desired, to any...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-501.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any power granted under this Code to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-502
  When the Department deems it necessary to build, widen, alter, relocate or straighten any ditch, drain or watercourse in order to drain or protect...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-503
  For the purpose of making subsurface soil surveys, preliminary surveys and determinations of the amount and extent of such land, rights or other property...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-504
  Subject to the approval of the Governor and the consent of any department, board, commission, officer or other agency of the State government having...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-505
  In addition to whatever powers the Department may by law now possess, whenever it is necessary as an incident to the construction of a...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-508
  (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section, and subject to the written approval of the Governor, the Department may dispose...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-508.1
  In the event the Department obtains or has obtained fee simple title to, or any lesser interest in, any land, rights or other property...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-509
  In addition to other powers of the Department, whenever it is necessary as an incident to the construction of a new State highway or...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-510
  The Department may establish presently the approximate locations and widths of rights of way for future additions to the State highway system to inform the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-511
  In addition to whatever powers the Department may by law now possess whenever it is necessary for the Department as an incident to the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 4-512
  Street closing or relocating. The Department shall not, under any circumstance, give its approval to any plan or request that would permanently close or...

Last modified: February 18, 2015