Illinois Compiled Statutes 605 Roads and Bridges: Article 6 - Administration Of Township And District Roads

Division 1. District Organization and Powers

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-101
  Roads which are part of the township and district road system are under the jurisdiction of the several road districts in which they are...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-102
  Each township of the several counties under township organization, for the purposes of this Code, shall be considered and is called a road district...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-103
  In counties not under township organization the road districts in existence under the provisions of law immediately prior to the effective date of this...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-104
  Whenever the territory of any municipality is a part of a road district in a county not under township organization, and shall by resolution of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-105
  The county board in counties not under township organization shall have full and complete power and jurisdiction to alter the boundaries of road districts,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-106
  The corporate name of each road district in counties not under township organization shall be "Road District No. .... of .... County" and all...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-107
  Road districts have corporate capacity to exercise the powers granted thereto, or necessarily implied and no others. They have power: (1) to sue and be...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-107.1
  Road districts may borrow money from any bank or other financial institution or, in a township road district and with the approval of the town...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-108
  Any two or more townships in any county under township organization may be consolidated into a consolidated township road district for all purposes relating...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-109
  The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall.... Township and....Township of.... County, Illinois, YESbe consolidated into a consolidated -------------------------township road district...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-110
  For all purposes relating to the construction, repair, maintenance and supervision of roads in all counties, other than counties in which a county unit...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-111
  The territory within any county having less than 500,000 inhabitants may be organized into a county unit road district for all purposes relating to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-112
  In each road district, except in a county unit road district and except in municipalities that have been created a road district, there shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-113
  In each road district comprised of a single township, the township clerk shall be ex-officio the clerk for the highway commissioner. In each consolidated...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-114
  In each road district comprised of a single township, the supervisor of such township shall be ex-officio treasurer for the road district. In each...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-115
  Except as provided in Section 10-20 of the Township Code, no person shall be eligible to the office of highway commissioner unless he shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-116
  Except as otherwise provided in this Section with respect to highway commissioners of township and consolidated township road districts, at the election provided by the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-117
  In all counties not under township organization the election shall be held at the election provided by the general election law for road district...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-118
  Every person elected or appointed to the office of highway commissioner, and to consolidated township road district clerk in counties under township organization and...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-119
  When the term of any highway commissioner or clerk shall expire, and other persons shall be elected or appointed to such office, it shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-120
  In counties under township organization the provisions of law applicable to resignations from township offices and the filling of vacancies therein, and the making...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-121
  In counties not under township organization the following provisions shall be applicable relating to vacancies in road district offices: Whenever any district fails to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-122
  When the electors in any townships have voted for the consolidation of such townships into a consolidated township road district for road purposes the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-123
  When the electors in any townships have voted for the consolidation of such townships into a consolidated township road district for road purposes, the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-124
  Upon the election or selection and qualification of the first highway commissioner, clerk and treasurer of a consolidated township road district the highway commissioners...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-125
  In any county under the commission form of government in which a county unit road district is established, as of the first Tuesday in...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-126
  The property and equipment delivered to the county superintendent of highways in conjunction with the establishment of a county unit road district shall be...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-127
  In any county in which a county unit road district is established, the county unit district roads shall be constructed, maintained and repaired by...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-129
  The county superintendent of highways shall prepare a separate annual budget for the county unit road district and submit the budget to the county...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-130
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the contrary, no township road district may continue in existence if the roads forming a part of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-131
  Senior citizen transportation and mass transit programs; district road fund. A road district may use money in its district road fund to pay for...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-132
  Recycling. A road district may organize, administer, or participate in one or more recycling programs. (Source: P.A. 95-119, eff. 8-13-07.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-133
  Abolishing a road district in Cook County. By resolution, the board of trustees of any township located in Cook County, Illinois, may submit a proposition...

Division 2. Functions and Compensation of District Officials

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201
  The highway commissioner of each road district shall perform the functions stated in the following Sections preceding Section 6-202. (Source: P.A. 87-818.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.1
  Be present at the district clerk's office annually on or before the last Tuesday in December of each year for the purpose of determining...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.2
  Lay out, alter, widen or vacate township or district roads as provided in this Code. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.3
  Include and incorporate such roads or streets as have been laid out and dedicated to public use or have been platted and dedicated to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.4
  Cause such roads used as public highways, as have been laid out or dedicated to public use, but not sufficiently described, and such as...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.5
  Determine the taxes necessary to be levied on property within his district for road purposes, subject to the limitations provided by law. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.6
  Direct the expenditure of all moneys collected in the district for road purposes, including those purposes allowed under Section 6-201.21 of this Code, and...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.7
  Construct, maintain and repair and be responsible for the construction, maintenance and repair of roads within the district, let contracts, employ labor and purchase material...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.8
  Have general charge of the roads of his district, keep the same in repair and to improve them so far as practicable and cooperate...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.9
  Take possession of and keep under shelter, when not in use all machinery, equipment and other property belonging to the district wherever the same...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.10
  Have authority to make agreements with the highway commissioner of any other road district or with the corporate authorities of any municipality located in...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.10-1
  The highway commissioner of each road district has authority to contract with the highway commissioner of any other road district or with the corporate...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.11
  Cause to be erected and kept in repair at intersections of the most important public roads, guide and direction signs and any other signs...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.12
  Provide for the lighting of any public road or portion thereof in his district when in his opinion it is necessary for the convenience...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.13
  Furnish to the county superintendent of highways within 30 days after issuing warrants a list of such warrants showing where money is spent, for...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.14
  Have authority to build curbs, sidewalks, alleys, and bike paths in unincorporated communities out of any funds belonging to the road district in which...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.15
  Annually make a report in writing, showing the following: (1) The amount of road money received by the district and a full and detailed...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.16
  Subject to the written approval of the County Superintendent of Highways to place, erect, and maintain on township or road district roads, traffic-control devices...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.17
  Have authority to purchase or lease or to finance the purchase of highway construction and maintenance equipment under contracts providing for payment in installments...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.18
  Have authority to contract with persons growing row crops on land adjacent to township or district roads to buy standing strips of such crops...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.19
  Have authority to hire legal counsel to perform legal functions for road districts where performance of such functions by the public official who would...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.20
  Every highway commissioner with 5 or more employees in a county under township organization shall set and adopt rules concerning all benefits available to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-201.21
  Special services; disaster relief. The highway commissioner has authority to provide for orderly collection, transport, and disposal of brush and leaves that have been properly...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202
  The district clerk of each road district shall perform the functions stated in Sections 6-202.1 to 6-202.6. (Source: P.A. 83-791.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.1
  Have the custody of all records, books, and papers of the road district, and he shall duly file all certificates or oaths and other...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.2
  Record in the book of records of his district, all orders and directions of the highway commissioner required by law to be kept, and...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.3
  Countersign and keep a complete record of all warrants issued by the highway commissioner. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.4
  From time to time as may be necessary, procure the proper books and stationery for his office and the cost thereof shall be paid...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.5
  Report to the county superintendent of highways in writing all road district elections which may directly or indirectly affect the superintendent of highways; mail...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-202.6
  Be responsible for placing the advertisement of bids and to be present when bids are opened. (Source: P.A. 83-791.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-203
  Except as provided in Section 6-301, nothing in this Code shall be construed as vesting in highway commissioners any power or jurisdiction over the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-204
  If any highway commissioner wilfully refuses to perform any of the duties enjoined upon him by this Code, he shall forfeit not less than...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-205
  The district treasurer shall receive and have charge of all moneys raised in the district for the support and maintenance of roads therein, and for...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-206
  In counties under township organization, the board of town trustees of the various townships shall, from time to time, when requested by the supervisor...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-207
  Compensation of highway commissioner and other officers. (a) Unless an annual salary is fixed as provided in this Section, the highway commissioner shall receive...

Division 3. Laying Out, Widening, Altering or Vacating Township and District Roads

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-301
  All township and district roads established under this Division of this Code shall be not less than 40 feet in width, except as provided...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-302
  The highway commissioner of any road district may in his discretion reduce the width of any existing township or district road to a width...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-303
  Existing township and district roads may be widened, altered or vacated, and new township and district roads may be laid out in the manner...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-304
  In case the Department widens or alters an existing road, or lays out a new road in any road district in connection with the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-305
  Whenever the highway commissioner receives a certificate from the Department as provided in Section 6-303 of this Act, or a petition praying for the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-306
  In case the highway commissioner denies the prayer of the petition for the laying out, widening, altering or vacation of a township or district...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-307
  If the highway commissioner, or upon appeal from his decision, the county superintendent of highways, shall enter a preliminary order for the laying out,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-308
  Whenever the highway commissioner of any road district or upon appeal from his decision, the county superintendent of highways has entered a preliminary order...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-309
  The damages sustained by the owner or owners of land by reason of the laying out, widening, alteration or vacation of a township or district...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-310
  Any person or persons interested in the establishment, widening, alteration or vacation of any township or district road is or are authorized to offer...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-311
  Within 20 days after the damages likely to be sustained by reason of the proposed laying out, widening, alteration or vacation of any township...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-312
  In case such final order was entered by the highway commissioner as provided in Section 6-311 of this Code finally determining the advisability of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-313
  In case the highway commissioner, or upon appeal from his decision, the county superintendent of highways, shall finally determine against the advisability of the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-314
  After it has been finally determined that a township or district road shall be laid out, widened, altered or vacated, either by the highway...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-315
  An entry in the records, ledger, or official minute book of the district clerk, stating that there has been a dedication of a public...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-315a
  Any 3 persons who, at a hearing conducted by the county superintendent of highways pursuant to Section 6-306, 6-311 or 6-312 of this Act,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-316
  All township and district roads laid out as provided in this Division of this Code shall be opened within 2 years from the time...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-317
  Whenever a township or district road is ordered to be laid out, widened or altered, according to the provisions of this Division of this...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-318
  When any township or district road has been finally laid out, widened or altered according to the provisions of this Division of this Code,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-319
  Township and district roads may be laid out, widened, altered or vacated on county or district lines, or from one district to another, and...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-320
  The highway commissioners shall also, in case a new township or district road is established on a county or district line, allot to each...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-321
  All township and district roads heretofore or hereafter laid out upon district or county lines shall be divided, allotted and kept in repair in...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-322
  Township and district roads may be laid out and opened upon the line between this and any adjoining state, as provided in the preceding...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-323
  In addition to the notices now required by law in proceedings for laying out, locating or opening of township and district roads, similar notices...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-324
  The highway commissioner of any road district shall relocate, divert or establish a township or district road where necessary in connection with the crossing...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-325
  In counties having less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, roads or streets in platted subdivisions and dedicated to public use shall be included in and incorporated...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-326
  When a petition to lay out, widen, alter or vacate a district road concerns a road in a county unit road district, such petition...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-326.1
  Existing township and district roads may be temporarily closed and reconstructed by the filing with the highway commissioner of the district involved and with...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-327
  Township and district roads for private and public use of the widths of 50 feet or less may be laid out from one or...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-328
  Whenever any township or district road is laid out, widened or altered in accordance with this Division of this Code, the highway commissioner shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-329
  Upon the vacation of any township or district road or part thereof, the highway commissioner shall cause a legal description of the road or...

Division 4. Construction and Maintenance of Township and District Roads

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-401
  If any highway commissioner fails or refuses to repair or maintain any road or section of a road in his district within 10 days...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-402
  Bridges or culverts on roads on district lines, except as provided in Section 5-503 of this Code, shall be constructed and repaired by such...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-404
  Approaches to all bridges and culverts constructed under and by virtue of Section 6-402 shall be constructed and maintained by the respective road districts...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-405
  When any road district desires to construct or repair any bridge or culvert as provided in Section 6-402, and has appropriated its share of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-406
  When a joint contract has been made in accordance with Section 6-402, and if the commissioner of either of such road districts, after reasonable...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-407
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-693. Repealed by P.A. 93-704, eff. 7-9-04.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-408
  Contracts for constructing and repairing roads and bridges on road district lines shall be let by the highway commissioners of the 2 districts who shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-409
  No contract so made shall be considered as let unless the contractor shall, within 15 days after the final award of the same, enter...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-410
  All final payments on contracts for the construction or repair of roads, including the constructing or repairing bridges or culverts, shall be made payable as...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-411
  Pecuniary interest in leases. In townships with a population of less than 15,000, with the approval of the town board of trustees or the highway...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-411.1
  Pecuniary interest in contracts. (a) Except as provided in this Section, no road district officer or employee shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-411.5
  Contracts for public transportation. The highway commissioner of each road district within the territory of the Regional Transportation Authority shall have authority, with the...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-412
  On all township or district roads which have all-weather travel surfaces the highway commissioner, if funds are available, shall construct and maintain adequate all-weather...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-412.1
  The highway commissioner is authorized to contract for insurance against any loss or liability of any officer, employee or agent of the district resulting...

Division 5. Taxation

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-501
  (a) Findings and purpose. The General Assembly finds: (1) That the financial conditions of the Township and District road systems of the State of Illinois...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-502
  The township board of trustees or highway board of trustees, as the case may be, or the highway commissioner in any county not under...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-503
  When damages have been agreed upon, allowed or awarded for laying out, widening, altering or vacating township or district roads, or for payments for...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-504
  On the petition of at least 10% of the legal voters residing in a road district (other than a county unit road district) to...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-505
  The proposition authorized by Section 6-504 shall be substantially in the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the present maximum rateof ....% (insert present maximum) ofthe...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-506
  The county clerk on and after the filing with him of the certificate provided for in Section 6-505 by the district clerk shall for...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-507
  All items of tax levy of any district authorized by Sections 6-501, 6-503 and 6-504 of this Code shall be extended by the county...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-508
  (a) For the purpose of constructing or repairing bridges, culverts, drainage structures or grade separations, including approaches thereto, at the joint expense of a...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-508.1
  For the purpose of acquiring machinery and equipment or for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, or reconstructing buildings for housing machinery and equipment used...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-509
  Whenever damages have been allowed for roads or ditches, the highway commissioner may draw orders on the treasurer, payable only out of the tax...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-510
  On the petition either of the highway commissioner or of 25 of the legal voters of any district, to the district clerk, he shall...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-511
  The highway commissioner of any road district may turn over to any municipality lying wholly within its limits, money from the regular road taxes,...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-512
  For the purpose of constructing, maintaining and repairing county unit district roads, bridges and drainage structures and the acquisition, maintenance, housing and repair of...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 6. Gravel, Rock, Macadam and Other Township and District Road Improvement by Special Tax

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 7. Use of Motor Fuel Tax Funds

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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:...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-701.9
  The township's share of any project constructed under Section 3-104.3 of this Code. (Source: P.A. 80-691.)
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 8. Property Acquisition and Disposition

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 9. State Funding of Road District Bridges

• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-901
  Annually, the General Assembly shall appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the road fund, the general revenue fund, any other State funds or a...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 6-905
  The amount of grant for an approved road district project shall require at least $1 of local funds committed to the project for each...
• Illinois Highway Code. - 605 ILCS 5, Section 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...

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