Illinois Compiled Statutes 620 Air Transportation: Article -
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 1
For the purposes of this Act, the words, terms, and phrases in Sections 2 to 14, inclusive, shall have the meanings prescribed in such...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 2
"Commission" means the County Airports Commission. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 3
"Joint Commission" means the Joint County Airports Commission. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 4
"Commissioner" means member of the County Airports Commission or Joint County Airports Commission, as the case may be. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 5
"Superintendent" means the County Superintendent of Airports. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 6
"Aircraft" means the same as in Section 3 of the Illinois Aeronautics Act. (Source: P.A. 92-341, eff. 8-10-01.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 7
"Airport" means any area of land, water, or both, which is designed or acquired for the landing and take-off of aircraft, whether or not...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 8
"Department" means the Department of Transportation of this State. (Source: P.A. 81-840.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 9
"Airport Facilities" means any facility used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, air navigation, including airports and any structures, mechanisms,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 10
"Airport protection privileges" means easements through or other interests in air space over land or water, interests in airport hazards outside the boundaries of...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 11
"Airport hazard" means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land, which obstructs the air space required for the flight of aircraft...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 12
"Meeting" when reference is had to the county board, means a regular, adjourned or special meeting called as provided by the Counties Code. (Source:...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 13
"General Bonds" means bonds issued by the county, the payment of interest thereon as it falls due and the payment of the principal thereof...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 14
"Revenue Bonds" means bonds or other evidence of indebtedness, the payment of interest thereon as it falls due and the payment of the principal...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 15
For the purposes of this Act, the singular shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 15a
This Act shall not be construed as repealing either or both of the following Acts: "An Act in relation to the establishment, acquisition, maintenance...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 16
Whenever in this Act provision is made for the filing of a petition, all such petitions shall be filed with the county clerk, unless...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 17
Whenever in this Act, it is required that a specified percentage of the legal voters of the county sign a petition, such percentage may...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 18
Each county of this State having less than 500,000 population, in the manner hereinafter provided is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 19
The county board of each county having a population of less than 500,000 population, shall have the power and it shall be its duty,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 20
The County Airports Commission when created by the county board as in this Act provided, shall have the powers and duties enumerated in Sections...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 21
To locate, establish, acquire by purchase or otherwise, construct, improve, repair, maintain, extend and operate the Airport or System of Airports provided for in...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 22
To acquire land in fee simple, rights in and over land, and easements, upon, over or across land, and leasehold interests in land, and...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 23
To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals, tolls, fees, and charges for the use of any airport, or any part thereof, or any airport...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 24
To establish, maintain, extend and improve roadways and approaches by land, water or air to any such airport and to contract or otherwise provide,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 25
To be responsible for, and have jurisdiction over all public roads and streets within and adjoining the site of any airport and to exercise...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 26
To enter into an agreement for airport protection privileges and to acquire them by condemnation if unable to reach an agreement with the owners...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 27
To agree with the state or federal governments or with any public body or agency in respect to the removal and relocation of any...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 28
To nominate or appoint a County Superintendent of Airports as in this Act provided, and to employ and fix the compensation of the necessary...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 29
To regulate and to restrict the flight and operation of aircraft while within or above or within the approaches to such airport or airports,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 30
To supervise, care for, and have custody of all airports under its jurisdiction, including the grounds and buildings constructed, leased or set apart for...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 31
To exercise the right of eminent domain in the following manner: If any plans and surveys provided for in this Act have been approved by...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 31.5
Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 32
To contract for the performance of any work in connection with the establishment, maintenance and operation of any airport as it may deem to...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 33
To apply for and receive the grant or loan of money or other financial aid from the state or federal government or from any...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 34
To perform such other acts as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Act. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 34.1
Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 35
In each county that has created a County Airport Commission as in this Act provided, there shall be a County Superintendent of Airports, unless...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 36
Within 30 days after the organization of such county airport commission, or within 30 days after a vacancy occurs in such office, the Commission...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 37
Any two or more counties may appoint the same person as Superintendent for each of such counties and may by agreement provide for the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 38
Upon the request of the Commission and with the approval of the Department, the presiding officer of the county board, with the advice and...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 39
The Department shall withhold approval of all plans and specifications as in this Act provided, until such Superintendent has been appointed as herein provided,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 40
The term of office of each Superintendent shall be six years and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified. He shall receive a...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 41
Upon complaint filed with the county board by the Commission, such Superintendent may be removed from office for the same reasons and in the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 42
The Superintendent shall, subject to the rules of the Department: 1. Prepare or cause to be prepared, plans, specifications and estimates of costs of...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 43
The office of Superintendent shall be deemed vacant at the end of the incumbent's six year term or in case of his death, removal...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 44
When ten percent of the voters of any county file a petition with the county clerk of such county, asking that a County Airport...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 45
The county board shall consider for election to the Commission, only those persons whose names are presented by the county clerk. The county clerk...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 46
One Commissioner shall hold office for one year, two shall hold office for two years, and two shall hold office for three years from...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 47
Any Commissioner may be removed from office by the county board for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. In any proceeding to...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 48
Within ten days after the election of the five members of the Commission as hereinbefore provided, the chairman of the county board shall call...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 49
All moneys received for airport purposes with the exception of moneys the title to which rests in the county airport commission in accordance with...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 50
Non-Board Commissioners shall receive no compensation as such, but County Board members of the Commission shall be compensated for attendance at all regularly called...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 51
The Commission shall meet regularly at a stated time and place at least once each month and at such other times and places as...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 52
No Commissioner shall be interested, either directly or indirectly in the purchase or sale of any property, real or personal, for said airports. (Source:...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 53
The Commission shall within six months following its organization, designate the locality, the class and type of the airports that shall come under the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 54
The Commission shall proceed to provide for the establishment of the airport or airports designated on the "Official Airport Plan" as rapidly as the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 55
Before any county shall be authorized to levy a tax or borrow money by the issuance of General Bonds or Revenue Bonds: 1. The...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 56
The County Airport Commission may combine its request for any two or all of the means of financing the proposed undertaking in a single...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 57
When a resolution directing that the question of levying a tax or borrowing money by the issuance of General Bonds, be submitted to a...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 59
If a majority of all the votes cast upon the question shall be for the levy of the tax, the county board of such...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 60
If a majority of all votes cast upon the question shall be for the issuing of bonds and the levying of an additional tax...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 61
If the resolution adopted by the county board or by petition, provides for the issuance of revenue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness, the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 62
All fees and rents shall be paid into the county treasury and deposited in a fund to be known as the "Airport Revenue Fund."...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 63
Any person desiring to make any donation or legacy of any money, personal property, or real estate, for the benefit of any airport or...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 64
Title to all property, except such property, the title to which is vested in the Commission and under section 63, shall be taken in...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 65
In exercising its powers and duties under this Act, the Commission, each officer thereof, the Superintendent, and each employee or representative designated by it,...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 66
The fiscal year of the Commission shall correspond to the fiscal year of the county and in case of a joint Commission shall be...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 67
The funds of the county derived from fees and rents and raised by taxation shall not be subject to the provisions of "An Act...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 68
When ten percent of the voters of each of two adjoining counties, file a petition with the Department requesting that such counties be joined...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 69
Upon the Department notifying such county boards that the petition is sufficient and that the joining of the two counties is in the public...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 70
In the appointment of a county superintendent of airports, the joint commission shall proceed as is provided for a county airports commission, and the...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 71
"An Act in relation to the establishment, maintenance and operation of aviation districts," approved July 21, 1941, and all acts and parts of acts...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 72
If any one or more of the provisions of this Act is declared unconstitutional or the application thereof is held invalid, the validity of...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 73
The provisions of this Act shall be cumulative and shall be considered as conferring additional power on counties and as additions to and not...
- Illinois County Airports Act. - 620 ILCS 50, Section 74
This Act may be cited as the "County Airports Act." (Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)
Last modified: February 18, 2015