Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 1
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Metropolitan Transit Authority Act." (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1171.)
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 2
When used in this Act: "Transportation System" means all plants, equipment, property and rights useful for transportation of passengers for hire except taxicabs and includes,...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 3
All the territory in the County of Cook, State of Illinois, lying east of the east line of Range Eleven, East of the Third...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 4
The Authority shall not exercise any of the powers granted by this Act until it is adopted, in the manner provided in Section 44,...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 5
The Authority may sue and be sued in its corporate name but execution shall not in any case issue against any property of the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 6
The Authority shall have power to acquire, construct, own, operate and maintain for public service a transportation system in the metropolitan area of Cook...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 6.1
Within 5 years after the receipt of any assets transferred to the Authority from an Urban Transportation District created under the Urban Transportation District...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 7
The Authority shall have power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, gift or otherwise all or any part of the plant, equipment, property, rights...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 7a
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 Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 8
The Authority shall have power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, gift or otherwise any property and rights useful for its purposes and to...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 8.5
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 Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 9
The Authority shall have power to enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the Authority and any public...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 9a
In addition to all its other powers, the Authority shall, in all its dealings with the Regional Transportation Authority established by the "Regional Transportation...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 9b
The Authority shall comply with the requirements imposed upon a Service Board in Sections 4.09(d) and 4.11 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act and...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 10
The Authority shall have the right of eminent domain to acquire private property and property devoted to any public use which is necessary for...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 11
The Authority shall have the right, but not exclusive of the public right, to use any public road, street or other public way in...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 11.1
Bikeways and trails. The Authority may use its established funds, personnel, and other resources to acquire, construct, operate, and maintain bikeways and trails. The...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 12
The Authority shall have the continuing power to borrow money for the purpose of acquiring any transportation system (including any cash funds of such...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 12a
In addition to other powers provided in Section 12b, the Authority may issue its notes from time to time, in anticipation of tax receipts of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 12b
Working Cash Borrowing. In addition to the powers provided in Section 12a, the Board with the affirmative vote of 5 of its Directors may...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 12c
Retiree Benefits Bonds and Notes. (a) In addition to all other bonds or notes that it is authorized to issue, the Authority is authorized to...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 13
The Authority shall have power to purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motor buses, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 14
The State and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public officers of any thereof,...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 15
The Authority shall have power to apply for and accept grants and loans from the Federal Government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, from the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 16
The Authority shall have power to invest and reinvest any funds held in reserve or sinking funds not required for immediate disbursement in bonds...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 17
The Authority shall have power to procure and enter into contracts for any type of insurance and indemnity against loss or damage to property...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 18
The Authority shall not have power to levy taxes for any purpose whatsoever. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1171.)
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 19
The governing and administrative body of the Authority shall be a board consisting of seven members, to be known as Chicago Transit Board. Members of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 20
Within sixty (60) days after the adoption of this Act by the electors of one or more cities, villages and incorporated towns within the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 21
Members of the Board shall hold office until their respective successors have been appointed and have qualified. Any member may resign from his or her...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 22
As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, the board shall organize for the transaction of business, select a chairman and...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 23
Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at least once in each calendar month, the time and place of such meetings to be...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 24
The Board shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who need not be members of the Board, to hold office during the pleasure of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 25
All funds deposited by the treasurer in any bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association shall be placed in the name of the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 26
In case any officer whose signature appears upon any check, draft, bond, certificate or interest coupon, issued pursuant to this Act, ceases to hold...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 27
The Board may appoint an Executive Director who shall be a person of recognized ability and experience in the operation of transportation systems to...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 27a
In addition to annually expending moneys equal to moneys expended by the Authority in the fiscal year ending December 31, 1988 for the protection...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 28
The Board shall classify all the offices, positions and grades of regular and exempt employment required, excepting that of the Chairman of the Board, the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 28a
(a) The Board may deal with and enter into written contracts with the employees of the Authority through accredited representatives of such employees or representatives...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 28b
Any person applying for a position as a driver of a vehicle owned by a private carrier company which provides public transportation pursuant to an...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 28c
Power to deduct wages for debts. Upon receipt of notice from the comptroller of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, a...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 28d
Employment contracts. Except as otherwise provided in Section 28a, before the Chicago Transit Board may enter into or amend any employment contract in excess of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 29
If the Authority acquires a transportation system in operation by a public utility, all of the employees in the operating and maintenance divisions of such...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 30
The Board shall make all rules and regulations governing the operation of the transportation system, shall determine all routings and change the same whenever it...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 31
The Board shall have power to pass all ordinances and make all rules and regulations proper or necessary to regulate the use, operation and...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 31.1
Agreement to enforce municipal traffic ordinances. The Board may enter into an agreement with the corporate authorities of a municipality with a population greater...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 32
The Board shall adopt regulations to insure that the construction or acquisition by the Authority of services or public transportation facilities (other than real estate)...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 33
The Authority shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other units of local government taxes and registration and license fees, other than...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 34
Budget and Program. The Authority, subject to the powers of the Regional Transportation Authority in Section 4.11 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act, shall control...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 35
As soon after the end of each fiscal year as may be expedient, the Board shall cause to be prepared and printed a complete...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 36
In case the Authority acquires the plant, equipment, property and rights in property of any public utility used or useful in the operation of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 37
It shall be the duty of the Board, as promptly as possible, to rehabilitate, reconstruct and modernize all portions of any transportation system acquired...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 37a
It shall be the duty of the Board to require installation of safety glass made of safety glazing materials in all ticket fare booths...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 38
To assure modern, attractive transportation service the Board may establish a depreciation policy which makes provision for the continuous and prompt replacement of worn...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 39
The Board shall withdraw from the gross receipts of the Authority and charge to operating expenses such an amount of money as in the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 40
The Authority pursuant to ordinances adopted from time to time by the Board may establish and create such other and additional special funds as...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 41
No civil action shall be commenced in any court against the Authority by any person for any injury to his person unless it is commenced...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 42
The Board may investigate all means of transportation and the management thereof, the enforcement of its ordinances, rules and regulations, and the action, conduct...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 43
If any provision of this Act is held invalid such provision shall be deemed to be excised from this Act and the invalidity thereof...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 44
This Act may be adopted by any city, village or incorporated town within the metropolitan area in the following manner: The city council of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 45
(a) A member of the Board of the Authority is not liable for any injury resulting from any act or omission in determining policy...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 46
Citizens Advisory Board. The Board shall establish a citizens advisory board composed of 11 residents of those portions of the metropolitan region in which the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 47
The Authority shall establish, maintain, administer and enforce a comprehensive drug testing program for employees as provided by Section 2.24 of the Regional Transportation...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 48
Beginning 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, no person shall consume any food or drink, excluding any medicine,...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 49
Disclosure of information by employees; Disciplinary Actions. (a) No disciplinary action shall be taken by the Authority against an employee in any case involving...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 50
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Contracting and Equal Employment Opportunity Programs. The Authority shall, as soon as is practicable but in no event later than two years...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 51
Free services; eligibility. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no later than 60 days following the effective date of this amendatory Act of the...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 52
Transit services for disabled individuals. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no later than 60 days following the effective date of this amendatory Act of...
- Illinois Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3605, Section 53
Emergency protocols. Within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the Board must develop written protocols to...
Last modified: February 18, 2015