Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article II - Powers
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01
General Allocation of Responsibility for Public Transportation. (a) In order to accomplish the purposes as set forth in this Act, the responsibility for planning, operating,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01a
Strategic Plan. (a) By the affirmative vote of at least 12 of its then Directors, the Authority shall adopt a Strategic Plan, no less than...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01b
The Five-Year Capital Program. By the affirmative vote of at least 12 of its then Directors, the Authority, after consultation with the Service Boards and...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01c
Innovation, Coordination, and Enhancement Fund. (a) The Authority shall establish an Innovation, Coordination, and Enhancement Fund and deposit into the Fund an amount equal to...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01d
ADA Paratransit Fund. The Authority shall establish an ADA Paratransit Fund and, each year, deposit into that Fund the following amounts: (i) a base amount...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.01e
Suburban Community Mobility Fund. The Authority shall establish a Suburban Community Mobility Fund and deposit into that Fund an amount equal to $20,000,000 in 2008,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.02
Purchase of Service Contracts - Grants. (a) The Service Boards may purchase public transportation from transportation agencies upon such terms and conditions as may...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.03
Operations. A Service Board may provide public transportation by operating public transportation facilities. A Service Board may enter into operating agreements with any individual,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.04
Fares and Nature of Service. (a) Whenever a Service Board provides any public transportation by operating public transportation facilities, the Service Board shall provide for...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.05
Centralized Services; Acquisition and Construction. (a) The Authority may at the request of two or more Service Boards, serve, or designate a Service Board to...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.06
Use of Streets and Roads - Relationship with Illinois Commerce Commission. (a) The Authority may for the benefit of a Service Board, by ordinance,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.06.1
Bikeways and trails. The Authority may use its established funds, personnel, and other resources to acquire, construct, operate, and maintain bikeways and trails. The Authority...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.07
Extra-territorial Authority. In order to provide or assist any transportation of members of the general public between points in the metropolitan region and points...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.08
Protection Against Crime. The Authority shall cooperate with the various State, municipal, sheriff's and transportation agency police forces in the metropolitan region for the...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.09
Research and Development. (a) The Authority and the Service Boards shall study public transportation problems and developments; encourage experimentation in developing new public transportation technology,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.10
Protection of the Environment. The Authority and the Service Boards shall take all feasible and prudent steps to minimize environmental disruption and pollution arising...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.11
Safety. (a) The Service Boards may establish, enforce and facilitate achievement and maintenance of standards of safety against accidents with respect to public transportation...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.12
Coordination with Planning Agencies. The Authority and the Service Boards shall cooperate with the various public agencies charged with responsibility for long-range or comprehensive planning...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.12a
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-886. Repealed by P.A. 95-708, eff. 1-18-08.)
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.12b
Coordination of Fares and Service. Upon the request of a Service Board, the Executive Director of the Authority may, upon the affirmative vote of 9...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.13
(a) The Authority may take and acquire possession by eminent domain of any property or interest in property which the Authority is authorized to acquire...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.13a
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 Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.14
Appointment of Officers and Employees. The Authority may appoint, retain and employ officers, attorneys, agents, engineers and employees. The officers shall include an Executive Director,...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.15
Policy With Respect to Protective Arrangements, Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations. It is the intent of this Act that: (a) The Authority shall insure...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.16
Employee Protection. (a) The Authority shall insure that every employee of the Authority or of a Service Board or transportation agency shall receive fair...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.17
Employee Pensions. The Authority may establish and maintain systems of pensions and retirement benefits for such officers and employees of the Authority as may...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.18
Labor Contracts. (a) The Authority shall deal with and enter into written contracts with employees of the Authority, through accredited representatives of such employees...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.18a
(a) The provisions of this Section apply to collective bargaining agreements (including extensions and amendments to existing agreements) between Service Boards or transportation agencies subject...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.19
Labor Relations Procedures. (a) Whenever the Authority proposes to operate or to enter into a contract to operate any new public transportation facility which...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.20
General Powers. (a) Except as otherwise limited by this Act, the Authority shall also have all powers necessary to meet its responsibilities and to carry...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.21
(a) The Authority or the Commuter Rail Board may not in the exercise of its powers to provide effective public transportation as provided by...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.22
It is the policy of this State that all powers granted, either expressly or by necessary implication, by this Act or any other Illinois...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.23
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 Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.24
Drug and alcohol testing. The Regional Transportation Authority, and all of the Service Boards subject to the Authority, including the Chicago Transportation Authority, shall...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.30
Paratransit services. (a) For purposes of this Act, "ADA paratransit services" shall mean those comparable or specialized transportation services provided by, or under grant or...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.31
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Contracting and Equal Employment Opportunity Programs. The Authority and each Service Board shall, as soon as is practicable but in no event...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.32
Clean/green vehicles. Any vehicles purchased from funds made available to the Authority from the Transportation Bond, Series B Fund must incorporate clean/green technologies and alternative...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.35
Vehicle arrival information. By July 1, 2012, all Service Boards must make available web-based, real-time vehicle arrival information for use by riders for all fixed-route...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.37
Wireless Internet study. By January 1, 2012, the Authority must prepare and submit a report to the Governor and General Assembly regarding the feasibility of...
- Illinois Regional Transportation Authority Act. - 70 ILCS 3615, Section 2.38
Universal fare instrument for persons age 65 and over. No later than 120 days after January 1, 2012 (the effective date of Public Act 97-271),...
Last modified: February 18, 2015