Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -

• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Airport Authorities Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 1
  Definitions. When used in this Act: "Aeronautics" means the act or practice of the art and science of transportation by aircraft and instruction therein, and...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2
  Creation of an airport authority. (a) Any area of contiguous territory having a population of not less than 5,000 and containing one or more...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.1
  Petition - Setting for public hearing and notice thereof. Any 500 or more electors residing within the area may file with the clerk of...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.7.1
  Greater Metropolitan Airport Authority. (a) The Greater Metropolitan Airport Authority is hereby established, the territory of which shall include all of the territory within the...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.7.2
  Crawford County Airport Authority. (a) The Crawford County Airport Authority is hereby established, the territory of which shall include all of the territory within the...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2a.1
  Petition-Setting forth tax rate. The petition may, in addition to the matters required to be set forth in Section 2.1, also set forth a...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.2
  Procedure on petition. The circuit court may continue the hearing on the petition from time to time. Should it appear on such public hearing...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.3
  Election - procedure. The clerk of the circuit court shall certify the order for submission of the proposition, to the proper election authorities, who...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.4
  How population to be determined. In determining the population of the territory, or of any included municipality, the last federal, State or municipal census...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.5
  Where territory in more than one county. In case the territory is situated in 2 or more counties, then the petition shall be filed...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.6
  Establishment of authority and completion of corporate record. If a majority of the votes cast upon the question of the adoption of this Act...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 2.7
  Metropolitan Airport Authority. (a) Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1986, in any county with a population between 600,000 and 3,000,000...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 3
  Boards of commissioners. Every authority established under this Act shall be governed by a board of commissioners. For authorities other than Metropolitan Airport Authorities, the...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 3.1
  Boards of commissioners - Appointment. The Boards of Commissioners of Authorities shall be appointed as follows: (1) In case there are one or more municipalities...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 3.2
  Manner of exercising appointments. All appointments of Commissioners to Boards of Commissioners of Airport Authorities shall be in writing and shall indicate the legal...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 3.3
  Effect of invalidity of appointment provision. Should the foregoing provisions respecting the appointment of commissioners representing the area within any municipality of five thousand...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 3.4
  Commissioners' terms and qualification. All initial appointments of commissioners shall be made within twenty days after the determination of the result of said election,...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 4
  Judicial notice of existence of authorities. All courts shall take judicial notice of the existence and dissolution of an Airport Authority and of the...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 5
  Qualifications of commissioners and removal from office. No person shall be appointed to the Board of Commissioners of any Airport Authority who has any...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 6
  Powers of the board, first meeting, by-laws, etc. The Board of Commissioners of an Authority shall possess and exercise all of its legislative and...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 7
  Purposes of act. The establishment and continued maintenance and operation of safe, adequate and necessary public airports and public airport facilities within the State...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8
  Nature and powers. An Airport Authority constitutes a municipal corporation and body politic separate and apart from any other municipality, the State of Illinois...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.01
  To locate, establish and maintain a public airport, public airports and public airport facilities within its corporate limits or within or upon any land...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.02
  To acquire, within or without the corporate limits of the Authority, land in fee simple, including township roadways, rights in and over land or...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.03
  To operate, maintain, manage, lease, sublease, and to make and enter into contracts for the use, operation or management of, and to provide rules...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.04
  To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals, tolls, fees, and charges for the use of any public airport, or any part thereof, or any...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.05
  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 Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.06
  To restrict the height of any object of natural growth or structure or structures within the vicinity of any airport or within the lines...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.07
  To agree with the state or federal government or with any public agency in respect to the removal and relocation of any object of...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.08
  To borrow money and to issue bonds, notes, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness for the purpose of accomplishing any of said corporate purposes,...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.09
  To employ or enter into contracts for the employment of any person, firm, or corporation, and for professional services, necessary or desirable for the...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.10
  Regulation of aircraft. (a) For the prevention of accidents, for the furtherance and protection of public health, safety and convenience in respect to aeronautics,...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.11
  To regulate traffic, speed, movement and parking of motor vehicles upon a public airport and to employ parking meters, signs and other devices in...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.12
  To police its property and to exercise police powers in respect thereto or in respect to the enforcement of any rule or regulation provided...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.13
  To establish by ordinance of its Board of Commissioners all needful rules and regulations for the execution of the foregoing powers, for the government...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.14
  Rules and regulations adopted under and in pursuance of the powers granted by Sections 8.10, 8.11 and 8.12 must be contained in an ordinance...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.14a
  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 Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8.15
  In addition to all powers conferred on any Airport Authority under this Act to acquire real or personal property for Airport Authority purposes, every...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 8a
  Competency of judges or jurors in actions where authority is party in interest. In any action or proceeding in which an airport authority may...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 9
  Procedure for eminent domain. In all cases where land in fee simple, rights in land, air or water, easements or other interests in land, air...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 9.05
  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 Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 9.1
  Any territory which is not within the corporate limits of any airport authority but which is contiguous to an airport authority and which territory...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 9.2
  Whenever any contiguous, uninhabited, unincorporated territory is owned by any airport authority, that territory may be annexed by that airport authority by the passage...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 9.3
  Whenever any incorporated territory, containing 60 acres or less, is wholly bounded by any airport authority organized under this Act, that territory may be...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 10
  Forms of corporate action. Action of the Board of Commissioners of an airport authority of a legislative character shall be in the form of...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 11
  Records of authority and officers' bonds. The Board shall provide for the proper and safe keeping of its permanent records and for the recording...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 12
  Change of name. Whenever an ordinance shall be adopted by the Board of Commissioners of said Authority by a two-thirds vote of the membership...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 13
  Annual appropriations and tax levy. Every Authority created under this Act is hereby empowered to levy and collect a general tax on all of...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 13.1
  In any Authority in which there has been established a maximum annual tax rate which is less than the maximum rate otherwise applicable by...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 13.2
  Capital improvement program and budget. Each airport authority organized under this Act may annually prepare and update a 5-year capital improvement program and yearly...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 13.3
  Appropriations for capital improvements. An airport authority that has prepared a capital improvement program under Section 13.2 may, in its annual appropriation ordinance, appropriate...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14
  Cooperative action with other governments. An Airport Authority may apply for and receive the grant or loan of money or other financial aid from...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14.1
  Bond limitation. An Authority may secure the necessary funds to finance part or all of the cost of (i) acquiring, establishing, constructing, developing, expanding, extending...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14.2
  General plans and cost estimate to be approved. Before the adoption of any ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds, the board of commissioners...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14.3
  Bond ordinance. Upon the approval of the general plan and cost estimate for any such project by the Department of Transportation, if required, the Board...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14.4
  Bonds registered and negotiable. Bonds, whether payable from taxes or from revenues, may be made registrable either as to principal or as to both...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 14.5
  Referendum if bonds exceed 3/4 of one per cent of assessed value. In case any such ordinance provides for the issuance of bonds in...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 15
  Obligations payable from operating revenue. The Board of Commissioners of an Authority, from time to time, may execute and deliver bonds, notes or certificates...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 15.1
  Ordinance authorizing obligations payable from operating revenue; Disposition of revenue; Enforcement of contract against airport authority. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of any such...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 15.2
  An Airport Authority may construct office, aircraft hangar and service buildings and appurtenant facilities upon a public airport owned and operated by the authority...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 16
  Pre-existing public agencies. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, in case any airport authority organized hereunder shall be coterminous with, or shall include...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 16.1
  Sale or disposition of surplus property, etc. An airport authority shall have the power to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of real property which...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 17
  Dissolution of an authority. In case any Airport Authority has not become or has ceased to be the owner of an airport and has...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 17.1
  Any township located outside the territory of a county in which a Metropolitan Airport Authority is established, but which was included in a pre-existing...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 17.2
  Whenever a township disconnects from a Metropolitan Airport Authority as provided in Section 17.1, such township and the municipalities within such township shall be...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 17.3
  Any Metropolitan Airport Authority which, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1986, does not have a runway in excess of 5,100...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 18
  Acquisition, construction or improvement of airport - Notice - Bond issues - Disconnection and reconnection of land. After the site of any airport to...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 19
  Construction of act. This act shall be deemed to be a general law, complete in itself and distinct and separate from any prior law....
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 20
  Partial invalidity. If any provision of this Act, or the application of any provision thereof to any property, person or circumstance, is held to...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 21
  Validation. All contracts, leases, agreements, or other obligations entered into by any airport authority that is authorized under this amendatory Act of 1992 to...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.1
  Establishment of a Rail Authority. (a) The Board of Commissioners of an airport authority in Winnebago County may, by resolution, establish a Rail Authority as...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.2
  Provision of rail and related transportation services. The Rail Authority shall also have the power to provide non-rail transportation services within the Counties, which may...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.3
  Further powers of the Rail Authority. (a) Except as otherwise limited by this Act, the Rail Authority shall have all powers to meet its responsibilities...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.4
  Bonds and notes. (a) The Rail Authority shall have the power to borrow money and to issue its negotiable bonds or notes as provided in...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.6
  Exemption from taxation. The Rail Authority and the Rail Corporation shall be exempt from all State and unit of local government taxes and registration and...
• Illinois Airport Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 5, Section 22.7
  Federal, State, and other funds. The Rail Authority shall have the power to apply for, receive, and expend grants, loans, or other funds from the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015