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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4270
Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Daniel Didech - Tracy Katz Muhl
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/6-140
    Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Requires a township (rather than any township in Lake County or McHenry County) to abolish a road district of that township if the roads of the road district are less than 15 centerline miles in length.
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A BILL FOR
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1		    AN ACT concerning transportation.
2		    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		    Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
5		changing Section 6-140 as follows:
6		    (605 ILCS 5/6-140)
7		    Sec. 6-140. Abolishing a road district [within Lake County ]
8		[or McHenry County] with less than 15 miles of roads. A [Any]
9		township [in Lake County or McHenry County] shall abolish a road
10		district of that township if the roads of the road district are
11		less than 15 centerline miles in length, as determined by the
12		county engineer or county superintendent of highways. A road
13		district is abolished on the expiration of the term of office
14		of the highway commissioner of the road district facing
15		abolition following the determination by the county engineer
16		or county superintendent of highways of the length, in
17		centerline mileage, of the roads within the road district to
18		be abolished.
19		    On the date of abolition: all the rights, powers, duties,
20		assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and
21		responsibilities of the road district shall by operation of
22		law vest in and be assumed by the township; the township board
23		of trustees shall assume all taxing authority of a road
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1		district abolished under this Section and shall exercise all
2		duties and responsibilities of the highway commissioner as
3		provided in this Code; and for purposes of distribution of
4		revenue, the township shall assume the powers, duties, and
5		obligations of the road district. The township board of
6		trustees may enter into a contract with the county, a
7		municipality, or a private contractor to administer the roads
8		added to its jurisdiction under this Section.
9		(Source: P.A. 101-230, eff. 8-9-19.)