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Code · Illinois · Chapter 70 — SPECIAL DISTRICTS · Act 3610

Sec. 2. Definitions.

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Sec. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act:
(a)"Mass transit facility" means any local public transportation facility, whether buses, trolley-buses, or railway systems, utilized by a substantial number of persons for their daily transportation, and includes not only the local public transportation facility itself but ancillary and supporting facilities such as, for example, motor vehicle parking facilities, as well.
(b)"Participating municipality and county" means the municipality or municipalities, county or counties creating the local Mass Transit District pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
(c)"Municipality" means a city, village, township, or incorporated town.
(d)"Corporate authorities" means
(1)the city council or similar body of a city,
(2)the board of trustees or similar body of a village or incorporated town,
(3)the council of a municipality under the commission form of municipal government, and
(4)the board of trustees in a township.
(e)"County board" means the governing board of a county.
(f)"District" means a local Mass Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
(g)"Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
(h)"Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any political subdivision created by compact between this State and another state, which is a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of both contracting states, and which operates a public mass transportation system.
(i)"Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act, composed only of Madison, St. Clair or Monroe Counties, or any combination thereof or any territory annexed to such district.
(j)"Public mass transportation system" shall mean a transportation system or systems owned and operated by an interstate transportation authority, a municipality, District, or other public or private authority, employing motor busses, rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons, mainly providing local transportation service within an interstate transportation district, municipality, or county.
(k)"Southeast Commuter Rail Transit District" means one or more local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act, composed only of municipalities located within Cook County or Will County, or both, or any territory annexed to such district.
(l)"Northwest Metra Commuter Rail District" means one or more local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act, composed only of municipalities located within McHenry County, or any territory annexed to such district.
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