§ 0.01 Short title
§ 1 Definitions
§ 2 Creation of an airport authority
§ 2.1 Petition – Setting for public hearing and notice thereof
§ 2a.1 Petition-Setting forth tax rate
§ 2.2 Procedure on petition
§ 2.3 Election – procedure
§ 2.4 How population to be determined
§ 2.5 Where territory in more than one county
§ 2.6 Establishment of authority and completion of corporate record
§ 2.7 Metropolitan Airport Authority
§ 2.7.1 Greater Metropolitan Airport Authority
§ 2.7.2 Crawford County Airport Authority
§ 3 Boards of commissioners
§ 3.1 Boards of commissioners – Appointment
§ 3.2 Manner of exercising appointments
§ 3.3 Effect of invalidity of appointment provision
§ 3.4 Commissioners’ terms and qualification
§ 4 Judicial notice of existence of authorities
§ 5 Qualifications of commissioners and removal from office
§ 6 Powers of the board, first meeting, by-laws, etc. The Board of …
§ 7 Purposes of Act
§ 8 Nature and powers
§ 8.01 To locate, establish and maintain a public airport, public airports …
§ 8.02 To acquire, within or without the corporate limits of the Authority, …
§ 8.03 To operate, maintain, manage, lease, sublease, and to make and enter …
§ 8.04 To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals, tolls, fees, and …
§ 8.05 To establish, maintain, extend and improve roadways and approaches by …
§ 8.06 To restrict the height of any object of natural growth or structure …
§ 8.07 To agree with the state or federal government or with any public …
§ 8.08 To borrow money and to issue bonds, notes, certificates, or other …
§ 8.09 To employ or enter into contracts for the employment of any person, …
§ 8.10 Regulation of aircraft
§ 8.11 To regulate traffic, speed, movement and parking of motor vehicles …
§ 8.12 To police its property and to exercise police powers in respect …
§ 8.13 To establish by ordinance of its Board of Commissioners all needful …
§ 8.14 Rules and regulations adopted under and in pursuance of the powers …
§ 8.14a Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with …
§ 8.15 In addition to all powers conferred on any Airport Authority under …
§ 8a Competency of judges or jurors in actions where authority is party in …
§ 9 Procedure for eminent domain
§ 9.05 Eminent domain
§ 9.1 Any territory which is not within the corporate limits of any airport …
§ 9.2 Whenever any contiguous, uninhabited, unincorporated territory is …
§ 9.3 Whenever any incorporated territory, containing 60 acres or less, is …
§ 10 Forms of corporate action
§ 11 Records of authority and officers’ bonds
§ 12 Change of name
§ 13 Annual appropriations and tax levy
§ 13.1 In any Authority in which there has been established a maximum annual …
§ 13.2 Capital improvement program and budget
§ 13.3 Appropriations for capital improvements
§ 14 Cooperative action with other governments
§ 14.1 Bond limitation
§ 14.2 General plans and cost estimate to be approved
§ 14.3 Bond ordinance
§ 14.4 Bonds registered and negotiable
§ 14.5 Referendum if bonds exceed 3/4 of one per cent of assessed value. In …
§ 15 Obligations payable from operating revenue
§ 15.1 Ordinance authorizing obligations payable from operating revenue; …
§ 15.2 An Airport Authority may construct office, aircraft hangar and …
§ 16 Pre-existing public agencies
§ 16.1 Sale or disposition of surplus property, etc
§ 17 Dissolution of an authority
§ 17.1 Any township located outside the territory of a county in which a …
§ 17.2 Whenever a township disconnects from a Metropolitan Airport Authority …
§ 17.3 Any Metropolitan Airport Authority which, on the effective date of …
§ 18 Acquisition, construction or improvement of airport – Notice – Bond …
§ 19 Construction of Act
§ 20 Partial invalidity
§ 21 Validation
§ 22.1 Establishment of a Rail Authority
§ 22.2 Provision of rail and related transportation services
§ 22.3 Further powers of the Rail Authority
§ 22.4 Bonds and notes
§ 22.6 Exemption from taxation
§ 22.7 Federal, State, and other funds

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 70 ILCS 5 - Airport Authorities Act

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • County board: means the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and the board of commissioners of Cook County. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.07
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter" at any time after such day. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.17
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.10
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipalities: has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.27
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.