Funds by Fund Number with Statutory Language
Beginning with fiscal year 1982 and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to the following Departments or
agencies of State government for administration, grants, or operations; but this limitation is not a restriction upon
appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement: Department of Central
Management Services, except for awards made by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission under the terms of the
Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases Act for injury or death of an employee of the Division of
Highways in the Department of Transportation.
Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to any Department or agency of
State government for administration, grants, or operations except as provided hereafter; but this limitation is not a restriction
upon appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement. It shall not be
lawful to circumvent the above appropriation limitations by governmental reorganization or other methods. Appropriations
shall be made from the Road Fund only in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
Money in the Road Fund shall, if and when the State of Illinois incurs any bonded indebtedness for the construction of
permanent highways, be set aside and used for the purpose of paying and discharging during each fiscal year the principal
and interest on that bonded indebtedness as it becomes due and payable as provided in the Transportation Bond Act, and for
no other purpose. The surplus, if any, in the Road Fund after the payment of principal and interest on that bonded
indebtedness then annually due shall be used as follows:
first-- to pay the cost of administration of Chapters 2 through 10 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
secondly-- no Road Fund monies derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, operation and use
of vehicles on public highways or to fuels used for the propulsion of those vehicles, shall be appropriated or expended other
than for costs of administering the laws imposing those fees, excises, and license taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments
allowed thereunder, administrative costs of the Department of Transportation, including, but not limited to, the operating
expenses of the Department relating to the administration of public transportation programs, payment of debts and liabilities
incurred in construction and reconstruction of public highways and bridges, acquisition of rights of way for and the cost of
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and operation of public highways and bridges under the direction and
supervision of the State, political subdivision, or municipality collecting those monies, and the costs for patrolling and
policing the public highways (by State, political subdivision, or municipality collecting that money) for enforcement of
traffic laws. The separation of grades of such highways with railroads and costs associated with protection of at grade
highway and railroad crossing shall also be permissible.
Appropriations for any of such purposes are payable from the Road Fund or the Grade Crossing Protection Fund as provided
in Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
Except as provided in this paragraph, beginning with fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be
appropriated to the Department of State Police for the purposes of this Section in excess of its total fiscal year 1990 Road
Fund appropriations for those purposes unless otherwise provided in Section 5g of this Act. For fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, and 2007 only, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Department of State Police for the purposes of
this Section in excess of $97,310,000. It shall not be lawful to circumvent this limitation on appropriations by governmental
reorganization or other methods unless otherwise provided in Section 5g of this Act.
In fiscal year 1994, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Section in
excess of the total fiscal year 1991 Road Fund appropriations to the Secretary of State for those purposes, plus $9,800,000. It
shall not be lawful to circumvent this limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization or other method.
Beginning with fiscal year 1995 and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Secretary of State for the
purposes of this Section in excess of the total fiscal year 1994 Road Fund appropriations to the Secretary of State for those
purposes. It shall not be lawful to circumvent this limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization or other
methods.
Beginning with fiscal year 2000, total Road Fund appropriations to the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Section
shall not exceed the amounts specified for the following fiscal years:
Fiscal Year 2000 $80,500,000;
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