Illinois Compiled Statutes 605 ILCS 115 — Toll Bridge Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Toll Bridge Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

No toll bridge shall be established or erected across any lake, river, creek or other water course in this state without the consent of the county board of the county in which the same is to be established or erected. (Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1059.)

Any person or corporation may petition the county board for leave to establish and erect a toll bridge, and if said board shall deem such bridge necessary, it may authorize the establishment and erection thereof upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem for the public good: Provided, that no bridge shall be const…

When the bridge is to be established between two counties, the petition shall be addressed to the county boards of both counties, and the consent of each of said boards shall be necessary to authorize the erection or establishment of such bridge. (Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1059.)

No such consent shall be given unless the petitioner shall have given notice of his intended application in some newspaper published in the county, for at least four weeks, successively, next preceding the session of the county board at which the application is made; or, if no newspaper is published in such county, by…

The proprietors of lands adjoining to, or embracing the water course over which a toll bridge is proposed to be established, shall have the preference, if they will apply before such privilege shall have been granted to any person or corporation. (Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1059.)

Any county board granting permission to erect any such bridge may require of the person or corporation to which such permission is granted, bonds in such sum, upon such conditions, and with such security as it shall deem proper, and may insert therein a provision for the payment of any damages that any person may susta…

Toll rates; electronic toll collection

Toll rates; electronic toll collection. (a) The county board shall fix the rates of toll, and may from time to time, alter and change the same, including by establishing a toll rate schedule, setting a maximum toll rate that may be adjusted from time to time, or by establishing another toll rate structure, and in case…

Every person or corporation owning or operating any toll bridge, shall keep a list of the legal rates of toll, printed or written in a legible hand, constantly posted up in some public place, at or near the toll gate, or place where toll is collected. If any such person or corporation shall fail to comply with the prov…

Every person or corporation who shall take or demand any greater rate of toll for the passage of any person or property over any bridge than is allowed by law, shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved the sum of $5, and such additional amount as shall have been illegally taken. (Source: R.S. 1874…

Every toll bridge shall be built with a good and substantial railing or siding, at least four and a half feet high, and no toll shall be collected for passing any bridge that has not such railing or siding. (Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1059.)

Every person or corporation owning or operating a bridge over any navigable water course shall keep the channel thereof, above and below the bridge, free and clear from all deposits in any wise prejudicial to the navigation thereof, which may be formed or occasioned by the erection of such bridge. (Source: R.S. 1874, p…

Every person who shall willfully break, throw, draw or injure any gate erected on any toll bridge, or shall forcibly or fraudulently pass over any such bridge without having first paid or tendered the legal toll, shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense, and upon conviction shall be fined, in addition to the damage re…

When it shall be necessary, for the establishment, erection, repair, extension or reconstruction of any toll bridge of public utility (including all necessary approaches thereto) that may be authorized to be established or erected pursuant to this act, or which may have been heretofore erected, to take or damage privat…

Whenever the county board of any county shall deem it for the public interest that any toll bridge in such county should be made a free bridge, it may take and condemn the same for that purpose, in the manner then provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain. If the bridge is situated in two counties…

Eminent domain

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 to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)