2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 30 - FINANCE › 30 ILCS 740/ - Downstate Public Transportation Act. › Article IV - Urbanized Area Public Transportation Assistance

(30 ILCS 740/Art. IV heading)
ARTICLE IV
URBANIZED AREA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE
(30 ILCS 740/4-1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699)
Sec. 4-1. 
		
		As used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires
otherwise, the following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to
them in Section 4-1.1 through 4-1.12.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.1)
Sec. 4-1.1. 
		"Department" means the Illinois Department of Transportation.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.2)
Sec. 4-1.2. 
		"Secretary" means the Illinois Secretary of Transportation.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.3)
Sec. 4-1.3. 
		
		"Public transportation" means the transportation or
conveyance of persons by means available to the general public including
groups of the general public with special needs (1) within the urbanized
area, or (2) in the nonurbanized areas within the service area of each
participant as approved by the Department, except for transportation by
automobiles not used for conveyance of the general public as passengers.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.4)
Sec. 4-1.4. 
		
		"Fiscal year" means the fiscal year of the State of
Illinois from July 1 to the next succeeding June 30 unless the intention is
clearly stated to mean another fiscal year.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.5)
Sec. 4-1.5. 
		"Federal fiscal year" means the fiscal year of the U.S. 
		Department of Transportation from October 1 to the next succeeding September 30.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.6)
Sec. 4-1.6. 
		
		"UMTA Section 9" means Section 9 of the federal Urban Mass
Transportation Act of 1964, as now or hereafter amended.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.7)
Sec. 4-1.7. 
		
		"Participant" means (1) a city, village or incorporated
town, or a local mass transit district organized under the Local Mass
Transit District Act, that is named as a designated recipient by the
Governor, or is eligible to receive federal UMTA Section 9 funds, or (2)
the recipient designated by the Governor within the Bi-State Metropolitan
Development District; provided that such entity is all located outside the
boundaries of the Regional Transportation Authority as established pursuant
to the Regional Transportation Authority Act, as amended, and has formally
requested to participate in the program defined in this Article.  However,
no such entity shall be eligible to participate unless it agrees to adhere
to the regulations and requirements of the Secretary of Transportation of
the federal Department of Transportation affecting UMTA Section 9
assistance or any other conditions that are deemed reasonable and necessary
by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.8) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.8)
Sec. 4-1.8. 
		
		"Eligible grant activities" means operating deficits, or
the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement and operating costs of
facilities, equipment and associated capital maintenance items used in mass
transportation service, including crime prevention and security, which may
be acquired through either lease or purchase; and other expenditures which
the Department determines to be consistent with federal Department of
Transportation regulations and requirements.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.9) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.9)
Sec. 4-1.9. 
		
		"Transportation improvement program" means a staged,
multiyear program of capital and operating assistance projects which meets
federal requirements implementing the transportation planning process.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.10) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.10)
Sec. 4-1.10. 
		
		"Eligible operating expenses" means direct labor,
material and overhead expenses incurred on an accrual basis by an operator
to provide mass transportation service in the urbanized area during one
local fiscal year, including expenses for contractual services directly
incident to the management and operation of transportation services, which
are not otherwise reimbursed, and any expenditure which is an operating
expense according to standard accounting practices for the providing of
public transportation and which the Secretary may determine, consistent with
federal Department of Transportation regulations and requirements.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.11) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.11)
Sec. 4-1.11. 
		
		"Operating revenues" means income from
nonreimbursable fares, rental of properties, advertising,
local and state funds contributed to meet eligible operating
expenses, and any other amounts collected or received in the
process of providing public transportation under this Article,
and any revenue which is an operating revenue according to standard
accounting practices for the providing of public transportation and
which the Secretary may determine, consistent with the federal
Department of Transportation regulations and requirements.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-1.12) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.12)
Sec. 4-1.12. 
		
		"Operating deficits" means the amount by which eligible
operating expenses exceed eligible operating revenues.  For purposes of
determining operating deficits, such funds shall be included which the
Department may determine, consistent with federal Department of
Transportation or other applicable federal regulations and requirements
affecting UMTA Section 9.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.13)
Sec. 4-2. 
		
		(a) The Department is authorized to receive UMTA Section 9
funds and to make grants for eligible grant activities to participants
which are eligible to receive such funds in accordance with federal
regulations and requirements affecting UMTA Section 9.  Such grants shall
not exceed the funds to be made available to the State from the federal
government for such purposes.
(b) The Department shall establish forms for the submittal of
applications, and the reporting of projected and actual eligible grant
activities and other required information by the participants, and may
promulgate rules and regulations implementing this Article.
(c) Each participant applying for a grant pursuant to this Article shall
submit a formal application to the Department.  An application for
assistance shall include all information which is required under the
federal regulations and requirements affecting UMTA Section 9 assistance.
For federal fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, an operating assistance
application shall be submitted no later than April 1 of the year
immediately preceding such fiscal year.   An approved Transportation
Improvement Program shall be submitted to the Department by July 1 of
such year.
(d) Each participant shall undertake to meet operating deficits
directly.  Nothing in this Article shall prohibit any participant from
including, in a program of proposed expenditures, funding for a portion of
a cooperative public transportation project or purpose, the total cost of
which is shared among one or more other participants or other financial
contributors.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.14)
Sec. 4-3. 
		
		(a) Upon determining (1) that a participant's proposed
project is in compliance with the provisions of this Article, (2) that the
proposed project or purpose is not in conflict with established
comprehensive transportation plans for a participant or a region of which it
is a part, and (3) the amount of available funds, the Department shall
enter into one or more grant agreements with and shall make grants to that
participant as necessary to implement the adopted project.
(b) All grants by the Department pursuant to this Article shall be
administered upon such conditions as the Secretary shall determine,
consistent with the provisions and purposes of this Article and consistent
with UMTA Section 9 and the federal Department of Transportation
regulations and requirements thereunder.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.15)
Sec. 4-4. 
		
		(a) The Department may make grants to any participant for
an amount not to exceed the authorized percentage of eligible grant
activity expenditures as set forth in UMTA Section 9, upon the participant
paying or committing for payment funds which, together with funds available
under this Article, will be sufficient to meet the total eligible
expenditures, as set forth in the agreement between the Department and
the participant.
(b) Grant payment and reimbursement shall not exceed the difference
between the total of eligible expenses for the project and the amounts
received by the participant for such project from any other source.
(c) Each participant receiving operating assistance shall, no later than
30 days following the end of each quarter of each federal fiscal year, file
with the Department on forms determined by the Department a report of
actual operating revenues and expenses experienced during that quarter, and
a narrative report of other eligible grant activities up to the end of that
quarter.  The Department shall, upon receipt of the quarterly report, pay
to the participant such portion of its operating deficits as the Department
determines to have been incurred in conformity with this Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
(30 ILCS 740/4-5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.16)
Sec. 4-5. 
		
		The grant program established under this Article shall be
terminated when UMTA Section 9 funds cease to be available to the State
from the federal government.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)