Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 653 - STATE OPERATING ASSISTANCE TO DOWNSTATE AREAS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 653.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following words and phrases as used in this Part shall
				  have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section.
"Act" means the Downstate Public Transportation Act [30 ILCS
				  740 /Arts. I and II].
"AICPA" means the American Institute of Certified Public
				  Accountants.
"Applicant" means any eligible participant who applies for an
				  operating assistance grant under the Act and this Part.
"Application" means those materials and forms required by the
				  Department to be submitted by an applicant in support of its request for
				  operating assistance. (See Sections 2-5 and 2-5.1 of the Act.)
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Transportation,
				  Division of Public and Intermodal Transportation. (Section 2-2.01 of the
				  Act)
"Demand Response Service" means a non-fixed route shared use
				  service operating in response to pre-arranged time and location requests from
				  passengers, or their agents, to the transit operator.
"Deviated Fixed Route Service" means transit service that
				  operates along a fixed alignment or path at generally fixed times but may
				  deviate from the route alignment to collect or drop off passengers who have
				  requested the deviation.
"Eligible Operating Expenses" means allexpenses required for
				  public transportation, as defined in Section 2-2.04 of the Act and Section
				  653.111
				  of this Part.
"Fiscal Year" means the fiscal year of the State of Illinois
				  that begins on July 1 and ends on June 30. (Section 2-2.06 of the Act)
"Fixed Route Service" means public transportation service
				  provided on a repetitive, fixed-schedule basis along a specific route, stopping
				  to pick up and deliver passengers to specific locations.
"FTA" means the Federal Transit Administration of the United
				  States Department of Transportation, or its successor.
"Grant Contract" means the written agreement between the
				  applicant and the Department defining the program, funding limits and terms of
				  the grant.
"Ineligible Operating Expenses" means those expenses
				  ineligible for State operating assistance, as defined in Section 2-2.04 of the
				  Act and Section
				  653.112 of
				  this Part.
"OMB" means the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
"Operating Deficit" means operating deficits as defined in
				  Section 2-2.03 of the Act.
"Participant" means any eligible participant as defined in
				  Section 2-2.02 of the Act who has received an appropriation from the Illinois
				  General Assembly for downstate operating assistance.
"Preliminary Application" means those materials and forms
				  prescribed by the Department to be submitted by an applicant in support of its
				  projected request for operating assistance in the next fiscal year.
"Program of Proposed Expenditures" or "POPE" means those
				  activities, services and proposed eligible operating expenditures to be
				  provided by the applicant that directly relate to the operation, maintenance or
				  improvement of general public transportation service benefiting the residents
				  of the applicant.
"Public Transportation" means the transportation or
				  conveyance of personsby means available to the general public including groups
				  of the general public with special needs:
within the urbanized area; or
in the nonurbanized areaswithin 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.
				  (Section 2-2.05 of the Act)
Service in a participant's service area may be provided by
				  either:
another eligible participant through an intergovernmental
				  agreement; or
a private for-profit operator through a third party contract
				  or a private non-profit operator through a pass through agreement or third
				  party contract.
"Purchased Transportation" means those public transportation
				  activities procured by a participant and provided by a third party through
				  contracts.
"Service Area" means a participant's territorial boundaries
				  plus service extensions or contiguous service areas approved by the
				  Department.
"State" means the State of Illinois.
"Territorial boundaries" means:
the municipal boundaries of a municipal participant plus the
				  boundaries of any contiguous city, village, incorporated town, and/or county
				  that has agreed by intergovernmental agreement to be included in the
				  territorial boundaries of the municipal participant;
the county boundaries of a county participant plus the
				  boundaries of any contiguous city, village, incorporated town, and/or county
				  that has agreed by intergovernmental agreement to be included in the
				  territorial boundaries of the county participant;
the boundaries of the municipalities, villages, incorporated
				  towns, counties, and/or participating areas having created a mass transit
				  district, plus the boundaries of any contiguous city, village, incorporated
				  town, and/or county that has agreed by intergovernmental agreement to be
				  included in the territorial boundaries of the mass transit district
				  participant.
Any boundary established by intergovernmental agreement must
				  be approved by ordinance and/or resolution by the appropriate and requisite
				  governing bodies. Establishment of the boundary shall not be in conflict with
				  the Act and/or the Local Mass Transit District Act [70 ILCS 3610 ].
				  Additionally, a participant cannot establish as part of its territorial
				  boundary any area that is already included in another participant's territorial
				  boundary.