Illinois Code § 35

§ 35.

(a) The sum of $1,914,000 is hereby appropriated from the Road Fund to The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority for the purpose of paying the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Authority necessary to finance engineering and traffic studies to determine the feasibility of constructing additional toll highways within the State of Illinois, to determine routes therefor, to prepare for a successful marketing of bonds to finance construction of the additional toll highways, and for the purpose of compensating all persons who must be employed for such purposes. (b) Compensation of employees devoting their entire time in coordinating the necessary information and in determining the feasibility of constructing additional toll highways within the State of Illinois shall be paid from the amount herein appropriated, and in the case of any employee who is devoting part time to the coordination and procuring of the necessary material for a determination as to whether or not additional toll highways shall be constructed within the State of Illinois shall be paid from the amount herein appropriated, to the extent of the time devoted to such work, it being the intent and purpose that each employee account for the time so spent to be paid from this appropriation, to the end that no charges or expenses of any kind shall be made to any of the funds or accounts created by virtue of the issuing of bonds under "An Act in relation to the construction, operation, regulation and maintenance of a system of toll highways and to create The Illinois State Toll Highway Commission and to define its powers and duties and to repeal an Act therein named", approved July 13, 1953, as amended, except those necessary to the maintenance, administration and operation of the existing toll highway constructed under the provisions of the act. (c) The amount appropriated herein shall be repaid by the Authority as provided by Section 18 of this Act. (Source: Laws 1968, p. 199.)