(50 ILCS 40/0.01) (from Ch. 24, par. 1360)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Foreign Trade Zones Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(50 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 24, par. 1361)
Sec. 1.
Each of the following units of State or local government and public or
private corporations shall have the power to apply to proper authorities of
the United States of America pursuant to appropriate law for the right to
establish, operate, maintain and lease foreign trade zones and sub-zones
within its corporate limits or within limits established pursuant to
agreement with proper authorities of the United States of America, as the
case may be, and to establish, operate, maintain and lease such foreign
trade zones and sub-zones:
(a) The City of East St. Louis.
(b) The Bi-State Authority, Lawrenceville – Vincennes
Airport.
(c) The Waukegan Port district.
(d) The Illinois Valley Regional Port District.
(e) The Economic Development Council, Inc. located in the
area of the United States Customs Port of Entry for Peoria,
pursuant to authorization granted by the county boards in the
geographic area served by the proposed foreign trade zone.
(f) The Greater Rockford Airport Authority.
(f-5) The Illinois Department of Transportation, with respect to the South Suburban Airport.
(g) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1984, any county,
city, village or town within the State or a public or private corporation
authorized or licensed to do business in the State or any combination thereof
may apply to the Foreign Trade Zones Board, United States Department of
Commerce, for the right to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade
zone and sub-zones. For the purposes of this Section, such foreign trade
zone or sub-zones may be incorporated outside the corporate boundaries or
be made up of areas from adjoining counties or states.
(h) No foreign trade zone may be established within 50 miles of an existing
zone situated in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants or within 35
miles of an existing zone situated in a county with less than 3,000,000
inhabitants, such zones having been
created pursuant to this Act without the permission of the authorities
which established the existing zone.
(Source: P.A. 98-109, eff. 7-25-13.)
(50 ILCS 40/2) (from Ch. 24, par. 1362)
Sec. 2.
It is unlawful for any person holding an elective
office in this State, holding a seat in the General Assembly,
or appointed to or employed in any of the offices of State
government, or who is an officer or employee of the Illinois
Building Authority or the Illinois Toll Highway Authority, or
who is the wife, husband, child, grandparent, parent,
grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, brother, sister, first
cousin, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mother-in-law,
father-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law of any such
person to have or acquire any contract, or any direct or
indirect pecuniary interest in any grant or contract issued
pursuant to this Act.
Any person convicted of a violation of this Section is guilty of
a business offense and shall be fined not more than $2,500.
(Source: P.A. 80-1045.)