A municipality may apply for and accept loans, grants, services, or other financial assistance from, and may participate in projects of, the United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, under the Federal “Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964”, as now or hereafter amended, or similar Federal mass transportation acts, and may enter into and carry out contracts in connection therewith.
     This Section applies to any contract which is otherwise valid and made for the purposes authorized in this Section, even though the contract was executed before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1969 or the municipality made no appropriation for the contract before it was executed either before or after the effective date of this amendatory Act.

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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 ILCS 5/11-122.1-4

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • United States: may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14