HWY CD-FEE OWNERSHIP-DAMAGES

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that if a highway authority does not have fee ownership of property located over or under a highway or road or the right to grant use of the property, an entity applying for consent to use the property for ditches, drains, tracks, rails, poles, wires, pipeline, or other equipment of the entity shall pay to the owners of the property all damages the owners may sustain by reason of use of the property and the damages shall be agreed upon by the entity and the owners or ascertained and paid in the manner provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Effective immediately.