70 ILCS 3605/2

When used in this Act:

"Transportation System" means all plants, equipment, property and rights useful for transportation of passengers for hire except taxicabs and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, street railways, elevated railroads, subways and underground railroads, motor vehicles, trolley buses, motor buses and any combination thereof.

"Authority" means Chicago Transit Authority created by this Act.

"Board" means Chicago Transit Board.

"Governor" means Governor of the State of Illinois.

"Mayor" means Mayor of the City of Chicago.

"Metropolitan area" has the meaning given to the term "metropolitan region" in the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act.

"Motor vehicle" means every vehicle which is self-propelled or which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated on rails.

"Municipal government" means a "municipality" as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.

"Supermajority vote" means a supermajority vote by the Northern Illinois Transit Authority as defined in the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act.

"Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.