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Public Act 096-1256


 

Public Act 1256 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-1256
 
SB2476 EnrolledLRB096 14784 AJT 29642 b

    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 11-208 and by adding Section 11-1307 as follows:
 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-208)   (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-208)
    Sec. 11-208. Powers of local authorities.
    (a) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways
under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of
the police power from:
        1. Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles,
    except as limited by Sections Section 11-1306 and 11-1307
    of this Act;
        2. Regulating traffic by means of police officers or
    traffic control signals;
        3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or
    assemblages on the highways;
        4. Designating particular highways as one-way highways
    and requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one
    specific direction;
        5. Regulating the speed of vehicles in public parks
    subject to the limitations set forth in Section 11-604;
        6. Designating any highway as a through highway, as
    authorized in Section 11-302, and requiring that all
    vehicles stop before entering or crossing the same or
    designating any intersection as a stop intersection or a
    yield right-of-way intersection and requiring all vehicles
    to stop or yield the right-of-way at one or more entrances
    to such intersections;
        7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in
    Chapter 15;
        8. Regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring
    the registration and licensing of same, including the
    requirement of a registration fee;
        9. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or
    specified types of vehicles at intersections;
        10. Altering the speed limits as authorized in Section
    11-604;
        11. Prohibiting U-turns;
        12. Prohibiting pedestrian crossings at other than
    designated and marked crosswalks or at intersections;
        13. Prohibiting parking during snow removal operation;
        14. Imposing fines in accordance with Section
    11-1301.3 as penalties for use of any parking place
    reserved for persons with disabilities, as defined by
    Section 1-159.1, or disabled veterans by any person using a
    motor vehicle not bearing registration plates specified in
    Section 11-1301.1 or a special decal or device as defined
    in Section 11-1301.2 as evidence that the vehicle is
    operated by or for a person with disabilities or disabled
    veteran;
        15. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are
    specifically authorized by this Code; or
        16. Enforcing the provisions of subsection (f) of
    Section 3-413 of this Code or a similar local ordinance.
    (b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under subsections 1,
4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 or 13 of paragraph (a) shall be effective
until signs giving reasonable notice of such local traffic
regulations are posted.
    (c) The provisions of this Code shall not prevent any
municipality having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants
from prohibiting any person from driving or operating any motor
vehicle upon the roadways of such municipality with headlamps
on high beam or bright.
    (d) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
prevent local authorities within the reasonable exercise of
their police power from prohibiting, on private property, the
unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with
disabilities.
    (e) No unit of local government, including a home rule
unit, may enact or enforce an ordinance that applies only to
motorcycles if the principal purpose for that ordinance is to
restrict the access of motorcycles to any highway or portion of
a highway for which federal or State funds have been used for
the planning, design, construction, or maintenance of that
highway. No unit of local government, including a home rule
unit, may enact an ordinance requiring motorcycle users to wear
protective headgear. Nothing in this subsection (e) shall
affect the authority of a unit of local government to regulate
motorcycles for traffic control purposes or in accordance with
Section 12-602 of this Code. No unit of local government,
including a home rule unit, may regulate motorcycles in a
manner inconsistent with this Code. This subsection (e) is a
limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
    (f) A municipality or county designated in Section 11-208.6
may enact an ordinance providing for an automated traffic law
enforcement system to enforce violations of this Code or a
similar provision of a local ordinance and imposing liability
on a registered owner of a vehicle used in such a violation.
    (g) A municipality or county, as provided in Section
11-1201.1, may enact an ordinance providing for an automated
traffic law enforcement system to enforce violations of Section
11-1201 of this Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance and imposing liability on a registered owner of a
vehicle used in such a violation.
(Source: P.A. 96-478, eff. 1-1-10.)
 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-1307 new)
    Sec. 11-1307. Centralized parking meter systems.
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Centralized parking meter system" means a system of
regulating the standing or parking of vehicles that includes 3
or more parking meter zones, and a single parking meter.
    "Parking meter" means a traffic control device which, upon
being activated by deposit of currency of the United States, or
by electronic or other form of payment, in the amount indicated
thereon or otherwise, either: (1) displays a signal showing
that parking is allowed from the time of such activation until
the expiration of the time fixed for parking in the parking
meter zone in which it is located, and upon expiration of such
time indicates by sign or signal that the lawful parking period
has expired, or (2) issues a ticket or other token, or
activates a display device, on which is printed or otherwise
indicated the lawful parking period in the parking meter zone
in which the parking meter is located, such ticket, other
token, or display device, to be displayed in a publicly visible
location on the dashboard or inner windshield of a vehicle
parked in the parking meter zone, or such ticket to be affixed
on the front lamp of a motorcycle or motor scooter parked in
the parking meter zone.
    "Parking meter zone" means a certain designated and
marked-off section of the public way within the marked
boundaries where a vehicle may be temporarily parked and
allowed to remain for such period of time as the parking meter
attached thereto, or the ticket or other token issued by the
parking meter, may indicate.
    (b) If for any reason the parking meter serving a space or,
in a centralized parking meter system, serving a parking meter
zone is malfunctioning due to the accumulation of ice or snow
and it has been reported to the local authorities as
malfunctioning prior to a violation for the standing or parking
of vehicles being issued, it shall be a valid affirmative
defense to such violation until such time as the parking meter
is brought back into service.

Effective Date: 1/1/2011