(625 ILCS 5/11-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities. (a) Subject to
the limitations set forth in this Section, the county board of a county
may establish absolute maximum speed limits on all county highways,
township roads and district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway
Code, except those under the jurisdiction
of the Department or of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as
described in Sections 11-602 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park
district, city, village, or incorporated town may establish absolute
maximum speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the Department or of
such Authority, and for which the county or a highway commissioner of
such county does not have maintenance responsibility.
(b) Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
incorporated town determines, upon
the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation concerning a
highway or street on which it is authorized by this Section to establish
speed limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of
this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe with respect
to the conditions found to exist at any place or along any part or zone
of such highway or street, the local authority or park district shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit at such place or along such part or zone,
which:
(1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but not to less than 20 miles per |
The park district, city, village, or incorporated
town may make such limit applicable
at all times or only during certain specified times. Not more than 6
such alterations shall be made per mile along a highway or street; and
the difference in limit between adjacent altered speed zones shall not
be more than 10 miles per hour.
A limit so determined and declared by a park district, city, village,
or incorporated town becomes effective, and suspends the application of
the limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper place or
along the proper part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic
speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet beyond any
such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in violation of this
Section evidence obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any
prosecution for speeding. However, nothing in this Section prohibits
the use of such electronic speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
sign within a special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming
to the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall evidence
obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding
provided the use of such device shall apply only to the enforcement of
the speed limit in such special school speed zone.
(c) A county engineer or
superintendent of highways may submit to the Department for approval, a
county policy for establishing altered speed zones on township and county
highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
(d) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a maximum speed limit
is greater or less than is
reasonable or safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county board shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed
limit at that place or along that part or zone. However, the maximum speed
limit shall not exceed 55 miles per hour. Upon receipt of an engineering study for the part or zone of highway in question from the county engineer, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county board of a county may determine and declare by ordinance a reduction in the maximum speed limit
at any place
or along any part or zone of a county highway whenever the county board, in its sole discretion, determines that the reduction in the maximum speed limit is reasonable and safe.
The county board may post signs designating the new speed limit. The limit becomes effective, and suspends the application of the
limit
prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs
giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper place or along the
proper part of the zone of the highway. Electronic speed-detecting
devices shall not be used within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the
direction of travel; if so used in violation of this Section, evidence
obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
However, nothing in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a special
school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements
of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be
inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use of such
device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit in such
special school speed zone.
(Source: P.A. 95-574, eff. 6-1-08; 95-788, eff. 8-7-08.)
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