Public Act 101-0328
 
SB1381 EnrolledLRB101 07973 TAE 53029 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 
Sections 1-126.1, 15-107, 15-116, and 15-316 as follows:
 



    (625 ILCS 5/1-126.1)



    Sec. 1-126.1. Highway Designations. The Department of 
Transportation may
designate streets
or
highways in the system 
of State highways as follows:


        (a) Class I highways include interstate highways, 
    expressways, tollways,
and other
highways deemed 
    appropriate by the Department department. 


        (b) Class II highways include State highways and 
    designated local roads major arterials not built to 
    interstate
highway standards that have at least 11 feet 
    lane widths. 


        (c) (Blank). Class III highways include those State 
    highways that have lane widths
of less than 11 feet.


        (d) Non-designated highways include State highways not 
    designated as Class I or II and are highways in the system 
    of State highways
not designated as Class I, II, or III, or 
    local highways which are part of any
county,
township, 
    municipal, or district road system not designated as Class 
    II. Local authorities also may
designate
Class II or Class 
    III highways within their systems of highways.

(Source: P.A. 92-417, eff. 1-1-02.)

 


    (625 ILCS 5/15-107)
  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15-107)

    Sec. 15-107. Length of vehicles. 

    (a) The maximum length of a single vehicle on any highway 
of this State
may not exceed  42 feet except the following:

        (1) Semitrailers.

        (2) Charter or regulated route buses may be up to 45 
    feet in length, not
including energy absorbing bumpers.

    (a-1) A motor home as defined in Section 1-145.01 may be up 
to 45 feet
in length, not including energy absorbing bumpers.  
The length limitations
described in this subsection (a-1) shall 
be exclusive of energy-absorbing
bumpers and rear view mirrors.

    (b) (Blank). On all non-State highways, the maximum length 
of vehicles in
combinations
is as follows:

        (1) A truck tractor in combination with a semitrailer 
    may
not exceed 65 feet overall dimension. An agency or 
    instrumentality of the State of Illinois or any unit of 
    local government shall not be required to widen or 
    otherwise alter a non-State highway constructed before the 
    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General 
    Assembly to accommodate truck tractors under this 
    paragraph (1). 

        (2) A truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer or truck 
    tractor semitrailer-semitrailer may not exceed 60 feet

    overall dimension.

        (3) Combinations specially designed to transport motor 
    vehicles or
boats may not exceed 60 feet overall dimension.

        (4) The distance between the kingpin and the center            
    axle of a semitrailer longer than 48 feet, in combination 
    with a truck tractor, may not exceed 42 feet 6 inches. The 
    limit contained in this paragraph (4) shall not apply to 
    trailers or semitrailers used for the transport of 
    livestock as defined by Section 18b-101. 
    Vehicles operating during daylight hours when transporting 
poles, pipes,
machinery, or other objects of a structural  
nature  that  cannot  readily  be
dismembered are exempt from 
length limitations, provided that no object may
exceed 80 feet 
in length and the overall dimension of the vehicle including 
the
load
may not  exceed 100 feet.  This exemption does not apply 
to operation on a
Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.  Legal 
holidays referred to in this Section
are
the days on which the 
following traditional holidays are celebrated: New
Year's
Day; 
Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; 
and
Christmas Day.

    Vehicles and loads operated by a public utility while en 
route to make
emergency repairs to public service facilities or 
properties are exempt from
length
limitations, provided that  
during night operations every vehicle and its load
must
be 
equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both 
sides and
marker lamps on the extreme ends of any projecting 
load to clearly mark the
dimensions of the load.

    A tow truck in combination with a disabled vehicle or 
combination of
disabled  vehicles, as provided in paragraph (6) 
of subsection (c) of this
Section, is
exempt from length 
limitations.

    All other combinations not listed in this subsection (b) 
may not exceed 60
feet overall dimension.

    (c) Except as provided in subsections (c-1) and (c-2), 
combinations of vehicles may not exceed a total of 2 vehicles 
except
the
following:

        (1) A truck tractor semitrailer may draw one trailer.

        (2) A truck tractor semitrailer may draw one converter 
    dolly or one semitrailer.

        (3) A truck tractor semitrailer may draw one vehicle 
    that is defined
in Chapter 1 as special mobile equipment, 
    provided the overall dimension does
not
exceed 60 feet.

        (4) A truck in transit may draw 3 trucks in transit 
    coupled
together by the triple saddlemount method.

        (5) Recreational vehicles consisting of 3 vehicles, 
    provided
the following:

            (A) The total overall dimension does not exceed 60

        feet.

            (B) The towing vehicle is a properly registered

        vehicle capable of towing another vehicle using a 
        fifth-wheel type assembly.

            (C) The second vehicle in the combination of 
        vehicles is
a recreational vehicle that is towed by a

        fifth-wheel assembly.  This vehicle must be
properly 
        registered and must be equipped with
brakes, 
        regardless of weight.

            (D) The third vehicle must be the
lightest of the 3 
        vehicles and be a trailer or
semitrailer designed or 
        used for
transporting a boat, all-terrain vehicle,

        personal watercraft, or motorcycle.

            (E) The towed vehicles may be only for the use
of 
        the operator of the towing vehicle.

            (F) All vehicles must be properly equipped with

        operating brakes and safety equipment required by this 
        Code, except the
additional
brake requirement in 
        subdivision (C) of this subparagraph (5).

        (6) A tow truck in combination with a disabled vehicle 
    or combination
of
disabled vehicles, provided the towing 
    vehicle:

            (A) Is specifically designed as a tow truck having 
        a gross vehicle
weight rating of
at least 18,000 pounds 
        and equipped with air brakes, provided that air brakes

        are
required only if the towing vehicle is towing a 
        vehicle, semitrailer, or
tractor-trailer combination 
        that is equipped with air brakes.  For the purpose
of 
        this
subsection, gross vehicle weight rating, or GVWR, 
        means the value
specified by the manufacturer as the 
        loaded weight of the tow truck.

            (B) Is equipped with flashing, rotating, or 
        oscillating amber lights,
visible for at
least 500 feet 
        in all directions.

            (C) Is capable of utilizing the lighting and 
        braking systems of the
disabled
vehicle or combination 
        of vehicles.

            (D) Does not engage a tow exceeding 50 highway 
        miles from the initial
point of
wreck or disablement to 
        a place of repair. Any additional movement of the

        vehicles may occur only upon issuance of authorization 
        for that movement under
the provisions of Sections 
        15-301 through 15-318 of this Code.

        The Department may by rule or regulation prescribe 
    additional
requirements
regarding length limitations for a 
    tow truck towing another vehicle.

        For purposes of this Section, a tow-dolly that merely 
    serves as
substitute
wheels for another legally licensed 
    vehicle is considered part of the
licensed
vehicle and not 
    a separate vehicle.

        (7) Commercial vehicles consisting of 3 vehicles, 
    provided the following:
            (A) The total overall dimension does not exceed 65 
        feet.
            (B) The towing vehicle is a properly registered 
        vehicle capable of towing another vehicle using a 
        fifth-wheel type assembly or a goose-neck hitch ball.
            (C) The third vehicle must be the lightest of the 3 
        vehicles and be a trailer or semitrailer.
            (D) All vehicles must be properly equipped with 
        operating brakes and safety equipment required by this 
        Code.

            (E) The combination of vehicles must be operated by 
        a person who holds a commercial driver's license (CDL).

            (F) The combination of vehicles must be en route to 
        a location where new or used trailers are sold by an 
        Illinois or out-of-state licensed new or used trailer 
        dealer.

    (c-1) A combination of 3 vehicles is allowed access to any 
State designated highway if:
        (1) the length of neither towed vehicle exceeds 28.5 
    feet;
        (2) the overall wheel base of the combination of 
    vehicles does not exceed 62 feet; and

        (3) the combination of vehicles is en route to a 
    location where new or used trailers are sold by an Illinois 
    or out-of-state licensed new or used trailer dealer.

    (c-2) A combination of 3 vehicles is allowed access from 
any State designated highway onto any county, township, or 
municipal highway for a distance of 5 highway miles for the 
purpose of delivery or collection of one or both of the towed 
vehicles if:
        (1) the length of neither towed vehicle exceeds 28.5 
    feet;
        (2) the combination of vehicles does not exceed 40,000 
    pounds in gross weight and 8 feet 6 inches in width;
        (3) there is no sign prohibiting that access;
        (4) the route is not being used as a thoroughfare 
    between State designated highways; and

        (5) the combination of vehicles is en route to a 
    location where new or used trailers are sold by an Illinois 
    or out-of-state licensed new or used trailer dealer.

    (d) On Class I highways there are no overall length 
limitations on motor
vehicles
operating in combinations 
provided:

        (1) The length of a semitrailer, unladen or with load,

    in combination with a truck tractor may not exceed 53 feet.

        (2) The distance between the kingpin and the center of

    the rear axle of a semitrailer longer than 48 feet, in 
    combination
with a truck tractor, may not exceed 45 feet 6 
    inches. The limit contained in this paragraph (2) shall not 
    apply to trailers or semi-trailers used for the transport 
    of livestock as defined by Section 18b-101.

        (3) The length of a semitrailer or trailer, unladen or

    with load, operated in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer

    or truck tractor semitrailer-semitrailer combination, may 
    not exceed 28 feet 6 inches.

        (4) Maxi-cube combinations, as defined in Chapter 1,

    may not exceed 65 feet overall dimension.

        (5) Combinations of vehicles specifically designed to

    transport motor vehicles or boats may not exceed 65 feet

    overall dimension.  The length limitation is inclusive of

    front and rear bumpers but exclusive of the overhang of the

    transported vehicles, as provided in paragraph (i) of this

    Section.

        (6) Stinger-steered semitrailer vehicles specifically 
    designed to transport motor vehicles or
boats and 
    automobile transporters, as defined in Chapter 1, may not 
    exceed 80 feet overall dimension. The length
limitation is 
    inclusive of front and rear bumpers but
exclusive of the 
    overhang of the transported vehicles, as
provided in 
    paragraph (i) of this Section.

        (7) A truck in transit transporting 3 trucks coupled

    together by the triple saddlemount method may not
exceed 97 
    feet overall dimension.

        (8) A towaway trailer transporter combination may not 
    exceed 82 feet overall dimension. 
    Vehicles operating during daylight hours when transporting 
poles, pipes,
machinery, or other objects of a structural 
nature that cannot readily be
dismembered are exempt from 
length limitations, provided that no object may
exceed 80 feet 
in length and the overall dimension of the vehicle including 
the
load
may not exceed 100 feet.  This exemption does not apply 
to operation on a
Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.  Legal 
holidays referred to in this Section
are
the days on which the 
following traditional holidays are celebrated: New
Year's
Day; 
Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; 
and
Christmas Day.

    Vehicles and loads operated by a public utility while en 
route to make
emergency repairs to public service facilities or 
properties are exempt from
length
limitations, provided that 
during night operations every vehicle and its load
must
be 
equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both 
sides and
marker lamps on the extreme ends of any projecting 
load to clearly mark the
dimensions of the load.

    A tow truck in combination with a disabled vehicle or 
combination of
disabled vehicles, as provided in paragraph (6) 
of subsection (c) of this
Section, is
exempt from length 
limitations.

    The length limitations described in this paragraph (d) 
shall be exclusive
of safety and energy conservation devices,

such as bumpers, refrigeration
units or air compressors and 
other devices, that the Department may interpret
as necessary 
for safe and efficient
operation; except that no device 
excluded under this paragraph shall have by
its design or use 
the capability to carry cargo.

    Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act 
relating to
procedures for rulemaking shall not apply to the 
designation of highways under
this paragraph (d).

    (e) On Class II highways there are no overall length 
limitations on motor
vehicles
operating in combinations, 
provided:

        (1) The length of a semitrailer, unladen or with load,

    in combination with a truck tractor, may not exceed 53 feet

    overall dimension.

        (2) The distance between the kingpin and the center of

    the rear axle of a semitrailer longer than 48 feet, in 
    combination
with a truck tractor, may not exceed 45 feet 6 
    inches. The limit contained in this paragraph (2) shall not 
    apply to trailers or semi-trailers used for the transport 
    of livestock as defined by Section 18b-101.

        (3) A truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer or truck 
    tractor semitrailer-semitrailer combination may
not exceed 
    65 feet in dimension from front axle to rear
axle.

        (4) The length of a semitrailer or trailer, unladen or

    with load, operated in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer 
    or truck tractor semitrailer-semitrailer
combination, may 
    not exceed 28 feet 6 inches.

        (5) Maxi-cube combinations, as defined in Chapter 1,

    may not exceed 65 feet overall dimension.

        (6) A combination of vehicles, specifically designed 
    to
transport motor vehicles or boats, may not exceed 65 
    feet
overall dimension.  The length limitation is inclusive 
    of
front and rear bumpers but exclusive of the overhang of 
    the
transported vehicles, as provided in paragraph (i) of 
    this
Section.

        (7) Stinger-steered semitrailer vehicles specifically 
    designed to transport motor vehicles or
boats may not 
    exceed 80 feet overall dimension. The length
limitation is 
    inclusive of front and rear bumpers but
exclusive of the 
    overhang of the transported vehicles, as
provided in 
    paragraph (i) of this Section.

        (8) A truck in transit transporting 3 trucks coupled 
    together by the
triple
saddlemount method may not exceed 97 
    feet overall dimension.

        (9) A towaway trailer transporter combination may not 
    exceed 82 feet overall dimension. 
    Vehicles operating during daylight hours when transporting 
poles, pipes,
machinery, or other objects of a structural 
nature that cannot readily be
dismembered are exempt from 
length limitations, provided that no object may
exceed 80 feet 
in length and the overall dimension of the vehicle including 
the
load
may not exceed 100 feet.  This exemption does not apply 
to operation on a
Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.  Legal 
holidays referred to in this Section
are
the days on which the 
following traditional holidays are celebrated: New Year's
Day; 
Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; 
and
Christmas Day.

    Vehicles and loads operated by a public utility while en 
route to make
emergency repairs to public service facilities or 
properties are exempt from
length
limitations, provided that 
during night operations every vehicle and its load
must
be 
equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both 
sides and
marker lamps on the  extreme ends of any projecting 
load to clearly mark the
dimensions of the load.

    A tow truck in combination with a disabled vehicle or 
combination of
disabled vehicles, as provided in paragraph (6) 
of subsection (c) of this
Section, is
exempt from length 
limitations.

    Local authorities, with respect to
streets and highways 
under their jurisdiction, may also by ordinance or
resolution 
allow length limitations of this subsection (e).

    The length limitations described in this paragraph (e) 
shall be exclusive
of safety and energy conservation devices, 
such as bumpers, refrigeration units
or air compressors and 
other devices, that the Department may interpret as
necessary 
for safe and efficient operation; except that no device 
excluded
under this paragraph shall have by its design or use 
the capability to carry
cargo.














    Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act 
relating to
procedures for rulemaking shall not apply to the 
designation of highways under
this paragraph (e).

    (e-1) (Blank). Combinations of vehicles
not exceeding 65 
feet overall length are
allowed access
as follows:
        (1) From any State designated highway onto any county, 
    township, or
municipal highway for a distance of 5 highway 
    miles for the purpose of
loading and unloading, provided:
            (A) The vehicle does not exceed 80,000 pounds in 
        gross weight
and 8 feet 6 inches in width.
            (B) There is no sign prohibiting that access.
            (C) The route is not being used as a thoroughfare 
        between State
 designated highways.
        (2) From any State designated highway onto any county 
    or township
highway for a distance of 5 highway miles or 
    onto any municipal highway for
a distance of one highway 
    mile for the purpose of food, fuel, repairs, and rest,

    provided:
            (A) The vehicle does not exceed 80,000 pounds in 
        gross weight
and 8 feet 6 inches in width.
            (B) There is no sign prohibiting that access.
            (C) The route is not being used as a thoroughfare 
        between State
designated highways.
    (e-2) Except as provided in subsection (e-3), combinations 
of vehicles over
65
feet in length, with no overall length

limitation except as provided in subsections (d) and (e) of 
this Section, are
allowed access as follows:
        (1) From a Class I highway onto any street or highway 
    for a distance of
one highway mile for the purpose of 
    loading, unloading, food, fuel, repairs,
and rest, 
    provided there is no sign prohibiting that access.
        (2) From a Class I or Class II highway onto any 
    non-designated highway State highway or any
locally 
    designated highway for a distance of 5 highway miles for 
    the purpose
of loading, unloading, food, fuel, repairs, and 
    rest if:
            (A) there is no sign prohibiting that access; and
            (B) the route is not being used as a thoroughfare 
        between Class I or Class II highways.
    (e-3) Combinations of vehicles over 65 feet in length 
operated by household
goods carriers or towaway trailer 
transporter combinations, with no overall length limitations 
except as provided in
subsections (d) and (e) of this Section, 
have unlimited access to points of
loading,
 unloading, or 
delivery to or from a manufacturer, distributor, or dealer. 
    (f) On Class III and other non-designated State highways, 
the maximum length
limitations
for vehicles in combination are 
as follows:

        (1) A truck tractor in combination with a semitrailer 
    may not exceed 65 feet Truck tractor-semitrailer 
    combinations must
comply with
a maximum 65 feet extreme 
    overall dimension. An agency or instrumentality of the 
    State of Illinois or any unit of local government shall not 
    be required to widen or otherwise alter a Class III or 
    other non-designated State highway constructed before 
    January 1, 2018 the effective date of this amendatory Act 
    of the 100th General Assembly to accommodate truck 
    tractor-semitrailer combinations under this paragraph (1). 

        (2) Semitrailers, unladen or with load, may not exceed

    53 feet overall dimension.

        (3) A truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer or truck 
    tractor semitrailer-semitrailer may not exceed 60 feet No 
    truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer or truck tractor 
    semitrailer-semitrailer combination may
exceed 60 feet 
    extreme overall dimension.

        (4) The distance between the kingpin and the center 
    axle of a
semitrailer longer than 48 feet, in combination 
    with a truck tractor, may
not exceed 42 feet 6 inches. The 
    limit contained in this paragraph (4) shall not apply to 
    trailers or semi-trailers used for the transport of 
    livestock as defined by Section 18b-101.

    (g) Length limitations in the preceding subsections of this 
Section 15-107
do not apply to the following:

        (1) Vehicles operated in the daytime, except on 
    Saturdays, Sundays, or
legal holidays, when transporting 
    poles, pipe, machinery, or other objects of a
structural 
    nature that cannot readily be dismembered, provided the 
    overall
length of vehicle and load may not exceed 100 feet 
    and no object exceeding 80
feet in length may be 
    transported unless a permit has been obtained as
authorized 
    in Section 15-301. As used in this Section, "legal holiday" 
    means any of the following days: New Year's Day; Memorial 
    Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; and 
    Christmas Day.

        (2) Vehicles and loads operated by a public utility 
    while en route to make
emergency repairs to public service 
    facilities or properties, but during
night operation every 
    vehicle and its load must be equipped with
a
sufficient 
    number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker lamps 
    upon the
extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly 
    mark the dimensions of the load.

        (3) A tow truck in combination with a disabled vehicle 
    or combination of disabled vehicles, as provided in 
    paragraph (6) of subsection (c) of this Section, is exempt 
    from length limitations. A tow truck in combination with a 
    disabled vehicle or combination of
disabled vehicles, 
    provided the towing vehicle meets the following 
    conditions:

            (A) It is specifically designed as a tow truck 
        having a gross vehicle
weight
rating of at least 18,000 
        pounds and equipped with air brakes, provided that
air

        brakes are required only if the towing vehicle is 
        towing a vehicle,
semitrailer, or tractor-trailer 
        combination that is equipped with air brakes.

            (B) It is equipped with flashing, rotating, or 
        oscillating amber lights,
visible for at least 500 feet 
        in all directions.

            (C) It is capable of utilizing the lighting and 
        braking systems of the
disabled vehicle or combination 
        of vehicles.

            (D) It does not engage in a tow exceeding 50 miles 
        from the initial
point
of wreck or disablement.

    The Department may by rule or regulation prescribe 
additional requirements
regarding length limitations for a tow 
truck towing another vehicle.
The towing vehicle, however, may 
tow any disabled vehicle from the initial
point of wreck or 
disablement to a point where repairs are actually to occur.

This movement shall be valid only on State routes.
The tower 
must abide by posted bridge weight limits.

    All other combinations not listed in this subsection (f) 
may not exceed 60 feet overall dimension. For the purpose of 
this subsection, gross vehicle weight rating, or GVWR,
shall 
mean the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded 
weight of
the tow truck. Legal holidays referred to in this 
Section shall be
specified as the day on which the following 
traditional holidays are
celebrated:

    New Year's Day;

    Memorial Day;

    Independence Day;

    Labor Day;

    Thanksgiving Day; and

    Christmas Day.

    (h) The load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load 
upon the
front vehicle of a combination of vehicles, shall not 
extend more than 3
feet beyond the front wheels of the vehicle 
or the front bumper of the
vehicle if it is equipped with a 
front bumper.
The provisions of this subsection (h) shall not 
apply to any vehicle or
combination of vehicles specifically 
designed for the collection and
transportation of waste, 
garbage, or recyclable materials during the vehicle's

operation in the course of collecting
garbage, waste, or

recyclable materials if the vehicle is traveling at a speed not 
in
excess of
15 miles per hour during the vehicle's operation 
and in the course of
collecting garbage, waste, or recyclable 
materials.  However, in no instance
shall the load extend more 
than 7 feet beyond the front wheels of the vehicle
or the front 
bumper of the vehicle if it is equipped with a front bumper.

    (i) The load upon the front vehicle of an automobile 
transporter or a stinger-steered vehicle
specifically designed 
to transport motor vehicles shall not extend more
than 4 feet 
beyond the foremost part of the transporting vehicle and the

load upon the rear transporting vehicle shall not extend more 
than 6 feet
beyond the rear of the bed or body of the vehicle.  
This paragraph shall
only be applicable upon highways 
designated in paragraphs (d) and (e) of
this Section.

    (j) Articulated vehicles comprised of 2 sections, neither 
of which
exceeds a length of 42 feet, designed for the carrying 
of more than 10
persons, may be up to 60 feet in length, not 
including energy absorbing
bumpers, provided that the vehicles 
are:

        1. operated by or for any public body or motor carrier 
    authorized by law
to provide public transportation 
    services; or

        2. operated in local public transportation service by 
    any other person
and the municipality in which the service 
    is to be provided approved the
operation of the vehicle.

    (j-1) (Blank).

    (k) Any person who is convicted of violating this Section 
is subject
to the penalty as provided in paragraph (b) of 
Section 15-113.

    (l) (Blank).

(Source: P.A. 99-717, eff. 8-5-16; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 
100-343, eff. 1-1-18; 100-728, eff. 1-1-19.)

 
    (625 ILCS 5/15-116)
    Sec. 15-116. Highway designations Designated truck route 
system.  
    (a)  The  Department of Transportation shall maintain and 
provide a listing of all Class I and , Class II, and Class III 
designated streets and highways as defined in Chapter 1 of this 
Code.

   
    (b) The Department shall also maintain and provide a 
listing of all local streets or highways that have been 
designated Class II or Class III by local agencies.  
    (c) Local agencies shall be responsible for reporting to 
the Department all streets and highways under their 
jurisdiction designated Class II and Class III.  Local agencies 
shall also provide to the Department reference contact names 
and telephone numbers.

   
    (d) The Department shall also maintain and provide an 
official map of the Designated State Truck Route System that 
includes State and local streets and highways that have been 
designated Class I, or Class II, or Class III.

    (e) If a unit of local government has no Class II 
designated truck routes, the unit of local government shall 
affirm to the Department that it has no such truck routes.
    (f) Each unit of local government may report to the 
Department, and the Department shall post on its official 
website, any limitations prohibiting the operation of vehicles 
imposed by ordinance or resolution in the unit of local 
government's non-designated highway system. 
(Source: P.A. 94-763, eff. 1-1-07.)
 



    (625 ILCS 5/15-316)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15-316)



    Sec. 15-316. When the Department or local authority may 
restrict right to use highways. 

    (a) Except as provided in subsection (g), local authorities 
with
respect to highways under their jurisdiction may by 
ordinance or resolution
prohibit the operation of vehicles upon 
any such highway or impose
restrictions as to the weight of 
vehicles to be operated upon any such
highway, for a total 
period of not to exceed 90 days, measured in either consecutive 
or nonconsecutive days at the discretion of local authorities, 
in any one calendar
year, whenever any said highway by reason 
of deterioration, rain, snow, or
other climate conditions will 
be seriously damaged or destroyed unless the
use of vehicles 
thereon is prohibited or the permissible weights thereof

reduced.

    (b) The local authority
enacting any such ordinance or 
resolution shall erect or cause to be erected
and maintained 
signs designating the provision of the ordinance or resolution

at each end of that portion of any highway affected thereby, 
and the ordinance
or resolution shall not be effective unless 
and until such signs are erected
and maintained. To be 
effective, an ordinance or resolution passed to designate a 
Class II roadway need not require that signs be erected, but 
the designation shall be reported to the Department. 

    (c) Local authorities with
respect to highways under their 
jurisdiction may also, by ordinance or
resolution, prohibit the 
operation of trucks or other commercial vehicles,
or may impose 
limitations as the weight thereof, on designated highways, 
which
prohibitions and limitations shall be designated by 
appropriate signs placed on
such highways.

    (c-1) (Blank).

    (c-5) Highway commissioners, with respect to roads under 
their authority, may not permanently post a road or portion 
thereof at a reduced weight limit unless the decision to do so 
is made in accordance with Section 6-201.22 of the Illinois 
Highway Code. 
    (d) The Department shall likewise have authority as 
hereinbefore
granted to local authorities to
determine by 
resolution and to impose restrictions as to the weight of 
vehicles
operated upon any highway under the jurisdiction of 
said department, and such
restrictions shall be effective when 
signs giving notice thereof are erected
upon the highway or 
portion of any highway affected by such resolution.

    (d-1) (Blank).

    (d-2) (Blank).

    (e) When any vehicle is operated in violation of this 
Section, the owner
or driver of the vehicle shall be deemed 
guilty of a violation and either the
owner or the driver of the 
vehicle may be prosecuted for the violation.  Any
person, firm, 
or corporation convicted of violating this Section shall be 
fined
$50 for any weight exceeding the posted limit up to the 
axle or gross weight
limit allowed a vehicle as provided for in 
subsections (a) or (b) of Section
15-111 and $75 per every 500 
pounds or fraction thereof for any weight
exceeding that which 
is provided for in subsections (a) or
(b) of Section 15-111.

    (f) A municipality is authorized to enforce a county weight 
limit
ordinance applying to county highways within its 
corporate limits and is
entitled to the proceeds of any fines 
collected from the enforcement.

    (g) An ordinance or resolution enacted by a county or 
township pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section shall not 
apply to cargo tank vehicles with two or three permanent axles 
when delivering propane for emergency heating purposes if the 
cargo tank is loaded at no more than 50 percent capacity, the 
gross vehicle weight of the vehicle does not exceed 32,000 
pounds, and the driver of the cargo tank vehicle notifies the 
appropriate agency or agencies with jurisdiction over the 
highway before driving the vehicle on the highway pursuant to 
this subsection. The cargo tank vehicle must have an operating 
gauge on the cargo tank which indicates the amount of propane 
as a percent of capacity of the cargo tank. The cargo tank must 
have  the capacity  displayed on the cargo tank, or documentation 
of the capacity of the cargo tank must be available in the 
vehicle. For the purposes of this subsection, propane weighs 
4.2 pounds per gallon. This subsection does not apply to 
municipalities. Nothing in this subsection shall allow cargo 
tank
vehicles
to cross bridges with posted weight restrictions 
if the vehicle exceeds the posted weight limit. 
(Source: P.A. 99-168, eff. 1-1-16; 99-237, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642, 
eff. 7-28-16.)

  
 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-214 rep.)
    Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by 
repealing Section 11-214.