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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 11-1006 as follows:
 



6    (625 ILCS 5/11-1006)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1006)



7    Sec. 11-1006. Pedestrians soliciting rides or business. 

8    (a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of 
9soliciting a ride
from the driver of any vehicle.

10    (b) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of 
11soliciting
employment or business from the occupant of any 
12vehicle.

13    (c) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of 
14soliciting money or
contributions from the occupant of any 
15vehicle except within a municipality
when expressly permitted 
16by municipal ordinance. The local municipality, city,
village, 
17or other local governmental entity in which the solicitation 
18takes
place shall determine by ordinance where and when 
19solicitations may take place
based on the safety of the 
20solicitors and the safety of motorists.  The
decision shall also 
21take into account the orderly flow of traffic and may not
allow 
22interference with the operation of official traffic control 
23devices. The
soliciting agency shall be:


 
 
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1        1. registered with the Attorney General as a charitable 
2    organization as
provided by "An Act to regulate 
3    solicitation and collection of funds for
charitable 
4    purposes, providing for violations thereof, and making an

5    appropriation therefor", approved July 26, 1963, as 
6    amended;


7        2. engaged in a Statewide fund raising activity; and


8        3. liable for any injuries to any person or property 
9    during the
solicitation which is causally related to an act 
10    of ordinary negligence of the
soliciting
agent.

11    Any person engaged in the act of solicitation under an 
12ordinance shall be 16 years of age
or more and shall be wearing 
13a high visibility vest.

14    (d) No person shall stand on or in the proximity of a 
15highway for the
purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding 
16of any vehicle while parked
or about to be parked on a highway.

17    (e) Every person who is convicted of a violation of this 
18Section shall
be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

19(Source: P.A. 88-589, eff. 8-14-94.)