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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Sections 4-407 and 4-408 as follows:
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| 6 | (605 ILCS 5/4-407) (from Ch. 121, par. 4-407)
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| 7 | Sec. 4-407.
The Department may temporarily close to traffic | ||||||
| 8 | any portion
of a State highway for the purpose of constructing, | ||||||
| 9 | repairing or making
improvements thereon. When a portion of a | ||||||
| 10 | State highway with a route
marking is so closed, the Department | ||||||
| 11 | shall arrange with local authorities
or otherwise to maintain | ||||||
| 12 | efficient detours around the portion of the State
highway which | ||||||
| 13 | is closed and, except for an unanticipated emergency as | ||||||
| 14 | determined by the Department, shall post notice of the detour | ||||||
| 15 | locations on the Department's website no later than 10 days | ||||||
| 16 | before the detour becomes active. Such detour shall be plainly | ||||||
| 17 | and conspicuously
marked with signs by which traffic may be | ||||||
| 18 | guided around that part of the
highway so closed.
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| 19 | (Source: P.A. 84-873.)
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| 20 | (605 ILCS 5/4-408) (from Ch. 121, par. 4-408)
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| 21 | Sec. 4-408.
The Department may, upon application by the | ||||||
| 22 | proper authorities
of any local governmental agency, issue a | ||||||
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| 1 | permit to such agency to
temporarily close to traffic any | ||||||
| 2 | portion of a State highway for any public
purpose or for any | ||||||
| 3 | temporary needs of such agency. Such permit shall be
issued | ||||||
| 4 | only upon the explicit agreement of the local governmental | ||||||
| 5 | agency to
assume all liabilities and pay all claims for any | ||||||
| 6 | damages which shall be
occasioned by such closing and such | ||||||
| 7 | agreement shall be made a part of every
such permit. When a | ||||||
| 8 | State highway is closed by a local governmental agency
under | ||||||
| 9 | the terms of a permit, the agency shall maintain efficient | ||||||
| 10 | detours
satisfactory to the Department around the portion of | ||||||
| 11 | the closed highway. Except for an unanticipated emergency as | ||||||
| 12 | determined by the Department, the Department and the local | ||||||
| 13 | governmental agency shall post notice of the detour locations | ||||||
| 14 | on the Department's website and the local governmental agency's | ||||||
| 15 | website no later than 10 days before the detour becomes active. | ||||||
| 16 | A local governmental agency that does not have a website | ||||||
| 17 | maintained by a full-time staff or a municipality with | ||||||
| 18 | 1,000,000 or more inhabitants shall not be required to post | ||||||
| 19 | detour locations under this Section.
Such detour shall be | ||||||
| 20 | plainly and conspicuously marked with signs by which
traffic | ||||||
| 21 | may be guided around that part of the State highway so closed.
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| 22 | (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
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