HB5751 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5751

Introduced , by Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 5/11-708

from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-708

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall not pass other vehicles passing around the same rotary traffic island if the other vehicle is over 10 feet wide or more than 40 feet long. Provides that any person convicted of a violation of specified provisions shall be guilty of a petty offense.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 11-708 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/11-708) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-708)

Sec. 11-708. One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands.

(a) The Department and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may designate any highway, roadway, part of a roadway or specific lanes upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction at all or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic control devices.

(b) Upon a roadway so designated for one-way traffic, a vehicle shall be driven only in the direction designated at all or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic control devices.

(c) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island must be driven only to the right of such island.

(c-5) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall not pass other vehicles passing around the same rotary traffic island if the other vehicle is over 10 feet wide or more than 40 feet long. Any person convicted of a violation of this subsection (c-5) shall be guilty of a petty offense as provided under Section 16-104 of this Code.

(d) Whenever any highway has been divided into 2 or more roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or a clearly indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle must be driven only upon the right-hand roadway unless directed or permitted to use another roadway by official traffic-control devices or police officers. No vehicle may be driven over, across, or within any such dividing space, barrier, or section, except through an opening in the physical barrier, or dividing section, or space, or at a cross-over or intersection as established by public authority.

(e) The driver of a vehicle may turn left across a paved noncurbed dividing space unless prohibited by an official traffic-control device.

(Source: P.A. 84-873.)