Rep. Brent Hassert

Filed: 2/28/2006

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5512

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5512 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-604 as follows:
 
6     (625 ILCS 5/11-604)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
7     Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities.
8     (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in this Section,
9 the county board of a county may establish absolute maximum
10 speed limits on all county highways, township roads and
11 district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway Code, except
12 those under the jurisdiction of the Department or of the
13 Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as described in Sections
14 11-602 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park district, city,
15 village, or incorporated town may establish absolute maximum
16 speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
17 limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the
18 Department or of such Authority, and for which the county or a
19 highway commissioner of such county does not have maintenance
20 responsibility.
21     (b) Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
22 incorporated town determines, upon the basis of an engineering
23 or traffic investigation concerning a highway or street on
24 which it is authorized by this Section to establish speed

 

 

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1 limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601
2 of this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe
3 with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place or
4 along any part or zone of such highway or street, the local
5 authority or park district shall determine and declare by
6 ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed limit at
7 such place or along such part or zone, which:
8         (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but
9     not to less than 20 miles per hour; or
10         (2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but
11     not to more than 55 miles per hour; or
12         (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district,
13     but not to less than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise
14     provided in subparagraph 4 of this paragraph; or
15         (4) Decreases the limit within a residence district,
16     but not to less than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise
17     provided in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph.
18     The park district, city, village, or incorporated town may
19 make such limit applicable at all times or only during certain
20 specified times. Not more than 6 such alterations shall be made
21 per mile along a highway or street; and the difference in limit
22 between adjacent altered speed zones shall not be more than 10
23 miles per hour.
24     (c) A park district, city, village, or incorporated town
25 may, on the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation as
26 provided in subsection (b), provide that a higher fine shall be
27 imposed for a speeding violation that occurs on a residential
28 collector street. The fine for any one speeding violation may
29 not, however, exceed $500. The higher fine may not be imposed
30 unless signs have been posted on the residential collector
31 street, indicating (i) that an engineering or traffic
32 investigation has revealed that the residential collector
33 street is a high traffic density roadway and (ii) that an
34 increased fine of up to $500 may be imposed for speeding on the

 

 

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1 residential collector street.
2     As used in this Section, a "residential collector street"
3 is a street identified by the official street map as having the
4 primary function of collecting traffic from local residence
5 district streets and connecting traffic to other collector and
6 arterial streets.
7     (d) A limit so determined and declared by a park district,
8 city, village, or incorporated town under subsection (b)
9 becomes effective, and suspends the application of the limit
10 prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
11 signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper
12 place or along the proper part or zone of the highway or
13 street. Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used
14 within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the direction of
15 travel; if so used in violation of this Section evidence
16 obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for
17 speeding. However, nothing in this Section prohibits the use of
18 such electronic speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
19 sign within a special school speed zone indicating such zone,
20 conforming to the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act,
21 nor shall evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any
22 prosecution for speeding provided the use of such device shall
23 apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit in such
24 special school speed zone. A county engineer or superintendent
25 of highways may submit to the Department for approval, a county
26 policy for establishing altered speed zones on township and
27 county highways based upon engineering and traffic
28 investigations.
29     (e) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a
30 maximum speed limit is greater or less than is reasonable or
31 safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
32 or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county
33 board shall determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and
34 safe absolute maximum speed limit at that place or along that

 

 

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1 part or zone. However, the maximum speed limit shall not exceed
2 55 miles per hour. The limit becomes effective, and suspends
3 the application of the limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of
4 this Chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice of the limit
5 are erected at the proper place or along the proper part of the
6 zone of the highway. Electronic speed-detecting devices shall
7 not be used within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the
8 direction of travel; if so used in violation of this Section,
9 evidence obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any
10 prosecution for speeding. However, nothing in this Section
11 prohibits the use of such electronic speed-detecting devices
12 within 500 feet of a sign within a special school speed zone
13 indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements of Section
14 11-605 of this Act, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be
15 inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use
16 of such device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed
17 limit in such special school speed zone.
18 (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)".