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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 442
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 442, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
| 3 | with reference to the page and line numbers of Senate Amendment | ||||||
| 4 | No. 1 on page 6, by inserting below line 13 the following: | ||||||
| 5 | "(k-1) At an intersection equipped with an automated | ||||||
| 6 | traffic law enforcement system, the yellow light change | ||||||
| 7 | interval must be not less than 3 seconds, unless an engineering | ||||||
| 8 | study indicates that a shorter interval is necessary for safety | ||||||
| 9 | purposes, nor more than 6 seconds.
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| 10 | (k-2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection | ||||||
| 11 | (k-2), an intersection may not be equipped with an automated | ||||||
| 12 | traffic law enforcement system unless the following | ||||||
| 13 | requirements have been met: | ||||||
| 14 | (1) The county or municipality having
jurisdiction has | ||||||
| 15 | determined that the intersection has a high accident rate. | ||||||
| 16 | Before such a determination is made, the county or | ||||||
| 17 | municipality must have performed or caused to be performed | ||||||
| 18 | an evaluation of accident rates for a 6-month period. | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) The county or municipality having
jurisdiction | ||||||
| 2 | has, for a 3-month period, used strobe lights in the red | ||||||
| 3 | lenses of all traffic signals at the intersection in an | ||||||
| 4 | attempt to decrease the accident rate without the use of an | ||||||
| 5 | automated traffic law enforcement system. | ||||||
| 6 | (3) All roads converging at the intersection are | ||||||
| 7 | controlled by traffic signals. | ||||||
| 8 | This subsection (k-2) does not apply to an intersection | ||||||
| 9 | that was equipped with an automated traffic law enforcement | ||||||
| 10 | system before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
| 11 | 96th General Assembly. | ||||||
| 12 | (k-3) During the first 2 months that an intersection is | ||||||
| 13 | equipped with an automated traffic law
enforcement system, an | ||||||
| 14 | additional sign meeting the requirements of subsection (k) and | ||||||
| 15 | this subsection must be posted at an intersection being | ||||||
| 16 | monitored by an automated
traffic law enforcement system. The | ||||||
| 17 | sign in this subsection must be equipped with flashing yellow | ||||||
| 18 | lights and must indicate that violation notices will be issued | ||||||
| 19 | and the amount of the fine or penalty for violation.".
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