Sen. Rickey R. Hendon

Filed: 3/12/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2476

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2476 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-208 and by adding Section 11-1307 as
6 follows:
 
7     (625 ILCS 5/11-208)   (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-208)
8     Sec. 11-208. Powers of local authorities.
9     (a) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
10 prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways
11 under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of
12 the police power from:
13         1. Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles,
14     except as limited by Sections Section 11-1306 and 11-1307
15     of this Act;
16         2. Regulating traffic by means of police officers or

 

 

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1     traffic control signals;
2         3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or
3     assemblages on the highways;
4         4. Designating particular highways as one-way highways
5     and requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one
6     specific direction;
7         5. Regulating the speed of vehicles in public parks
8     subject to the limitations set forth in Section 11-604;
9         6. Designating any highway as a through highway, as
10     authorized in Section 11-302, and requiring that all
11     vehicles stop before entering or crossing the same or
12     designating any intersection as a stop intersection or a
13     yield right-of-way intersection and requiring all vehicles
14     to stop or yield the right-of-way at one or more entrances
15     to such intersections;
16         7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in
17     Chapter 15;
18         8. Regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring
19     the registration and licensing of same, including the
20     requirement of a registration fee;
21         9. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or
22     specified types of vehicles at intersections;
23         10. Altering the speed limits as authorized in Section
24     11-604;
25         11. Prohibiting U-turns;
26         12. Prohibiting pedestrian crossings at other than

 

 

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1     designated and marked crosswalks or at intersections;
2         13. Prohibiting parking during snow removal operation;
3         14. Imposing fines in accordance with Section
4     11-1301.3 as penalties for use of any parking place
5     reserved for persons with disabilities, as defined by
6     Section 1-159.1, or disabled veterans by any person using a
7     motor vehicle not bearing registration plates specified in
8     Section 11-1301.1 or a special decal or device as defined
9     in Section 11-1301.2 as evidence that the vehicle is
10     operated by or for a person with disabilities or disabled
11     veteran;
12         15. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are
13     specifically authorized by this Code; or
14         16. Enforcing the provisions of subsection (f) of
15     Section 3-413 of this Code or a similar local ordinance.
16     (b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under subsections 1,
17 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 or 13 of paragraph (a) shall be effective
18 until signs giving reasonable notice of such local traffic
19 regulations are posted.
20     (c) The provisions of this Code shall not prevent any
21 municipality having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants
22 from prohibiting any person from driving or operating any motor
23 vehicle upon the roadways of such municipality with headlamps
24 on high beam or bright.
25     (d) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
26 prevent local authorities within the reasonable exercise of

 

 

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1 their police power from prohibiting, on private property, the
2 unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with
3 disabilities.
4     (e) No unit of local government, including a home rule
5 unit, may enact or enforce an ordinance that applies only to
6 motorcycles if the principal purpose for that ordinance is to
7 restrict the access of motorcycles to any highway or portion of
8 a highway for which federal or State funds have been used for
9 the planning, design, construction, or maintenance of that
10 highway. No unit of local government, including a home rule
11 unit, may enact an ordinance requiring motorcycle users to wear
12 protective headgear. Nothing in this subsection (e) shall
13 affect the authority of a unit of local government to regulate
14 motorcycles for traffic control purposes or in accordance with
15 Section 12-602 of this Code. No unit of local government,
16 including a home rule unit, may regulate motorcycles in a
17 manner inconsistent with this Code. This subsection (e) is a
18 limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
19 the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
20 rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
21     (f) A municipality or county designated in Section 11-208.6
22 may enact an ordinance providing for an automated traffic law
23 enforcement system to enforce violations of this Code or a
24 similar provision of a local ordinance and imposing liability
25 on a registered owner of a vehicle used in such a violation.
26     (g) A municipality or county, as provided in Section

 

 

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1 11-1201.1, may enact an ordinance providing for an automated
2 traffic law enforcement system to enforce violations of Section
3 11-1201 of this Code or a similar provision of a local
4 ordinance and imposing liability on a registered owner of a
5 vehicle used in such a violation.
6 (Source: P.A. 96-478, eff. 1-1-10.)
 
7     (625 ILCS 5/11-1307 new)
8     Sec. 11-1307. Centralized parking meter systems.
9     (a) As used in this Section:
10     "Centralized parking meter system" means a system of
11 regulating the standing or parking of vehicles that includes 3
12 or more parking meter zones, and a single parking meter.
13     "Parking meter" means a traffic control device which, upon
14 being activated by deposit of currency of the United States, or
15 by electronic or other form of payment, in the amount indicated
16 thereon or otherwise, either: (1) displays a signal showing
17 that parking is allowed from the time of such activation until
18 the expiration of the time fixed for parking in the parking
19 meter zone in which it is located, and upon expiration of such
20 time indicates by sign or signal that the lawful parking period
21 has expired, or (2) issues a ticket or other token, or
22 activates a display device, on which is printed or otherwise
23 indicated the lawful parking period in the parking meter zone
24 in which the parking meter is located, such ticket, other
25 token, or display device, to be displayed in a publicly visible

 

 

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1 location on the dashboard or inner windshield of a vehicle
2 parked in the parking meter zone, or such ticket to be affixed
3 on the front lamp of a motorcycle or motor scooter parked in
4 the parking meter zone.
5     "Parking meter zone" means a certain designated and
6 marked-off section of the public way within the marked
7 boundaries where a vehicle may be temporarily parked and
8 allowed to remain for such period of time as the parking meter
9 attached thereto, or the ticket or other token issued by the
10 parking meter, may indicate.
11     (b) If for any reason the parking meter serving a space or,
12 in a centralized parking meter system, serving a parking meter
13 zone is malfunctioning due to the accumulation of ice or snow
14 and it has been reported to the local authorities as
15 malfunctioning prior to a violation for the standing or parking
16 of vehicles being issued, it shall be a valid affirmative
17 defense to such violation until such time as the parking meter
18 is brought back into service.".