Full Text of HB4900 94th General Assembly
HB4900 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4900
Introduced 1/19/2006, by Rep. Jim Sacia SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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625 ILCS 5/11-604 |
from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604 |
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the local authority of a city, village, or incorporated town or park district may decrease the speed limit in a residential district to less than 25 miles per hour if the Department of Transportation has conducted a study of the park district, city, village, or incorporated town and agrees to the reduction.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 11-604 as follows:
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| (625 ILCS 5/11-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
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| Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities. | 8 |
| Subject to
the limitations set forth in this Section, the | 9 |
| county board of a county
may establish absolute maximum speed | 10 |
| limits on all county highways,
township roads and district | 11 |
| roads as defined in the Illinois Highway
Code, except those | 12 |
| under the jurisdiction
of the Department or of the Illinois | 13 |
| State Toll Highway Authority, as
described in Sections 11-602 | 14 |
| 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
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| 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.
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| Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
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| 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 | 25 |
| limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 | 26 |
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this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe | 27 |
| with respect
to the conditions found to exist at any place or | 28 |
| along any part or zone
of such highway or street, the local | 29 |
| authority or park district shall
determine and declare by | 30 |
| ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit at | 31 |
| such place or along such part or zone,
which:
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| (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but |
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| not to less
than 20 miles per hour; or
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| (2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but | 3 |
| not to more
than 55 miles per hour; or
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| (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district, | 5 |
| but not to less
than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 6 |
| provided in subparagraph 4 of
this paragraph; or
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| (4) Decreases the limit within a residence district, | 8 |
| but not to less
than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 9 |
| provided in subparagraph 1 of
this paragraph or except if | 10 |
| the Department has conducted a study of the park district, | 11 |
| city, village, or incorporated town and agrees to the | 12 |
| reduction .
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| The park district, city, village, or incorporated
town may | 14 |
| make such limit applicable
at all times or only during certain | 15 |
| specified times. Not more than 6
such alterations shall be made | 16 |
| per mile along a highway or street; and
the difference in limit | 17 |
| between adjacent altered speed zones shall not
be more than 10 | 18 |
| miles per hour.
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| A limit so determined and declared by a park district, | 20 |
| city, village,
or incorporated town becomes effective, and | 21 |
| suspends the application of
the limit prescribed in Section | 22 |
| 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
signs giving notice of | 23 |
| the limit are erected at the proper place or
along the proper | 24 |
| part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic
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| speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet | 26 |
| beyond any
such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in | 27 |
| violation of this
Section evidence obtained thereby shall be | 28 |
| inadmissible in any
prosecution for speeding. However, nothing | 29 |
| in this Section prohibits
the use of such electronic | 30 |
| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
sign within a | 31 |
| special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming
to | 32 |
| the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall | 33 |
| evidence
obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution | 34 |
| for speeding
provided the use of such device shall apply only | 35 |
| to the enforcement of
the speed limit in such special school | 36 |
| speed zone. A county engineer or
superintendent of highways may |
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| submit to the Department for approval, a
county policy for | 2 |
| establishing altered speed zones on township and county
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| highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
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| Whenever the county board of a county determines that a | 5 |
| maximum speed limit
is greater or less than is
reasonable or | 6 |
| safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
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| or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county | 8 |
| board shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and | 9 |
| safe absolute maximum speed
limit at that place or along that | 10 |
| part or zone. However, the maximum speed
limit shall not exceed | 11 |
| 55 miles per hour.
The limit becomes effective, and suspends | 12 |
| the application of the
limit
prescribed in Section 11-601 of | 13 |
| this Chapter, when appropriate signs
giving notice of the limit | 14 |
| are erected at the proper place or along the
proper part of the | 15 |
| zone of the highway. Electronic speed-detecting
devices shall | 16 |
| not be used within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the
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| direction of travel; if so used in violation of this Section, | 18 |
| evidence
obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any | 19 |
| prosecution for speeding.
However, nothing in this Section | 20 |
| prohibits the use of such electronic
speed-detecting devices | 21 |
| within 500 feet of a sign within a special
school speed zone | 22 |
| indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements
of Section | 23 |
| 11-605 of this Act, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be
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| inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use | 25 |
| of such
device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed | 26 |
| limit in such
special school speed zone.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)
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