Full Text of SB2650 94th General Assembly
SB2650sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 2/9/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2650
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2650 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 11-605.1 as follows: | 6 |
| (625 ILCS 5/11-605.1) | 7 |
| Sec. 11-605.1. Special limit while traveling through a | 8 |
| highway construction or maintenance speed zone. | 9 |
| (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle in a | 10 |
| construction or maintenance speed zone at a speed in excess of | 11 |
| the posted speed limit.
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| (b) Nothing in this Chapter prohibits the use of electronic | 13 |
| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of signs within a | 14 |
| construction or maintenance speed zone indicating the zone, as | 15 |
| defined in this Section, nor shall evidence obtained by use of | 16 |
| those devices be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding, | 17 |
| provided the use of the device shall apply only to the | 18 |
| enforcement of the speed limit in the construction or | 19 |
| maintenance speed zone.
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| (c) As used in this Section, a "construction or maintenance | 21 |
| speed zone" is an area in which the Department, Toll Highway | 22 |
| Authority, or local agency has determined that the preexisting | 23 |
| established speed limit through a highway construction or | 24 |
| maintenance project is greater than is reasonable or safe with |
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| respect to the conditions expected to exist in the construction | 2 |
| or maintenance speed zone and has posted a lower speed limit | 3 |
| with a highway construction or maintenance speed zone special | 4 |
| speed limit sign. | 5 |
| Highway construction or maintenance speed zone special | 6 |
| speed limit signs shall be of a design approved by the | 7 |
| Department. The signs must give proper due warning that a | 8 |
| construction or maintenance speed zone is being approached and | 9 |
| must indicate the maximum speed limit in effect. The signs also | 10 |
| must state the amount of the minimum fine for a violation.
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| (d) A first violation of this Section is a petty offense | 12 |
| with a minimum fine of $250. A second or subsequent violation | 13 |
| of this Section is a petty offense with a minimum fine of $750. | 14 |
| (e) If a fine for a violation of this Section is $250 or | 15 |
| greater, the person who violated this Section shall be charged | 16 |
| an additional $125, which shall be deposited into the | 17 |
| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund in the State | 18 |
| treasury, unless (i) the violation occurred in a county with a | 19 |
| population of more than 1,000,000, (ii) the violation occurred | 20 |
| on a highway other than an interstate highway, and (iii) a | 21 |
| county police officer wrote the ticket for the violation, in | 22 |
| which case the $125 shall be deposited into that county's | 23 |
| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund . In the case of a | 24 |
| second or subsequent violation of this Section, if the fine is | 25 |
| $750 or greater, the person who violated this Section shall be | 26 |
| charged an additional $250, which shall be deposited into the | 27 |
| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund in the State | 28 |
| treasury, unless (i) the violation occurred in a county with a | 29 |
| population of more than 1,000,000, (ii) the violation occurred | 30 |
| on a highway other than an interstate highway, and (iii) a | 31 |
| county police officer wrote the ticket for the violation, in | 32 |
| which case the $250 shall be deposited into that county's | 33 |
| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund .
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| (e-5) In a county with a population of more than 1,000,000, |
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| the Department of State Police and the county's police | 2 |
| department have concurrent jurisdiction over any violation of | 3 |
| this Section that occurs on an interstate highway.
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| (f) The Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund, | 5 |
| which was created by Public Act 92-619, shall continue to be a | 6 |
| special fund in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation by | 7 |
| the General Assembly and approval by the Secretary, the | 8 |
| Secretary of Transportation shall use all moneys in the | 9 |
| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty | 10 |
| Department of State Police officers to monitor construction or | 11 |
| maintenance zones. | 12 |
| (f-5) Any county with a population of more than 1,000,000 | 13 |
| shall create a Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund. | 14 |
| The county shall use all moneys in its Transportation Safety | 15 |
| Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty county police officers | 16 |
| to monitor construction or maintenance zones in that county on | 17 |
| highways other than interstate highways.
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| (g) For a second or subsequent violation of this Section | 19 |
| within 2 years of the date of the previous violation, the | 20 |
| Secretary of State shall suspend the driver's license of the | 21 |
| violator for a period of 90 days.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-955, eff. 8-19-04.)".
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