Full Text of HB1491 95th General Assembly
HB1491 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB1491
Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Renee Kosel - Brent Hassert 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 county board of a county may determine and declare by ordinance a reduction in the maximum speed limit at any place or along any part or zone of a county highway whenever the county board, in its sole discretion, determines that the reduction in the maximum speed limit is appropriate. Effective immediately.
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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 |
| (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
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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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| (b) 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 |
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| which it is authorized by this Section to establish
speed | 2 |
| limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 | 3 |
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this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe | 4 |
| with respect
to the conditions found to exist at any place or | 5 |
| along any part or zone
of such highway or street, the local | 6 |
| authority or park district shall
determine and declare by | 7 |
| ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit at | 8 |
| such place or along such part or zone,
which:
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| (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but | 10 |
| not to less
than 20 miles per hour; or
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| (2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but | 12 |
| not to more
than 55 miles per hour; or
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| (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district, | 14 |
| but not to less
than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 15 |
| provided in subparagraph 4 of
this paragraph; or
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| (4) Decreases the limit within a residence district, | 17 |
| but not to less
than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 18 |
| provided in subparagraph 1 of
this paragraph.
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| The park district, city, village, or incorporated
town may | 20 |
| make such limit applicable
at all times or only during certain | 21 |
| specified times. Not more than 6
such alterations shall be made | 22 |
| per mile along a highway or street; and
the difference in limit | 23 |
| between adjacent altered speed zones shall not
be more than 10 | 24 |
| miles per hour.
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| A limit so determined and declared by a park district, | 26 |
| city, village,
or incorporated town becomes effective, and |
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| suspends the application of
the limit prescribed in Section | 2 |
| 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
signs giving notice of | 3 |
| the limit are erected at the proper place or
along the proper | 4 |
| part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic
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| speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet | 6 |
| beyond any
such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in | 7 |
| violation of this
Section evidence obtained thereby shall be | 8 |
| inadmissible in any
prosecution for speeding. However, nothing | 9 |
| in this Section prohibits
the use of such electronic | 10 |
| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
sign within a | 11 |
| special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming
to | 12 |
| the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall | 13 |
| evidence
obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution | 14 |
| for speeding
provided the use of such device shall apply only | 15 |
| to the enforcement of
the speed limit in such special school | 16 |
| speed zone. | 17 |
| (c) A county engineer or
superintendent of highways may | 18 |
| submit to the Department for approval, a
county policy for | 19 |
| establishing altered speed zones on township and county
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| highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
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| (d) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a | 22 |
| maximum speed limit
is greater or less than is
reasonable or | 23 |
| 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 | 25 |
| board shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and | 26 |
| safe absolute maximum speed
limit at that place or along that |
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| part or zone. However, the maximum speed
limit shall not exceed | 2 |
| 55 miles per hour. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | 3 |
| the county board of a county may determine and declare by | 4 |
| ordinance a reduction in the maximum speed limit
at any place
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| or along any part or zone of a county highway whenever the | 6 |
| county board, in its sole discretion, determines that the | 7 |
| reduction in the maximum speed limit is appropriate.
The limit | 8 |
| becomes effective, and suspends the application of the
limit
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| prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate | 10 |
| signs
giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper | 11 |
| place or along the
proper part of the zone of the highway. | 12 |
| Electronic speed-detecting
devices shall not be used within 500 | 13 |
| feet beyond any such sign in the
direction of travel; if so | 14 |
| used in violation of this Section, evidence
obtained thereby | 15 |
| shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
However, | 16 |
| nothing in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
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| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a | 18 |
| special
school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to | 19 |
| the requirements
of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall | 20 |
| evidence obtained thereby be
inadmissible in any prosecution | 21 |
| for speeding provided the use of such
device shall apply only | 22 |
| to the enforcement of the speed limit in such
special school | 23 |
| speed zone.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)
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