Full Text of SB1885 99th General Assembly
SB1885 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 SB1885 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Andy Manar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 625 ILCS 5/1-126.1 | | 625 ILCS 5/11-1414 | from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1414 |
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Includes highways on public school property in the classification of non-designated highways. Requires vehicles to stop before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus stopped on a public school highway.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Sections 1-126.1 and 11-1414 as follows:
| 6 | | (625 ILCS 5/1-126.1)
| 7 | | Sec. 1-126.1. Highway Designations. The Department of | 8 | | Transportation may
designate streets
or
highways in the system | 9 | | of State highways as follows:
| 10 | | (a) Class I highways include interstate highways, | 11 | | expressways, tollways,
and other
highways deemed | 12 | | appropriate by the department.
| 13 | | (b) Class II highways include major arterials not built | 14 | | to interstate
highway standards that have at least 11 feet | 15 | | lane widths.
| 16 | | (c) Class III highways include those State highways | 17 | | that have lane widths
of less than 11 feet.
| 18 | | (d) Non-designated highways are highways in the system | 19 | | of State highways
not designated as Class I, II, or III, or | 20 | | local highways which are part of any
county,
township, | 21 | | municipal, or district road system , including highways on | 22 | | public school property . Local authorities also may
| 23 | | designate
Class II or Class III highways within their |
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| 1 | | systems of highways.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 92-417, eff. 1-1-02.)
| 3 | | (625 ILCS 5/11-1414) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1414)
| 4 | | Sec. 11-1414. Approaching, overtaking, and passing school | 5 | | bus.
| 6 | | (a) The driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle before | 7 | | meeting or
overtaking, from either direction, any school bus | 8 | | stopped at any location , including highways on public school | 9 | | property, for
the purpose of receiving or discharging pupils. | 10 | | Such stop is required before
reaching the school bus when there | 11 | | is in operation on the school
bus the visual signals as | 12 | | specified in Sections 12-803 and 12-805 of this
Code. The | 13 | | driver of the vehicle shall not proceed until the
school bus | 14 | | resumes motion or the driver of the vehicle is signaled by the
| 15 | | school bus driver to proceed or the visual signals are no | 16 | | longer actuated.
| 17 | | (b) The stop signal arm required by Section 12-803 of this | 18 | | Code shall
be extended after the school bus has come to a | 19 | | complete stop for the purpose of
loading or discharging pupils | 20 | | and shall be closed before the school bus
is placed in motion | 21 | | again. The stop signal arm shall
not be extended at any other | 22 | | time.
| 23 | | (c) The alternately flashing red signal lamps of an
8-lamp | 24 | | flashing signal system required by Section 12-805 of this Code
| 25 | | shall be actuated after the school bus has come to a complete |
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| 1 | | stop for the
purpose of
loading or discharging pupils and shall | 2 | | be turned off before
the school bus is placed in motion again. | 3 | | The red signal
lamps shall not be actuated at any other time
| 4 | | except as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section.
| 5 | | (d) The alternately flashing amber signal lamps of an | 6 | | 8-lamp
flashing signal system required by Section 12-805 of | 7 | | this
Code shall be actuated continuously during not less than | 8 | | the last 100
feet traveled by the school bus before stopping | 9 | | for the purpose of loading
or discharging pupils within an | 10 | | urban area and during not less than
the last 200 feet traveled | 11 | | by the school
bus outside an urban area. The amber signal lamps | 12 | | shall remain actuated
until the school
bus is stopped. The | 13 | | amber signal lamps shall not be actuated at any other time.
| 14 | | (d-5) The alternately flashing head lamps permitted by | 15 | | Section 12-805 of
this Code may be operated while the | 16 | | alternately flashing red or amber signal
lamps required by that | 17 | | Section are actuated.
| 18 | | (e) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway having 4 or more | 19 | | lanes which
permits at least 2 lanes of traffic to travel in | 20 | | opposite directions need not
stop such vehicle upon meeting a | 21 | | school bus which is stopped in the opposing
roadway; and need | 22 | | not stop such vehicle when driving upon a controlled access
| 23 | | highway when passing a school bus traveling in either direction | 24 | | that is stopped
in a loading zone
adjacent to the surfaced or | 25 | | improved part of the controlled access
highway where | 26 | | pedestrians are not permitted to cross.
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| 1 | | (f) Beginning with the effective date of this amendatory | 2 | | Act of 1985,
the Secretary of State shall suspend for a period | 3 | | of 3 months
the driving
privileges of any person convicted of a | 4 | | violation of subsection (a) of this
Section or a similar | 5 | | provision of a local ordinance; the Secretary shall
suspend for | 6 | | a period of one year the driving privileges of any person | 7 | | convicted
of a second or subsequent violation of subsection (a) | 8 | | of this Section or a
similar provision of a local ordinance if | 9 | | the second or subsequent violation
occurs within 5 years of a | 10 | | prior conviction for the same offense. In addition
to the | 11 | | suspensions authorized by this Section, any person convicted of
| 12 | | violating this Section or a similar provision of a local | 13 | | ordinance
shall be subject to a mandatory fine of $150 or, upon | 14 | | a second or subsequent
violation, $500.
The Secretary may also | 15 | | grant, for the duration of any
suspension issued under this | 16 | | subsection, a restricted driving permit
granting the privilege | 17 | | of driving a motor vehicle between the driver's
residence and | 18 | | place of employment or within other proper limits that the
| 19 | | Secretary of State shall find necessary to avoid any undue | 20 | | hardship. A
restricted driving permit issued hereunder shall be | 21 | | subject to
cancellation, revocation and suspension by the | 22 | | Secretary of State in like
manner and for like cause as a | 23 | | driver's license may be cancelled, revoked
or suspended; except | 24 | | that a conviction upon one or more offenses against
laws or | 25 | | ordinances regulating the movement of traffic shall be deemed
| 26 | | sufficient cause for the revocation, suspension or |
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| 1 | | cancellation of the
restricted driving permit. The Secretary of | 2 | | State may, as a condition to
the issuance of a restricted | 3 | | driving permit, require the applicant to
participate in a | 4 | | designated driver remedial or rehabilitative program. Any
| 5 | | conviction for a violation of this subsection shall be included | 6 | | as an
offense for the purposes of determining suspension action | 7 | | under any other
provision of this Code, provided however, that | 8 | | the penalties provided under
this subsection shall be imposed | 9 | | unless those penalties imposed under other
applicable | 10 | | provisions are greater.
| 11 | | The owner of any vehicle alleged to have violated paragraph | 12 | | (a) of this
Section shall, upon appropriate demand by the | 13 | | State's Attorney or other
designated person acting in response | 14 | | to a signed complaint, provide
a written statement or | 15 | | deposition identifying the operator of the vehicle
if such | 16 | | operator was not the owner at the time of the alleged | 17 | | violation.
Failure to supply such information shall result in | 18 | | the suspension of the vehicle registration of the vehicle for a | 19 | | period of 3 months. In the event the owner has assigned control | 20 | | for the use
of the vehicle to another, the person to whom | 21 | | control was assigned shall
comply with the provisions of this | 22 | | paragraph and be subject to the same
penalties as herein | 23 | | provided.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 95-105, eff. 1-1-08; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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