30 ILCS 610/ State Vehicle Identification Act.

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30 ILCS 610/0.01

(30 ILCS 610/0.01) (from Ch. 127, par. 133e)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

State Vehicle Identification Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

30 ILCS 610/1

(30 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 133e1)

Sec. 1.

For the purposes of this Act:

"Department" means the
Department of Central Management Services or other
agency succeeding to the
operation and administration of the state garages;

"Vehicle" means any motor vehicle belonging to the State of Illinois
or any agency, board, commission, branch or department thereof or
controlled thereby, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks and other
types of automotive equipment.

(Source: P.A. 82-789.)

30 ILCS 610/2

(30 ILCS 610/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 133e2)

Sec. 2.

All vehicles not exempt from identification by Section 4 of this
Act shall be identified by a special registration plate or digital registration plate.

(Source: P.A. 101-395, eff. 8-16-19.)

30 ILCS 610/3

(30 ILCS 610/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 133e3)

Sec. 3.

Every agency, board, commission, branch or department of this
State or controlled by officers of this State, possessing, operating or
controlling vehicles shall ensure that such vehicles are properly identified
by affixing the special registration plate or digital registration plate.  Such agencies,
boards, commissions, branches
and departments shall arrange for the replacement of missing registration plates or digital registration plates when
necessary in order that vehicles at all times be clearly identified as
belonging to the State of Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 101-395, eff. 8-16-19.)

30 ILCS 610/4

(30 ILCS 610/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 133e4)

Sec. 4.

This Act shall not apply to vehicles used by elective State
officers, by executive heads of State agencies and departments, by
presidents of colleges or universities placed under control of officers of
this State, or by any employee of a State agency or department in the
performance of investigative services exclusively when the executive head
thereof has requested an exception in writing, and such exception has been
approved in writing by the Department, on the basis that the identification
would hamper the individual employee in the routine performance of his
investigative duties. A record, open to public inspection, shall be kept by
the Department of all such exceptions approved by it.

This Act shall not apply to vehicles assigned to the use of the Illinois State Police and the Division of Law Enforcement of the
Department of Natural Resources, and the executive heads
thereof shall have within
their discretion determination of the type of markings or identification, if
any, to be affixed to vehicles assigned to said Department or Division
nor shall this Act apply to vehicles assigned to the use of
Secretary of State police officers.

(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)