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91_HB1237
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Vehicle Code.
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
5 changing Section 15-110 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/15-110) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15-110)
7 Sec. 15-110. Towed vehicles. (a) When one vehicle is
8 towing another vehicle, the drawbar or other connection shall
9 be of sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed
10 thereby and the drawbar or other connection shall not exceed
11 15 feet from one vehicle to the other, except for the
12 connection between any 2 vehicles transporting poles, pipes,
13 machinery or other objects of structural nature which cannot
14 readily be dismembered.
15 (b) Outside a business, residential or suburban district
16 or on any controlled access highway, no vehicle other than a
17 pole trailer or a semitrailer which is being towed by a truck
18 tractor and is connected by the means of a fifth wheel shall
19 be towed on a roadway except by a drawbar and each such
20 vehicle so towed shall, in addition, be coupled with 2 safety
21 chains or cables to the towing vehicle. Such chains or cables
22 shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed
23 vehicle parting from the drawing vehicle in case the drawbar
24 should break or become disengaged.
25 (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to
26 any second division vehicle owned, operated or controlled by
27 any person who is registered with the Bureau of Motor Carrier
28 Safety of the Federal Highway Administration and has complied
29 with the federal safety provisions of the Bureau of Motor
30 Carrier Safety of the Federal Highway Administration and the
31 rules and regulations of the Bureau.
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1 (Source: P.A. 77-22.)