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Full Text of HB0300 100th General Assembly

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HB0300ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Rep. Luis Arroyo
Filed: 1/25/2017

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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 300
2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 300 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:

4     "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-1006 as follows:

6     (625 ILCS 5/11-1006)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1006)
7     Sec. 11-1006. Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.
8     (a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of
9 soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.
10     (b) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of
11 soliciting employment or business from the occupant of any
12 vehicle.
13     (c) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of
14 soliciting money orcontributions from the occupant of any
15 vehicle except within a municipality when expressly permitted
16 by municipal ordinance. The local municipality, city, village,

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1 or other local governmental entity in which the solicitation
2 takes place shall determine by ordinance where and when
3 solicitations may take place based on the safety of the
4 solicitors and the safety of motorists. The decision shall also
5 take into account the orderly flow of traffic and may not allow
6 interference with the operation of official traffic control
7 devices. The soliciting agency shall be:
8         1. registered with the Attorney General as a charitable
9     organization as provided by "An Act to regulate
10     solicitation and collection of funds for charitable
11     purposes, providing for violations thereof, and making an
12     appropriation therefor", approved July 26, 1963, as
13     amended;
14         2. engaged in a Statewide fund raising activity; and
15         3. liable for any injuries to any person or property
16     during the solicitation which is causally related to an act
17     of ordinary negligence of the soliciting agent.
18     Any person engaged in the act of solicitation under an
19 ordinanceshall be 16 years of age or more and shall be wearing
20 a high visibility vest.
21     (d) No person shall stand on or in the proximity of a
22 highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding
23 of any vehicle while parked or about to be parked on a highway.
24     (e) Every person who is convicted of a violation of this
25 Section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
26 (Source: P.A. 88-589, eff. 8-14-94.)".

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