Section 549.100  Introduction

a)         This Part has been developed in accordance with the Roadside Memorial Act [605 ILCS 125] to regulate the use, by the Illinois Department of Transportation, of DUI memorial markers, fatal accident memorial markers and associated commemorative plaques along streets and highways under the jurisdiction of the Department.  This Part establishes standards and financial responsibility for a program of placing markers and plaques at locations under the jurisdiction of the Department.  The DUI memorial marker program became effective on January 1, 2008.  The fatal accident memorial marker program became effective on January 1, 2011.

b)         This program does not apply to freeways within the State of Illinois that are under the jurisdiction of the Department.

(Source:  Amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 2402, effective January 24, 2012)