Public Act 096-0524
 
HB3956 Enrolled LRB096 07410 AJT 22564 b

    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Sections 11-601 and 11-602 as follows:
 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-601)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-601)
    Sec. 11-601. General speed restrictions.
    (a) No vehicle may be driven upon any highway of this State
at a speed which is greater than is reasonable and proper with
regard to traffic conditions and the use of the highway, or
endangers the safety of any person or property. The fact that
the speed of a vehicle does not exceed the applicable maximum
speed limit does not relieve the driver from the duty to
decrease speed when approaching and crossing an intersection,
approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill
crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, or
when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other
traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions. Speed
must be decreased as may be necessary to avoid colliding with
any person or vehicle on or entering the highway in compliance
with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due
care.
    (b) No person may drive a vehicle upon any highway of this
State at a speed which is greater than the applicable statutory
maximum speed limit established by paragraphs (c), (d), (e),
(f) or (g) of this Section, by Section 11-605 or by a
regulation or ordinance made under this Chapter.
    (c) Unless some other speed restriction is established
under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit in an urban
district for all vehicles is:
        1. 30 miles per hour; and
        2. 15 miles per hour in an alley.
    (d) Unless some other speed restriction is established
under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban
district for any vehicle of the first division or a second
division vehicle designed or used for the carrying of a gross
weight of 8,000 pounds or less (including the weight of the
vehicle and maximum load) is (1) 65 miles per hour (i) for all
highways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll
Highway Authority and (ii) for all or part of highways that are
designated by the Department, have at least 4 lanes of traffic,
and have a separation between the roadways moving in opposite
directions and (2) 55 miles per hour for all other highways,
roads, and streets.
    (e) In the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry,
and Will, unless Unless some lesser speed restriction is
established under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit outside
an urban district for a second division vehicle designed or
used for the carrying of a gross weight of 8,001 pounds or more
(including the weight of the vehicle and maximum load) is 55
miles per hour.
    (e-1) Outside the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake,
McHenry, and Will, unless some lesser speed restriction is
established under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit outside
an urban district for a second division vehicle designed or
used for the carrying of a gross weight of 8,001 pounds or more
(including the weight of the vehicle and maximum load) is (1)
65 miles per hour on any interstate highway as defined by
Section 1-133.1 of this Code, and (2) 55 miles per hour for all
other highways, roads, and streets.
    (f) Unless some other speed restriction is established
under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban
district for a bus is:
        1. 65 miles per hour upon any highway which has at
    least 4 lanes of traffic and of which the roadways for
    traffic moving in opposite directions are separated by a
    strip of ground which is not surfaced or suitable for
    vehicular traffic, except that the maximum speed limit for
    a bus on all highways, roads, or streets not under the
    jurisdiction of the Department or the Illinois State Toll
    Highway Authority is 55 miles per hour; and
        2. 55 60 miles per hour on any other highway, except
    that the maximum speed limit for a bus on all highways,
    roads, or streets not under the jurisdiction of the
    Department or the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is
    55 miles per hour.
    (g) (Blank). Unless some other speed restriction is
established under this Chapter, the maximum speed limit outside
an urban district for a house car, camper, private living
coach, vehicles licensed as recreational vehicles, and any
vehicle towing any other vehicle is 55 miles per hour or the
posted speed limit, whichever is less.
(Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96; 89-551, eff. 1-1-97.)
 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-602)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-602)
    Sec. 11-602. Alteration of limits by Department. Whenever
the Department determines, upon the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation concerning any highway for which the
Department has maintenance responsibility, that a maximum
speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter is
greater or less than is reasonable or safe with respect to the
conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place on
such highway or along any part or zone thereof, the Department
shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit applicable to such intersection or place,
or along such part or zone. However, such limit shall not
exceed 65 miles per hour, or 55 miles per hour for a second
division vehicle designed or used for the carrying of a gross
weight of 8,001 pounds or more (including the weight of the
vehicle and maximum load), on a highway or street which is
especially designed for through traffic and to, from, or over
which owners of or persons having an interest in abutting
property or other persons have no right or easement, or only a
limited right or easement, of access, crossing, light, air, or
view, and shall not exceed 55 miles per hour on any other
highway. Where a highway under the Department's jurisdiction is
contiguous to school property, the Department may, at the
school district's request, set a reduced maximum speed limit
for student safety purposes in the portion of the highway that
faces the school property and in the portions of the highway
that extend one-quarter mile in each direction from the
opposite ends of the school property. A limit determined and
declared as provided in this Section becomes effective, and
suspends the applicability of the limit prescribed in Section
11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice of
the limit are erected at such intersection or other place, or
along such part or zone of the highway. Electronic
speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet
beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in
violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding. However, nothing
in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a
special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to
the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall
evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution
for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school
speed zone.
(Source: P.A. 93-624, eff. 12-19-03.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2010.