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 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended  by 
5changing 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 
9soliciting a ride
from the driver of any vehicle.

10    (b) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of 
11soliciting
employment or business from the occupant of any 
12vehicle.

13    (c) No person shall stand on a highway for the purpose of 
14soliciting money or
contributions from the occupant of any 
15vehicle except within a municipality
when expressly permitted 
16by municipal ordinance. The local municipality, city,
village, 
 
 
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1or other local governmental entity in which the solicitation 
2takes
place shall determine by ordinance where and when 
3solicitations may take place
based on the safety of the 
4solicitors and the safety of motorists.  The
decision shall also 
5take into account the orderly flow of traffic and may not
allow 
6interference with the operation of official traffic control 
7devices. 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 
19ordinance shall be 16 years of age
or more and shall be wearing 
20a high visibility vest.

21    (d) No person shall stand on or in the proximity of a 
22highway for the
purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding 
23of any vehicle while parked
or about to be parked on a highway.

24    (e) Every person who is convicted of a violation of this 
25Section shall
be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

26(Source: P.A. 88-589, eff. 8-14-94.)".