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Drivers Education & Safety Committee
Filed: 3/7/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1786
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1786 on page 1, line |
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| 5, by replacing "Section 11-601" with "Sections 11-601 and |
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| 11-602"; and
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| on page 3, below line 24, by inserting the following:
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| "(625 ILCS 5/11-602) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-602)
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| Sec. 11-602. Alteration of limits by Department. Whenever |
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| the Department
determines,
upon the basis of an engineering and |
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| traffic investigation concerning any
highway for which the |
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| Department has maintenance responsibility, that a
maximum |
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| speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter is |
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| greater
or less than is reasonable or safe with respect to the |
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| conditions found
to exist at any intersection or other place on |
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| such highway or along any
part or zone thereof, the Department |
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| shall determine and declare a reasonable
and safe absolute |
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| maximum speed limit applicable to such intersection or
place, |
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| or along such part or zone. However, such limit shall not |
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| exceed
65 miles per hour, or 55 miles per hour for a second |
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| division vehicle designed
or used for the carrying of a gross |
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| weight of
8,001
pounds or more (including the weight of the |
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| vehicle and maximum load), on a
highway or street which is |
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| especially
designed for
through traffic and to, from, or over |
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| which owners of or persons having
an interest in abutting |
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| property or other persons have no right or easement,
or only a |
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| limited right or easement, of access, crossing, light, air, or
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| view, and shall not exceed 55 miles per hour on any other |
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| highway. Where
a highway under the Department's jurisdiction
is |
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| contiguous to school property, the Department may, at the |
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| school district's
request, set a
reduced maximum speed limit |
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| for student safety purposes in the portion of the
highway that |
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| faces the school property and in the portions of the highway |
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| that
extend
one-quarter mile in each direction from the |
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| opposite ends of the school
property. A limit determined and
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| declared as provided in this Section becomes effective, and |
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| suspends the
applicability of the limit
prescribed
in Section |
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| 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice
of |
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| the limit are erected at such intersection or other
place, or |
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| along such part or zone of the highway. Electronic
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| speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet |
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| beyond any such
sign in the direction of travel; if so used in |
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| violation hereof, evidence
obtained thereby shall be |
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| inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
However, nothing |
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| in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
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| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a |
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| special
school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to |
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| the requirements of
Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall |
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| evidence obtained thereby be
inadmissible in any prosecution |
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| for speeding provided the use of such
device shall apply only |
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| to the enforcement of the speed limit in such
special school |
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| speed zone.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-624, eff. 12-19-03.)".
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