SB2646 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2646

Introduced 2/4/2004, by Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 5/12-803

from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-803

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school bus safety.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT with regard to vehicles.

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 Section 12-803 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/12-803) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-803)

Sec. 12-803. (a) Each school bus shall be equipped with a stop signal arm on the driver's side of the school bus that may be operated either manually or mechanically. For each school bus manufactured on and after September 1, 1992, the stop signal arm shall be an octagon shaped semaphore that conforms to 49 C.F.R. 571.131, "SCHOOL BUS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DEVICES", S5.1 through S5.5.

(b) Each school bus manufactured before prior to September 1, 1992 shall be equipped with a stop signal arm that conforms to standards promulgated by the Department.

(Source: P.A. 88-415.)