093_HB0313
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1 AN ACT in relation to vehicles.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 13-101 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 13-101)
7 Sec. 13-101. Submission to safety test; Certificate of
8 safety. To promote the safety of the general public, every
9 owner of a second division vehicle, medical transport
10 vehicle, tow truck, or contract carrier transporting
11 employees in the course of their employment on a highway of
12 this State in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer
13 passengers shall, before operating the vehicle upon the
14 highways of Illinois, submit it to a "safety test" and secure
15 a certificate of safety furnished by the Department as set
16 forth in Section 13-109. Each second division motor vehicle
17 that pulls or draws a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer,
18 with a gross weight of more than 8,000 lbs or is registered
19 for a gross weight of more than 8,000 lbs, motor bus,
20 religious organization bus, school bus, senior citizen
21 transportation vehicle, and limousine shall be subject to
22 inspection by the Department and the Department is authorized
23 to establish rules and regulations for the implementation of
24 such inspections.
25 The owners of each salvage vehicle shall submit it to a
26 "safety test" and secure a certificate of safety furnished by
27 the Department prior to its salvage vehicle inspection
28 pursuant to Section 3-308 of this Code.
29 However, none of the provisions of Chapter 13 requiring
30 safety tests or a certificate of safety shall apply to:
31 (a) farm tractors, machinery and implements,
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1 wagons, wagon-trailers or like farm vehicles used
2 primarily in agricultural pursuits;
3 (b) vehicles other than school buses, tow trucks
4 and medical transport vehicles owned or operated by a
5 municipal corporation or political subdivision having a
6 population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants and which are
7 subject to safety tests imposed by local ordinance or
8 resolution;
9 (c) a semitrailer or trailer having a gross weight
10 of 5,000 pounds or less including vehicle weight and
11 maximum load;
12 (d) recreational vehicles;
13 (e) vehicles registered as and displaying Illinois
14 antique vehicle plates;
15 (f) house trailers equipped and used for living
16 quarters;
17 (g) vehicles registered as and displaying Illinois
18 permanently mounted equipment plates or similar vehicles
19 eligible therefor but registered as governmental vehicles
20 provided that if said vehicle is reclassified from a
21 permanently mounted equipment plate so as to lose the
22 exemption of not requiring a certificate of safety, such
23 vehicle must be safety tested within 30 days of the
24 reclassification;
25 (h) vehicles owned or operated by a manufacturer,
26 dealer or transporter displaying a special plate or
27 plates as described in Chapter 3 of this Code while such
28 vehicle is being delivered from the manufacturing or
29 assembly plant directly to the purchasing dealership or
30 distributor, or being temporarily road driven for quality
31 control testing, or from one dealer or distributor to
32 another, or are being moved by the most direct route from
33 one location to another for the purpose of installing
34 special bodies or equipment, or driven for purposes of
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1 demonstration by a prospective buyer with the dealer or
2 his agent present in the cab of the vehicle during the
3 demonstration;
4 (i) pole trailers and auxiliary axles;
5 (j) special mobile equipment;
6 (k) vehicles properly registered in another State
7 pursuant to law and displaying a valid registration
8 plate, except vehicles of contract carriers transporting
9 employees in the course of their employment on a highway
10 of this State in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer
11 passengers;
12 (l) water-well boring apparatuses or rigs;
13 (m) any vehicle which is owned and operated by the
14 federal government and externally displays evidence of
15 such ownership; and
16 (n) second division vehicles registered for a gross
17 weight of 8,000 pounds or less, except when such second
18 division motor vehicles pull or draw a trailer,
19 semi-trailer or pole trailer having a gross weight of or
20 registered for a gross weight of more than 8,000 pounds;
21 motor buses; religious organization buses; school buses;
22 senior citizen transportation vehicles; medical transport
23 vehicles and tow trucks.
24 The safety test shall include the testing and inspection
25 of brakes, lights, horns, reflectors, rear vision mirrors,
26 mufflers, safety chains, windshields and windshield wipers,
27 warning flags and flares, frame, axle, cab and body, or cab
28 or body, wheels, steering apparatus, and other safety devices
29 and appliances required by this Code and such other safety
30 tests as the Department may by rule or regulation require,
31 for second division vehicles, school buses, medical transport
32 vehicles, tow trucks, vehicles designed to carry 15 or fewer
33 passengers operated by a contract carrier transporting
34 employees in the course of their employment on a highway of
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1 this State, trailers, and semitrailers subject to inspection.
2 For tow trucks, the safety test and inspection shall also
3 include the inspection of winch mountings, body panels, body
4 mounts, wheel lift swivel points, and sling straps, and other
5 tests and inspections the Department by rule requires for tow
6 trucks.
7 For trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and
8 buses, the safety test shall be conducted in accordance with
9 the Minimum Periodic Inspection Standards promulgated by the
10 Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of
11 Transportation and contained in Appendix G to Subchapter B of
12 Chapter III of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
13 Those standards, as now in effect, are made a part of this
14 Code, in the same manner as though they were set out in full
15 in this Code.
16 The passing of the safety test shall not be a bar at any
17 time to prosecution for operating a second division vehicle,
18 medical transport vehicle, or vehicle designed to carry 15 or
19 fewer passengers operated by a contract carrier as provided
20 in this Section which is unsafe as determined by the
21 standards prescribed in this Code.
22 (Source: P.A. 92-108, eff. 1-1-02.)