Full Text of HB5512 94th General Assembly
HB5512ham002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Brent Hassert
Filed: 3/1/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5512
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5512 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 11-604 as follows:
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| (625 ILCS 5/11-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
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| Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities. | 8 |
| (a) Subject to
the limitations set forth in this Section, | 9 |
| the county board of a county
may establish absolute maximum | 10 |
| speed limits on all county highways,
township roads and | 11 |
| district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway
Code, except | 12 |
| those under the jurisdiction
of the Department or of the | 13 |
| Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as
described in Sections | 14 |
| 11-602 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park
district, city, | 15 |
| village, or incorporated town may establish absolute
maximum | 16 |
| speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
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| limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the | 18 |
| Department or of
such Authority, and for which the county or a | 19 |
| highway commissioner of
such county does not have maintenance | 20 |
| responsibility.
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| (b) Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
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| incorporated town determines, upon
the basis of an engineering | 23 |
| or traffic investigation concerning a
highway or street on | 24 |
| which it is authorized by this Section to establish
speed |
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| limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 | 2 |
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this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe | 3 |
| with respect
to the conditions found to exist at any place or | 4 |
| along any part or zone
of such highway or street, the local | 5 |
| authority or park district shall
determine and declare by | 6 |
| ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit at | 7 |
| such place or along such part or zone,
which:
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| (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but | 9 |
| not to less
than 20 miles per hour; or
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| (2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but | 11 |
| not to more
than 55 miles per hour; or
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| (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district, | 13 |
| but not to less
than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 14 |
| provided in subparagraph 4 of
this paragraph; or
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| (4) Decreases the limit within a residence district, | 16 |
| but not to less
than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise | 17 |
| provided in subparagraph 1 of
this paragraph.
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| The park district, city, village, or incorporated
town may | 19 |
| make such limit applicable
at all times or only during certain | 20 |
| specified times. Not more than 6
such alterations shall be made | 21 |
| per mile along a highway or street; and
the difference in limit | 22 |
| between adjacent altered speed zones shall not
be more than 10 | 23 |
| miles per hour. | 24 |
| (c) A park district, city, village, or incorporated town | 25 |
| may, on the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation as | 26 |
| provided in subsection (b), provide that a higher fine shall be | 27 |
| imposed for a speeding violation that occurs on a residential | 28 |
| collector street. The fine for any one speeding violation may | 29 |
| not, however, exceed $150. The higher fine may not be imposed | 30 |
| unless signs have been posted on the residential collector | 31 |
| street, indicating (i) that an engineering or traffic | 32 |
| investigation has revealed that the residential collector | 33 |
| street is a high traffic density roadway and (ii) that an | 34 |
| increased fine of up to $150 may be imposed for speeding on the |
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| residential collector street. | 2 |
| As used in this Section, a "residential collector street" | 3 |
| is a street identified by the official street map as having the | 4 |
| primary function of collecting traffic from local residence | 5 |
| district streets and connecting traffic to other collector and | 6 |
| arterial streets.
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| (d) A limit so determined and declared by a park district, | 8 |
| city, village,
or incorporated town under subsection (b)
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| becomes effective, and suspends the application of
the limit | 10 |
| prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
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| signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper | 12 |
| place or
along the proper part or zone of the highway or | 13 |
| street. Electronic
speed-detecting devices shall not be used | 14 |
| within 500 feet beyond any
such sign in the direction of | 15 |
| travel; if so used in violation of this
Section evidence | 16 |
| obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any
prosecution for | 17 |
| speeding. However, nothing in this Section prohibits
the use of | 18 |
| such electronic speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
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| sign within a special school speed zone indicating such zone, | 20 |
| conforming
to the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, | 21 |
| nor shall evidence
obtained thereby be inadmissible in any | 22 |
| prosecution for speeding
provided the use of such device shall | 23 |
| apply only to the enforcement of
the speed limit in such | 24 |
| special school speed zone. A county engineer or
superintendent | 25 |
| of highways may submit to the Department for approval, a
county | 26 |
| policy for establishing altered speed zones on township and | 27 |
| county
highways based upon engineering and traffic | 28 |
| investigations.
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| (e) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a | 30 |
| maximum speed limit
is greater or less than is
reasonable or | 31 |
| safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
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| or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county | 33 |
| board shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and | 34 |
| safe absolute maximum speed
limit at that place or along that |
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| part or zone. However, the maximum speed
limit shall not exceed | 2 |
| 55 miles per hour.
The limit becomes effective, and suspends | 3 |
| the application of the
limit
prescribed in Section 11-601 of | 4 |
| this Chapter, when appropriate signs
giving notice of the limit | 5 |
| are erected at the proper place or along the
proper part of the | 6 |
| zone of the highway. Electronic speed-detecting
devices shall | 7 |
| not be used within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the
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| direction of travel; if so used in violation of this Section, | 9 |
| evidence
obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any | 10 |
| prosecution for speeding.
However, nothing in this Section | 11 |
| prohibits the use of such electronic
speed-detecting devices | 12 |
| within 500 feet of a sign within a special
school speed zone | 13 |
| indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements
of Section | 14 |
| 11-605 of this Act, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be
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| inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use | 16 |
| of such
device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed | 17 |
| limit in such
special school speed zone.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)".
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