Full Text of HB0797 96th General Assembly
HB0797sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. David Koehler
Filed: 5/8/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 797
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 797 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding | 5 |
| Section 3-684 and by changing Section 3-809 as follows: | 6 |
| (625 ILCS 5/3-684 new)
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| Sec. 3-684. Special registration plate for county | 8 |
| officials. | 9 |
| (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and | 10 |
| applications made
in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may | 11 |
| issue special registration plates
to county officials. | 12 |
| The special plates issued under this Section shall be | 13 |
| affixed only to
passenger vehicles of the first division or | 14 |
| motor vehicles of the second
division weighing not more than | 15 |
| 8,000 pounds. | 16 |
| Plates issued under this Section shall expire according to |
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| the multi-year
procedure established by Section 3-414.1 of this | 2 |
| Code. | 3 |
| (b) The design and color of the special plates shall be | 4 |
| wholly within the
discretion of the Secretary. Appropriate | 5 |
| documentation, as determined by the
Secretary, shall accompany | 6 |
| each application. | 7 |
| An applicant for the special plate shall be charged a $15 | 8 |
| fee for
original issuance in addition to the appropriate | 9 |
| registration fee. This
additional fee shall be deposited into | 10 |
| the Secretary of State Special License
Plate Fund, to be used | 11 |
| by the Secretary to help defray the administrative
processing | 12 |
| costs. | 13 |
| For each registration renewal period, a $2 fee, in addition | 14 |
| to the
appropriate registration fee, shall be charged. This | 15 |
| additional fee shall be
deposited into the Secretary of State | 16 |
| Special License Plate Fund. | 17 |
| (c) For purposes of this Section, "county official" means | 18 |
| any county board member or commissioner, county executive, | 19 |
| chairman or president of the county board, and county officer, | 20 |
| including the auditor, clerk, circuit clerk, coroner or medical | 21 |
| examiner, public defender, recorder, sheriff, State's | 22 |
| Attorney, and treasurer of a county of this State.
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| (625 ILCS 5/3-809) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-809)
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| Sec. 3-809. Farm machinery, exempt vehicles and fertilizer | 25 |
| spreaders -
registration fee.
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| (a) Vehicles of the second division having a corn
sheller, | 2 |
| a well driller, hay press, clover huller, feed mixer and | 3 |
| unloader,
or other farm machinery permanently mounted thereon | 4 |
| and used solely for
transporting the same, farm wagon type | 5 |
| trailers having a fertilizer
spreader attachment permanently | 6 |
| mounted thereon, having a gross weight of
not to exceed 36,000 | 7 |
| pounds and used only for the transportation of bulk
fertilizer, | 8 |
| and farm wagon type tank trailers of not to exceed 3,000
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| gallons capacity, used during the liquid fertilizer season as | 10 |
| field-storage
"nurse tanks" supplying the fertilizer to a field | 11 |
| applicator and moved on
highways only for bringing the | 12 |
| fertilizer from a local source of supply to
farm or field or | 13 |
| from one farm or field to another, or used during the lime
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| season and moved on the highways only for bringing from a local | 15 |
| source of
supply to farm or field or from one farm or field to | 16 |
| another, shall be
registered upon the filing of a proper | 17 |
| application and the payment of a
registration fee of $13 per | 18 |
| 2-year registration period. This
registration fee of $13 shall | 19 |
| be paid in full and shall not be
reduced even though such | 20 |
| registration is made after the beginning of the
registration | 21 |
| period.
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| (b) Vehicles exempt from registration under the provisions | 23 |
| of Section
3-402.A of this Act, as amended, except those | 24 |
| vehicles required to be
registered under paragraph (c) of this | 25 |
| Section, may, at the option of the
owner, be identified as | 26 |
| exempt vehicles by displaying registration plates
issued by the |
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| Secretary of State. The owner thereof may apply for such
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| permanent, non-transferable
registration plates upon the | 3 |
| filing of a proper application and the payment
of a | 4 |
| registration fee of $13. The application for and display of | 5 |
| such registration
plates for identification purposes by | 6 |
| vehicles exempt from registration
shall not be deemed as a | 7 |
| waiver or recision of its exempt status, nor make
such vehicle | 8 |
| subject to registration. Nothing in this Section prohibits the | 9 |
| towing of another vehicle by the exempt vehicle if the towed | 10 |
| vehicle: | 11 |
| (i) does not exceed the registered weight of 8,000 | 12 |
| pounds; | 13 |
| (ii) is used exclusively for transportation to and from | 14 |
| the work site; | 15 |
| (iii) is not used for carrying counter weights or other | 16 |
| material related to the operation of the exempt vehicle | 17 |
| while under tow; and
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| (iv) displays proper and current registration plates. | 19 |
| (c) Any single unit self-propelled agricultural fertilizer | 20 |
| implement,
designed for both on and off road use, equipped with | 21 |
| flotation tires and
otherwise specially adapted for the | 22 |
| application of plant food materials
or agricultural chemicals, | 23 |
| desiring to be operated upon the highways ladened
with load | 24 |
| shall be registered upon the filing of a proper application and
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| payment of a registration fee of $250. The registration fee | 26 |
| shall
be paid
in full and shall not be reduced even though such |
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| registration is made
during the second half of the registration | 2 |
| year. These vehicles shall,
whether loaded or unloaded, be | 3 |
| limited to a maximum gross weight of 36,000
pounds, restricted | 4 |
| to a highway speed of not more than 30 miles per hour
and a | 5 |
| legal width of not more than 12 feet. Such vehicles shall be | 6 |
| limited
to the furthering of agricultural or horticultural | 7 |
| pursuits and in
furtherance of these pursuits, such vehicles | 8 |
| may be operated upon the
highway, within a 50 mile radius of | 9 |
| their point of loading as indicated on
the written or printed | 10 |
| statement required by the "Illinois Fertilizer Act
of 1961", as | 11 |
| amended, for the purpose of moving plant food materials or
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| agricultural chemicals to the field, or from field to field, | 13 |
| for the sole
purpose of application.
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| No single unit self-propelled agricultural fertilizer | 15 |
| implement, designed
for both on and off road use, equipped with | 16 |
| flotation tires and
otherwise specially adapted for the | 17 |
| application of plant food materials
or agricultural chemicals, | 18 |
| having a width of more than 12 feet or a gross
weight in excess | 19 |
| of 36,000 pounds, shall be permitted to operate upon the
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| highways ladened with load.
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| Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of Section | 22 |
| 3-809 (c) of
this Act, the owner or the driver of such vehicle | 23 |
| shall be deemed guilty of
a petty offense and either may be | 24 |
| prosecuted for such violation.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-15, eff. 7-1-01; 93-312, eff. 1-1-04.)".
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