Full Text of SB1381 98th General Assembly
SB1381 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB1381 Introduced 2/6/2013, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 625 ILCS 5/11-306 | from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306 |
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Amends the Vehicle Code to allow a vehicle or pedestrian to enter an intersection under direction of a flashing yellow traffic-control signal, but yield to pedestrians and other vehicles already lawfully within the intersection. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
| 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 changing | 5 | | Section 11-306 as follows:
| 6 | | (625 ILCS 5/11-306)
(from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306)
| 7 | | Sec. 11-306. Traffic-control signal legend. Whenever | 8 | | traffic is controlled
by traffic-control signals exhibiting | 9 | | different colored lights or color
lighted arrows, successively | 10 | | one at a time or in combination, only the
colors green, red and | 11 | | yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian
signals | 12 | | carrying a word legend, and the lights shall indicate and apply | 13 | | to
drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
| 14 | | (a) Green indication.
| 15 | | 1. Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may
| 16 | | proceed
straight through or turn right or left unless a | 17 | | sign at such place
prohibits either such turn. Vehicular | 18 | | traffic, including vehicles turning
right or left, shall | 19 | | yield the right of way to other vehicles and to
pedestrians | 20 | | lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk | 21 | | at
the time such signal is exhibited.
| 22 | | 2. Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown | 23 | | alone or in
combination with another indication, may |
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| 1 | | cautiously enter the intersection
only to make the movement | 2 | | indicated by such arrow, or such other movement
as is | 3 | | permitted by other indications shown at the same time. Such
| 4 | | vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to | 5 | | pedestrians lawfully
within an adjacent crosswalk and to | 6 | | other traffic lawfully using the
intersection.
| 7 | | 3. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control | 8 | | signal, as provided
in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing | 9 | | any green signal, except when the
sole green signal is a | 10 | | turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within
any | 11 | | marked or unmarked crosswalk.
| 12 | | (b) Steady yellow indication.
| 13 | | 1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular yellow or | 14 | | yellow arrow
signal is thereby warned that the related | 15 | | green movement is being
terminated or that a red indication | 16 | | will be exhibited immediately thereafter.
| 17 | | 2. Pedestrians facing a steady circular yellow or | 18 | | yellow arrow signal,
unless otherwise directed by a | 19 | | pedestrian-control signal as provided in
Section 11-307, | 20 | | are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to
| 21 | | cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no | 22 | | pedestrian shall
then start to cross the roadway.
| 23 | | (b-5) Flashing yellow arrow indication. | 24 | | 1. Vehicular traffic facing a flashing yellow arrow | 25 | | indication may cautiously enter the intersection only to | 26 | | make the movement indicated by the arrow and shall yield |
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| 1 | | the right of way to other vehicles and pedestrians lawfully | 2 | | within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the | 3 | | time the signal is exhibited. | 4 | | 2. Pedestrians facing a flashing yellow arrow | 5 | | indication, unless otherwise directed by a | 6 | | pedestrian-control signal as provided in Section 11-307, | 7 | | may proceed across the roadway within any marked or | 8 | | unmarked crosswalk that crosses the lane or lanes used to | 9 | | depart the intersection by traffic controlled by the | 10 | | flashing yellow arrow indication. | 11 | | (c) Steady red indication.
| 12 | | 1. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this | 13 | | subsection (c),
vehicular traffic facing a steady circular | 14 | | red signal alone shall stop at a
clearly marked stop line, | 15 | | but if there is no such stop line, before
entering the | 16 | | crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if there | 17 | | is
no such crosswalk, then before entering the | 18 | | intersection, and shall remain
standing until an | 19 | | indication to proceed is shown.
| 20 | | 2. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this | 21 | | subsection (c),
vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow | 22 | | signal shall not enter the
intersection to make the | 23 | | movement indicated by the arrow and, unless
entering the | 24 | | intersection to make a movement permitted by another | 25 | | signal,
shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if | 26 | | there is no such stop line,
before entering the crosswalk |
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| 1 | | on the near side of the intersection, or if
there is no | 2 | | such crosswalk, then before entering the intersection, and
| 3 | | shall remain standing until an indication permitting the | 4 | | movement indicated
by such red arrow is shown.
| 5 | | 3. Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn | 6 | | and local
authorities by ordinance or State authorities by | 7 | | rule or regulation
prohibit any such turn, vehicular | 8 | | traffic facing any steady red signal may
cautiously enter | 9 | | the intersection to turn right, or to turn left from a
| 10 | | one-way street into a one-way street, after stopping as | 11 | | required by
paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of this subsection.
| 12 | | After
stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way to | 13 | | any vehicle in the
intersection or approaching on another | 14 | | roadway so closely as to constitute
an immediate hazard | 15 | | during the time such driver is moving across or within
the | 16 | | intersection or junction or roadways. Such driver shall | 17 | | yield the
right of way to pedestrians within the | 18 | | intersection or an adjacent crosswalk.
| 19 | | 3.5. In municipalities with less than 2,000,000 | 20 | | inhabitants, after stopping as required by paragraph 1 or 2 | 21 | | of this subsection, the driver of a motorcycle or bicycle, | 22 | | facing a steady red signal which fails to change to a green | 23 | | signal within a reasonable period of time not less than 120 | 24 | | seconds because of a signal malfunction or because the | 25 | | signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle | 26 | | or bicycle due to the vehicle's size or weight, shall have |
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| 1 | | the right to proceed, after yielding the right of way to | 2 | | oncoming traffic facing a green signal, subject to the | 3 | | rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign as | 4 | | required by Section 11-1204 of this Code.
| 5 | | 4. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control | 6 | | signal as provided
in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing a | 7 | | steady circular red or red arrow
signal alone shall not | 8 | | enter the roadway.
| 9 | | (d) In the event an official traffic control signal is
| 10 | | erected and maintained
at a place other than an intersection, | 11 | | the provisions of this Section shall
be applicable except as to | 12 | | provisions which by their nature can have no
application. Any | 13 | | stop required shall be at a traffic sign or a marking
on the | 14 | | pavement indicating where the stop shall be made or, in the | 15 | | absence
of such sign or marking, the stop shall be made at the | 16 | | signal.
| 17 | | (e) The motorman of any streetcar shall obey the above | 18 | | signals as applicable
to vehicles.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 97-627, eff. 1-1-12; 97-762, eff. 7-6-12.)
| 20 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 | | becoming law.
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