Full Text of HB2938 100th General Assembly
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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 1. Legislative findings. The General Assembly | 5 | | finds that the maximum speed limits for motor vehicles | 6 | | prescribed in a provision concerning general speed | 7 | | restrictions in the Illinois Vehicle Code are presumed to be | 8 | | reasonable and safe maximum speed limits for all highways under | 9 | | the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. | 10 | | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | 11 | | Section 11-603 as follows:
| 12 | | (625 ILCS 5/11-603) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603)
| 13 | | Sec. 11-603. Alteration of limits by Toll Highway | 14 | | Authority. | 15 | | (a)
Whenever the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
| 16 | | determines, upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic | 17 | | investigation concerning a toll highway under its
| 18 | | jurisdiction, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section | 19 | | 11-601 of
this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or | 20 | | safe with respect to
conditions found to exist at any place or | 21 | | along any part or zone of such
highway, the Authority shall | 22 | | determine and declare by regulation a
reasonable and safe |
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| 1 | | absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along
such part | 2 | | or zone, and the speed limit shall conform with the maximum | 3 | | speed limit restrictions provided for in Section 11-601 of this | 4 | | Code. A limit so determined
and declared becomes effective, and | 5 | | suspends the application of the limit
prescribed in Section | 6 | | 11-601 of this Chapter, when (a) the Department
concurs in | 7 | | writing with the Authority's regulation, and (b) appropriate
| 8 | | signs giving notice of the limit are erected at such place or | 9 | | along such
part or zone of the highway , and (c) for a decrease | 10 | | in a speed limit, the General Assembly approves the Authority's | 11 | | regulation. The Authority shall not issue regulations to change | 12 | | the maximum speed limit for vehicles of the second division | 13 | | weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per | 14 | | hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway . | 15 | | Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not
be used within 500 | 16 | | feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if
so | 17 | | used in violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
| 18 | | inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
| 19 | | (b) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this | 20 | | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for | 21 | | vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 | 22 | | pounds, the effective absolute maximum speed limit on any part | 23 | | of a highway under the Authority's jurisdiction shall be: (1) | 24 | | except for Interstate Route 294 and the portion of Interstate | 25 | | Route 94 that is between Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route | 26 | | 41, 70 miles per hour or the maximum speed limit under Section |
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| 1 | | 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less; and (2) 60 miles per | 2 | | hour or the maximum speed limit under Section 11-601 of this | 3 | | Code, whichever is less, on Interstate Route 294 and the | 4 | | portion of Interstate Route 94 that is between Interstate Route | 5 | | 294 and U.S. Route 41. If Interstate Route 294 undergoes | 6 | | construction that results in an increase in the maximum design | 7 | | speed limit, the effective absolute maximum speed limit shall | 8 | | be the maximum design speed limit or the maximum speed limit | 9 | | under Section 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less, within 12 | 10 | | months of the design speed limit change. The maximum speed | 11 | | limits under this subsection (b) may be altered under | 12 | | subsection (a) of this Section. The Authority shall issue | 13 | | regulations to implement this subsection (b). | 14 | | (Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)
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