Full Text of SB1334 101st General Assembly
SB1334 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 SB1334 Introduced 2/7/2019, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 625 ILCS 5/12-201 | from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 |
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes language stating that head lamps shall be lighted during the period from sunset to sunrise, at times when rain, snow, fog, or
other atmospheric conditions require the use of windshield wipers, and at
any other times when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric
conditions, persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at
a distance of 1,000 feet. Effective January 1, 2020.
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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 12-201 as follows:
| 6 | | (625 ILCS 5/12-201) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201)
| 7 | | Sec. 12-201. When lighted lamps are required.
| 8 | | (a) When operated upon any highway in this State, every | 9 | | motorcycle shall at
all times exhibit at least one lighted | 10 | | lamp, showing a white light visible
for at least 500 feet in | 11 | | the
direction the motorcycle is proceeding. However, in lieu of | 12 | | such lighted
lamp, a motorcycle may be equipped with and use a | 13 | | means of modulating the
upper beam of the head lamp between | 14 | | high and a lower brightness. No such
head lamp shall be | 15 | | modulated, except to otherwise comply with this Code,
during | 16 | | times when lighted lamps are required for other motor vehicles.
| 17 | | (b) All other motor vehicles shall
exhibit at least 2 | 18 | | lighted head lamps, with at least one on each side
of the front | 19 | | of the vehicle, which satisfy United States Department of
| 20 | | Transportation requirements, showing white lights, including | 21 | | that emitted
by high intensity discharge (HID) lamps, or lights | 22 | | of a yellow or amber tint ,
during the period from sunset to | 23 | | sunrise, at times when rain, snow, fog, or
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| 1 | | conditions require the use of windshield wipers, and at
any | 2 | | other times when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable | 3 | | atmospheric
conditions, persons and vehicles on the highway are | 4 | | not clearly discernible at
a distance of 1000 feet . Parking | 5 | | lamps may be used in addition to but not in
lieu of such head | 6 | | lamps. Every motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer shall
also | 7 | | exhibit at least 2 lighted lamps, commonly known as tail lamps, | 8 | | which
shall be mounted on the left rear and right rear of the | 9 | | vehicle so as to throw
a red light visible for at least 500 | 10 | | feet in the reverse direction, except that
a truck tractor or | 11 | | road tractor manufactured before January 1, 1968 and all
| 12 | | motorcycles need be equipped with only one such tail lamp.
| 13 | | (c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so | 14 | | constructed
and placed as to illuminate with a white light a | 15 | | rear registration plate
when required and render it clearly | 16 | | legible from a distance of 50 feet
to the rear. Any tail lamp | 17 | | or tail lamps, together with any separate
lamp or lamps for | 18 | | illuminating a rear registration plate, shall be so
wired as to | 19 | | be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving lamps
| 20 | | are lighted.
| 21 | | (d) A person shall install only head lamps that satisfy | 22 | | United States
Department of Transportation regulations and | 23 | | show white light, including that
emitted by HID lamps, or light | 24 | | of a yellow or amber tint for use by a motor
vehicle.
| 25 | | (e) (Blank).
| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 96-487, eff. 1-1-10.)
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| 1 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 2 | | 1, 2020.
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