Full Text of HB1475 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 11-1414 as follows:
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| (625 ILCS 5/11-1414) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1414)
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| Sec. 11-1414. Approaching, overtaking, and passing school | 8 |
| bus.
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| (a) The driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle before | 10 |
| meeting or
overtaking, from either direction, any school bus | 11 |
| stopped at any location for
the purpose of receiving or | 12 |
| discharging pupils. Such stop is required before
reaching the | 13 |
| school bus when there is in operation on the school
bus the | 14 |
| visual signals as specified in Sections 12-803 and 12-805 of | 15 |
| this
Code. The driver of the vehicle shall not proceed until | 16 |
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school bus resumes motion or the driver of the vehicle is | 17 |
| signaled by the
school bus driver to proceed or the visual | 18 |
| signals are no longer actuated.
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| (b) The stop signal arm required by Section 12-803 of this | 20 |
| Code shall
be extended after the school bus has come to a | 21 |
| complete stop for the purpose of
loading or discharging pupils | 22 |
| and shall be closed before the school bus
is placed in motion | 23 |
| again. The stop signal arm shall
not be extended at any other |
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| time.
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| (c) The alternately flashing red signal lamps of an
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| flashing signal system required by Section 12-805 of this Code
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| shall be actuated after the school bus has come to a complete | 5 |
| stop for the
purpose of
loading or discharging pupils and shall | 6 |
| be turned off before
the school bus is placed in motion again. | 7 |
| The red signal
lamps shall not be actuated at any other time
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| except as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section.
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| (d) The alternately flashing amber signal lamps of an | 10 |
| 8-lamp
flashing signal system required by Section 12-805 of | 11 |
| this
Code shall be actuated continuously during not less than | 12 |
| the last 100
feet traveled by the school bus before stopping | 13 |
| for the purpose of loading
or discharging pupils within an | 14 |
| urban area and during not less than
the last 200 feet traveled | 15 |
| by the school
bus outside an urban area. The amber signal lamps | 16 |
| shall remain actuated
until the school
bus is stopped. The | 17 |
| amber signal lamps shall not be actuated at any other time.
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| (d-5) The alternately flashing head lamps permitted by | 19 |
| Section 12-805 of
this Code may be operated while the | 20 |
| alternately flashing red or amber signal
lamps required by that | 21 |
| Section are actuated.
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| (e) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway having 4 or more | 23 |
| lanes which
permits at least 2 lanes of traffic to travel in | 24 |
| opposite directions need not
stop such vehicle upon meeting a | 25 |
| school bus which is stopped in the opposing
roadway; and need | 26 |
| not stop such vehicle when driving upon a controlled access
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| highway when passing a school bus traveling in either direction | 2 |
| that is stopped
in a loading zone
adjacent to the surfaced or | 3 |
| improved part of the controlled access
highway where | 4 |
| pedestrians are not permitted to cross.
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| (f) Beginning with the effective date of this amendatory | 6 |
| Act of 1985,
the Secretary of State shall suspend for a period | 7 |
| of 3 months
the driving
privileges of any person convicted of a | 8 |
| violation of subsection (a) of this
Section or a similar | 9 |
| provision of a local ordinance; the Secretary shall
suspend for | 10 |
| a period of one year the driving privileges of any person | 11 |
| convicted
of a second or subsequent violation of subsection (a) | 12 |
| of this Section or a
similar provision of a local ordinance if | 13 |
| the second or subsequent violation
occurs within 5 years of a | 14 |
| prior conviction for the same offense. In addition
to the | 15 |
| suspensions authorized by this Section, any person convicted of
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| violating this Section or a similar provision of a local | 17 |
| ordinance
shall be subject to a mandatory fine of $150 or, upon | 18 |
| a second or subsequent
violation, $500.
The Secretary may also | 19 |
| grant, for the duration of any
suspension issued under this | 20 |
| subsection, a restricted driving permit
granting the privilege | 21 |
| of driving a motor vehicle between the driver's
residence and | 22 |
| place of employment or within other proper limits that the
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| Secretary of State shall find necessary to avoid any undue | 24 |
| hardship. A
restricted driving permit issued hereunder shall be | 25 |
| subject to
cancellation, revocation and suspension by the | 26 |
| Secretary of State in like
manner and for like cause as a |
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| driver's license may be cancelled, revoked
or suspended; except | 2 |
| that a conviction upon one or more offenses against
laws or | 3 |
| ordinances regulating the movement of traffic shall be deemed
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| sufficient cause for the revocation, suspension or | 5 |
| cancellation of the
restricted driving permit. The Secretary of | 6 |
| State may, as a condition to
the issuance of a restricted | 7 |
| driving permit, require the applicant to
participate in a | 8 |
| designated driver remedial or rehabilitative program. Any
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| conviction for a violation of this subsection shall be included | 10 |
| as an
offense for the purposes of determining suspension action | 11 |
| under any other
provision of this Code, provided however, that | 12 |
| the penalties provided under
this subsection shall be imposed | 13 |
| unless those penalties imposed under other
applicable | 14 |
| provisions are greater.
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| The owner of any vehicle alleged to have violated paragraph | 16 |
| (a) of this
Section shall, upon appropriate demand by the | 17 |
| State's Attorney or other
designated person
authorized | 18 |
| prosecutor acting in response to a signed complaint, provide
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| written statement or deposition identifying the operator of the | 20 |
| vehicle
if such operator was not the owner at the time of the | 21 |
| alleged violation.
Failure to supply such information shall | 22 |
| result in the suspension of the vehicle registration of the | 23 |
| vehicle for a period of 3 months
be construed to be the same as
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| a violation of paragraph (a) and shall be subject to the same | 25 |
| penalties
herein provided . In the event the owner has assigned | 26 |
| control for the use
of the vehicle to another, the person to |
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| whom control was assigned shall
comply with the provisions of | 2 |
| this paragraph and be subject to the same
penalties as herein | 3 |
| provided.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-180, eff. 7-11-03; 93-181, eff. 1-1-04; | 5 |
| revised 8-12-03.)
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