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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 |
| Sections 3-101, 3-412, 3-821, and 7-601 and by adding Sections | 6 |
| 1-140.7, 3-805.5, and 11-1426.2 as follows: | 7 |
| (625 ILCS 5/1-140.7 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 1-140.7. Low-speed vehicle. Any 4-wheeled vehicle | 9 |
| with a maximum speed greater than 20 miles per hour but not | 10 |
| greater than 25 miles per hour that conforms with the federal | 11 |
| motor vehicle safety standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. Part | 12 |
| 571.500.
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| (625 ILCS 5/3-101) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-101)
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| Sec. 3-101. Certificate of title required.
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| (a) Except as provided in Section 3-102, every owner of a | 16 |
| vehicle which
is in this State and for which no certificate of | 17 |
| title has been issued by
the Secretary of State shall make | 18 |
| application to the Secretary of State
for a certificate of | 19 |
| title of the vehicle.
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| (b) Every owner of a motorcycle or motor driven cycle | 21 |
| purchased new
on and after January 1, 1980 shall make | 22 |
| application to the Secretary of
State for a certificate of |
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| title. However, if such cycle is not properly
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| equipped for general highway use pursuant to the provisions
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| this Act, it shall not be eligible for license registration, | 4 |
| but shall
be issued a distinctive certificate of title except | 5 |
| as provided in Sections
3-102 and 3-110 of this Act.
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| (c) The Secretary of State shall not register or renew the | 7 |
| registration
of a vehicle unless a certificate of title has | 8 |
| been issued by the Secretary
of State to the owner or an | 9 |
| application therefor has been delivered by the
owner to the | 10 |
| Secretary of State.
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| (d) Every owner of an all-terrain vehicle or off-highway | 12 |
| motorcycle
purchased on or after January 1, 1998 shall make | 13 |
| application to the
Secretary of State for a certificate of | 14 |
| title.
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| (e) Every owner of a low-speed vehicle shall make | 16 |
| application to the Secretary of State for a certificate of | 17 |
| title. | 18 |
| (Source: P.A. 90-287, eff. 1-1-98.)
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| (625 ILCS 5/3-412) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-412)
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| Sec. 3-412. Registration plates and registration stickers | 21 |
| to be
furnished by the Secretary of State. | 22 |
| (a) The Secretary of State upon registering a vehicle | 23 |
| subject to annual
registration for the first time shall issue | 24 |
| or shall cause to be issued to the
owner one registration plate | 25 |
| for a motorcycle, trailer, semitrailer, motorized
pedalcycle |
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| or truck-tractor, 2 registration plates for other motor | 2 |
| vehicles
and, where applicable, current registration stickers | 3 |
| for motor vehicles of the
first division. The provisions of | 4 |
| this Section may be made applicable to such
vehicles of the | 5 |
| second division, as the Secretary of State may, from time to
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| time, in his discretion designate. On subsequent annual | 7 |
| registrations
during the term of the registration plate as | 8 |
| provided in Section 3-414.1, the
Secretary shall issue or cause | 9 |
| to be issued registration stickers as evidence
of current | 10 |
| registration. However, the issuance of annual registration | 11 |
| stickers
to vehicles registered under the provisions of | 12 |
| Sections 3-402.1 and 3-405.3 of
this Code may not be required | 13 |
| if the Secretary deems the issuance unnecessary.
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| (b) Every registration plate shall have displayed upon it | 15 |
| the registration
number assigned to the vehicle for which it is | 16 |
| issued, the name of this State,
which may be abbreviated, the | 17 |
| year number for which it was issued, which may
be abbreviated, | 18 |
| the phrase "Land of Lincoln" (except as otherwise provided in
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| this Code), and such other letters or numbers as the Secretary
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| may prescribe. However, for apportionment plates issued to | 21 |
| vehicles registered
under Section 3-402.1 and fleet plates | 22 |
| issued to vehicles registered under
Section 3-405.3, the phrase | 23 |
| "Land of Lincoln" may be omitted to allow for
the word | 24 |
| "apportioned", the word "fleet", or other similar language to | 25 |
| be
displayed. Registration plates issued to a vehicle | 26 |
| registered as a fleet
vehicle may display a designation |
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| determined by the Secretary.
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| The Secretary may in his discretion prescribe
that letters | 3 |
| be used as prefixes only on registration plates issued to | 4 |
| vehicles
of the first division which are registered under this | 5 |
| Code and only as suffixes
on registration plates issued to | 6 |
| other vehicles. Every registration sticker
issued as evidence | 7 |
| of current registration shall designate the year number
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| which it is issued and such other letters or numbers as the | 9 |
| Secretary may
prescribe and shall be of a contrasting color | 10 |
| with the registration plates and
registration stickers of the | 11 |
| previous year.
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| (c) Each registration plate and the required letters and | 13 |
| numerals thereon,
except the year number for which issued, | 14 |
| shall be of sufficient size to be
plainly readable from a | 15 |
| distance of 100 feet during daylight, and shall be
coated with | 16 |
| reflectorizing material. The dimensions of the plate issued to
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| vehicles of the first division shall be 6 by 12 inches.
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| (d) The Secretary of State shall issue for every passenger | 19 |
| motor vehicle
rented without a driver the same type of | 20 |
| registration plates as the type of
plates issued for a private | 21 |
| passenger vehicle.
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| (e) The Secretary of State shall issue for every passenger
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| car used as a taxicab or livery, distinctive registration | 24 |
| plates.
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| (f) The Secretary of State shall issue for every motorcycle
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| distinctive registration plates distinguishing between
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| motorcycles having 150 or more cubic centimeters piston
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| displacement, or having less than 150 cubic centimeter
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| displacement.
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| (g) Registration plates issued to vehicles for-hire may
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| display a designation as determined by the Secretary that
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| vehicles are for-hire.
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| (h) (Blank). The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive | 8 |
| registration plates for electric vehicles.
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| (i) The Secretary of State shall issue for every public and | 10 |
| private
ambulance registration plates identifying the vehicle | 11 |
| as an ambulance.
The Secretary shall forward to the Department | 12 |
| of Healthcare and Family Services registration
information for | 13 |
| the purpose of verification of claims filed with the
Department | 14 |
| by ambulance owners for payment for services to public | 15 |
| assistance
recipients.
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| (j) The Secretary of State shall issue for every public and | 17 |
| private
medical carrier or rescue vehicle livery registration | 18 |
| plates displaying
numbers within ranges of numbers reserved | 19 |
| respectively for medical carriers
and rescue vehicles. The | 20 |
| Secretary shall forward to the Department of Healthcare and | 21 |
| Family Services registration information for the purpose of | 22 |
| verification of claims filed
with the Department by owners of | 23 |
| medical carriers or rescue vehicles for
payment for services to | 24 |
| public assistance recipients.
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| (k) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive license | 26 |
| plates or distinctive license plate stickers for every vehicle |
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| exempted from subsection (a) of Section 12-503 by subsection | 2 |
| (g) of that Section, and by subsection (g-5) of that Section | 3 |
| before its deletion by this amendatory Act of the 95th General | 4 |
| Assembly. The Secretary shall issue these plates or stickers | 5 |
| immediately upon receiving the physician's certification | 6 |
| required under subsection (g) of Section 12-503. New plates or | 7 |
| stickers shall also be issued when the certification is renewed | 8 |
| as provided in that subsection.
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| (l) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive | 10 |
| registration plates for low-speed vehicles. | 11 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-239, eff. 1-1-06; 94-564, eff. 8-12-05; | 12 |
| 95-202, eff. 8-16-07; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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| (625 ILCS 5/3-805.5 new)
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| Sec. 3-805.5. Low-speed vehicles. Every owner of a | 15 |
| low-speed vehicle shall make application to the Secretary of | 16 |
| State for registration, or renewal of registration, at the | 17 |
| annual fee of $18.
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| (625 ILCS 5/3-821) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-821)
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| Sec. 3-821. Miscellaneous Registration and Title Fees.
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| (a) The fee to be paid to the Secretary of State for the | 21 |
| following
certificates, registrations or evidences of proper | 22 |
| registration, or for
corrected or duplicate documents shall be | 23 |
| in accordance with the following
schedule:
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24 | | Certificate of Title, except for an all-terrain |
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2 | | Certificate of Title for an all-terrain vehicle |
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3 | | or off-highway motorcycle |
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4 | | Certificate of Title for an all-terrain
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5 | | or off-highway motorcycle used for production |
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6 | | agriculture, or accepted by a dealer in trade | 13 |
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7 | | Certificate of Title for a low-speed | |
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9 | | Transfer of Registration or any evidence of |
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10 | | proper registration
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11 | | Duplicate Registration Card for plates or other |
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12 | | evidence of proper registration |
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13 | | Duplicate Registration Sticker or Stickers issued | 14 | | on or before February 28, 2005, each |
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Duplicate Registration Sticker or Stickers issued | 16 | | on or after March 1, 2005, each | 20 |
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17 | | Duplicate Certificate of Title |
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18 | | Corrected Registration Card or Card for other |
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19 | | evidence of proper registration |
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20 | | Corrected Certificate of Title |
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21 | | Salvage Certificate |
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22 | | Fleet Reciprocity Permit |
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23 | | Prorate Decal |
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24 | | Prorate Backing Plate |
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25 | | Special Corrected Certificate of Title | 15
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| A special corrected certificate of title shall be issued |
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| (i) to remove a co-owner's name due to the death of the | 2 |
| co-owner or due to a divorce or (ii) to change a co-owner's | 3 |
| name due to a marriage.
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| There shall be no fee paid for a Junking Certificate.
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| (a-5) The Secretary of State may revoke a certificate of | 6 |
| title and registration card and issue a corrected certificate | 7 |
| of title and registration card, at no fee to the vehicle owner | 8 |
| or lienholder, if there is proof that the vehicle | 9 |
| identification number is erroneously shown on the original | 10 |
| certificate of title.
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| (b) The Secretary may prescribe the maximum service charge | 12 |
| to be
imposed upon an applicant for renewal of a registration | 13 |
| by any person
authorized by law to receive and remit or | 14 |
| transmit to the Secretary such
renewal application and fees | 15 |
| therewith.
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| (c) If a check is delivered to the Office of the Secretary | 17 |
| of State
as payment of any fee or tax under this Code, and such | 18 |
| check is not
honored by the bank on which it is drawn for any | 19 |
| reason, the registrant
or other person tendering the check | 20 |
| remains liable for the payment of
such fee or tax. The | 21 |
| Secretary of State may assess a service charge of
$19
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| addition to the fee or tax due and owing for all dishonored
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| checks.
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| If the total amount then due and owing exceeds the sum of | 25 |
| $50 and
has not been paid in full within 60 days from the date | 26 |
| such fee or tax
became due to the Secretary of State, the |
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| Secretary of State shall
assess a penalty of 25% of such amount | 2 |
| remaining unpaid.
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| All amounts payable under this Section shall be computed to | 4 |
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nearest dollar.
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| (d) The minimum fee and tax to be paid by any applicant for
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| apportionment of a fleet of vehicles under this Code shall be | 7 |
| $15
if the application was filed on or before the date | 8 |
| specified by the
Secretary together with fees and taxes due. If | 9 |
| an application and the
fees or taxes due are filed after the | 10 |
| date specified by the Secretary,
the Secretary may prescribe | 11 |
| the payment of interest at the rate of 1/2
of 1% per month or | 12 |
| fraction thereof after such due date and a minimum of
$8.
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| (e) Trucks, truck tractors, truck tractors with loads, and | 14 |
| motor buses,
any one of which having a combined total weight in | 15 |
| excess of 12,000 lbs.
shall file an application for a Fleet | 16 |
| Reciprocity Permit issued by the
Secretary of State. This | 17 |
| permit shall be in the possession of any driver
operating a | 18 |
| vehicle on Illinois highways. Any foreign licensed vehicle of | 19 |
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second division operating at any time in Illinois without a | 20 |
| Fleet Reciprocity
Permit or other proper Illinois | 21 |
| registration, shall subject the operator to the
penalties | 22 |
| provided in Section 3-834 of this Code. For the purposes of | 23 |
| this
Code, "Fleet Reciprocity Permit" means any second division | 24 |
| motor vehicle with a
foreign license and used only in | 25 |
| interstate transportation of goods. The fee
for such permit | 26 |
| shall be $15 per fleet which shall include all
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| fleet being registered.
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| (f) For purposes of this Section, "all-terrain vehicle or | 3 |
| off-highway
motorcycle used for production agriculture" means | 4 |
| any all-terrain vehicle or
off-highway motorcycle used in the | 5 |
| raising
of or the propagation of livestock, crops for sale for | 6 |
| human consumption,
crops for livestock consumption, and | 7 |
| production seed stock grown for the
propagation of feed grains | 8 |
| and the husbandry of animals or for the purpose
of providing a | 9 |
| food product, including the husbandry of blood stock as a
main | 10 |
| source of providing a food product.
"All-terrain vehicle or | 11 |
| off-highway motorcycle used in production agriculture"
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| means any all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle used in | 13 |
| animal
husbandry, floriculture, aquaculture, horticulture, and | 14 |
| viticulture.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-287, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| Sec. 11-1426.2. Operation of low-speed vehicles on | 18 |
| streets. | 19 |
| (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, it is | 20 |
| lawful for any person to drive or operate a low-speed vehicle | 21 |
| upon any street in this State where the posted speed limit is | 22 |
| 30 miles per hour or less. | 23 |
| (b) Low-speed vehicles may cross a street at an | 24 |
| intersection where the street being crossed has a posted speed | 25 |
| limit of not more than 45 miles per hour. Low-speed vehicles |
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| may not cross a street with a speed limit in excess of 45 miles | 2 |
| per hour unless the crossing is at an intersection controlled | 3 |
| by a traffic light or 4-way stop sign. | 4 |
| (c) The Department of Transportation or a municipality, | 5 |
| township, county, or other unit of local government may | 6 |
| prohibit, by regulation, ordinance, or resolution, the | 7 |
| operation of low-speed vehicles on streets under its | 8 |
| jurisdiction if the Department of Transportation or unit of | 9 |
| local government determines that the public safety would be | 10 |
| jeopardized. | 11 |
| (d) Before prohibiting the operation of low-speed vehicles | 12 |
| on a street, the Department of Transportation or unit of local | 13 |
| government must consider the volume, speed, and character of | 14 |
| traffic on the street and determine whether allowing low-speed | 15 |
| vehicles to operate on that street would jeopardize public | 16 |
| safety. Upon determining that low-speed vehicles may not safely | 17 |
| operate on a street, and upon the adoption of an ordinance or | 18 |
| resolution by a unit of local government, or regulation by the | 19 |
| Department of Transportation, appropriate signs shall be | 20 |
| posted in conformance with the State Manual on Uniform Traffic | 21 |
| Control Devices adopted pursuant to Section 11-301 of this | 22 |
| Code. | 23 |
| (e) If a street is under the jurisdiction of more than one | 24 |
| unit of local government, or under the jurisdiction of the | 25 |
| Department of Transportation and one or more units of local | 26 |
| government, low-speed vehicles may be operated on the street |
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| unless each unit of local government and the Department of | 2 |
| Transportation agree and take action to prohibit such operation | 3 |
| as provided in this Section. | 4 |
| (f) No low-speed vehicle may be operated on any street | 5 |
| unless, at a minimum, it has the following: brakes, a steering | 6 |
| apparatus, tires, a rearview mirror, red reflectorized warning | 7 |
| devices in the front and rear, a headlight that emits a white | 8 |
| light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front, a tail | 9 |
| lamp that emits a red light visible from at least 100 feet from | 10 |
| the rear, brake lights, and turn signals. When operated on a | 11 |
| street, a low-speed vehicle shall have its headlight and tail | 12 |
| lamps lighted as required by Section 12-201 of this Code. The | 13 |
| low-speed vehicle shall also have signs or decals permanently | 14 |
| and conspicuously affixed to the rear of the vehicle and the | 15 |
| dashboard of the vehicle stating "This Vehicle May Not Be | 16 |
| Operated on Streets With Speed Limits in Excess of 30 m.p.h." | 17 |
| The lettering of the sign or decal on the rear of the vehicle | 18 |
| shall be not less than 2 inches in height. The lettering on the | 19 |
| sign or decal on the dashboard shall be not less than one-half | 20 |
| inch in height. | 21 |
| (g) A person may not operate a low-speed vehicle upon any | 22 |
| street in this State unless he or she has a valid driver's | 23 |
| license issued in his or her name by the Secretary of State or | 24 |
| a foreign jurisdiction. | 25 |
| (h) The operation of a low-speed vehicle upon any street is | 26 |
| subject to the provisions of Chapter 11 of this Code concerning |
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| the Rules of the Road, and applicable local ordinances. | 2 |
| (i) Every owner of a low-speed vehicle is subject to the | 3 |
| mandatory insurance requirements specified in Article VI of | 4 |
| Chapter 7 of this Code. | 5 |
| (j) Any person engaged in the retail sale of low-speed | 6 |
| vehicles are required to comply with the motor vehicle dealer | 7 |
| licensing, registration, and bonding laws of this State, as | 8 |
| specified in Sections 5-101 and 5-102 of this Code.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 10 |
| 1, 2010.
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