Full Text of HB5054 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 (1) (a) the Department
concurs in | 7 | | writing with the Authority's regulation, (2) and (b) | 8 | | appropriate
signs giving notice of the limit are erected at | 9 | | such place or along such
part or zone of the highway , and (3) | 10 | | for a decrease in a speed limit, the Joint Committee on | 11 | | Administrative Rules approves the Authority's regulation. The | 12 | | Authority shall not issue a regulation to change a maximum | 13 | | speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more | 14 | | than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than | 15 | | the maximum speed limit of that highway . Electronic | 16 | | speed-detecting devices shall not
be used within 500 feet | 17 | | beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if
so used in | 18 | | violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
| 19 | | inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
| 20 | | (b) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this | 21 | | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for | 22 | | vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 | 23 | | pounds, the effective absolute maximum speed limit on any part | 24 | | of a highway under the Authority's jurisdiction shall be: (1) | 25 | | except for Interstate Route 294 and the portion of Interstate | 26 | | Route 94 that is between Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route |
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| 1 | | 41, 70 miles per hour, or the maximum speed limit under | 2 | | subsection (a) of this Section or Section 11-601 or this Code, | 3 | | whichever is less; and (2) 60 miles per hour or the maximum | 4 | | speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section | 5 | | 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less, on Interstate Route 294 | 6 | | and the portion of Interstate Route 94 that is between | 7 | | Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route 41. If Interstate Route 294 | 8 | | undergoes construction that results in an increase in the | 9 | | maximum design speed limit, the effective absolute maximum | 10 | | speed limit shall be the design speed limit, or the maximum | 11 | | speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section | 12 | | 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less, within 12 months of the | 13 | | design speed limit change. The maximum speed limits under this | 14 | | subsection (b) may be altered under subsection (a) of this | 15 | | Section. The Authority shall issue regulations to implement | 16 | | this subsection (b). With respect to the setting of speed | 17 | | limits, nothing in this subsection (b) shall be construed to | 18 | | increase liability under existing law. | 19 | | (Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)
| 20 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 | | becoming law. |
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