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430 ILCS 50/3

(430 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 1253)

Sec. 3.

It is the purpose of this Act to require the  Illinois
Department  of Transportation to adopt by regulation the federal
hazardous materials placarding regulations promulgated under the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (PL 93-633) for interstate and
intrastate transportation of hazardous materials as they are applicable
in the State of Illinois, and to recommend that units of local government adopt regulations for hazard signage systems
applicable to the use, storage, and
manufacture of hazardous materials with the following exceptions:

(a) No hazard signage system or State placarding requirements shall
apply to the use, storage,
or transportation of a hazardous material that is located on a farm and that is used solely for agricultural
purposes.  It is not the purpose of this Section to exempt the owner of
an agricultural hazardous material from reporting an accident involving
the material as required in Sections 7 and 7.01 of
this Act, nor is it the purpose of this Section to exempt from the
placarding requirements the storage, transportation or manufacture of a
hazardous material that is an agricultural material when the material
is in the possession of the manufacturer, distributor, dealer, retailer
or any other person who handles the material in larger quantities than
those designed for consumer use or for any purpose other than its
intended agricultural usage.

(b) (Blank).

(c) No placarding requirements or hazard signage requirements
adopted pursuant to this Act shall apply to pipelines or
meters involved in the transmission of natural or flammable gas by a
public utility as defined in the  Public Utilities
Act.

(d) This Act does not authorize the Department to require any
placarding system for transportation of hazardous materials that is
inconsistent with any placarding system required by Federal law or
regulation, nor does it authorize the Department to require any
placarding system or other standards for transportation of hazardous
materials that is more stringent  than any placarding system or
standard required by the federal law or regulations in situations where
a federal placarding system exists.

(Source: P.A. 90-449, eff. 8-16-97.)