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90_HB0307enr 55 ILCS 5/3-6036 from Ch. 34, par. 3-6036 55 ILCS 5/5-1060 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1060 65 ILCS 5/1-1-7 from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-7 625 ILCS 5/6-306.5 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-306.5 625 ILCS 5/11-209 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-209 Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code, Counties Code, and Illinois Municipal Code to provide that the corporate authorities of a municipality or the county board and the owner of a commercial and industrial facility that controls a parking area may by contract empower the municipality to regulate parking. Amends the Vehicle Code to provide that upon a certified report from a municipality stating that a vehicle owner has failed to pay a fine or penalty for 10 or more violations of a municipality's standing, parking, or compliance regulations (instead of 10 or more violations of a municipality's standing and parking regulations), the Secretary of State shall suspend driving privileges. Amends the Counties Code to provide that the Supervisor of Safety shall advise the county board as to contracts negotiated regulating traffic of parking areas of commercial and industrial facilities. LRB9000656NTsbA HB0307 Enrolled LRB9000656NTsbA 1 AN ACT concerning vehicles, amending named Acts. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing 5 Sections 3-6036 and 5-1060 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/3-6036) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-6036) 7 Sec. 3-6036. Powers and duties of Supervisor of Safety. 8 The Supervisor of Safety shall enforce all the laws of this 9 State and, within the municipalities in his county, the 10 ordinances of such municipalities relating to the regulation 11 of motor vehicle traffic and the promotion of safety on 12 public highways. The Supervisor of Safety shall advise the 13 county board as to contracts negotiated regulating traffic of 14 parking areas of schools, hospitals, commercial and 15 industrial facilities, shopping centers and apartment 16 complexes outside any municipality of said county, and shall 17 act as its representative and agent in connection with the 18 execution of such contracts. In those instances where 19 contracts are being negotiated between municipalities and 20 schools, hospitals, commercial and industrial facilities, 21 shopping centers and apartment complexes outside the 22 corporate limits, the Supervisor of Safety shall advise the 23 county board. All such contracts shall be negotiated in the 24 manner of section 11-209 of The Illinois Vehicle Code. 25 Subject to the approval of the county board, the Supervisor 26 of Safety may appoint assistants to aid him in carrying out 27 his duties. The Supervisor of Safety shall cooperate with the 28 State and Federal governments and agencies thereof in 29 programs designed to promote safety on highways. 30 The Supervisor of Safety in counties of less than 31 1,000,000 inhabitants may enter into cooperative contractual HB0307 Enrolled -2- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 agreements with school districts in his county, under which 2 the school district hires, compensates and is liable for one 3 or more school crossing guards, and the Supervisor of Safety, 4 as sheriff of the county, appoints any such guard as an 5 auxiliary deputy, in the manner and under the terms of 6 Sections 3-6001 through 3-6032. 7 This Section is not a prohibition upon the contractual 8 and associational powers granted by Article VII, Section 10 9 of the Illinois Constitution. 10 (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1475.) 11 (55 ILCS 5/5-1060) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1060) 12 Sec. 5-1060. Contracts for regulation of traffic. A 13 county board may contract with school boards, hospitals, 14 commercial and industrial facilities, and owners of shopping 15 centers or apartment complexes for the purpose of regulating 16 traffic in their parking areas outside a municipality in 17 areas under the jurisdiction of the County Board in such 18 manner as is provided by Section 11-209 of The Illinois 19 Vehicle Code and as provided under Section 3-6036 of this 20 Code. 21 This Section is not a prohibition upon the contractual 22 and associational powers granted by Article VII, Section 10 23 of the Illinois Constitution. 24 (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1475.) 25 Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by 26 changing Section 1-1-7 as follows: 27 (65 ILCS 5/1-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-7) 28 Sec. 1-1-7. Power of municipality to contract with school 29 boards, hospitals, commercial and industrial facilities, and 30 owners of shopping centers or apartment complexes. The 31 corporate authorities of any municipality shall have the HB0307 Enrolled -3- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 power to contract with school boards, hospitals, commercial 2 and industrial facilities, and owners of shopping centers or 3 apartment complexes within and without the municipal limits 4 in such manner as is provided by Section 11-209 of "The 5 Illinois Vehicle Code", approved September 29, 1969, as 6 amended, and as provided under Section 2 of "An Act in 7 relation to the regulation of motor vehicle traffic and the 8 promotion of safety on public highways in counties", approved 9 August 9, 1951, as amended. 10 This amendatory Act of 1972 is not a prohibition upon the 11 contractual and associational powers granted by Article VII, 12 Section 10 of the Illinois Constitution. 13 (Source: P.A. 78-255.) 14 Section 15. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by 15 changing Sections 6-306.5 and 11-209 as follows: 16 (625 ILCS 5/6-306.5) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-306.5) 17 Sec. 6-306.5. Failure to pay fine or penalty for 18 standing, parking, or compliance violations; suspension of 19 driving privileges. 20 (a) Upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by 21 subsection (c) of this Section, from any municipality stating 22 that the owner of a registered vehicle has failed to pay any 23 fine or penalty due and owing as a result of 10 or more 24 violations of a municipality's vehicular standing,and25 parking, or compliance regulations established by ordinance 26 pursuant to Section 11-208.3 of this Code, the Secretary of 27 State shall suspend the driving privileges of such person in 28 accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section. The 29 Secretary shall also suspend the driving privileges of an 30 owner of a registered vehicle upon receipt of a certified 31 report, as prescribed by subsection (f) of this Section, from 32 any municipality stating that such person has failed to HB0307 Enrolled -4- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 satisfy any fines or penalties imposed by final judgments for 2 10 or more violations of local standing,andparking, or 3 compliance regulations after exhaustion of judicial review 4 procedures. 5 (b) Following receipt of the certified report of the 6 municipality as specified in this Section, the Secretary of 7 State shall notify the person whose name appears on the 8 certified report that the person's drivers license will be 9 suspended at the end of a specified period of time unless the 10 Secretary of State is presented with a notice from the 11 municipality certifying that the fine or penalty due and 12 owing the municipality has been paid or that inclusion of 13 that person's name on the certified report was in error. The 14 Secretary's notice shall state in substance the information 15 contained in the municipality's certified report to the 16 Secretary, and shall be effective as specified by subsection 17 (c) of Section 6-211 of this Code. 18 (c) The report of the appropriate municipal official 19 notifying the Secretary of State of unpaid fines or penalties 20 pursuant to this Section shall be certified and shall contain 21 the following: 22 (1) The name, last known address and drivers 23 license number of the person who failed to pay the fine 24 or penalty and the registration number of any vehicle 25 known to be registered to such person in this State. 26 (2) The name of the municipality making the report 27 pursuant to this Section. 28 (3) A statement that the municipality sent a notice 29 of impending drivers license suspension as prescribed by 30 ordinance enacted pursuant to Section 11-208.3, to the 31 person named in the report at the address recorded with 32 the Secretary of State; the date on which such notice was 33 sent; and the address to which such notice was sent. In a 34 municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more, the HB0307 Enrolled -5- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 report shall also include a statement that the alleged 2 violator's State vehicle registration number and vehicle 3 make are correct as they appear on the citations. 4 (d) Any municipality making a certified report to the 5 Secretary of State pursuant to this Section shall notify the 6 Secretary of State, in a form prescribed by the Secretary, 7 whenever a person named in the certified report has paid the 8 previously reported fine or penalty or whenever the 9 municipality determines that the original report was in 10 error. A certified copy of such notification shall also be 11 given upon request and at no additional charge to the person 12 named therein. Upon receipt of the municipality's 13 notification or presentation of a certified copy of such 14 notification, the Secretary of State shall terminate the 15 suspension. 16 (e) Any municipality making a certified report to the 17 Secretary of State pursuant to this Section shall also by 18 ordinance establish procedures for persons to challenge the 19 accuracy of the certified report. The ordinance shall also 20 state the grounds for such a challenge, which may be limited 21 to (1) the person not having been the owner or lessee of the 22 vehicle or vehicles receiving 10 or more standing, parking, 23 or compliance violation notices on the date or dates such 24 notices were issued; and (2) the person having already paid 25 the fine or penalty for the 10 or more violations indicated 26 on the certified report. 27 (f) Any municipality, other than a municipality 28 establishing vehicular standing,andparking, and compliance 29 regulations pursuant to Section 11-208.3, may also cause a 30 suspension of a person's drivers license pursuant to this 31 Section. Such municipality may invoke this sanction by making 32 a certified report to the Secretary of State upon a person's 33 failure to satisfy any fine or penalty imposed by final 34 judgment for 10 or more violations of local standing,andHB0307 Enrolled -6- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 parking, or compliance regulations after exhaustion of 2 judicial review procedures, but only if: 3 (1) the municipality complies with the provisions 4 of this Section in all respects except in regard to 5 enacting an ordinance pursuant to Section 11-208.3; 6 (2) the municipality has sent a notice of impending 7 drivers license suspension as prescribed by an ordinance 8 enacted pursuant to subsection (g) of this Section; and 9 (3) in municipalities with a population of 10 1,000,000 or more, the municipality has verified that the 11 alleged violator's State vehicle registration number and 12 vehicle make are correct as they appear on the citations. 13 (g) Any municipality, other than a municipality 14 establishing standing,andparking, and compliance 15 regulations pursuant to Section 11-208.3, may provide by 16 ordinance for the sending of a notice of impending drivers 17 license suspension to the person who has failed to satisfy 18 any fine or penalty imposed by final judgment for 10 or more 19 violations of local standing,andparking, or compliance 20 regulations after exhaustion of judicial review procedures. 21 An ordinance so providing shall specify that the notice sent 22 to the person liable for any fine or penalty shall state that 23 failure to pay the fine or penalty owing within 45 days of 24 the notice's date will result in the municipality notifying 25 the Secretary of State that the person's drivers license is 26 eligible for suspension pursuant to this Section. The notice 27 of impending drivers license suspension shall be sent by 28 first class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the 29 address recorded with the Secretary of State. 30 (h) An administrative hearing to contest an impending 31 suspension or a suspension made pursuant to this Section may 32 be had upon filing a written request with the Secretary of 33 State. The filing fee for this hearing shall be $20, to be 34 paid at the time the request is made. A municipality which HB0307 Enrolled -7- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 files a certified report with the Secretary of State pursuant 2 to this Section shall reimburse the Secretary for all 3 reasonable costs incurred by the Secretary as a result of the 4 filing of the report, including but not limited to the costs 5 of providing the notice required pursuant to subsection (b) 6 and the costs incurred by the Secretary in any hearing 7 conducted with respect to the report pursuant to this 8 subsection and any appeal from such a hearing. 9 (i) The provisions of this Section shall apply on and 10 after January 1, 1988. 11 (j) For purposes of this Section, the term "compliance 12 violation" is defined as in Section 11-208.3. 13 (Source: P.A. 89-190, eff. 1-1-96.) 14 (625 ILCS 5/11-209) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-209) 15 Sec. 11-209. Powers of municipalities and counties - 16 Contract with school boards, hospitals, churches, condominium 17 complex unit owners' associations, and commercial and 18 industrial facility, shopping center, and apartment complex 19 owners for regulation of traffic. 20 (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality or the 21 county board of any county, and a school board, hospital, 22 church, condominium complex unit owners' association, or 23 owner of any commercial and industrial facility, shopping 24 center, or apartment complex which controls a parking area 25 located within the limits of the municipality, or outside the 26 limits of the municipality and within the boundaries of the 27 county, may, by contract, empower the municipality or county 28 to regulate the parking of automobiles and the traffic at 29 such parking area. Such contract shall empower the 30 municipality or county to accomplish all or any part of the 31 following: 32 1. The erection of stop signs, flashing signals, 33 person with disabilities parking area signs or yield HB0307 Enrolled -8- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 signs at specified locations in a parking area and the 2 adoption of appropriate regulations thereto pertaining, 3 or the designation of any intersection in the parking 4 area as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection 5 and the ordering of like signs or signals at one or more 6 entrances to such intersection, subject to the provisions 7 of this Chapter. 8 2. The prohibition or regulation of the turning of 9 vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections 10 or other designated locations in the parking area. 11 3. The regulation of a crossing of any roadway in 12 the parking area by pedestrians. 13 4. The designation of any separate roadway in the 14 parking area for one-way traffic. 15 5. The establishment and regulation of loading 16 zones. 17 6. The prohibition, regulation, restriction or 18 limitation of the stopping, standing or parking of 19 vehicles in specified areas of the parking area. 20 7. The designation of safety zones in the parking 21 area and fire lanes. 22 8. Providing for the removal and storage of 23 vehicles parked or abandoned in the parking area during 24 snowstorms, floods, fires, or other public emergencies, 25 or found unattended in the parking area, (a) where they 26 constitute an obstruction to traffic, or (b) where 27 stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, and for the 28 payment of reasonable charges for such removal and 29 storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle. 30 9. Providing that the cost of planning, 31 installation, maintenance and enforcement of parking and 32 traffic regulations pursuant to any contract entered into 33 under the authority of this paragraph (a) of this Section 34 be borne by the municipality or county, or by the school HB0307 Enrolled -9- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 board, hospital, church, property owner, apartment 2 complex owner, or condominium complex unit owners' 3 association, or that a percentage of the cost be shared 4 by the parties to the contract. 5 10. Causing the installation of parking meters on 6 the parking area and establishing whether the expense of 7 installing said parking meters and maintenance thereof 8 shall be that of the municipality or county, or that of 9 the school board, hospital, church, condominium complex 10 unit owners' association, shopping center or apartment 11 complex owner. All moneys obtained from such parking 12 meters as may be installed on any parking area shall 13 belong to the municipality or county. 14 11. Causing the installation of parking signs in 15 accordance with Section 11-301 in areas of the parking 16 lots covered by this Section and where desired by the 17 person contracting with the appropriate authority listed 18 in paragraph (a) of this Section, indicating that such 19 parking spaces are reserved for persons with 20 disabilities. 21 12. Contracting for such additional reasonable 22 rules and regulations with respect to traffic and parking 23 in a parking area as local conditions may require for the 24 safety and convenience of the public or of the users of 25 the parking area. 26 (b) No contract entered into pursuant to this Section 27 shall exceed a period of 20 years. No lessee of a shopping 28 center or apartment complex shall enter into such a contract 29 for a longer period of time than the length of his lease. 30 (c) Any contract entered into pursuant to this Section 31 shall be recorded in the office of the recorder in the county 32 in which the parking area is located, and no regulation made 33 pursuant to the contract shall be effective or enforceable 34 until 3 days after the contract is so recorded. HB0307 Enrolled -10- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 (d) At such time as parking and traffic regulations have 2 been established at any parking area pursuant to the contract 3 as provided for in this Section, then it shall be a petty 4 offense for any person to do any act forbidden or to fail to 5 perform any act required by such parking or traffic 6 regulation. If the violation is the parking in a parking 7 space reserved for persons with disabilities under paragraph 8 (11) of this Section, by a person without special 9 registration plates issued to a person with disabilities, as 10 defined by Section 1-159.1, pursuant to Section 3-616 of this 11 Code, or to a disabled veteran pursuant to Section 3-609 of 12 this Code, the local police of the contracting corporate 13 municipal authorities shall issue a parking ticket to such 14 parking violator and issue a fine in accordance with Section 15 11-1301.3. 16 (e) The term "shopping center", as used in this Section, 17 means premises having one or more stores or business 18 establishments in connection with which there is provided on 19 privately-owned property near or contiguous thereto an area, 20 or areas, of land used by the public as the means of access 21 to and egress from the stores and business establishments on 22 such premises and for the parking of motor vehicles of 23 customers and patrons of such stores and business 24 establishments on such premises. 25 (f) The term "parking area", as used in this Section, 26 means an area, or areas, of land near or contiguous to a 27 school, church, or hospital building, shopping center, 28 apartment complex, or condominium complex, but not the public 29 highways or alleys, and used by the public as the means of 30 access to and egress from such buildings and the stores and 31 business establishments at a shopping center and for the 32 parking of motor vehicles. 33 (g) The terms "owner", "property owner", "shopping 34 center owner", and "apartment complex owner", as used in this HB0307 Enrolled -11- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 Section, mean the actual legal owner of the shopping center 2 parking area or apartment complex, the trust officer of a 3 banking institution having the right to manage and control 4 such property, or a person having the legal right, through 5 lease or otherwise, to manage or control the property. 6 (g-5) The term "condominium complex unit owners' 7 association", as used in this Section, means a "unit owners' 8 association" as defined in Section 2 of the Condominium 9 Property Act. 10 (h) The term "fire lane", as used in this Section, means 11 travel lanes for the fire fighting equipment upon which there 12 shall be no standing or parking of any motor vehicle at any 13 time so that fire fighting equipment can move freely thereon. 14 (i) The term "apartment complex", as used in this 15 Section, means premises having one or more apartments in 16 connection with which there is provided on privately-owned 17 property near or contiguous thereto an area, or areas, of 18 land used by occupants of such apartments or their guests as 19 a means of access to and egress from such apartments or for 20 the parking of motor vehicles of such occupants or their 21 guests. 22 (j) The term "condominium complex", as used in this 23 Section, means the units, common elements, and limited common 24 elements that are located on the parcels, as those terms are 25 defined in Section 2 of the Condominium Property Act. 26 (k) The term "commercial and industrial facility", as 27 used in this Section, means a premises containing one or more 28 commercial and industrial facility establishment in 29 connection with which there is provided on privately-owned 30 property near or contiguous to the premises an area or areas 31 of land used by the public as the means of access to and 32 egress from the commercial and industrial facility 33 establishment on the premises and for the parking of motor 34 vehicles of customers, patrons, and employees of the HB0307 Enrolled -12- LRB9000656NTsbA 1 commercial and industrial facility establishment on the 2 premises. 3 This amendatory Act of 1972 is not a prohibition upon the 4 contractual and associational powers granted by Article VII, 5 Section 10 of the Illinois Constitution. 6 (Source: P.A. 88-685, eff. 1-24-95; 89-551, eff. 1-1-97.)