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90_SB0029eng

      625 ILCS 5/11-1420        from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1420
          Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that  funeral
      processions have the right-of-way when the vehicles have both
      their  headlights  lighted  and  their  hazard warning signal
      flashers flashing (instead of having  only  their  headlights
      lighted).
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Illinois Vehicle Code by changing
 2    Section 11-1420.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is amended by
 6    changing Section 11-1420 as follows:
 7        (625 ILCS 5/11-1420) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1420)
 8        Sec. 11-1420. Funeral processions.
 9        (a)  Funeral  processions  have   the   right-of-way   at
10    intersections  when  vehicles comprising such procession have
11    their  headlights  lighted,    subject   to   the   following
12    conditions and exceptions:
13        1.   Operators  of vehicles in a funeral procession shall
14    yield the right-of-way upon the  approach  of  an  authorized
15    emergency vehicle giving an audible or visible signal;
16        2.   Operators  of vehicles in a funeral procession shall
17    yield the right-of-way when directed to do so  by  a  traffic
18    officer;
19        3.   The  operator  of  the  leading vehicle in a funeral
20    procession shall comply with stop signs and  traffic  control
21    signals  but when the leading vehicle has proceeded across an
22    intersection in accordance with such signal or after stopping
23    as required by the stop sign, all vehicles in such procession
24    may proceed without  stopping,  regardless  of  the  sign  or
25    signal and the leading vehicle and the vehicles in procession
26    shall proceed with due caution.
27        (b)  The  operator  of  a  vehicle  not  in  the  funeral
28    procession  shall  not  drive  his  vehicle  in  the  funeral
29    procession  except  when  authorized  to  do  so by a traffic
30    officer or when  such  vehicle  is  an  authorized  emergency
31    vehicle giving audible or visible signal.
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 1        (c)  Operators  of  vehicles  not  a  part  of  a funeral
 2    procession may not form a procession or convoy and have their
 3    headlights  lighted    for  the  purpose  of   securing   the
 4    right-of-way granted by this Section to funeral processions.
 5        (d)  The   operator   of  a  vehicle  not  in  a  funeral
 6    procession  may  overtake  and  pass  the  vehicles  in  such
 7    procession if such overtaking and passing can be accomplished
 8    without causing a traffic hazard  or  interfering  with  such
 9    procession.
10        (e)  The  lead  vehicle  in the funeral procession may be
11    equipped with a flashing amber light which may be  used  only
12    when  such  vehicle  is  used  as  a  lead  vehicle  in  such
13    procession.  Vehicles  comprising  a  funeral  procession may
14    utilize funeral pennants or flags or windshield  stickers  or
15    flashing  hazard  warning  signal  flashers  to  identify the
16    individual vehicles in such a procession.
17    (Source: P.A. 76-1586.)

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