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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 482
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 482 by replacing
3 everything after the enactment clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-604 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/11-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
7 Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities.
8 Subject to the limitations set forth in this Section, the
9 county board of a county may establish absolute maximum speed
10 limits on all county highways, township roads and district
11 roads as defined in the Illinois Highway Code, except those
12 under the jurisdiction of the Department or of the Illinois
13 State Toll Highway Authority, as described in Sections 11-602
14 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park district, city,
15 village, or incorporated town may establish absolute maximum
16 speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
17 limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the
18 Department or of such Authority, and for which the county or
19 a highway commissioner of such county does not have
20 maintenance responsibility.
21 Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
22 incorporated town determines, upon the basis of an
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1 engineering or traffic investigation concerning a highway or
2 street on which it is authorized by this Section to establish
3 speed limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in
4 Section 11-601 of this Chapter is greater or less than is
5 reasonable or safe with respect to the conditions found to
6 exist at any place or along any part or zone of such highway
7 or street, the local authority or park district shall
8 determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and safe
9 absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along such part
10 or zone, which:
11 (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district,
12 but not to less than 20 miles per hour; or
13 (2) Increases the limit within an urban district,
14 but not to more than 55 miles per hour; or
15 (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban
16 district, but not to less than 35 miles per hour, except
17 as otherwise provided in subparagraph 4 of this
18 paragraph; or
19 (4) Decreases the limit within a residence
20 district, but not to less than 25 miles per hour, except
21 as otherwise provided in subparagraph 1 of this
22 paragraph.
23 The park district, city, village, or incorporated town
24 may make such limit applicable at all times or only during
25 certain specified times. Not more than 6 such alterations
26 shall be made per mile along a highway or street; and the
27 difference in limit between adjacent altered speed zones
28 shall not be more than 10 miles per hour.
29 A limit so determined and declared by a park district,
30 city, village, or incorporated town becomes effective, and
31 suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section
32 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice
33 of the limit are erected at the proper place or along the
34 proper part or zone of the highway or street. However, when
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1 a park district, city, village, or incorporated town adopts
2 an ordinance that changes the limit on 10% or more of the
3 highways or streets within its jurisdiction, that change is
4 effective if the park district, city, village, or
5 incorporated town publishes notice of the change in a
6 newspaper of general circulation at least 3 times, with at
7 least one week between each publication, and the last
8 publication coming not less than 30 days before the
9 implementation of the change. Electronic speed-detecting
10 devices shall not be used within 500 feet beyond any such
11 sign in the direction of travel; if so used in violation of
12 this Section evidence obtained thereby shall be inadmissible
13 in any prosecution for speeding. However, nothing in this
14 Section prohibits the use of such electronic speed-detecting
15 devices within 500 feet of a sign within a special school
16 speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to the
17 requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall
18 evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution
19 for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
20 to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school
21 speed zone. A county engineer or superintendent of highways
22 may submit to the Department for approval, a county policy
23 for establishing altered speed zones on township and county
24 highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
25 Whenever the county board of a county determines that a
26 maximum speed limit is greater or less than is reasonable or
27 safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any
28 place or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the
29 county board shall determine and declare by ordinance a
30 reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed limit at that
31 place or along that part or zone. However, the maximum speed
32 limit shall not exceed 55 miles per hour. The limit becomes
33 effective, and suspends the application of the limit
34 prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when
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1 appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected at
2 the proper place or along the proper part of the zone of the
3 highway. Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be
4 used within 500 feet beyond any such sign in the direction of
5 travel; if so used in violation of this Section, evidence
6 obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for
7 speeding. However, nothing in this Section prohibits the use
8 of such electronic speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of
9 a sign within a special school speed zone indicating such
10 zone, conforming to the requirements of Section 11-605 of
11 this Act, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible
12 in any prosecution for speeding provided the use of such
13 device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit
14 in such special school speed zone.
15 (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)".