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Public Act 095-0574
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LRB095 09983 DRH 31643 b |
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing |
Section 11-604 as follows:
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(625 ILCS 5/11-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
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Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities. |
(a) Subject to
the limitations set forth in this Section, |
the county board of a county
may establish absolute maximum |
speed limits on all county highways,
township roads and |
district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway
Code, except |
those under the jurisdiction
of the Department or of the |
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as
described in Sections |
11-602 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park
district, city, |
village, or incorporated town may establish absolute
maximum |
speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
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limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the |
Department or of
such Authority, and for which the county or a |
highway commissioner of
such county does not have maintenance |
responsibility.
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(b) Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
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incorporated town determines, upon
the basis of an engineering |
or traffic investigation concerning a
highway or street on |
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which it is authorized by this Section to establish
speed |
limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601 |
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this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe |
with respect
to the conditions found to exist at any place or |
along any part or zone
of such highway or street, the local |
authority or park district shall
determine and declare by |
ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute
maximum speed limit at |
such place or along such part or zone,
which:
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(1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but |
not to less
than 20 miles per hour; or
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(2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but |
not to more
than 55 miles per hour; or
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(3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district, |
but not to less
than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise |
provided in subparagraph 4 of
this paragraph; or
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(4) Decreases the limit within a residence district, |
but not to less
than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise |
provided in subparagraph 1 of
this paragraph.
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The park district, city, village, or incorporated
town may |
make such limit applicable
at all times or only during certain |
specified times. Not more than 6
such alterations shall be made |
per mile along a highway or street; and
the difference in limit |
between adjacent altered speed zones shall not
be more than 10 |
miles per hour.
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A limit so determined and declared by a park district, |
city, village,
or incorporated town becomes effective, and |
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suspends the application of
the limit prescribed in Section |
11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
signs giving notice of |
the limit are erected at the proper place or
along the proper |
part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic
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speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet |
beyond any
such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in |
violation of this
Section evidence obtained thereby shall be |
inadmissible in any
prosecution for speeding. However, nothing |
in this Section prohibits
the use of such electronic |
speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a
sign within a |
special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming
to |
the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall |
evidence
obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution |
for speeding
provided the use of such device shall apply only |
to the enforcement of
the speed limit in such special school |
speed zone. |
(c) A county engineer or
superintendent of highways may |
submit to the Department for approval, a
county policy for |
establishing altered speed zones on township and county
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highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
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(d) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a |
maximum speed limit
is greater or less than is
reasonable or |
safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
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or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county |
board shall
determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and |
safe absolute maximum speed
limit at that place or along that |
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part or zone. However, the maximum speed
limit shall not exceed |
55 miles per hour. Upon receipt of an engineering study for the |
part or zone of highway in question from the county engineer, |
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county |
board of a county may determine and declare by ordinance a |
reduction in the maximum speed limit
at any place
or along any |
part or zone of a county highway whenever the county board, in |
its sole discretion, determines that the reduction in the |
maximum speed limit is reasonable and safe.
The limit becomes |
effective, and suspends the application of the
limit
prescribed |
in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs
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giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper place or |
along the
proper part of the zone of the highway. Electronic |
speed-detecting
devices shall not be used within 500 feet |
beyond any such sign in the
direction of travel; if so used in |
violation of this Section, evidence
obtained thereby shall be |
inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
However, nothing |
in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
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speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a |
special
school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to |
the requirements
of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall |
evidence obtained thereby be
inadmissible in any prosecution |
for speeding provided the use of such
device shall apply only |
to the enforcement of the speed limit in such
special school |
speed zone.
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(Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96.)
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