100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB2938

 

Introduced , by Rep. Peter Breen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
625 ILCS 5/11-603  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603

    Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that in order to post a speed limit on a highway under its jurisdiction that is less than the limit prescribed in a provision of the Code concerning general speed restrictions, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall obtain approval from the General Assembly. Provides that the Authority shall not issue a regulation to change the speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway. Provides that beginning 6 months after the effective date of the bill, and except for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds, the Authority shall issue a regulation to change the speed limit on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction to the maximum speed limit authorized in the Code for highways under its jurisdiction.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Legislative findings. The General Assembly
5finds that the maximum speed limits for motor vehicles
6prescribed in a provision concerning general speed
7restrictions in the Illinois Vehicle Code are presumed to be
8reasonable and safe maximum speed limits for all highways under
9the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
 
10    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
11Section 11-603 as follows:
 
12    (625 ILCS 5/11-603)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603)
13    Sec. 11-603. Alteration of limits by Toll Highway
14Authority.
15    (a) Whenever the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
16determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
17investigation concerning a toll highway under its
18jurisdiction, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section
1911-601 of this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or
20safe with respect to conditions found to exist at any place or
21along any part or zone of such highway, the Authority shall
22determine and declare by regulation a reasonable and safe

 

 

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1absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along such part
2or zone, and the speed limit shall conform with the maximum
3speed limit restrictions provided for in Section 11-601 of this
4Code. A limit so determined and declared becomes effective, and
5suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section
611-601 of this Chapter, when (a) the Department concurs in
7writing with the Authority's regulation, and (b) appropriate
8signs giving notice of the limit are erected at such place or
9along such part or zone of the highway, and (c) for a decrease
10in a speed limit, the General Assembly approves the Authority's
11regulation. The Authority shall not issue a regulation to
12change the speed limit for vehicles of the second division
13weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per
14hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway.
15Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500
16feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so
17used in violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
18inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
19    (b) Beginning 6 months after the effective date of this
20amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for
21vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000
22pounds, the Authority shall issue a regulation to change the
23speed limit on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction to
24the maximum speed limits under Section 11-601 of this Code.
25(Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)