98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1256

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jehan A. Gordon-Booth

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
625 ILCS 5/11-306  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306

    Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires vehicles facing a flashing yellow arrow indication to proceed only as indicated by the arrow and to yield the right of way to other vehicles and pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk. Permits pedestrians facing a flashing yellow arrow indication to proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk unless otherwise directed by pedestrian control signals.


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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 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
5Section 11-306 as follows:
 
6    (625 ILCS 5/11-306)   (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306)
7    Sec. 11-306. Traffic-control signal legend. Whenever
8traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting
9different colored lights or color lighted arrows, successively
10one at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red and
11yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals
12carrying a word legend, and the lights shall indicate and apply
13to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
14    (a) Green indication.
15        1. Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may
16    proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a
17    sign at such place prohibits either such turn. Vehicular
18    traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall
19    yield the right of way to other vehicles and to pedestrians
20    lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk
21    at the time such signal is exhibited.
22        2. Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown
23    alone or in combination with another indication, may

 

 

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1    cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement
2    indicated by such arrow, or such other movement as is
3    permitted by other indications shown at the same time. Such
4    vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to
5    pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to
6    other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
7        3. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control
8    signal, as provided in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing
9    any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a
10    turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any
11    marked or unmarked crosswalk.
12    (b) Steady yellow indication.
13        1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular yellow or
14    yellow arrow signal is thereby warned that the related
15    green movement is being terminated or that a red indication
16    will be exhibited immediately thereafter.
17        2. Pedestrians facing a steady circular yellow or
18    yellow arrow signal, unless otherwise directed by a
19    pedestrian-control signal as provided in Section 11-307,
20    are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to
21    cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no
22    pedestrian shall then start to cross the roadway.
23    (b-5) Flashing yellow arrow indication.
24        1. Vehicular traffic facing a flashing yellow arrow
25    indication may cautiously enter the intersection only to
26    make the movement indicated by the arrow and shall yield

 

 

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1    the right of way to other vehicles and pedestrians lawfully
2    within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the
3    time the signal is exhibited.
4        2. Pedestrians facing a flashing yellow arrow
5    indication, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian
6    control signal as provided in Section 11-307, may proceed
7    across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
8    (c) Steady red indication.
9        1. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this
10    subsection (c), vehicular traffic facing a steady circular
11    red signal alone shall stop at a clearly marked stop line,
12    but if there is no such stop line, before entering the
13    crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if there
14    is no such crosswalk, then before entering the
15    intersection, and shall remain standing until an
16    indication to proceed is shown.
17        2. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this
18    subsection (c), vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow
19    signal shall not enter the intersection to make the
20    movement indicated by the arrow and, unless entering the
21    intersection to make a movement permitted by another
22    signal, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if
23    there is no such stop line, before entering the crosswalk
24    on the near side of the intersection, or if there is no
25    such crosswalk, then before entering the intersection, and
26    shall remain standing until an indication permitting the

 

 

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1    movement indicated by such red arrow is shown.
2        3. Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn
3    and local authorities by ordinance or State authorities by
4    rule or regulation prohibit any such turn, vehicular
5    traffic facing any steady red signal may cautiously enter
6    the intersection to turn right, or to turn left from a
7    one-way street into a one-way street, after stopping as
8    required by paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of this subsection.
9    After stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way to
10    any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another
11    roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard
12    during the time such driver is moving across or within the
13    intersection or junction or roadways. Such driver shall
14    yield the right of way to pedestrians within the
15    intersection or an adjacent crosswalk.
16        3.5. In municipalities with less than 2,000,000
17    inhabitants, after stopping as required by paragraph 1 or 2
18    of this subsection, the driver of a motorcycle or bicycle,
19    facing a steady red signal which fails to change to a green
20    signal within a reasonable period of time not less than 120
21    seconds because of a signal malfunction or because the
22    signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle
23    or bicycle due to the vehicle's size or weight, shall have
24    the right to proceed, after yielding the right of way to
25    oncoming traffic facing a green signal, subject to the
26    rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign as

 

 

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1    required by Section 11-1204 of this Code.
2        4. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control
3    signal as provided in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing a
4    steady circular red or red arrow signal alone shall not
5    enter the roadway.
6    (d) In the event an official traffic control signal is
7erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection,
8the provisions of this Section shall be applicable except as to
9provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any
10stop required shall be at a traffic sign or a marking on the
11pavement indicating where the stop shall be made or, in the
12absence of such sign or marking, the stop shall be made at the
13signal.
14    (e) The motorman of any streetcar shall obey the above
15signals as applicable to vehicles.
16(Source: P.A. 97-627, eff. 1-1-12; 97-762, eff. 7-6-12.)