HB2455eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB2455 Engrossed LRB098 07353 MLW 37416 b

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing Section 9-130 as follows:

(605 ILCS 5/9-130) (from Ch. 121, par. 9-130)

Sec. 9-130. No person, firm, corporation or institution, public or private, shall plow or remove or cause to be plowed or removed ice or snow from any shopping center, parking lot, commercial or institutional service area or driveway or any other public or private service area or driveway and deposit such ice or snow upon a public highway or along the shoulder or edge of a public highway. Such prohibition shall not pertain to a residential driveway or sidewalk. However, ice or snow plowed or removed from a residential driveway may not be deposited upon a public highway if it creates a traffic safety hazard as determined by local or State police.

Any person, firm, corporation or institution, public or private, who violates this Section is guilty of a petty offense.

(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.