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91_HB0458

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning vehicles.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Police Training Act  is  amended
 5    by changing Section 10.1 as follows:

 6        (50 ILCS 705/10.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 510.1)
 7        Sec.  10.1.   Additional  training  programs.   The Board
 8    shall initiate, administer, and conduct training programs for
 9    permanent police officers and  permanent  county  corrections
10    officers  in  addition to the basic recruit training program.
11    The Board may  initiate,  administer,  and  conduct  training
12    programs  for  part-time  police  officers in addition to the
13    basic part-time police training  course.   The  training  for
14    permanent  and part-time police officers and permanent county
15    corrections officers may be given in any schools selected  by
16    the  Board.  Such training may include all or any part of the
17    subjects enumerated in Section 7 of this Act.
18        The corporate  authorities  of  all  participating  local
19    governmental   agencies  may  elect  to  participate  in  the
20    advanced training for permanent and part-time police officers
21    and    permanent    county    corrections    officers     but
22    nonparticipation  in this program shall not in any way affect
23    the  mandatory  responsibility  of  governmental   units   to
24    participate  in  the  basic  recruit  training  programs  for
25    probationary  full-time  and  part-time  police and permanent
26    county corrections officers.  The failure of any permanent or
27    part-time police  officer  or  permanent  county  corrections
28    officer  to successfully complete any course authorized under
29    this Section shall not  affect  the  officer's  status  as  a
30    member of the police department or county sheriff's office of
31    any local governmental agency.
 
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 1        The  Board may initiate, administer, and conduct training
 2    programs  for  clerks  of  circuit  courts.   Those  training
 3    programs, at the Board's  discretion,  may  be  the  same  or
 4    variations of training programs for law enforcement officers.
 5        The  Board  shall  initiate,  administer,  and  conduct a
 6    training program  regarding  the  set  up  and  operation  of
 7    portable  scales  for  all  police  officers and technicians,
 8    including State, county, and municipal employees, who set  up
 9    and  operate  portable  scales.   This  training program must
10    include classroom and field training.
11    (Source: P.A. 89-170,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-670,  eff.  8-14-96;
12    90-271, eff. 7-30-97.)

13        Section  5.   The  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is amended by
14    changing Section 15-112 as follows:

15        (625 ILCS 5/15-112) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15-112)
16        Sec. 15-112.  Officers  to  weigh  vehicles  and  require
17    removal of excess loads.
18        (a)  Any police officer having reason to believe that the
19    weight  of  a  vehicle and load is unlawful shall require the
20    driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same either by
21    means of a portable  or  stationary  scales  that  have  been
22    tested and approved at a frequency prescribed by the Illinois
23    Department  of  Agriculture. If such scales are not available
24    at the place  where  such  vehicle  is  stopped,  the  police
25    officer  shall  require  that  such  vehicle be driven to the
26    nearest available scale that has been tested and approved  at
27    a   frequency   prescribed  by  the  Illinois  Department  of
28    Agriculture. Notwithstanding any provisions  of  the  Weights
29    and  Measures Act or the United States Department of Commerce
30    NIST handbook 44,  multi  or  single  draft  weighing  is  an
31    acceptable   method   of  weighing  by  law  enforcement  for
32    determining a violation of Chapter 3 or 15 of this Code.  Law
 
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 1    enforcement  is  exempt  from  the requirements of commercial
 2    weighing established in NIST handbook 44.
 3        Within  18  months  after  the  effective  date  of  this
 4    amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, all officers and
 5    technicians,   including   State,   county,   and   municipal
 6    employees, who set up or operate portable  scales  for  wheel
 7    load  or  axle load or both and issue citations  based on the
 8    use of portable scales for wheel load or axle  load  or  both
 9    and who have not successfully completed initial classroom and
10    field training regarding the set up and operation of portable
11    scales,   shall  attend  and  successfully  complete  initial
12    classroom and field training administered by the Illinois Law
13    Enforcement Training Standards Board.
14        (b)  Whenever an officer, upon weighing a vehicle and the
15    load, determines that the weight is  unlawful,  such  officer
16    shall  require  the  driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable
17    place and remain standing until such portion of the  load  is
18    removed  as  may  be  necessary  to  reduce the weight of the
19    vehicle to the limit permitted under this Chapter, or to  the
20    limit  permitted  under the terms of a permit issued pursuant
21    to Sections 15-301 through 15-318 and shall forthwith  arrest
22    the  driver or owner. All material so unloaded shall be cared
23    for by the owner or operator of the vehicle at  the  risk  of
24    such  owner  or  operator;  however,  whenever  a 3 or 4 axle
25    vehicle with a tandem axle dimension greater than 72  inches,
26    but  less  than 96 inches and registered as a Special Hauling
27    Vehicle is transporting asphalt or concrete  in  the  plastic
28    state that exceeds axle weight or gross weight limits by less
29    than 4,000 pounds, the owner or operator of the vehicle shall
30    accept   the   arrest  ticket  or  tickets  for  the  alleged
31    violations under this Section and proceed without shifting or
32    reducing the load being transported or may  shift  or  reduce
33    the  load  under  the  provisions of subsection (d) or (e) of
34    this Section, when applicable.  Any fine imposed following an
 
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 1    overweight violation by a vehicle  registered  as  a  Special
 2    Hauling  Vehicle  transporting  asphalt  or  concrete  in the
 3    plastic state shall be paid as provided in  subsection  4  of
 4    paragraph (a) of Section 16-105 of this Code.
 5        (c)  The Department of Transportation may, at the request
 6    of   the   Department  of  State  Police,  erect  appropriate
 7    regulatory  signs  on  any  State  highway  directing  second
 8    division  vehicles   to   a   scale.    The   Department   of
 9    Transportation may also, at the direction of any State Police
10    officer,  erect  portable  regulating  signs  on  any highway
11    directing second  division  vehicles  to  a  portable  scale.
12    Every  such vehicle, pursuant to such sign, shall stop and be
13    weighed.
14        (d)  Whenever any axle load of a vehicle exceeds the axle
15    or tandem axle weight limits permitted by  paragraph  (a)  or
16    (f)  of  Section  15-111 by 2000 pounds or less, the owner or
17    operator of the vehicle must shift or remove the excess so as
18    to comply with paragraph (a) or (f)  of  Section  15-111.  No
19    overweight  arrest  ticket  shall  be  issued to the owner or
20    operator of the vehicle by any officer if the gross weight is
21    shifted or removed as required by this paragraph.
22        (e)  Whenever the  gross  weight  of  a  vehicle  with  a
23    registered  gross weight of 73,280 pounds or less exceeds the
24    weight limits of paragraph (b) or (f) of  Section  15-111  of
25    this Chapter by 2000 pounds or less, the owner or operator of
26    the vehicle must remove the excess. Whenever the gross weight
27    of  a vehicle with a registered gross weight of 73,281 pounds
28    or more exceeds the weight limits of paragraph (b) or (f)  of
29    Section  15-111  by  1,000  pounds or less or 2,000 pounds or
30    less if weighed on wheel load weighers, the owner or operator
31    of the vehicle must remove the  excess.  In  either  case  no
32    arrest ticket for any overweight violation of this Code shall
33    be  issued  to  the  owner  or operator of the vehicle by any
34    officer if the excess weight is removed as required  by  this
 
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 1    paragraph.    A  person who has been granted a special permit
 2    under Section 15-301 of this Code  shall  not  be  granted  a
 3    tolerance on wheel load weighers.
 4        (f)  Whenever  an  axle  load  of  a vehicle exceeds axle
 5    weight limits allowed by the provisions of a permit an arrest
 6    ticket shall be issued, but the  owner  or  operator  of  the
 7    vehicle  may  shift  the  load  so  as  to  comply  with  the
 8    provisions  of  the  permit. Where such shifting of a load to
 9    comply with the permit is accomplished, the owner or operator
10    of the vehicle may then proceed.
11        (g)  Any driver of a vehicle  who  refuses  to  stop  and
12    submit  his vehicle and load to weighing after being directed
13    to do so by an officer or removes or causes  the  removal  of
14    the  load  or  part  of  it  prior to weighing is guilty of a
15    business offense and shall be fined not less  than  $500  nor
16    more than $2,000.
17    (Source: P.A. 88-403; 88-476; 88-535.)

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

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