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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 2/9/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2650
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2650 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by |
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| changing Section 11-605.1 as follows:
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| (625 ILCS 5/11-605.1) |
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| Sec. 11-605.1. Special limit while traveling through a |
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| highway construction or maintenance speed zone. |
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| (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle in a |
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| construction or maintenance speed zone at a speed in excess of |
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| the posted speed limit.
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| (b) Nothing in this Chapter prohibits the use of electronic |
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| speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of signs within a |
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| construction or maintenance speed zone indicating the zone, as |
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| defined in this Section, nor shall evidence obtained by use of |
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| those devices be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding, |
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| provided the use of the device shall apply only to the |
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| enforcement of the speed limit in the construction or |
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| maintenance speed zone.
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| (c) As used in this Section, a "construction or maintenance |
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| speed zone" is an area in which the Department, Toll Highway |
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| Authority, or local agency has determined that the preexisting |
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| established speed limit through a highway construction or |
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| maintenance project is greater than is reasonable or safe with |
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| respect to the conditions expected to exist in the construction |
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| or maintenance speed zone and has posted a lower speed limit |
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| with a highway construction or maintenance speed zone special |
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| speed limit sign. |
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| Highway construction or maintenance speed zone special |
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| speed limit signs shall be of a design approved by the |
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| Department. The signs must give proper due warning that a |
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| construction or maintenance speed zone is being approached and |
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| must indicate the maximum speed limit in effect. The signs also |
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| must state the amount of the minimum fine for a violation.
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| (d) A first violation of this Section is a petty offense |
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| with a minimum fine of $250. A second or subsequent violation |
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| of this Section is a petty offense with a minimum fine of $750. |
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| (e) If a fine for a violation of this Section is $250 or |
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| greater, the person who violated this Section shall be charged |
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| an additional $125, which shall be deposited into the |
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| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund in the State |
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| treasury, unless (i) the violation occurred in a county with a |
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| population of more than 1,000,000, (ii) the violation occurred |
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| on a highway other than an interstate highway, and (iii) a |
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| county police officer wrote the ticket for the violation, in |
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| which case the $125 shall be deposited into that county's |
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| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund. In the case of a |
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| second or subsequent violation of this Section, if the fine is |
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| $750 or greater, the person who violated this Section shall be |
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| charged an additional $250, which shall be deposited into the |
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| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund in the State |
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| treasury, unless (i) the violation occurred in a county with a |
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| population of more than 1,000,000, (ii) the violation occurred |
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| on a highway other than an interstate highway, and (iii) a |
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| county police officer wrote the ticket for the violation, in |
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| which case the $250 shall be deposited into that county's |
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| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund.
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| (e-5) In a county with a population of more than 1,000,000, |
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| the Department of State Police and the county's police |
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| department have concurrent jurisdiction over any violation of |
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| this Section that occurs on an interstate highway.
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| (f) The Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund, |
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| which was created by Public Act 92-619, shall continue to be a |
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| special fund in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation by |
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| the General Assembly and approval by the Secretary, the |
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| Secretary of Transportation shall use all moneys in the |
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| Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty |
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| Department of State Police officers to monitor construction or |
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| maintenance zones. |
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| (f-5) Any county with a population of more than 1,000,000 |
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| shall create a Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund. |
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| The county shall use all moneys in its Transportation Safety |
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| Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty county police officers |
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| to monitor construction or maintenance zones in that county on |
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| highways other than interstate highways.
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| (g) For a second or subsequent violation of this Section |
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| within 2 years of the date of the previous violation, the |
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| Secretary of State shall suspend the driver's license of the |
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| violator for a period of 90 days.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-955, eff. 8-19-04.)".
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