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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 (1) (a) the Department concurs in
7writing with the Authority's regulation, (2) and (b)
8appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected at
9such place or along such part or zone of the highway, and (3)
10for a decrease in a speed limit, the Joint Committee on
11Administrative Rules approves the Authority's regulation. The
12Authority shall not issue a regulation to change a maximum
13speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more
14than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than
15the maximum speed limit of that highway. Electronic
16speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet
17beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in
18violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
19inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
20    (b) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this
21amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for
22vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000
23pounds, the effective absolute maximum speed limit on any part
24of a highway under the Authority's jurisdiction shall be: (1)
25except for Interstate Route 294 and the portion of Interstate
26Route 94 that is between Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route

 

 

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141, 70 miles per hour, or the maximum speed limit under
2subsection (a) of this Section or Section 11-601 or this Code,
3whichever is less; and (2) 60 miles per hour or the maximum
4speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section
511-601 of this Code, whichever is less, on Interstate Route 294
6and the portion of Interstate Route 94 that is between
7Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route 41. If Interstate Route 294
8undergoes construction that results in an increase in the
9maximum design speed limit, the effective absolute maximum
10speed limit shall be the design speed limit, or the maximum
11speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section
1211-601 of this Code, whichever is less, within 12 months of the
13design speed limit change. The maximum speed limits under this
14subsection (b) may be altered under subsection (a) of this
15Section. The Authority shall issue regulations to implement
16this subsection (b). With respect to the setting of speed
17limits, nothing in this subsection (b) shall be construed to
18increase liability under existing law.
19(Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21becoming law.