Rep. Peter Breen

Filed: 4/23/2018

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5054

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5054 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

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1determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
2investigation concerning a toll highway under its
3jurisdiction, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section
411-601 of this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or
5safe with respect to conditions found to exist at any place or
6along any part or zone of such highway, the Authority shall
7determine and declare by regulation a reasonable and safe
8absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along such part
9or zone, and the speed limit shall conform with the maximum
10speed limit restrictions provided for in Section 11-601 of this
11Code. A limit so determined and declared becomes effective, and
12suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section
1311-601 of this Chapter, when (1) (a) the Department concurs in
14writing with the Authority's regulation, (2) and (b)
15appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected at
16such place or along such part or zone of the highway, and (3)
17for a decrease in a speed limit, the Joint Committee on
18Administrative Rules approves the Authority's regulation. The
19Authority shall not issue a regulation to change a maximum
20speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more
21than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than
22the maximum speed limit of that highway. Electronic
23speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet
24beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in
25violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
26inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.

 

 

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1    (b) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this
2amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for
3vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000
4pounds, the effective absolute maximum speed limit on any part
5of a highway under the Authority's jurisdiction shall be: (1)
6except for Interstate Route 294 and the portion of Interstate
7Route 94 that is between Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route
841, 70 miles per hour, or the maximum speed limit under
9subsection (a) of this Section or Section 11-601 or this Code,
10whichever is less; and (2) 60 miles per hour or the maximum
11speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section
1211-601 of this Code, whichever is less, on Interstate Route 294
13and the portion of Interstate Route 94 that is between
14Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route 41. If Interstate Route 294
15undergoes construction that results in an increase in the
16maximum design speed limit, the effective absolute maximum
17speed limit shall be the design speed limit, or the maximum
18speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section
1911-601 of this Code, whichever is less, within 12 months of the
20design speed limit change. The maximum speed limits under this
21subsection (b) may be altered under subsection (a) of this
22Section. The Authority shall issue regulations to implement
23this subsection (b). With respect to the setting of speed
24limits, nothing in this subsection (b) shall be construed to
25increase liability under existing law.
26(Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2becoming law.".