100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5255

 

Introduced , by Rep. Dan Brady

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
625 ILCS 5/11-604  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604

    Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that municipalities with a population of less than 20,000 are exempt from requiring an engineering study to be conducted to reduce the maximum speed limit at any place or along any part or zone of a county highway whenever the county board determines that the reduction in the maximum speed limit is reasonable and safe.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
5Section 11-604 as follows:
 
6    (625 ILCS 5/11-604)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-604)
7    Sec. 11-604. Alteration of limits by local authorities.
8    (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in this Section,
9the county board of a county may establish absolute maximum
10speed limits on all county highways, township roads and
11district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway Code, except
12those under the jurisdiction of the Department or of the
13Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as described in Sections
1411-602 and 11-603 of this Chapter; and any park district, city,
15village, or incorporated town may establish absolute maximum
16speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate
17limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the
18Department or of such Authority, and for which the county or a
19highway commissioner of such county does not have maintenance
20responsibility.
21    (b) Whenever any such park district, city, village, or
22incorporated town determines, upon the basis of an engineering
23or traffic investigation concerning a highway or street on

 

 

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1which it is authorized by this Section to establish speed
2limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 11-601
3of this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe
4with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place or
5along any part or zone of such highway or street, the local
6authority or park district shall determine and declare by
7ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed limit at
8such place or along such part or zone, which:
9        (1) Decreases the limit within an urban district, but
10    not to less than 20 miles per hour; or
11        (2) Increases the limit within an urban district, but
12    not to more than 55 miles per hour; or
13        (3) Decreases the limit outside of an urban district,
14    but not to less than 35 miles per hour, except as otherwise
15    provided in subparagraph 4 of this paragraph; or
16        (4) Decreases the limit within a residence district,
17    but not to less than 25 miles per hour, except as otherwise
18    provided in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph.
19    The park district, city, village, or incorporated town may
20make such limit applicable at all times or only during certain
21specified times. Not more than 6 such alterations shall be made
22per mile along a highway or street; and the difference in limit
23between adjacent altered speed zones shall not be more than 10
24miles per hour.
25    A limit so determined and declared by a park district,
26city, village, or incorporated town becomes effective, and

 

 

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1suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section
211-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice of
3the limit are erected at the proper place or along the proper
4part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic
5speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500 feet
6beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in
7violation of this Section evidence obtained thereby shall be
8inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding. However, nothing
9in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
10speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a
11special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to
12the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall
13evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution
14for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
15to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school
16speed zone.
17    (c) A county engineer or superintendent of highways may
18submit to the Department for approval, a county policy for
19establishing altered speed zones on township and county
20highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
21    (d) Whenever the county board of a county determines that a
22maximum speed limit is greater or less than is reasonable or
23safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place
24or along any part or zone of the highway or road, the county
25board shall determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and
26safe absolute maximum speed limit at that place or along that

 

 

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1part or zone. However, the maximum speed limit shall not exceed
255 miles per hour. Except for municipalities with a population
3of less than 20,000, upon Upon receipt of an engineering study
4for the part or zone of highway in question from the county
5engineer, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
6county board of a county may determine and declare by ordinance
7a reduction in the maximum speed limit at any place or along
8any part or zone of a county highway whenever the county board,
9in its sole discretion, determines that the reduction in the
10maximum speed limit is reasonable and safe. The county board
11may post signs designating the new speed limit. The limit
12becomes effective, and suspends the application of the limit
13prescribed in Section 11-601 of this Chapter, when appropriate
14signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper
15place or along the proper part of the zone of the highway.
16Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500
17feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so
18used in violation of this Section, evidence obtained thereby
19shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding. However,
20nothing in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
21speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a sign within a
22special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to
23the requirements of Section 11-605 of this Act, nor shall
24evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution
25for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
26to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school

 

 

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1speed zone.
2(Source: P.A. 95-574, eff. 6-1-08; 95-788, eff. 8-7-08.)