Rep. Marlow H. Colvin

Filed: 5/29/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4354

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4354, AS AMENDED, by
3 replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
 
5     "Section 5. The Toll Bridge Act is amended by changing
6 Section 13 as follows:
 
7     (605 ILCS 115/13)  (from Ch. 137, par. 13)
8     Sec. 13. (a) Any person who intentionally breaks any
9 mechanical or electronic toll collection device of a toll
10 bridge operator or any appurtenance thereto is guilty of a
11 Class 4 felony.
12     (b) Any person who operates a vehicle through a toll gate
13 or other area of a toll bridge where a toll or charge is due
14 without paying the amount due shall be guilty of a petty
15 offense with a maximum penalty not to exceed $500. Whenever a
16 vehicle is used in violation of this subsection (b), both the

 

 

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1 driver and the registered owner of the vehicle shall be jointly
2 and severally liable to the operator for the toll.
3     (c) An operator may use photographic and technological
4 devices to aid in the collection of tolls and enforcement of
5 toll violations. An operator may contract with a county or
6 municipality to provide assistance in the implementation of an
7 automated toll violation enforcement system as described in
8 Section 11-208.7 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
9     (d) An operator may assess administrative fees and costs
10 not to exceed a total of $200 against the registered owner of a
11 vehicle that is used in a violation of subsection (b),
12 regardless of whether the driver of the vehicle has been
13 convicted of that offense, whenever the owner fails to pay a
14 toll in a timely manner after receiving notice that the toll is
15 owed.
16     (e) As used in this Section:
17     "Toll bridge" includes any toll bridge constructed under
18 this Act, under Section 11-108-1 of the Illinois Municipal
19 Code, or under any other law.
20     "Operator" means any entity, public or private, authorized
21 to collect tolls on a toll bridge.
22 Every person who shall willfully break, throw, draw or injure
23 any gate erected on any toll bridge, or shall forcibly or
24 fraudulently pass over any such bridge without having first
25 paid or tendered the legal toll, shall be deemed guilty of a
26 petty offense, and upon conviction shall be fined, in addition

 

 

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1 to the damage resulting from such wrongful act, in any sum not
2 exceeding ten dollars.
3 (Source: P.A. 89-657, eff. 8-14-96)
 
4     Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Sections 6-306.5, 11-208, and 11-208.3 and by adding
6 Sections 1-105.1 and 11-208.7 as follows:
 
7     (625 ILCS 5/1-105.1 new)
8     Sec. 1-105.1. Automated toll violation. A violation
9 described in Section 11-208.7 of this Code.
 
10     (625 ILCS 5/6-306.5)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-306.5)
11     Sec. 6-306.5. Failure to pay fine or penalty for standing,
12 parking, compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
13 violations; suspension of driving privileges.
14     (a) Upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by
15 subsection (c) of this Section, from any municipality stating
16 that the owner of a registered vehicle has: (1) failed to pay
17 any fine or penalty due and owing as a result of 10 or more
18 violations of a municipality's vehicular standing, parking, or
19 compliance regulations established by ordinance pursuant to
20 Section 11-208.3 of this Code, or (2) failed to pay any fine or
21 penalty due and owing as a result of 5 offenses for automated
22 traffic violations as defined in Section 11-208.6 or automated
23 toll violations as defined in Section 11-208.7 or any

 

 

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1 combination thereof, the Secretary of State shall suspend the
2 driving privileges of such person in accordance with the
3 procedures set forth in this Section. The Secretary shall also
4 suspend the driving privileges of an owner of a registered
5 vehicle upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by
6 subsection (f) of this Section, from any municipality stating
7 that such person has failed to satisfy any fines or penalties
8 imposed by final judgments for 5 or more automated traffic law
9 violations or automated toll violations or 10 or more
10 violations of local standing, parking, or compliance
11 regulations after exhaustion of judicial review procedures.
12     (b) Following receipt of the certified report of the
13 municipality as specified in this Section, the Secretary of
14 State shall notify the person whose name appears on the
15 certified report that the person's drivers license will be
16 suspended at the end of a specified period of time unless the
17 Secretary of State is presented with a notice from the
18 municipality certifying that the fine or penalty due and owing
19 the municipality has been paid or that inclusion of that
20 person's name on the certified report was in error. The
21 Secretary's notice shall state in substance the information
22 contained in the municipality's certified report to the
23 Secretary, and shall be effective as specified by subsection
24 (c) of Section 6-211 of this Code.
25     (c) The report of the appropriate municipal official
26 notifying the Secretary of State of unpaid fines or penalties

 

 

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1 pursuant to this Section shall be certified and shall contain
2 the following:
3         (1) The name, last known address as recorded with the
4     Secretary of State, as provided by the lessor of the cited
5     vehicle at the time of lease, or as recorded in a United
6     States Post Office approved database if any notice sent
7     under Section 11-208.3 of this Code is returned as
8     undeliverable, and drivers license number of the person who
9     failed to pay the fine or penalty and the registration
10     number of any vehicle known to be registered to such person
11     in this State.
12         (2) The name of the municipality making the report
13     pursuant to this Section.
14         (3) A statement that the municipality sent a notice of
15     impending drivers license suspension as prescribed by
16     ordinance enacted pursuant to Section 11-208.3, to the
17     person named in the report at the address recorded with the
18     Secretary of State or at the last address known to the
19     lessor of the cited vehicle at the time of lease or, if any
20     notice sent under Section 11-208.3 of this Code is returned
21     as undeliverable, at the last known address recorded in a
22     United States Post Office approved database; the date on
23     which such notice was sent; and the address to which such
24     notice was sent. In a municipality with a population of
25     1,000,000 or more, the report shall also include a
26     statement that the alleged violator's State vehicle

 

 

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1     registration number and vehicle make, if specified on the
2     automated traffic law or automated toll violation notice,
3     are correct as they appear on the citations.
4     (d) Any municipality making a certified report to the
5 Secretary of State pursuant to this Section shall notify the
6 Secretary of State, in a form prescribed by the Secretary,
7 whenever a person named in the certified report has paid the
8 previously reported fine or penalty or whenever the
9 municipality determines that the original report was in error.
10 A certified copy of such notification shall also be given upon
11 request and at no additional charge to the person named
12 therein. Upon receipt of the municipality's notification or
13 presentation of a certified copy of such notification, the
14 Secretary of State shall terminate the suspension.
15     (e) Any municipality making a certified report to the
16 Secretary of State pursuant to this Section shall also by
17 ordinance establish procedures for persons to challenge the
18 accuracy of the certified report. The ordinance shall also
19 state the grounds for such a challenge, which may be limited to
20 (1) the person not having been the owner or lessee of the
21 vehicle or vehicles receiving 10 or more standing, parking, or
22 compliance violation notices or 5 or more automated traffic law
23 or automated toll violations on the date or dates such notices
24 were issued; and (2) the person having already paid the fine or
25 penalty for the 10 or more standing, parking, or compliance
26 violations or 5 or more automated traffic law or automated toll

 

 

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1 violations indicated on the certified report.
2     (f) Any municipality, other than a municipality
3 establishing vehicular standing, parking, and compliance
4 regulations pursuant to Section 11-208.3 or automated traffic
5 law regulations under Section 11-208.6 or automated toll
6 violations under Section 11-208.7, may also cause a suspension
7 of a person's drivers license pursuant to this Section. Such
8 municipality may invoke this sanction by making a certified
9 report to the Secretary of State upon a person's failure to
10 satisfy any fine or penalty imposed by final judgment for 10 or
11 more violations of local standing, parking, or compliance
12 regulations or 5 or more automated traffic law violations or
13 automated toll violations after exhaustion of judicial review
14 procedures, but only if:
15         (1) the municipality complies with the provisions of
16     this Section in all respects except in regard to enacting
17     an ordinance pursuant to Section 11-208.3;
18         (2) the municipality has sent a notice of impending
19     drivers license suspension as prescribed by an ordinance
20     enacted pursuant to subsection (g) of this Section; and
21         (3) in municipalities with a population of 1,000,000 or
22     more, the municipality has verified that the alleged
23     violator's State vehicle registration number and vehicle
24     make are correct as they appear on the citations.
25     (g) Any municipality, other than a municipality
26 establishing standing, parking, and compliance regulations

 

 

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1 pursuant to Section 11-208.3 or automated traffic law
2 regulations under Section 11-208.6 or automated toll
3 regulations under Section 11-208.7, may provide by ordinance
4 for the sending of a notice of impending drivers license
5 suspension to the person who has failed to satisfy any fine or
6 penalty imposed by final judgment for 10 or more violations of
7 local standing, parking, or compliance regulations or 5 or more
8 automated traffic law violations or automated toll violations
9 or a combination thereof after exhaustion of judicial review
10 procedures. An ordinance so providing shall specify that the
11 notice sent to the person liable for any fine or penalty shall
12 state that failure to pay the fine or penalty owing within 45
13 days of the notice's date will result in the municipality
14 notifying the Secretary of State that the person's drivers
15 license is eligible for suspension pursuant to this Section.
16 The notice of impending drivers license suspension shall be
17 sent by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the
18 address recorded with the Secretary of State or at the last
19 address known to the lessor of the cited vehicle at the time of
20 lease or, if any notice sent under Section 11-208.3 of this
21 Code is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address
22 recorded in a United States Post Office approved database.
23     (h) An administrative hearing to contest an impending
24 suspension or a suspension made pursuant to this Section may be
25 had upon filing a written request with the Secretary of State.
26 The filing fee for this hearing shall be $20, to be paid at the

 

 

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1 time the request is made. A municipality which files a
2 certified report with the Secretary of State pursuant to this
3 Section shall reimburse the Secretary for all reasonable costs
4 incurred by the Secretary as a result of the filing of the
5 report, including but not limited to the costs of providing the
6 notice required pursuant to subsection (b) and the costs
7 incurred by the Secretary in any hearing conducted with respect
8 to the report pursuant to this subsection and any appeal from
9 such a hearing.
10     (i) The provisions of this Section shall apply on and after
11 January 1, 1988.
12     (j) For purposes of this Section, the term "compliance
13 violation" is defined as in Section 11-208.3.
14 (Source: P.A. 94-294, eff. 1-1-06; 94-795, eff. 5-22-06.)
 
15     (625 ILCS 5/11-208)   (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-208)
16     Sec. 11-208. Powers of local authorities.
17     (a) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
18 prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways
19 under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of
20 the police power from:
21         1. Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles,
22     except as limited by Section 11-1306 of this Act;
23         2. Regulating traffic by means of police officers or
24     traffic control signals;
25         3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or

 

 

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1     assemblages on the highways;
2         4. Designating particular highways as one-way highways
3     and requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one
4     specific direction;
5         5. Regulating the speed of vehicles in public parks
6     subject to the limitations set forth in Section 11-604;
7         6. Designating any highway as a through highway, as
8     authorized in Section 11-302, and requiring that all
9     vehicles stop before entering or crossing the same or
10     designating any intersection as a stop intersection or a
11     yield right-of-way intersection and requiring all vehicles
12     to stop or yield the right-of-way at one or more entrances
13     to such intersections;
14         7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in
15     Chapter 15;
16         8. Regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring
17     the registration and licensing of same, including the
18     requirement of a registration fee;
19         9. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or
20     specified types of vehicles at intersections;
21         10. Altering the speed limits as authorized in Section
22     11-604;
23         11. Prohibiting U-turns;
24         12. Prohibiting pedestrian crossings at other than
25     designated and marked crosswalks or at intersections;
26         13. Prohibiting parking during snow removal operation;

 

 

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1         14. Imposing fines in accordance with Section
2     11-1301.3 as penalties for use of any parking place
3     reserved for persons with disabilities, as defined by
4     Section 1-159.1, or disabled veterans by any person using a
5     motor vehicle not bearing registration plates specified in
6     Section 11-1301.1 or a special decal or device as defined
7     in Section 11-1301.2 as evidence that the vehicle is
8     operated by or for a person with disabilities or disabled
9     veteran;
10         15. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are
11     specifically authorized by this Code; or
12         16. Enforcing the provisions of subsection (f) of
13     Section 3-413 of this Code or a similar local ordinance.
14     (b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under subsections 1,
15 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 or 13 of paragraph (a) shall be effective
16 until signs giving reasonable notice of such local traffic
17 regulations are posted.
18     (c) The provisions of this Code shall not prevent any
19 municipality having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants
20 from prohibiting any person from driving or operating any motor
21 vehicle upon the roadways of such municipality with headlamps
22 on high beam or bright.
23     (d) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to
24 prevent local authorities within the reasonable exercise of
25 their police power from prohibiting, on private property, the
26 unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with

 

 

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1 disabilities.
2     (e) No unit of local government, including a home rule
3 unit, may enact or enforce an ordinance that applies only to
4 motorcycles if the principal purpose for that ordinance is to
5 restrict the access of motorcycles to any highway or portion of
6 a highway for which federal or State funds have been used for
7 the planning, design, construction, or maintenance of that
8 highway. No unit of local government, including a home rule
9 unit, may enact an ordinance requiring motorcycle users to wear
10 protective headgear. Nothing in this subsection (e) shall
11 affect the authority of a unit of local government to regulate
12 motorcycles for traffic control purposes or in accordance with
13 Section 12-602 of this Code. No unit of local government,
14 including a home rule unit, may regulate motorcycles in a
15 manner inconsistent with this Code. This subsection (e) is a
16 limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
17 the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
18 rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
19     (f) A municipality or county designated in Section 11-208.6
20 may enact an ordinance providing for an automated traffic law
21 enforcement system to enforce violations of this Code or a
22 similar provision of a local ordinance and imposing liability
23 on a registered owner of a vehicle used in such a violation.
24     (g) A municipality or county may enact an ordinance
25 providing for an automated toll enforcement system to enforce
26 violations of the Toll Bridge Act or a similar provision of a

 

 

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1 local ordinance and imposing liability on a registered owner of
2 a vehicle used in such a violation.
3 (Source: P.A. 94-795, eff. 5-22-06.)
 
4     (625 ILCS 5/11-208.3)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-208.3)
5     Sec. 11-208.3. Administrative adjudication of violations
6 of traffic regulations concerning the standing, parking, or
7 condition of vehicles and automated traffic law and automated
8 toll violations.
9     (a) Any municipality may provide by ordinance for a system
10 of administrative adjudication of vehicular standing and
11 parking violations and vehicle compliance violations as
12 defined in this subsection and automated traffic law violations
13 as defined in Section 11-208.6 and automated toll violations as
14 defined in Section 11-208.7. The administrative system shall
15 have as its purpose the fair and efficient enforcement of
16 municipal regulations through the administrative adjudication
17 of automated traffic law or automated toll violations and
18 violations of municipal ordinances regulating the standing and
19 parking of vehicles, the condition and use of vehicle
20 equipment, and the display of municipal wheel tax licenses
21 within the municipality's borders. The administrative system
22 shall only have authority to adjudicate civil offenses carrying
23 fines not in excess of $250 that occur after the effective date
24 of the ordinance adopting such a system under this Section. For
25 purposes of this Section, "compliance violation" means a

 

 

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1 violation of a municipal regulation governing the condition or
2 use of equipment on a vehicle or governing the display of a
3 municipal wheel tax license.
4     (b) Any ordinance establishing a system of administrative
5 adjudication under this Section shall provide for:
6         (1) A traffic compliance administrator authorized to
7     adopt, distribute and process parking, compliance, and
8     automated traffic law or automated toll violation notices
9     and other notices required by this Section, collect money
10     paid as fines and penalties for violation of parking and
11     compliance ordinances and automated traffic law or
12     automated toll violations, and operate an administrative
13     adjudication system. The traffic compliance administrator
14     also may make a certified report to the Secretary of State
15     under Section 6-306.5.
16         (2) A parking, standing, compliance, or automated
17     traffic law or automated toll violation notice that shall
18     specify the date, time, and place of violation of a
19     parking, standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
20     automated toll regulation; the particular regulation
21     violated; the fine and any penalty that may be assessed for
22     late payment, when so provided by ordinance; the vehicle
23     make and state registration number; and the identification
24     number of the person issuing the notice. With regard to
25     automated traffic law or automated toll violations,
26     vehicle make shall be specified on the automated traffic

 

 

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1     law or automated toll violation notice if the make is
2     available and readily discernible. With regard to
3     municipalities with a population of 1 million or more, it
4     shall be grounds for dismissal of a parking violation if
5     the state registration number or vehicle make specified is
6     incorrect. The violation notice shall state that the
7     payment of the indicated fine, and of any applicable
8     penalty for late payment, shall operate as a final
9     disposition of the violation. The notice also shall contain
10     information as to the availability of a hearing in which
11     the violation may be contested on its merits. The violation
12     notice shall specify the time and manner in which a hearing
13     may be had.
14         (3) Service of the parking, standing, or compliance
15     violation notice by affixing the original or a facsimile of
16     the notice to an unlawfully parked vehicle or by handing
17     the notice to the operator of a vehicle if he or she is
18     present and service of an automated traffic law or
19     automated toll violation notice by mail to the address of
20     the registered owner of the cited vehicle as recorded with
21     the Secretary of State within 30 days after the Secretary
22     of State notifies the municipality or county of the
23     identity of the owner of the vehicle, but in no event later
24     than 90 days after the violation. A person authorized by
25     ordinance to issue and serve parking, standing, and
26     compliance violation notices shall certify as to the

 

 

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1     correctness of the facts entered on the violation notice by
2     signing his or her name to the notice at the time of
3     service or in the case of a notice produced by a
4     computerized device, by signing a single certificate to be
5     kept by the traffic compliance administrator attesting to
6     the correctness of all notices produced by the device while
7     it was under his or her control. In the case of an
8     automated traffic law violation, the ordinance shall
9     require a determination by a technician employed or
10     contracted by the municipality or county that, based on
11     inspection of recorded images, the motor vehicle was being
12     operated in violation of Section 11-208.6 or a local
13     ordinance. If the technician determines that the vehicle
14     entered the intersection as part of a funeral procession or
15     in order to yield the right-of-way to an emergency vehicle,
16     a citation shall not be issued. In the case of an automated
17     toll violation, the ordinance shall require a
18     determination by a technician employed or contracted by the
19     municipality or county or entity having a contract with the
20     municipality or county that, based on inspection of
21     recorded images, the motor vehicle was being operated in
22     violation of subsection (b) of Section 13 of the Toll
23     Bridge Act or a local ordinance. The original or a
24     facsimile of the violation notice or, in the case of a
25     notice produced by a computerized device, a printed record
26     generated by the device showing the facts entered on the

 

 

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1     notice, shall be retained by the traffic compliance
2     administrator, and shall be a record kept in the ordinary
3     course of business. A parking, standing, compliance, or
4     automated traffic law or automated toll violation notice
5     issued, signed and served in accordance with this Section,
6     a copy of the notice, or the computer generated record
7     shall be prima facie correct and shall be prima facie
8     evidence of the correctness of the facts shown on the
9     notice. The notice, copy, or computer generated record
10     shall be admissible in any subsequent administrative or
11     legal proceedings.
12         (4) An opportunity for a hearing for the registered
13     owner of the vehicle cited in the parking, standing,
14     compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
15     violation notice in which the owner may contest the merits
16     of the alleged violation, and during which formal or
17     technical rules of evidence shall not apply; provided,
18     however, that under Section 11-1306 of this Code the lessee
19     of a vehicle cited in the violation notice likewise shall
20     be provided an opportunity for a hearing of the same kind
21     afforded the registered owner. The hearings shall be
22     recorded, and the person conducting the hearing on behalf
23     of the traffic compliance administrator shall be empowered
24     to administer oaths and to secure by subpoena both the
25     attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of
26     relevant books and papers. Persons appearing at a hearing

 

 

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1     under this Section may be represented by counsel at their
2     expense. The ordinance may also provide for internal
3     administrative review following the decision of the
4     hearing officer.
5         (5) Service of additional notices, sent by first class
6     United States mail, postage prepaid, to the address of the
7     registered owner of the cited vehicle as recorded with the
8     Secretary of State or, if any notice to that address is
9     returned as undeliverable, to the last known address
10     recorded in a United States Post Office approved database,
11     or, under Section 11-1306 of this Code, to the lessee of
12     the cited vehicle at the last address known to the lessor
13     of the cited vehicle at the time of lease or, if any notice
14     to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last
15     known address recorded in a United States Post Office
16     approved database. The service shall be deemed complete as
17     of the date of deposit in the United States mail. The
18     notices shall be in the following sequence and shall
19     include but not be limited to the information specified
20     herein:
21             (i) A second notice of parking, standing, or
22         compliance violation. This notice shall specify the
23         date and location of the violation cited in the
24         parking, standing, or compliance violation notice, the
25         particular regulation violated, the vehicle make and
26         state registration number, the fine and any penalty

 

 

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1         that may be assessed for late payment when so provided
2         by ordinance, the availability of a hearing in which
3         the violation may be contested on its merits, and the
4         time and manner in which the hearing may be had. The
5         notice of violation shall also state that failure
6         either to pay the indicated fine and any applicable
7         penalty, or to appear at a hearing on the merits in the
8         time and manner specified, will result in a final
9         determination of violation liability for the cited
10         violation in the amount of the fine or penalty
11         indicated, and that, upon the occurrence of a final
12         determination of violation liability for the failure,
13         and the exhaustion of, or failure to exhaust, available
14         administrative or judicial procedures for review, any
15         unpaid fine or penalty will constitute a debt due and
16         owing the municipality.
17             (ii) A notice of final determination of parking,
18         standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
19         automated toll violation liability. This notice shall
20         be sent following a final determination of parking,
21         standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
22         automated toll violation liability and the conclusion
23         of judicial review procedures taken under this
24         Section. The notice shall state that the unpaid fine or
25         penalty is a debt due and owing the municipality. The
26         notice shall contain warnings that failure to pay any

 

 

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1         fine or penalty due and owing the municipality within
2         the time specified may result in the municipality's
3         filing of a petition in the Circuit Court to have the
4         unpaid fine or penalty rendered a judgment as provided
5         by this Section, or may result in suspension of the
6         person's drivers license for failure to pay fines or
7         penalties for 10 or more parking violations under
8         Section 6-306.5 or 5 or more automated traffic law
9         violations under Section 11-208.6 or 5 or more
10         automated toll violations under Section 11-208.7.
11         (6) A Notice of impending drivers license suspension.
12     This notice shall be sent to the person liable for any fine
13     or penalty that remains due and owing on 10 or more parking
14     violations or 5 or more unpaid automated traffic law
15     violations or automated toll violations. The notice shall
16     state that failure to pay the fine or penalty owing within
17     45 days of the notice's date will result in the
18     municipality notifying the Secretary of State that the
19     person is eligible for initiation of suspension
20     proceedings under Section 6-306.5 of this Code. The notice
21     shall also state that the person may obtain a photostatic
22     copy of an original ticket imposing a fine or penalty by
23     sending a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
24     municipality along with a request for the photostatic copy.
25     The notice of impending drivers license suspension shall be
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1     the address recorded with the Secretary of State or, if any
2     notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the
3     last known address recorded in a United States Post Office
4     approved database.
5         (7) Final determinations of violation liability. A
6     final determination of violation liability shall occur
7     following failure to pay the fine or penalty after a
8     hearing officer's determination of violation liability and
9     the exhaustion of or failure to exhaust any administrative
10     review procedures provided by ordinance. Where a person
11     fails to appear at a hearing to contest the alleged
12     violation in the time and manner specified in a prior
13     mailed notice, the hearing officer's determination of
14     violation liability shall become final: (A) upon denial of
15     a timely petition to set aside that determination, or (B)
16     upon expiration of the period for filing the petition
17     without a filing having been made.
18         (8) A petition to set aside a determination of parking,
19     standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
20     automated toll violation liability that may be filed by a
21     person owing an unpaid fine or penalty. The petition shall
22     be filed with and ruled upon by the traffic compliance
23     administrator in the manner and within the time specified
24     by ordinance. The grounds for the petition may be limited
25     to: (A) the person not having been the owner or lessee of
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1     issued, (B) the person having already paid the fine or
2     penalty for the violation in question, and (C) excusable
3     failure to appear at or request a new date for a hearing.
4     With regard to municipalities with a population of 1
5     million or more, it shall be grounds for dismissal of a
6     parking violation if the state registration number, or
7     vehicle make if specified, is incorrect. After the
8     determination of parking, standing, compliance, or
9     automated traffic law or automated toll violation
10     liability has been set aside upon a showing of just cause,
11     the registered owner shall be provided with a hearing on
12     the merits for that violation.
13         (9) Procedures for non-residents. Procedures by which
14     persons who are not residents of the municipality may
15     contest the merits of the alleged violation without
16     attending a hearing.
17         (10) A schedule of civil fines for violations of
18     vehicular standing, parking, compliance, or automated
19     traffic law or automated toll regulations enacted by
20     ordinance pursuant to this Section, and a schedule of
21     penalties for late payment of the fines, provided, however,
22     that the total amount of the fine and penalty for any one
23     violation shall not exceed $250, except as provided in
24     subsection (c) of Section 11-1301.3 of this Code.
25         (11) Other provisions as are necessary and proper to
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1     this Section.
2     (c) Any municipality establishing vehicular standing,
3 parking, compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
4 regulations under this Section may also provide by ordinance
5 for a program of vehicle immobilization for the purpose of
6 facilitating enforcement of those regulations. The program of
7 vehicle immobilization shall provide for immobilizing any
8 eligible vehicle upon the public way by presence of a restraint
9 in a manner to prevent operation of the vehicle. Any ordinance
10 establishing a program of vehicle immobilization under this
11 Section shall provide:
12         (1) Criteria for the designation of vehicles eligible
13     for immobilization. A vehicle shall be eligible for
14     immobilization when the registered owner of the vehicle has
15     accumulated the number of unpaid final determinations of
16     parking, standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
17     automated toll violation liability as determined by
18     ordinance.
19         (2) A notice of impending vehicle immobilization and a
20     right to a hearing to challenge the validity of the notice
21     by disproving liability for the unpaid final
22     determinations of parking, standing, compliance, or
23     automated traffic law or automated toll violation
24     liability listed on the notice.
25         (3) The right to a prompt hearing after a vehicle has
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1     the outstanding fines and penalties on parking, standing,
2     compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
3     violations for which final determinations have been
4     issued. An order issued after the hearing is a final
5     administrative decision within the meaning of Section
6     3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
7         (4) A post immobilization and post-towing notice
8     advising the registered owner of the vehicle of the right
9     to a hearing to challenge the validity of the impoundment.
10     (d) Judicial review of final determinations of parking,
11 standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or automated
12 toll violations and final administrative decisions issued
13 after hearings regarding vehicle immobilization and
14 impoundment made under this Section shall be subject to the
15 provisions of the Administrative Review Law.
16     (e) Any fine, penalty, or part of any fine or any penalty
17 remaining unpaid after the exhaustion of, or the failure to
18 exhaust, administrative remedies created under this Section
19 and the conclusion of any judicial review procedures shall be a
20 debt due and owing the municipality and, as such, may be
21 collected in accordance with applicable law. Payment in full of
22 any fine or penalty resulting from a standing, parking,
23 compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
24 violation shall constitute a final disposition of that
25 violation.
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1 judicial review may be sought for a final determination of
2 parking, standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or
3 automated toll violation, the municipality may commence a
4 proceeding in the Circuit Court for purposes of obtaining a
5 judgment on the final determination of violation. Nothing in
6 this Section shall prevent a municipality from consolidating
7 multiple final determinations of parking, standing,
8 compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
9 violations against a person in a proceeding. Upon commencement
10 of the action, the municipality shall file a certified copy or
11 record of the final determination of parking, standing,
12 compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
13 violation, which shall be accompanied by a certification that
14 recites facts sufficient to show that the final determination
15 of violation was issued in accordance with this Section and the
16 applicable municipal ordinance. Service of the summons and a
17 copy of the petition may be by any method provided by Section
18 2-203 of the Code of Civil Procedure or by certified mail,
19 return receipt requested, provided that the total amount of
20 fines and penalties for final determinations of parking,
21 standing, compliance, or automated traffic law or automated
22 toll violations does not exceed $2500. If the court is
23 satisfied that the final determination of parking, standing,
24 compliance, or automated traffic law or automated toll
25 violation was entered in accordance with the requirements of
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1 the registered owner or the lessee, as the case may be, had an
2 opportunity for an administrative hearing and for judicial
3 review as provided in this Section, the court shall render
4 judgment in favor of the municipality and against the
5 registered owner or the lessee for the amount indicated in the
6 final determination of parking, standing, compliance, or
7 automated traffic law or automated toll violation, plus costs.
8 The judgment shall have the same effect and may be enforced in
9 the same manner as other judgments for the recovery of money.
10 (Source: P.A. 94-294, eff. 1-1-06; 94-795, eff. 5-22-06;
11 94-930, eff. 6-26-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
 
12     (625 ILCS 5/11-208.7 new)
13     Sec. 11-208.7. Automated toll violation enforcement
14 system.
15     (a) As used in this Section, "automated toll violation
16 enforcement system" means a device with one or more motor
17 vehicle sensors working in conjunction with a toll collection
18 device to produce recorded images of motor vehicles violating
19 subsection (b) of Section 13 of the Toll Bridge Act or a
20 similar provision of a local ordinance. An automated toll
21 violation enforcement system is a system, in a municipality or
22 county operated by a governmental agency with or without the
23 assistance of a private entity, that produces a recorded image
24 of a motor vehicle's violation of law or a local ordinance and
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1 the vehicle's license plate. The recorded image must also
2 display the time, date, and location of the violation.
3     (b) As used in this Section, "recorded images" means images
4 recorded by an automated toll violation enforcement system on:
5         (1) one or more photographs;
6         (2) one or more microphotographs;
7         (3) one or more electronic images; or
8         (4) a video recording showing the motor vehicle and, on
9     at least one image or portion of the recording, clearly
10     identifying the registration plate number of the motor
11     vehicle.
12     (c) A county or municipality, including a home rule county
13 or municipality, may not use an automated toll violation
14 enforcement system to provide recorded images of a motor
15 vehicle for the purpose of recording its speed for the purpose
16 of enforcing any law or ordinance regarding a maximum or
17 minimum speed limit. The regulation of the use of automated
18 toll violation enforcement systems to record vehicle speeds is
19 an exclusive power and function of the State. This subsection
20 (c) is a denial and limitation of home rule powers and
21 functions under subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of
22 the Illinois Constitution.
23     (d) For each violation of a provision of the Toll Bridge
24 Act or a local ordinance recorded by an automatic toll
25 violation enforcement system, the county or municipality
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1 violation to the registered owner of the vehicle. The notice
2 shall be delivered to the registered owner of the vehicle, by
3 mail, within 30 days after the municipality or county is
4 notified of the identity of the owner of the vehicle, but in no
5 event later than 90 days after the violation. The notice shall
6 include:
7         (1) the name and address of the registered owner of the
8     vehicle;
9         (2) the registration number of the motor vehicle
10     involved in the violation;
11         (3) the violation charged;
12         (4) the location where the violation occurred;
13         (5) the date and time of the violation;
14         (6) a copy of the recorded images;
15         (7) the amount of the civil penalty imposed and the
16     date by which the civil penalty should be paid;
17         (8) a statement that recorded images are evidence of a
18     toll violation;
19         (9) a warning that failure to pay the civil penalty or
20     to contest liability in a timely manner is an admission of
21     liability and may result in a suspension of the driving
22     privileges of the registered owner of the vehicle; and
23         (10) a statement that the person may elect to proceed
24     by:
25             (A) paying the fine and the toll; or
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1         administrative hearing.
2     (e) The Secretary of State shall suspend the driving
3 privileges of the registered owner of the vehicle under Section
4 6-306.5 of this Code for failing to pay any fine or penalty due
5 and owing as a result of 5 violations of the automated traffic
6 law enforcement system or the automated toll violation
7 enforcement system or any combination thereof.
8     (f) Based on inspection of recorded images produced by an
9 automated toll violation enforcement system, a notice alleging
10 that the violation occurred shall be evidence of the facts
11 contained in the notice and admissible in any proceeding
12 alleging a violation under this Section.
13     (g) Recorded images made by an automatic toll violation
14 enforcement system are confidential and shall be made available
15 only to the alleged violator and governmental and law
16 enforcement agencies for purposes of adjudicating a violation
17 of this Section, for statistical purposes, or for other
18 governmental purposes. Any recorded image evidencing a
19 violation, however, may be admissible in any proceeding
20 resulting from the issuance of the citation.
21     (h) The court or hearing officer may consider in defense of
22 a violation:
23         (1) that the motor vehicle or registration plates of
24     the motor vehicle were stolen before the violation occurred
25     and not under the control of or in the possession of the
26     owner at the time of the violation;

 

 

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1         (2) that the toll and all administrative fees and costs
2     were paid in full at least 30 days prior to the hearing;
3     and
4         (3) any other evidence or issues provided by municipal
5     or county ordinance.
6     (i) To demonstrate that the motor vehicle or the
7 registration plates were stolen before the violation occurred
8 and were not under the control or possession of the owner at
9 the time of the violation, the owner must submit proof that a
10 report concerning the stolen motor vehicle or registration
11 plates was filed with a law enforcement agency in a timely
12 manner.
13     (j) Unless the driver of the motor vehicle was cited by a
14 police officer at the time of the violation, the motor vehicle
15 owner is subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $150, plus an
16 additional penalty of not more than $150 for failure to pay the
17 original penalty in a timely manner, if the motor vehicle is
18 recorded by an automated toll violation enforcement system. A
19 violation for which a civil penalty is imposed under this
20 Section is not a violation of a traffic regulation governing
21 the movement of vehicles and may not be recorded on the driving
22 record of the owner of the vehicle.
23     (k) A toll gate or other area of a toll bridge where a toll
24 or charge is due that is equipped with an automated toll
25 violation enforcement system must be posted with a sign visible
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1 being monitored by an automated toll violation enforcement
2 system.
3     (l) A municipality or county in which there is situated a
4 privately operated toll bridge may enter into an agreement with
5 the operator of the toll bridge under which the operator
6 assists in the operation of the automated toll violation
7 enforcement system on behalf of the municipality. The
8 compensation paid for that assistance may include the
9 collection and remittance, or payment of equivalent amounts, of
10 tolls and administrative fees and costs assessed by that
11 operator.
 
12     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13 becoming law.".