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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 Roadside Memorial Act is amended by changing
5Section 15 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 125/15)
7    Sec. 15. Participation in the Roadside Memorial program.
8    (a) A qualified relative of a victim may make a request for
9the installation of a memorial marker in a supporting
10jurisdiction using an application developed by the supporting
11jurisdiction. The supporting jurisdiction shall have sole
12responsibility for determining whether a request for a DUI
13memorial marker is rejected or accepted.
14    (b) An application for a DUI memorial marker may be
15submitted by a qualified relative with regard to any crash that
16occurred on or after January 1, 1980 1990.
17    (c) If there is any opposition to the placement of a DUI
18memorial marker by any qualified relative of any decedent
19involved in the crash, the supporting jurisdiction shall deny
20the request.
21    (d) The supporting jurisdiction shall deny the request or,
22if a DUI memorial marker has already been installed, may remove
23the marker, if the qualified relative has provided false or

 

 

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1misleading information in the application.
2    (e) The qualified relative shall agree not to place or
3encourage the placement of flowers, pictures, or other items at
4the crash site.
5    (f) A DUI memorial marker shall not be erected for a
6deceased driver involved in a fatal crash who is shown by
7toxicology reports to have been in violation of State DUI law,
8unless the next of kin of any other victim or victims killed in
9the crash consent in writing to the erection of the memorial
10marker.
11(Source: P.A. 95-398, eff. 1-1-08; 95-873, eff. 8-21-08.)