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 1        AN ACT in relation to vehicles.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 11-602 as follows:

 6        (625 ILCS 5/11-602) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-602)
 7        Sec.   11-602.   Alteration   of  limits  by  Department.
 8    Whenever the Department determines,  upon  the  basis  of  an
 9    engineering  and traffic investigation concerning any highway
10    for which the Department has maintenance responsibility, that
11    a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section  11-601  of  this
12    Chapter  is  greater  or less than is reasonable or safe with
13    respect to the conditions found to exist at any  intersection
14    or  other  place  on  such  highway or along any part or zone
15    thereof,  the  Department  shall  determine  and  declare   a
16    reasonable  and  safe absolute maximum speed limit applicable
17    to such intersection or place, or along such  part  or  zone.
18    However, such limit shall not exceed 65 miles per hour, or 55
19    miles per hour for a second division vehicle designed or used
20    for  the  carrying  of a gross weight of 8,001 pounds or more
21    (including the weight of the vehicle and maximum load), on  a
22    highway  or  street  which is especially designed for through
23    traffic and to, from, or over  which  owners  of  or  persons
24    having an interest in abutting property or other persons have
25    no right or easement, or only a limited right or easement, of
26    access,  crossing,  light, air, or view, and shall not exceed
27    55 miles per hour on any other highway. Where a highway under
28    the  Department's  jurisdiction  is  contiguous   to   school
29    property,  the  Department  may,  at  the  school  district's
30    request, set a reduced maximum speed limit for student safety
31    purposes  in the portion of the highway that faces the school
 
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 1    property and in the  portions  of  the  highway  that  extend
 2    one-quarter  mile in each direction from the opposite ends of
 3    the school property. A limit so determined  and  declared  as
 4    provided  in this Section becomes effective, and suspends the
 5    applicability of the limit prescribed in  Section  11-601  of
 6    this  Chapter,  when  appropriate  signs giving notice of the
 7    limit are erected at such intersection  or  other  place,  or
 8    along   such   part  or  zone  of  the  highway.   Electronic
 9    speed-detecting devices shall not be  used  within  500  feet
10    beyond  any  such sign in the direction of travel; if so used
11    in violation  hereof,  evidence  obtained  thereby  shall  be
12    inadmissible   in  any  prosecution  for  speeding.  However,
13    nothing in this Section prohibits the use of such  electronic
14    speed-detecting  devices  within  500 feet of a sign within a
15    special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to
16    the requirements of Section 11-605 of  this  Act,  nor  shall
17    evidence  obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution
18    for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
19    to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special  school
20    speed zone.
21    (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96; 89-551, eff. 1-1-97.)

22        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
23    becoming law.