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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 978

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 978  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 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
 
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 1    traffic  and  to,  from,  or  over which owners of or persons
 2    having an interest in abutting property or other persons have
 3    no right or easement, or only a limited right or easement, of
 4    access, crossing, light, air, or view, and shall  not  exceed
 5    55 miles per hour on any other highway. Where a highway under
 6    the   Department's   jurisdiction  is  contiguous  to  school
 7    property,  the  Department  may,  at  the  school  district's
 8    request, set a reduced maximum speed limit for student safety
 9    purposes in the portion of the highway that faces the  school
10    property  and  in  the  portions  of  the highway that extend
11    one-quarter mile in each direction from the opposite ends  of
12    the  school  property.  A limit so determined and declared as
13    provided in this Section becomes effective, and suspends  the
14    applicability  of  the  limit prescribed in Section 11-601 of
15    this Chapter, when appropriate signs  giving  notice  of  the
16    limit  are  erected  at  such intersection or other place, or
17    along  such  part  or  zone  of  the   highway.    Electronic
18    speed-detecting  devices  shall  not  be used within 500 feet
19    beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if  so  used
20    in  violation  hereof,  evidence  obtained  thereby  shall be
21    inadmissible  in  any  prosecution  for  speeding.   However,
22    nothing  in this Section prohibits the use of such electronic
23    speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of a  sign  within  a
24    special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to
25    the  requirements  of  Section  11-605 of this Act, nor shall
26    evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any  prosecution
27    for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only
28    to  the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school
29    speed zone.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-444, eff. 1-25-96; 89-551, eff. 1-1-97.)

31        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
32    becoming law.".