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() 625 ILCS 5/Ch. 12 Art. IV
(625 ILCS 5/Ch. 12 Art. IV heading)
ARTICLE IV.
TIRES
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625 ILCS 5/12-401
(625 ILCS 5/12-401) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-401)
Sec. 12-401. Restriction as to tire equipment. No metal tired vehicle,
including tractors, motor vehicles of the second division, traction engines
and other similar vehicles, shall be operated over any improved highway
of this State, if such vehicle has on the periphery of any of the road wheels
any block, stud, flange, cleat, ridge, lug or any projection of metal
or wood which projects radially beyond the tread or traffic surface
of the tire. This prohibition does not apply
to pneumatic tires with metal studs used on vehicles operated by rural
letter carriers who are employed or enjoy a contract with the United
States Postal Service for the purpose of delivering mail if such vehicle
is actually used for such purpose during operations between November
15 of any year and April 1 of the following year, or to motor vehicles
displaying a disability license plate or a license plate for veterans with disabilities whose
owner resides in an unincorporated area located upon a county or township
highway or road and possesses a valid driver's license and operates
the vehicle with such tires only during the period heretofore described,
or to tracked type motor vehicles when that part of the vehicle coming in
contact with the road surface does not contain any projections of any kind
likely to injure the surface of the road; however, tractors, traction engines,
and similar vehicles may be operated which have upon their road wheels
V-shaped, diagonal or other cleats arranged in such a manner as to be
continuously in contact with the road surface, provided that the gross weight
upon such wheels per inch of width of such cleats in contact with the road
surface, when measured in the direction of the axle of the vehicle, does not
exceed 800 pounds.
All motor vehicles and all other vehicles in tow thereof, or thereunto
attached, operating upon any roadway, shall have tires of rubber or some
material of equal resiliency. Solid tires shall be considered defective and
shall not be permitted to be used if the rubber or other material has been
worn or otherwise reduced to a thickness of less than three-fourths of an
undue vibration when the vehicle is in motion or to cause undue
concentration of the wheel load on the surface of the road. The
requirements of this Section do not apply to agricultural tractors or
traction engines or to agricultural machinery, including wagons being
used for agricultural purposes in tow thereof, or to road rollers or road
building machinery operated at a speed not in excess of 10 miles per
hour. All motor vehicles of the second division, operating upon any
roadway shall have pneumatic tires, unless exempted herein.
Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to prohibit the use of tire
chains of reasonable proportion upon any vehicle when required for
safety because of snow, ice or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle
to skid.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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625 ILCS 5/12-402
(625 ILCS 5/12-402) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-402)
Sec. 12-402.
Sale or lease of siped or regrooved pneumatic tire.
No person
or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use
on a highway, any pneumatic tire, either original tread or retread, on which
the tread is siped or regrooved to a depth equal to or deeper than the molded
groove depth, unless the tire was constructed or retreaded with sufficient
tread material and type of labels to permit such siping or regrooving.
Such labels and siping or regrooving shall be in compliance with Part 569
of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and after siping or regrooving
the tire shall conform to that Part.
For the purpose of this Article, siped shall mean cut without removing
material, and regrooved shall mean the tread groove pattern is renewed,
or a new pattern generated, or both, without additional tread material being added.
(Source: P.A. 83-213.)
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625 ILCS 5/12-403
(625 ILCS 5/12-403) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-403)
Sec. 12-403.
Sale or lease of retreaded or "recapped" pneumatic tire.
No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease,
for use on a highway, any pneumatic tire produced or rebuilt by a process
in which tread material is attached to a used tire, unless the tire, tread
material, labelling and certification, before and after processing, conform
to Part 571.117 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(Source: P.A. 83-213.)
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625 ILCS 5/12-404
(625 ILCS 5/12-404) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-404)
Sec. 12-404.
Sale or lease of pneumatic tire without marking.
No person
or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use
on a highway, any pneumatic tire that does not bear the special marking
required by this Section.
(a) Regrooved or siped tire. In addition to the identification, labelling
and certification required under Section 12-402, either the word "regrooved"
or the word "siped" shall be branded on each side of a pneumatic tire on
which the tread is either regrooved or siped, as the case may be. In the
case of a tire that is both regrooved and siped, the word "regrooved" alone
on each side shall suffice, although both words may appear on each side.
Each branding shall be conspicuous but shall be sized, located and applied
so as not to weaken or damage the tire or otherwise degrade the performance
of the tire or shorten its useful life.
(b) Retreaded tire. In addition to the labelling, identification, certification
and other marking required under Section 12-403, the word "retreaded" shall
be branded or molded into or onto each side of a pneumatic tire that has
been retreaded or "recapped". Each molding or branding shall be conspicuous
but shall be sized, located and applied so as not to weaken or damage the
tire or otherwise degrade the performance of the tire or shorten its useful life.
(c) New tire. The labelling, identification, certification and other
marking required by Part 571.109 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations
shall appear on each new pneumatic tire intended for use on a passenger
car other than a multipurpose passenger vehicle. The labelling, identification,
certification and other marking required by Part 571.119 of Title 49 of
the Code of Federal Regulations shall appear on each new pneumatic tire
intended for use on either a multipurpose passenger vehicle or other type
of vehicle that is not a passenger car.
(Source: P.A. 83-213.)
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625 ILCS 5/12-405
(625 ILCS 5/12-405) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-405)
Sec. 12-405.
Operating condition of pneumatic tires.
(a) Definition. The term "spare tire" as used in
this Section 12-405
means any new, used or specially constructed tire that is either carried
or installed for short term emergency use.
(b) Promulgated Rules. The Department shall promulgate rules concerning
unsafe operating
conditions of pneumatic tires. The rules shall be
enforced by police officers by visual inspection of
tires, including visual comparison with simple
measuring scales or gauges. The rules shall include precepts and standards
for determining unsafe conditions, including the determination of an effective
depth of tread groove, and shall
be based upon, to the extent that
it is reasonable and practical, all provisions set forth in paragraph (d)
of this Section.
(c) Use of Unsafe Tire. 1. No person or organization shall place,
drive or move, or
cause or allow to be placed, driven or moved, on
a highway of this
State, any vehicle equipped with one or more pneumatic tires deemed
to be unsafe under a provision of paragraph (d) of
this Section or a rule promulgated under paragraph (b) of this Section.
2. Exemptions. Any restriction stated in this paragraph (c) shall not apply:
(i) To a tire on a damaged, disabled, abandoned, or other unsafe or unwanted
vehicle being legally towed, pushed or otherwise transferred to a repair,
relocation, storage, salvage, junking, or other collection site;
(ii) To a tire on a racing or other competitive vehicle being legally
moved or transported, not under its own power, to a lawful competition site
or to a bona fide testing site; or
(iii) To a spare tire either carried or in short term emergency use for
only such distance or time as is reasonably necessary to accomplish the
repair or replacement of the damaged or unsafe tire for which the spare
was substituted.
(d) Criteria for Unsafe Pneumatic Tires. A pneumatic tire shall
be deemed to be unsafe if it has:
1. Any part of a ply or cord exposed;
2. A tread or sidewall crack, cut, snag, or other surface interruption
deep enough to expose a ply or cord;
3. Any bulge, knot, or separation;
4. Tread wear indicators flush with the tread outer surface in any 2 or
more adjacent tread grooves at 3 locations approximately equally spaced
around the circumference of the
tire;
5. A depth of tread groove less than 2/32
of an inch or less than 1/32 of an inch if on a motorcycle or truckster,
measured in any 2 or more adjacent tread grooves at 3 locations approximately
equally
spaced around the circumference of the tire, at least one of which, in the
judgment of the inspecting officer, is a location at which the tread is
thinnest, provided that any measurement over a tie
bar, tread wear indicator, hump or
fillet is excluded;
6. A depth of tread groove less than 4/32 of an inch at any one location
and the tire is mounted on the front wheel of a motor vehicle subject to
the provisions of Chapter 18B of this Code, provided that any measurement
over a tie bar, tread wear indicator, hump or fillet is excluded;
7. A marking which indicates that the tire is not intended for use on a
public highway;
8. Been regrooved or recut below the bottom of an original
tread groove, except in the case of a
special "regroovable" tire that was manufactured
or retreaded with thick undertread, identified and regrooved in compliance
with the applicable federal standard in Title 49 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, and in compliance with each applicable Section of this Code; or
9. Other condition, marking or lack of marking that may be reasonably
demonstrated to
identify the tire as unsuitable for highway use, including inflation,
load, speed or installation condition seriously
incompatible with the tire size, construction, or other pertinent marking
or feature.
(e) Sale, Lease or Installation of Pneumatic Tires. 1. No
person or organization shall sell, lease, or offer for sale or lease,
or mount, install, or cause or allow to be mounted or installed,
for use on a highway, any pneumatic tire deemed
to be unsafe under paragraph (d) of this Section or under a rule
promulgated under paragraph (b) of this Section. Except as provided in
paragraph (c) of this Section, any person or organization offering
a vehicle for sale or lease shall, prior to its being placed, driven
or moved on a
highway, correct any unsafe tire condition.
2. No person or organization shall sell, lease, or offer for sale or
lease, for highway use, any pneumatic tire, or any vehicle equipped with
a pneumatic tire, which has a depth of tread groove less than 3/32 of an
inch; except a pneumatic tire on a motorcycle or truckster may have a depth
of tire groove of not less than 2/32 of an inch. Groove depth shall not
be measured where a tie bar, tread wear indicator, hump or fillet is located.
(f) Compliance and Enforcement. Any police officer, upon reasonable
cause to believe that a person or organization has acted or is acting in
violation of any provision of this Section, shall require the driver,
owner, or other appropriate
custodian to submit the tire or tires to an inspection. When so required,
the owner or other appropriate
custodian shall allow the tire inspection and the driver of a vehicle
or combination of vehicles shall stop at a designated
location and allow the tire or tires to be inspected
or shall move the vehicle or combination to
a location that is reasonably convenient and is suitable for such inspection.
(Source: P.A. 83-213.)
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625 ILCS 5/12-407
(625 ILCS 5/12-407) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-407)
Sec. 12-407.
Rules and regulations.
The Department may promulgate rules
and regulations to clarify or specify the requirements of this Article IV.
(Source: P.A. 83-213.)
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