Bill Text: IL HB4948 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4948 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB4948-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Roadside Memorial Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 15 as follows:
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| 6 | (605 ILCS 125/15)
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| 7 | Sec. 15. Participation in the Roadside Memorial program. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) A qualified relative of a victim may make a request for | ||||||
| 9 | the installation of a memorial marker in a supporting | ||||||
| 10 | jurisdiction using an application developed by the supporting | ||||||
| 11 | jurisdiction. The supporting jurisdiction shall have sole | ||||||
| 12 | responsibility for determining whether a request for a DUI | ||||||
| 13 | memorial marker is rejected or accepted. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) An application for a DUI memorial marker may be | ||||||
| 15 | submitted by a qualified relative with regard to any crash that | ||||||
| 16 | occurred on or after January 1, 1980 1990. | ||||||
| 17 | (c) If there is any opposition to the placement of a DUI | ||||||
| 18 | memorial marker by any qualified relative of any decedent | ||||||
| 19 | involved in the crash, the supporting jurisdiction shall deny | ||||||
| 20 | the request. | ||||||
| 21 | (d) The supporting jurisdiction shall deny the request or, | ||||||
| 22 | if a DUI memorial marker has already been installed, may remove | ||||||
| 23 | the marker, if the qualified relative has provided false or | ||||||
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| 1 | misleading information in the application. | ||||||
| 2 | (e) The qualified relative shall agree not to place or | ||||||
| 3 | encourage the placement of flowers, pictures, or other items at | ||||||
| 4 | the crash site. | ||||||
| 5 | (f) A DUI memorial marker shall not be erected for a | ||||||
| 6 | deceased driver involved in a fatal crash who is shown by | ||||||
| 7 | toxicology reports to have been in violation of State DUI law, | ||||||
| 8 | unless the next of kin of any other victim or victims killed in | ||||||
| 9 | the crash consent in writing to the erection of the memorial | ||||||
| 10 | marker.
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| 11 | (Source: P.A. 95-398, eff. 1-1-08; 95-873, eff. 8-21-08.)
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