Bill Amendment: IL HB5054 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: VEH CD-TOLL HGHWY-SPEED LIMITS
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5054 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5054-House_Amendment_002.html
Bill Title: VEH CD-TOLL HGHWY-SPEED LIMITS
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5054 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5054-House_Amendment_002.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5054
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5054 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 1. Legislative findings. The General Assembly | ||||||
5 | finds that the maximum speed limits for motor vehicles | ||||||
6 | prescribed in a provision concerning general speed | ||||||
7 | restrictions in the Illinois Vehicle Code are presumed to be | ||||||
8 | reasonable and safe maximum speed limits for all highways under | ||||||
9 | the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
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10 | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | ||||||
11 | Section 11-603 as follows:
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12 | (625 ILCS 5/11-603) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603)
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13 | Sec. 11-603. Alteration of limits by Toll Highway | ||||||
14 | Authority. | ||||||
15 | (a)
Whenever the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
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1 | determines, upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic | ||||||
2 | investigation concerning a toll highway under its
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3 | jurisdiction, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section | ||||||
4 | 11-601 of
this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or | ||||||
5 | safe with respect to
conditions found to exist at any place or | ||||||
6 | along any part or zone of such
highway, the Authority shall | ||||||
7 | determine and declare by regulation a
reasonable and safe | ||||||
8 | absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along
such part | ||||||
9 | or zone, and the speed limit shall conform with the maximum | ||||||
10 | speed limit restrictions provided for in Section 11-601 of this | ||||||
11 | Code. A limit so determined
and declared becomes effective, and | ||||||
12 | suspends the application of the limit
prescribed in Section | ||||||
13 | 11-601 of this Chapter, when (1) (a) the Department
concurs in | ||||||
14 | writing with the Authority's regulation, (2) and (b) | ||||||
15 | appropriate
signs giving notice of the limit are erected at | ||||||
16 | such place or along such
part or zone of the highway , and (3) | ||||||
17 | for a decrease in a speed limit, the Joint Committee on | ||||||
18 | Administrative Rules approves the Authority's regulation. The | ||||||
19 | Authority shall not issue a regulation to change a maximum | ||||||
20 | speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more | ||||||
21 | than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than | ||||||
22 | the maximum speed limit of that highway . Electronic | ||||||
23 | speed-detecting devices shall not
be used within 500 feet | ||||||
24 | beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if
so used in | ||||||
25 | violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
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26 | inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
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1 | (b) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this | ||||||
2 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for | ||||||
3 | vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 | ||||||
4 | pounds, the effective absolute maximum speed limit on any part | ||||||
5 | of a highway under the Authority's jurisdiction shall be: (1) | ||||||
6 | except for Interstate Route 294 and the portion of Interstate | ||||||
7 | Route 94 that is between Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route | ||||||
8 | 41, 70 miles per hour, or the maximum speed limit under | ||||||
9 | subsection (a) of this Section or Section 11-601 or this Code, | ||||||
10 | whichever is less; and (2) 60 miles per hour or the maximum | ||||||
11 | speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section | ||||||
12 | 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less, on Interstate Route 294 | ||||||
13 | and the portion of Interstate Route 94 that is between | ||||||
14 | Interstate Route 294 and U.S. Route 41. If Interstate Route 294 | ||||||
15 | undergoes construction that results in an increase in the | ||||||
16 | maximum design speed limit, the effective absolute maximum | ||||||
17 | speed limit shall be the design speed limit, or the maximum | ||||||
18 | speed limit under subsection (a) of this Section or Section | ||||||
19 | 11-601 of this Code, whichever is less, within 12 months of the | ||||||
20 | design speed limit change. The maximum speed limits under this | ||||||
21 | subsection (b) may be altered under subsection (a) of this | ||||||
22 | Section. The Authority shall issue regulations to implement | ||||||
23 | this subsection (b). With respect to the setting of speed | ||||||
24 | limits, nothing in this subsection (b) shall be construed to | ||||||
25 | increase liability under existing law. | ||||||
26 | (Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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