Bill Text: IL HB2589 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. In language prohibiting parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection or within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal, exempts vehicles parked in a designated parking space created before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2589 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2589-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2589 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-1303 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1303
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. In language prohibiting parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection or within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal, exempts vehicles parked in a designated parking space created before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 11-1303 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-1303) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1303)
Sec. 11-1303. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in
specified places.
(a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a
police officer or official traffic-control device, no person
shall:
1. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
a. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or
parked at the edge or curb of a street;
b. On a sidewalk;
c. Within an intersection;
d. On a crosswalk;
e. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or
within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately
opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different
length is indicated by signs or markings;
f. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or

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obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would
obstruct traffic;
g. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon
a highway or within a highway tunnel;
h. On any railroad tracks. A violation of any part
of this subparagraph h. shall result in a mandatory
fine of $500 or 50 hours of community service.
i. At any place where official signs prohibit
stopping;
j. On any controlled-access highway;
k. In the area between roadways of a divided
highway, including crossovers;
l. In a public parking area if the vehicle does not
display a current annual registration sticker or
current temporary permit pending registration.
2. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not,
except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
a. In front of a public or private driveway;
b. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
c. Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an
intersection, unless the vehicle is in a designated
parking space created before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly;
d. Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing
signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control
signal located at the side of a roadway, unless the

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vehicle is in a designated parking space created before
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st
General Assembly;
e. Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any
fire station and on the side of a street opposite the
entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of such
entrance (when properly sign-posted);
f. At any place where official signs prohibit
standing.
3. Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except
temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged
in loading or unloading property or passengers:
a. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad
crossing;
b. At any place where official signs prohibit
parking.
(b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his
control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such
distance as is unlawful.
(Source: P.A. 89-245, eff. 1-1-96; 89-658, eff. 1-1-97.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.