Bill Text: IL HB3168 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that where a marked flush median of sufficient width divides one or more lanes of traffic driving in opposite directions, a left turn shall not be made from any other lane and that a vehicle shall not be driven in the marked flush median except when preparing for or making a left turn from or into the roadway, driveway, or alley or when preparing for or making a U turn when otherwise permitted by law. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3168 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB3168-Introduced.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 Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 11-801 as follows:
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| 6 | (625 ILCS 5/11-801) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-801)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-801. Required position and method of turning. (a) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | shall do
so as follows:
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| 10 | (1) Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | shall be
made as close as practical to the right-hand curb or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | edge of the
roadway.
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| 13 | (2) The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any
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| 14 | intersection shall approach the intersection in the extreme | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | left-hand
lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | direction of travel of
such vehicle, and after entering the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | intersection, the left turn shall
be made so as to leave the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | intersection in a lane lawfully available to
traffic moving in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | such direction upon the roadway being entered.
Whenever | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | practicable the left turn shall be made in that portion of the
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| 21 | intersection to the left of the center of the intersection.
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| 22 | (3) The Department and local authorities in their | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | respective
jurisdictions may cause official traffic control | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | devices to be placed
within or adjacent to intersections and | ||||||
| 2 | thereby require and direct that
a different course from that | ||||||
| 3 | specified in this Section be traveled by
vehicles turning at an | ||||||
| 4 | intersection, and when such devices are so placed
no driver of | ||||||
| 5 | a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at an intersection other
than as | ||||||
| 6 | directed and required by such devices.
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| 7 | (b) Two-way left turn lanes. Where a special lane for
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| 8 | making left turns by drivers proceeding in
opposite directions | ||||||
| 9 | has been indicated by official traffic-control devices:
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| 10 | (1) A left turn shall not be made from any other lane.
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| 11 | (2) A vehicle shall not be driven in the lane except when | ||||||
| 12 | preparing for
or making a left turn from or into the roadway or | ||||||
| 13 | when preparing for or
making a U turn when otherwise permitted | ||||||
| 14 | by law.
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| 15 | (b-5) Marked flush medians. Where a marked flush median of | ||||||
| 16 | sufficient width divides one or more lanes of traffic driving | ||||||
| 17 | in opposite directions: | ||||||
| 18 | (1) A left turn shall not be made from any other lane. | ||||||
| 19 | (2) A vehicle shall not be driven in the marked flush | ||||||
| 20 | median except when preparing for or making a left turn from or | ||||||
| 21 | into the roadway, driveway, or alley or when preparing for or | ||||||
| 22 | making a U turn when otherwise permitted by law. | ||||||
| 23 | (c) When a motor vehicle and a mass transit bus are | ||||||
| 24 | traveling in the
same direction on the same multi-laned | ||||||
| 25 | highway, street or road, the
operator of the motor vehicle | ||||||
| 26 | overtaking such bus, which is stopped at an
intersection on the | ||||||
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| 1 | right side of the roadway to receive or discharge
passengers, | ||||||
| 2 | shall pass to the left of the bus at a safe distance and shall
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| 3 | not turn to the right in front of the bus at that intersection.
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| 4 | (Source: P.A. 85-786.)
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| 5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 6 | becoming law.
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