Bill Text: IL HB5751 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall not pass another vehicle passing around the same rotary traffic island if the other vehicle is over 10 feet wide or more than 40 feet long. Provides that a violation of the new provisions is a petty offense.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5751 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5751-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5751 Introduced , by Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-708 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-708
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall not pass other vehicles passing around the same rotary traffic island if the other vehicle is over 10 feet wide or more than 40 feet long. Provides that any person convicted of a violation of specified provisions shall be guilty of a petty offense.
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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 11-708 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-708) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-708)
Sec. 11-708. One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands.
(a) The Department and local authorities, with respect to
highways under their respective jurisdictions, may designate
any highway, roadway, part of a roadway or specific lanes upon
which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction at all
or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic control
devices.
(b) Upon a roadway so designated for one-way traffic, a
vehicle shall be driven only in the direction designated at all
or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic control
devices.
(c) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island must
be driven only to the right of such island.
(c-5) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island
shall not pass other vehicles passing around the same rotary
traffic island if the other vehicle is over 10 feet wide or
more than 40 feet long. Any person convicted of a violation of

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this subsection (c-5) shall be guilty of a petty offense as
provided under Section 16-104 of this Code.
(d) Whenever any highway has been divided into 2 or more
roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical
barrier or a clearly indicated dividing section so constructed
as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle must be driven
only upon the right-hand roadway unless directed or permitted
to use another roadway by official traffic-control devices or
police officers. No vehicle may be driven over, across, or
within any such dividing space, barrier, or section, except
through an opening in the physical barrier, or dividing
section, or space, or at a cross-over or intersection as
established by public authority.
(e) The driver of a vehicle may turn left across a paved
noncurbed dividing space unless prohibited by an official
traffic-control device.
(Source: P.A. 84-873.)