Bill Text: IL SB1283 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning vehicle safety tests.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1283 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1283-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1283 Introduced 2/7/2019, by Sen. Chuck Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/13-101 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 13-101
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning vehicle safety tests.
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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 13-101 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 13-101)
Sec. 13-101. Submission to safety test; certificate of
safety. To promote the safety of the the general public, every
owner of a second division vehicle, medical transport vehicle,
tow truck, first division vehicle including a taxi which is
used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit,
motor vehicle used for driver education training, or contract
carrier transporting employees in the course of their
employment on a highway of this State in a vehicle designed to
carry 15 or fewer passengers shall, before operating the
vehicle upon the highways of Illinois, submit it to a "safety
test" and secure a certificate of safety furnished by the
Department as set forth in Section 13-109. Each second division
motor vehicle that pulls or draws a trailer, semitrailer or
pole trailer, with a gross weight of 10,001 lbs or more or is
registered for a gross weight of 10,001 lbs or more, motor bus,
religious organization bus, school bus, senior citizen
transportation vehicle, and limousine shall be subject to

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inspection by the Department and the Department is authorized
to establish rules and regulations for the implementation of
such inspections.
The owners of each salvage vehicle shall submit it to a
"safety test" and secure a certificate of safety furnished by
the Department prior to its salvage vehicle inspection pursuant
to Section 3-308 of this Code. In implementing and enforcing
the provisions of this Section, the Department and other
authorized State agencies shall do so in a manner that is not
inconsistent with any applicable federal law or regulation so
that no federal funding or support is jeopardized by the
enactment or application of these provisions.
However, none of the provisions of Chapter 13 requiring
safety tests or a certificate of safety shall apply to:
(a) farm tractors, machinery and implements, wagons,
wagon-trailers or like farm vehicles used primarily in
agricultural pursuits;
(b) vehicles other than school buses, tow trucks and
medical transport vehicles owned or operated by a municipal
corporation or political subdivision having a population
of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants and which are subject to
safety tests imposed by local ordinance or resolution;
(c) a semitrailer or trailer having a gross weight of
5,000 pounds or less including vehicle weight and maximum
load;
(d) recreational vehicles;

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(e) vehicles registered as and displaying Illinois
antique vehicle plates and vehicles registered as
expanded-use antique vehicles and displaying expanded-use
antique vehicle plates;
(f) house trailers equipped and used for living
quarters;
(g) vehicles registered as and displaying Illinois
permanently mounted equipment plates or similar vehicles
eligible therefor but registered as governmental vehicles
provided that if said vehicle is reclassified from a
permanently mounted equipment plate so as to lose the
exemption of not requiring a certificate of safety, such
vehicle must be safety tested within 30 days of the
reclassification;
(h) vehicles owned or operated by a manufacturer,
dealer or transporter displaying a special plate or plates
as described in Chapter 3 of this Code while such vehicle
is being delivered from the manufacturing or assembly plant
directly to the purchasing dealership or distributor, or
being temporarily road driven for quality control testing,
or from one dealer or distributor to another, or are being
moved by the most direct route from one location to another
for the purpose of installing special bodies or equipment,
or driven for purposes of demonstration by a prospective
buyer with the dealer or his agent present in the cab of
the vehicle during the demonstration;

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(i) pole trailers and auxiliary axles;
(j) special mobile equipment;
(k) vehicles properly registered in another State
pursuant to law and displaying a valid registration plate,
except vehicles of contract carriers transporting
employees in the course of their employment on a highway of
this State in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer
passengers are only exempted to the extent that the safety
testing requirements applicable to such vehicles in the
state of registration are no less stringent than the safety
testing requirements applicable to contract carriers that
are lawfully registered in Illinois;
(l) water-well boring apparatuses or rigs;
(m) any vehicle which is owned and operated by the
federal government and externally displays evidence of
such ownership; and
(n) second division vehicles registered for a gross
weight of 10,000 pounds or less, except when such second
division motor vehicles pull or draw a trailer,
semi-trailer or pole trailer having a gross weight of or
registered for a gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds;
motor buses; religious organization buses; school buses;
senior citizen transportation vehicles; medical transport
vehicles; tow trucks; and any property carrying vehicles
being operated in commerce that are registered for a gross
weight of more than 8,000 lbs but less than 10,001 lbs.

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The safety test shall include the testing and inspection of
brakes, lights, horns, reflectors, rear vision mirrors,
mufflers, safety chains, windshields and windshield wipers,
warning flags and flares, frame, axle, cab and body, or cab or
body, wheels, steering apparatus, and other safety devices and
appliances required by this Code and such other safety tests as
the Department may by rule or regulation require, for second
division vehicles, school buses, medical transport vehicles,
tow trucks, first division vehicles including taxis which are
used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit,
motor vehicles used for driver education training, vehicles
designed to carry 15 or fewer passengers operated by a contract
carrier transporting employees in the course of their
employment on a highway of this State, trailers, and
semitrailers subject to inspection.
For tow trucks, the safety test and inspection shall also
include the inspection of winch mountings, body panels, body
mounts, wheel lift swivel points, and sling straps, and other
tests and inspections the Department by rule requires for tow
trucks.
For driver education vehicles used by public high schools,
the vehicle must also be equipped with dual control brakes, a
mirror on each side of the vehicle so located as to reflect to
the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least 200
feet to the rear, and a sign visible from the front and the
rear identifying the vehicle as a driver education car.

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For trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semi-trailers,
buses, and first division vehicles including taxis which are
used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit,
the safety test shall be conducted in accordance with the
Minimum Periodic Inspection Standards promulgated by the
Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of
Transportation and contained in Appendix G to Subchapter B of
Chapter III of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Those standards, as now in effect, are made a part of this
Code, in the same manner as though they were set out in full in
this Code.
The passing of the safety test shall not be a bar at any
time to prosecution for operating a second division vehicle,
medical transport vehicle, motor vehicle used for driver
education training, or vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer
passengers operated by a contract carrier as provided in this
Section that is unsafe, as determined by the standards
prescribed in this Code.
(Source: P.A. 100-956, eff. 1-1-19.)