Bill Text: IL SB3089 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, for a vehicle that can obtain a registration sticker related to the exemption from window treatment requirements, the Secretary of State shall make the registration sticker available for any license plate offered by the Secretary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3089 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3089-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3089 Introduced 2/5/2020, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-412 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-412
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, for a vehicle that can obtain a registration sticker related to the exemption from window treatment requirements, the Secretary of State shall make the registration sticker available for any license plate offered by the Secretary.
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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 3-412 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/3-412) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-412)
Sec. 3-412. Registration plates or digital registration
plates and registration stickers or digital registration
stickers to be furnished by the Secretary of State.
(a) The Secretary of State upon registering a vehicle
subject to annual registration for the first time shall issue
or shall cause to be issued to the owner one registration plate
or digital registration plate for a motorcycle, trailer,
semitrailer, moped, autocycle, or truck-tractor, 2
registration plates, or a digital registration plate and metal
plate as set forth in Section 3-401.5, for other motor vehicles
and, where applicable, current registration stickers or
digital registration stickers for motor vehicles of the first
division. The provisions of this Section may be made applicable
to such vehicles of the second division, as the Secretary of
State may, from time to time, in his discretion designate. On
subsequent annual registrations during the term of the
registration plate or digital registration plate as provided in

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Section 3-414.1, the Secretary shall issue or cause to be
issued registration stickers or digital registration stickers
as evidence of current registration. However, the issuance of
annual registration stickers or digital registration stickers
to vehicles registered under the provisions of Sections 3-402.1
and 3-405.3 of this Code may not be required if the Secretary
deems the issuance unnecessary.
(b) Every registration plate or digital registration plate
shall have displayed upon it the registration number assigned
to the vehicle for which it is issued, the name of this State,
which may be abbreviated, the year number for which it was
issued, which may be abbreviated, the phrase "Land of Lincoln"
(except as otherwise provided in this Code), and such other
letters or numbers as the Secretary may prescribe. However, for
apportionment plates issued to vehicles registered under
Section 3-402.1 and fleet plates issued to vehicles registered
under Section 3-405.3, the phrase "Land of Lincoln" may be
omitted to allow for the word "apportioned", the word "fleet",
or other similar language to be displayed. Registration plates
or digital registration plates issued to a vehicle registered
as a fleet vehicle may display a designation determined by the
Secretary.
The Secretary may in his discretion prescribe that letters
be used as prefixes only on registration plates or digital
registration plates issued to vehicles of the first division
which are registered under this Code and only as suffixes on

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registration plates or digital registration plates issued to
other vehicles. Every registration sticker or digital
registration sticker issued as evidence of current
registration shall designate the year number for which it is
issued and such other letters or numbers as the Secretary may
prescribe and shall be of a contrasting color with the
registration plates or digital registration plates and
registration stickers or digital registration stickers of the
previous year.
(c) Each registration plate or digital registration plate
and the required letters and numerals thereon, except the year
number for which issued, shall be of sufficient size to be
plainly readable from a distance of 100 feet during daylight,
and shall be coated with reflectorizing material. The
dimensions of the plate issued to vehicles of the first
division shall be 6 by 12 inches.
(d) The Secretary of State shall issue for every passenger
motor vehicle rented without a driver the same type of
registration plates or digital registration plates as the type
of plates issued for a private passenger vehicle.
(e) The Secretary of State shall issue for every passenger
car used as a taxicab or livery, distinctive registration
plates or digital registration plates.
(f) The Secretary of State shall issue for every motorcycle
distinctive registration plates or digital registration plates
distinguishing between motorcycles having 150 or more cubic

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centimeters piston displacement, or having less than 150 cubic
centimeter piston displacement.
(g) Registration plates or digital registration plates
issued to vehicles for-hire may display a designation as
determined by the Secretary that such vehicles are for-hire.
(h) (Blank).
(i) The Secretary of State shall issue for every public and
private ambulance registration plates or digital registration
plates identifying the vehicle as an ambulance. The Secretary
shall forward to the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services registration information for the purpose of
verification of claims filed with the Department by ambulance
owners for payment for services to public assistance
recipients.
(j) The Secretary of State shall issue for every public and
private medical carrier or rescue vehicle livery registration
plates or digital registration plates displaying numbers
within ranges of numbers reserved respectively for medical
carriers and rescue vehicles. The Secretary shall forward to
the Department of Healthcare and Family Services registration
information for the purpose of verification of claims filed
with the Department by owners of medical carriers or rescue
vehicles for payment for services to public assistance
recipients.
(k) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive license
plates or digital registration plates or distinctive license

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plate stickers or digital registration stickers for every
vehicle exempted from subsections (a) and (a-5) of Section
12-503 by subsection (g) of that Section, and by subsection
(g-5) of that Section before its deletion by this amendatory
Act of the 95th General Assembly. The Secretary shall issue
these plates or stickers immediately upon receiving the
physician's certification required under subsection (g) of
Section 12-503. New plates or stickers shall also be issued
when the certification is renewed as provided in that
subsection. If a vehicle is eligible for a sticker issued under
this subsection, the Secretary shall make the sticker available
for any license plate offered by the Secretary.
(l) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive
registration plates or digital registration plates for
low-speed vehicles.
(m) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive
registration plates or digital registration plates for
autocycles. The dimensions of the plate issued to autocycles
shall be 4 by 7 inches.
(Source: P.A. 101-395, eff. 8-16-19.)