Bill Text: IL HB1410 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the provisions relating to special speed limits while traveling through a highway construction or maintenance speed zone apply only when workers are present in the construction or maintenance speed zone. Effective January 1, 2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1410 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB1410-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB1410 Introduced , by Rep. Bill Mitchell SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-605.1
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the provisions relating to special speed limits while traveling through a highway construction or maintenance speed zone apply only when workers are present in the construction or maintenance speed zone. Effective January 1, 2012.
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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 11-605.1 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-605.1)
Sec. 11-605.1. Special limit while traveling through a
highway construction or maintenance speed zone.
(a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle in a
construction or maintenance speed zone at a speed in excess of
the posted speed limit.
(b) Nothing in this Chapter prohibits the use of electronic
speed-detecting devices within 500 feet of signs within a
construction or maintenance speed zone indicating the zone, as
defined in this Section, nor shall evidence obtained by use of
those devices be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding,
provided the use of the device shall apply only to the
enforcement of the speed limit in the construction or
maintenance speed zone.
(c) As used in this Section, a "construction or maintenance
speed zone" is an area in which the Department, Toll Highway
Authority, or local agency has determined that the preexisting
established speed limit through a highway construction or

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maintenance project is greater than is reasonable or safe with
respect to the conditions expected to exist in the construction
or maintenance speed zone and has posted a lower speed limit
with a highway construction or maintenance speed zone special
speed limit sign.
Highway construction or maintenance speed zone special
speed limit signs shall be of a design approved by the
Department. The signs must give proper due warning that a
construction or maintenance speed zone is being approached and
must indicate the maximum speed limit in effect. The signs also
must state the amount of the minimum fine for a violation.
(d) A first violation of this Section is a petty offense
with a minimum fine of $250. A second or subsequent violation
of this Section is a petty offense with a minimum fine of $750.
(e) If a fine for a violation of this Section is $250 or
greater, the person who violated this Section shall be charged
an additional $125, which shall be deposited into the
Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund in the State
treasury, unless (i) the violation occurred on a highway other
than an interstate highway and (ii) a county police officer
wrote the ticket for the violation, in which case the $125
shall be deposited into that county's Transportation Safety
Highway Hire-back Fund. In the case of a second or subsequent
violation of this Section, if the fine is $750 or greater, the
person who violated this Section shall be charged an additional
$250, which shall be deposited into the Transportation Safety

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Highway Hire-back Fund in the State treasury, unless (i) the
violation occurred on a highway other than an interstate
highway and (ii) a county police officer wrote the ticket for
the violation, in which case the $250 shall be deposited into
that county's Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund.
(e-5) The Department of State Police and the local county
police department have concurrent jurisdiction over any
violation of this Section that occurs on an interstate highway.
(f) The Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund,
which was created by Public Act 92-619, shall continue to be a
special fund in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation by
the General Assembly and approval by the Secretary, the
Secretary of Transportation shall use all moneys in the
Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty
Department of State Police officers to monitor construction or
maintenance zones.
(f-5) Each county shall create a Transportation Safety
Highway Hire-back Fund. The county shall use all moneys in its
Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty
county police officers to monitor construction or maintenance
zones in that county on highways other than interstate
highways.
(g) For a second or subsequent violation of this Section
within 2 years of the date of the previous violation, the
Secretary of State shall suspend the driver's license of the
violator for a period of 90 days.

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(h) This Section applies only when workers are present in
the construction or maintenance speed zone.
(Source: P.A. 93-955, eff. 8-19-04; 94-814, eff. 1-1-07.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2012.