Bill Text: IL HB3668 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall issue for every for-hire vehicle that carries or is capable of carrying 4 or more passengers, excluding the driver, livery registration plates. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Tabled [HB3668 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3668-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB3668 Introduced , by Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-412 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-412
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall issue for every for-hire vehicle that carries or is capable of carrying 4 or more passengers, excluding the driver, livery registration plates. Effective immediately.
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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 and 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
for a motorcycle, trailer, semitrailer, moped, autocycle, or
truck-tractor, 2 registration plates for other motor vehicles
and, where applicable, current 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 as provided in
Section 3-414.1, the Secretary shall issue or cause to be
issued registration stickers as evidence of current
registration. However, the issuance of annual registration
stickers to vehicles registered under the provisions of

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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 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 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 issued to
vehicles of the first division which are registered under this
Code and only as suffixes on registration plates issued to
other vehicles. Every 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 and registration stickers of the
previous year.

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(c) Each 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 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.
(f) The Secretary of State shall issue for every motorcycle
distinctive registration plates distinguishing between
motorcycles having 150 or more cubic centimeters piston
displacement, or having less than 150 cubic centimeter piston
displacement.
(g) Registration plates issued to vehicles for-hire may
display a designation as determined by the Secretary that such
vehicles are for-hire.
(g-5) The Secretary of State shall issue for every for-hire
vehicle that carries or is capable of carrying 4 or more
passengers, excluding the driver, livery registration plates.
(h) (Blank).
(i) The Secretary of State shall issue for every public and

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private ambulance 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 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 distinctive license plate 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.
(l) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive

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registration plates for low-speed vehicles.
(m) The Secretary of State shall issue distinctive
registration plates for autocycles. The dimensions of the plate
issued to autocycles shall be 4 by 7 inches.
(Source: P.A. 98-777, eff. 1-1-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.