Bill Text: IL HB3812 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows a county to use a portion of the money in its Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to purchase equipment for local police departments within that county and fund the production of materials to educate drivers on construction zone safe driving habits. Effective January 1, 2016.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-05 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0280 [HB3812 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3812-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 099-0280
HB3812 Enrolled LRB099 07729 RJF 27862 b
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 when workers are present.
(a-5) 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 when workers are not present.
(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 posted signage advising drivers
that a construction or maintenance speed zone is being
approached, or in which the Department, Authority, or local
agency has posted a lower speed limit with a highway
construction or maintenance speed zone special speed limit sign
after determining that the preexisting established speed limit
through a highway construction or maintenance project is
greater than is reasonable or safe with respect to the
conditions expected to exist in the construction or maintenance
speed zone.
If it is determined that the preexisting established speed
limit is safe with respect to the conditions expected to exist
in the construction or maintenance speed zone, additional speed
limit signs which conform to the requirements of this
subsection (c) shall be posted.
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
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 the 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. The county, in its discretion, may also
use a portion of the moneys in its Transportation Safety
Highway Hire-back Fund to purchase equipment for county law
enforcement and fund the production of materials to educate
drivers on construction zone safe driving habits.
(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. This suspension shall only be
imposed if the current violation of this Section and at least
one prior violation of this Section occurred during a period
when workers were present in the construction or maintenance
zone.
(Source: P.A. 97-830, eff. 1-1-13; 98-337, eff. 1-1-14.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2016.