Bill Text: IL SB1381 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Vehicle Code to allow a vehicle or pedestrian to enter an intersection under direction of a flashing yellow traffic-control signal, but yield to pedestrians and other vehicles already lawfully within the intersection. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-31 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0798 [SB1381 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1381-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1381 Introduced 2/6/2013, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-306 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306
Amends the Vehicle Code to allow a vehicle or pedestrian to enter an intersection under direction of a flashing yellow traffic-control signal, but yield to pedestrians and other vehicles already lawfully within the intersection. 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 11-306 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-306) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-306)
Sec. 11-306. Traffic-control signal legend. Whenever
traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting
different colored lights or color lighted arrows, successively
one at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red and
yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals
carrying a word legend, and the lights shall indicate and apply
to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
(a) Green indication.
1. Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may
proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a
sign at such place prohibits either such turn. Vehicular
traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall
yield the right of way to other vehicles and to pedestrians
lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk
at the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown
alone or in combination with another indication, may

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cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement
indicated by such arrow, or such other movement as is
permitted by other indications shown at the same time. Such
vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to
pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to
other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
3. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control
signal, as provided in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing
any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a
turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any
marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(b) Steady yellow indication.
1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular yellow or
yellow arrow signal is thereby warned that the related
green movement is being terminated or that a red indication
will be exhibited immediately thereafter.
2. Pedestrians facing a steady circular yellow or
yellow arrow signal, unless otherwise directed by a
pedestrian-control signal as provided in Section 11-307,
are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to
cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no
pedestrian shall then start to cross the roadway.
(b-5) Flashing yellow arrow indication.
1. Vehicular traffic facing a flashing yellow arrow
indication may cautiously enter the intersection only to
make the movement indicated by the arrow and shall yield

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the right of way to other vehicles and pedestrians lawfully
within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the
time the signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing a flashing yellow arrow
indication, unless otherwise directed by a
pedestrian-control signal as provided in Section 11-307,
may proceed across the roadway within any marked or
unmarked crosswalk that crosses the lane or lanes used to
depart the intersection by traffic controlled by the
flashing yellow arrow indication.
(c) Steady red indication.
1. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this
subsection (c), vehicular traffic facing a steady circular
red signal alone shall stop at a clearly marked stop line,
but if there is no such stop line, before entering the
crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if there
is no such crosswalk, then before entering the
intersection, and shall remain standing until an
indication to proceed is shown.
2. Except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 3.5 of this
subsection (c), vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow
signal shall not enter the intersection to make the
movement indicated by the arrow and, unless entering the
intersection to make a movement permitted by another
signal, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if
there is no such stop line, before entering the crosswalk

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on the near side of the intersection, or if there is no
such crosswalk, then before entering the intersection, and
shall remain standing until an indication permitting the
movement indicated by such red arrow is shown.
3. Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn
and local authorities by ordinance or State authorities by
rule or regulation prohibit any such turn, vehicular
traffic facing any steady red signal may cautiously enter
the intersection to turn right, or to turn left from a
one-way street into a one-way street, after stopping as
required by paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of this subsection.
After stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way to
any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another
roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard
during the time such driver is moving across or within the
intersection or junction or roadways. Such driver shall
yield the right of way to pedestrians within the
intersection or an adjacent crosswalk.
3.5. In municipalities with less than 2,000,000
inhabitants, after stopping as required by paragraph 1 or 2
of this subsection, the driver of a motorcycle or bicycle,
facing a steady red signal which fails to change to a green
signal within a reasonable period of time not less than 120
seconds because of a signal malfunction or because the
signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle
or bicycle due to the vehicle's size or weight, shall have

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the right to proceed, after yielding the right of way to
oncoming traffic facing a green signal, subject to the
rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign as
required by Section 11-1204 of this Code.
4. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control
signal as provided in Section 11-307, pedestrians facing a
steady circular red or red arrow signal alone shall not
enter the roadway.
(d) In the event an official traffic control signal is
erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection,
the provisions of this Section shall be applicable except as to
provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any
stop required shall be at a traffic sign or a marking on the
pavement indicating where the stop shall be made or, in the
absence of such sign or marking, the stop shall be made at the
signal.
(e) The motorman of any streetcar shall obey the above
signals as applicable to vehicles.
(Source: P.A. 97-627, eff. 1-1-12; 97-762, eff. 7-6-12.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.