Bill Text: IL SB2958 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - Referred to Assignments [SB2958 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2958-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2958

Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Tom Bennett

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-405 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-405

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5changing Section 3-405 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/3-405) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-405)
7 Sec. 3-405. Application for registration.
8 (a) Every owner of a vehicle subject to registration under
9this Code shall make application to the Secretary of State for
10the registration of such vehicle upon the appropriate form or
11forms furnished by the Secretary. Every such original
12application shall bear the signature of the owner written with
13pen and ink and contain:
14 1. The name, domicile address, as defined in Section
15 1-115.5 of this Code, (except as otherwise provided in
16 this paragraph 1), mail address of the owner or business
17 address of the owner if a firm, association, or
18 corporation, and, if available, email address of the
19 owner. If the mailing address is a post office box number,
20 the address listed on the driver license record may be
21 used to verify residence. A police officer, a deputy
22 sheriff, an elected sheriff, a law enforcement officer for
23 the Illinois State Police, a fire investigator, a state's

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1 attorney, an assistant state's attorney, a state's
2 attorney special investigator, or a judicial officer may
3 elect to furnish the address of the headquarters of the
4 governmental entity, police district, or business address
5 where he or she works instead of his or her domicile
6 address, in which case that address shall be deemed to be
7 his or her domicile address for all purposes under this
8 Chapter 3. The spouse and children of a person who may
9 elect under this paragraph 1 to furnish the address of the
10 headquarters of the government entity, police district, or
11 business address where the person works instead of the
12 person's domicile address may, if they reside with that
13 person, also elect to furnish the address of the
14 headquarters of the government entity, police district, or
15 business address where the person works as their domicile
16 address, in which case that address shall be deemed to be
17 their domicile address for all purposes under this Chapter
18 3. In this paragraph 1: (A) "police officer" has the
19 meaning ascribed to "policeman" in Section 10-3-1 of the
20 Illinois Municipal Code; (B) "deputy sheriff" means a
21 deputy sheriff appointed under Section 3-6008 of the
22 Counties Code; (C) "elected sheriff" means a sheriff
23 commissioned pursuant to Section 3-6001 of the Counties
24 Code; (D) "fire investigator" means a person classified as
25 a peace officer under the Peace Officer Fire Investigation
26 Act; (E) "state's attorney", "assistant state's attorney",

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1 and "state's attorney special investigator" mean a state's
2 attorney, assistant state's attorney, and state's attorney
3 special investigator commissioned or appointed under
4 Division 3-9 of the Counties Code; and (F) "judicial
5 officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1-10 of
6 the Judicial Privacy Act.
7 2. A description of the vehicle, including such
8 information as is required in an application for a
9 certificate of title, determined under such standard
10 rating as may be prescribed by the Secretary.
11 3. (Blank).
12 3.5. A space for a voluntary disclosure of a condition
13 that impedes effective communication under Section
14 3-405.5.
15 4. Such further information as may reasonably be
16 required by the Secretary to enable him to determine
17 whether the vehicle is lawfully entitled to registration
18 and the owner entitled to a certificate of title.
19 5. An affirmation by the applicant that all
20 information set forth is true and correct. If the
21 application is for the registration of a motor vehicle,
22 the applicant also shall affirm that the motor vehicle is
23 insured as required by this Code, that such insurance will
24 be maintained throughout the period for which the motor
25 vehicle shall be registered, and that neither the owner,
26 nor any person operating the motor vehicle with the

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