Public Act 096-1256
 
SB2476 EnrolledLRB096 14784 AJT 29642 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 11-208 and by adding Section 11-1307 as follows:
 



    (625 ILCS 5/11-208)
  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-208)


    Sec. 11-208. Powers of local authorities. 

    (a) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to 
prevent
local authorities with respect to streets and highways 
under their
jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of 
the police power from:


        1. Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles, 
    except as
limited by Sections Section 11-1306 and 11-1307 
    of this Act;


        2. Regulating traffic by means of police officers or 
    traffic control
signals;


        3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or 
    assemblages on the highways;


        4. Designating particular highways as one-way highways 
    and requiring that
all vehicles thereon be moved in one 
    specific direction;


        5. Regulating the speed of vehicles in public parks 
    subject to the
limitations set forth in Section 11-604;


        6. Designating any highway as a through highway, as 
    authorized in Section
11-302, and requiring that all 
    vehicles stop before entering or crossing
the same or 
    designating any intersection as a stop intersection or a 
    yield
right-of-way intersection and requiring all vehicles 
    to stop or yield the
right-of-way at one or more entrances 
    to such intersections;


        7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in 
    Chapter 15;


        8. Regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring 
    the
registration and licensing of same, including the 
    requirement of a
registration fee;


        9. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or 
    specified
types of vehicles at intersections;


        10. Altering the speed limits as authorized in Section 
    11-604;


        11. Prohibiting U-turns;


        12. Prohibiting pedestrian crossings at other than 
    designated and marked
crosswalks or at intersections;


        13. Prohibiting parking during snow removal operation;


        14. Imposing fines in accordance with Section 
    11-1301.3 as penalties
for use of any parking place 
    reserved for persons with disabilities, as defined
by 
    Section 1-159.1, or disabled veterans by any person using a 
    motor
vehicle not bearing registration plates specified in 
    Section 11-1301.1
or a special decal or device as defined 
    in Section 11-1301.2
as evidence that the vehicle is 
    operated by or for a person
with disabilities or disabled 
    veteran;


        15. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are 
    specifically
authorized by this Code; or


        16. Enforcing the provisions of subsection (f) of 
    Section 3-413 of this
Code or a similar local ordinance.

    (b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under subsections 1, 
4, 5, 6, 7,
9, 10, 11 or 13 of paragraph (a) shall be effective 
until signs giving
reasonable notice of such local traffic 
regulations are posted.

    (c) The provisions of this Code shall not prevent any

municipality having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants 
from
prohibiting any person from driving or operating any motor 
vehicle upon
the roadways of such municipality with headlamps 
on high beam or bright.

    (d) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to 
prevent local
authorities within the reasonable exercise of 
their police power from
prohibiting, on private property, the 
unauthorized use of parking spaces
reserved for persons with 
disabilities.

    (e) No unit of local government, including a home rule 
unit, may enact or
enforce an ordinance that applies only to 
motorcycles if the principal purpose
for that ordinance is to 
restrict the access of motorcycles to any highway or
portion of 
a highway for which federal or State funds have been used for 
the
planning, design, construction, or maintenance of that 
highway.  No unit of
local government, including a home rule 
unit, may enact an ordinance requiring
motorcycle users to wear 
protective headgear.  Nothing in this subsection
(e) shall 
affect the authority of a unit of local government to regulate

motorcycles for traffic control purposes or in accordance with 
Section 12-602
of this Code.  No unit of local government, 
including a home rule unit, may
regulate motorcycles in a 
manner inconsistent with this Code.  This subsection
(e) is a 
limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of 
the
Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home 
rule units of powers
and functions exercised by the State.

    (f) A municipality or county designated in Section 11-208.6 
may enact an ordinance providing for an
automated traffic law 
enforcement system to enforce violations of this Code or
a 
similar provision of a local ordinance and imposing liability 
on a registered owner of a vehicle used in such a violation.

    (g) A municipality or county, as provided in Section 
11-1201.1, may enact an ordinance providing for an automated 
traffic law enforcement system  to enforce violations of Section 
11-1201 of this Code or a similar provision of a local 
ordinance and imposing liability on a registered owner of a 
vehicle used in such a violation.

(Source: P.A. 96-478, eff. 1-1-10.)

 
    (625 ILCS 5/11-1307  new)
    Sec. 11-1307. Centralized parking meter systems.
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Centralized parking meter system" means a system of 
regulating the standing or parking of vehicles that includes 3 
or more parking meter zones, and a single parking meter.
    "Parking meter" means a traffic control device which, upon 
being activated by deposit of currency of the United States, or 
by electronic or other form of payment, in the amount indicated 
thereon or otherwise, either: (1) displays a signal showing 
that parking is allowed from the time of such activation until 
the expiration of the time fixed for parking in the parking 
meter zone in which it is located, and upon expiration of such 
time indicates by sign or signal that the lawful parking period 
has expired, or (2) issues a ticket or other token, or 
activates a display device, on which is printed or otherwise 
indicated the lawful parking period in the parking meter zone 
in which the parking meter is located, such ticket, other 
token, or display device, to be displayed in a publicly visible 
location on the dashboard or inner windshield of a vehicle 
parked in the parking meter zone, or such ticket to be affixed 
on the front lamp of a motorcycle or motor scooter parked in 
the parking meter zone.
    "Parking meter zone" means a certain designated and 
marked-off section of the public way within the marked 
boundaries where a vehicle may be temporarily parked and 
allowed to remain for such period of time as the parking meter 
attached thereto, or the ticket or other token issued by the 
parking meter, may indicate.
    (b) If for any reason the parking meter serving a space or, 
in a centralized parking meter system, serving a parking meter 
zone is malfunctioning due to the accumulation of ice or snow 
and it has been reported to the local authorities as 
malfunctioning prior to a violation for the standing or parking 
of vehicles being issued, it shall be a valid affirmative 
defense to such violation until such time as the parking meter 
is brought back into service.