Illinois Vehicle Code - 625 ILCS 5

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Short Title . This Act may be cited as the Illinois Vehicle Code. Portions of this Act may likewise be cited by a short title as ...

Definition of words and phrases . The following words and phrases when used in this Code shall, for the purpose of this Code, have the meanings respectively ...

Abandoned vehicle . For the purposes of Chapter 4, "abandoned vehicle" means any vehicle in a state of disrepair rendering the vehicle incapable of being driven in ...

Act . The word "Act" as used in this Code shall, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, mean "The Illinois Vehicle Code". (Source: P.A. 82-123.) ...

Administrative decision . The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Affirmation . A signed statement to the effect that the information provided by the signer is true and correct. The affirmation shall subject any person who ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 83-1473. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Agency . For the purposes of Chapters 13B and 13C, "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. (Source: P.A. 94-526, eff. 1-1-06.) ...

Agricultural movements . The operation of a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles controlled and operated by a private motor carrier of property that is using the ...

All-terrain vehicle . Any motorized off-highway device designed to travel primarily off-highway, 50 inches or less in width, having a manufacturer's dry weight of 900 pounds or ...

Alley . A public way within a block, generally giving access to the rear of lots or buildings and not used for general traffic circulation. (Source: ...

Ambulance . Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and is intended to be used for, and is maintained ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-101.8 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Antique vehicle . A motor vehicle that is more than 25 years of age or a bonafide replica thereof and which is driven on the highways only ...

Apportionable semitrailer . Through March 31, 1996, an apportionable semitrailer is a semitrailer that is paying annual fees to a foreign jurisdiction under the provisions of the ...

Apportionable trailer . A trailer involved in interstate commerce. (Source: P.A. 87-1040.) ...

Approved driver education course . (a) Any course of driver education approved by the State Board of Education, offered by public or private schools maintaining grades 9 ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Article . The word "Article" as used in this Code shall, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, mean an Article of a Chapter of "The Illinois Vehicle ...

Authorized emergency vehicle . Emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by proper local authorities; police vehicles; vehicles of the fire ...

Automotive parts recycler . A person who is in the business of acquiring previously owned vehicles and vehicle parts for the primary purpose of disposing of parts ...

Automated red light enforcement system . A system in a municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more operated by a governmental agency, in cooperation with ...

Axle load . The total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers may be included between 2 parallel transverse vertical planes 40 inches apart ...

Bicycle . Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels except scooters and similar devices. (Source: P.A. 85-951.) ...

Bumper . Any device or system of devices protruding from and attached to the front and rear of a motor vehicle that has been designed to be ...

Bus . Every motor vehicle, other than a commuter van, designed for carrying more than 10 persons. (Source: P.A. 82-1011.) ...

Business district . The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any 600 feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or ...

Camping trailer . A trailer, not used commercially, constructed with partial side walls which fold for towing and unfold to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping ...

Cancellation of driver's license . The annulment or termination by formal action of the Secretary of a person's driver's license because of some error or defect in ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-111.1b by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Certificate of purchase . A bill of sale given to a licensee making an acquisition of a vehicle under Sections 4-208 and 4-209 of this Code. ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-111.1c by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 81-1452. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Chapter . The word "Chapter" as used in this Code shall, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, mean a Chapter of "The Illinois Vehicle Code". (Source: ...

Charitable vehicle . (a) Any vehicle that is exclusively owned and operated by a religious or charitable not-for-profit organization and is used primarily in conducting the official ...

Chassis . Every frame or supportive element of a vehicle whether or not a manufacturer's identification number, serial number, or other identifying numbers are present on said ...

Chassis manufacturer . A person who manufactures and produces the frame upon which is mounted the body of a motor vehicle. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Code . The word "Code" as used in this Act shall, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, mean "The Illinois Vehicle Code". (Source: P.A. 82-123.) ...

Collection costs . Collection costs consist of reasonable costs incurred in locating the owner, lienholder, or other legally entitled persons, and demanding payment, together with court costs ...

Commerce . Trade, commerce, or transportation. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Commercial driver instruction permit . A permit issued pursuant to Section 6-508 of this Code. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Commercial driver's license (CDL) . A driver's license issued by a state to a person that authorizes that person to drive a certain class of commercial motor ...

Commercial driver license information system (CDLIS) . The information system established, pursuant to the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA) (49 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), ...

Commercial vehicle . Any vehicle operated for the transportation of persons or property in the furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise, For-Hire or Not-For-Hire, but not ...

Commuter van . A motor vehicle designed for the transportation of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, which is: (1) used in a ridesharing ...

Controlled Access Highway . Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of ...

Conversion . A motor vehicle, other than a motor home, which has been modified by a person other than the manufacturer of the chassis of the motor ...

Converter or second stage manufacturer . A person who prior to the retail sale of a motor vehicle, assembles, installs or affixes a body, cab, or special ...

Converter Dolly . A vehicle consisting of a chassis equipped with one or more axles, a fifth wheel or an equivalent mechanism, and draw bar, the attachment ...

Counterfeit . To copy or imitate, without legal authority, with the intent of deceiving or defrauding. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Court . A court of law, traffic tribunal, or circuit court of Illinois, including a judge of a court of law, traffic tribunal, or circuit court of ...

Crosswalk . (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the ...

Custom vehicle . A motor vehicle that is at least 25 years of age and of a model year after 1948 or a vehicle that has been ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-111.8 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-111.9 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-112.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Dealer . Every person engaged in the business of acquiring or disposing of vehicles or their essential parts and who has an established place of business for ...

Department . The Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois, acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents, except that in Chapter 5 and ...

Derelict vehicle . Any inoperable, unregistered, discarded motor vehicle, regardless of title, having lost its character as a substantial property and left unattended without justification on the ...

Disposition of vehicle or vehicle part . The purchase, exchange, transfer, sale, assignment or other change of ownership or possession or the junking or wrecking of a ...

Disqualification . Disqualification means any of the following 3 actions: (a) The suspension, revocation, or cancellation of a CDL by the State or jurisdiction of issuance. ...

Domicile . A true, fixed, and permanent legal home of a person or the place to which the person intends to return even though the person may ...

Domiciliary . A person who is domiciled. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Drive . To drive, operate, or be in physical control of a motor vehicle. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Driver . Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Driver's license . Any license to operate a motor vehicle issued under the laws of this State. (Source: P.A. 84-1394.) ...

Driver License Compact . The Driver License Compact set forth in Chapter 6 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Driver's license or permit making implement . Any material, hardware, or software that is specially designed for or primarily used in the manufacture, assembly, issuance, or authentication ...

Electric personal assistive mobility device . A self-balancing 2 non-tandem wheeled device designed to transport only one person with an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum ...

Essential Parts . All integral and body parts of a vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder, the removal, alteration or substitution of which would ...

Explosives . Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and ...

Expressway . A freeway with full control access and with grade separations at intersections. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Farm to market agricultural transportation . The operation of a motor vehicle controlled and operated by a farmer who is a private motor carrier of property, who ...

Farm tractor . Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing wagons, plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry, and every ...

Fifth wheel assembly . A coupling device connecting 2 or more vehicles operating in combination. The lower half of a fifth wheel assembly mounted on a ...

Flammable liquid . Any liquid which has a flash point of 70 degrees Fahrenheit, or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device. ...

Fleet . 1 or more commercial motor vehicles. (Source: P.A. 79-1041.) ...

Fleet safety vehicle . Any motor vehicle which is used to supervise operations of vehicles of the second division on the highway so as to promote safety ...

For-hire . The operation of a vehicle for compensation and subject to federal regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission or to state regulation by the Illinois Commerce ...

For-profit ridesharing arrangement . The transportation by motor vehicle of not more than 16 persons, including the driver, for which a fee is charged in accordance with ...

Foreign vehicle . Every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder brought into this State from another State, territory or country other than in the ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 83-1473. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Frame . The main longitudinal structural members of the chassis of the vehicle or, for vehicles with unitized body construction, the lowest main longitudinal structural members of ...

Fraudulent driver's license or permit . Any license or permit that purports to be an official driver's license or permit for which a computerized number and file ...

Freeway . A highway or street especially designed for through traffic and to, from, or over which owners of or persons having an interest in abutting land ...

Garbage . Any material or load consisting of waste from the facilities of the generator of the waste when transported for disposal or to a permitted recycling ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-122.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Grey Market Vehicle . A vehicle not originally manufactured in compliance with U. S. emission or safety standards. (Source: P.A. 86-444.) ...

Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) . The value specified by the manufacturer or manufacturers as the maximum loaded weight of a single vehicle. The GVWR of ...

Gross weight . The weight of a vehicle whether operated singly or in combination without load plus the weight of the load thereon. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Highly restricted personal information . An individual's photograph or image, signature, social security number, and medical or disability information. (Source: P.A. 93-895, eff. 1-1-05.) ...

Highway . The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public ...

Highway Designations . The Department of Transportation may designate streets or highways in the system of State highways as follows: (a) Class I highways include interstate ...

Headset receiver . Any device, other than a hearing aid, designed to be worn on a person's head that enables the wearer to hear or receive electronic ...

House trailer . (a) A trailer or semitrailer equipped and used for living quarters or for human habitation (temporarily or permanently) rather than for the transportation of ...

Identification Number . The numbers and letters, if any, on a vehicle or essential part, affixed by its manufacturer, the Illinois Secretary of State or the Illinois ...

Ignition interlock device . A device installed in a motor vehicle that prevents the vehicle from starting until the device has determined by an analysis of the ...

Implement of husbandry . Every vehicle designed and adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural, or livestock raising operations, including farm wagons, wagon trailers or like vehicles used in ...

Improved highway . Any roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam and crushed stone or gravel. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Intersection . The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of ...

Interstate or Interstate Commerce . Transportation between 2 or more States or transportation originating in one State and passing into or through other States for delivery in ...

Interstate carrier of property . Any person who is engaged in the transportation of property only by motor vehicle in whole or in part in interstate or ...

Interstate highway . Any highway which is now, or shall hereafter be, a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways within this State. ...

Intrastate or Intrastate Commerce . Transportation originating at any point or place within this State and destined to any other point or place within this State, irrespective ...

Junk vehicle . A junk vehicle is a vehicle which has been or is being disassembled, crushed, compressed, flattened, destroyed or otherwise reduced to a state in ...

Lane-control signal . An official traffic control device consisting of an electrically controlled and illuminated signal of a square or rectangular design and employing distinctive colors or ...

Laned roadway . A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Law enforcement agency . Every governmental enforcement agency or officer having authority to enforce the provisions of this Act or applicable local vehicle ordinances. (Source: P.A. ...

Lease . A written document vesting exclusive possession, use, control and responsibility of the lessee during the periods the vehicle is operated by or for the lessee ...

Legal name . The full given name and surname of an individual as recorded at birth, recorded at marriage, or deemed as the correct legal name for use ...

License to drive . Any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under the laws of this State including: ...

Licensee . A person licensed or required to be licensed under Sections 5-101, 5-102, 5-201 and 5-301 of this Code. (Source: P.A. 83-1473.) ...

Lienholder . A person holding a security interest in a vehicle. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Limousine . Any privately owned first division vehicle intended to be used for the transportation of persons for-hire when the payment is not based on a meter ...

Local authorities . Every county, municipal and other local board or body having authority to enact laws relating to traffic under the constitution and laws of ...

Local mass transit system . An organized system providing passenger transportation over regular routes within a designated municipality or area. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Mail . To deposit in the United States mail properly addressed and with postage prepaid. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Manufacturer . Every person engaged in the business of manufacturing and assembling vehicles or reconstructed vehicles, or engine and driveline components for vehicles. (Source: P. A. ...

Materially altered vehicle . Any vehicle which has been modified, rebuilt, repaired, reconstructed, restored or specially constructed. (Source: P.A. 83-1473.) ...

Maxi-cube vehicle . A combination of vehicles consisting of a truck-tractor, upon which is mounted a separable cargo carrying semi-trailer, and a trailing unit that is attached ...

Medical Carrier . Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and is intended to be used for, and is ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98. Repealed by P.A. 92-703, eff. 7-19-02.) ...

Medical limitation or condition . A scientifically recognized condition that may medically impair a person's physical or mental health to the extent the person is unable to ...

Medical transport vehicle . Includes ambulances, medical carriers, and rescue vehicles. (Source: P.A. 82-433.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-2123. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Model year . The year of manufacture of a vehicle based upon the annual production period of the vehicle as designated by the manufacturer and indicated on ...

Modified vehicle . Every vehicle of a type required to be registered under this Code altered by the addition, deletion, or modification of the body, chassis, component ...

Motor carrier . An operator of For-Hire vehicles pursuant to the Illinois Motor Carrier of Property Law. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Motor driven cycle . Every motorcycle and every motor scooter with less than 150 cubic centimeter piston displacement including motorized pedalcycles. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Motor home, mini motor home or van camper . A self-contained motor vehicle, not used commercially, designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters for recreational, camping ...

Motor vehicle . Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, ...

Motorcycle . Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-145.001 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-148.3b by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Motorized Pedalcycle . A motorized pedalcycle is a motor-driven cycle whose speed attainable in one mile is 30 mph or less, which is equipped with a motor ...

Motorized wheelchair . Any self-propelled vehicle, including a three-wheeled vehicle, designed for and used by a person with disabilities, that is incapable of a speed in excess ...

Muffler . A device consisting of a series of chambers or baffle plates or other mechanical design for the purpose of receiving exhaust gas from an internal ...

Multipurpose passenger vehicle . A motor vehicle with motive power, except a trailer, designed to carry 10 persons or less that is constructed either on a truck ...

New Vehicle . A new vehicle which has not been previously sold to any person except a franchised distributor or franchised new vehicle dealer. (Source: P.A. ...

News media . A newspaper or other periodical issued at regular intervals whether in print or electronic format, a news service whether in print or electronic format, ...

Noncommercial vehicle . Any vehicle that is not a commercial vehicle. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Nondivisible load or vehicle . A load or vehicle that when separated into smaller loads or vehicles further dismantling would: (1) Compromise the intended use of ...

Nonresident . Every person who is not a resident of this State. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Nonresident's driving privilege . The privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the laws of this State pertaining to the operation by such person of a motor vehicle, ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-148.6 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Not-For-Hire . Operation of a commercial vehicle in furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise but not For-Hire. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Off-highway motorcycle . Any motorized device designed to travel primarily off-highway on 2 wheels, having a seat or saddle for the use of the operator, upon or ...

Official traffic-control devices . All signs, signals, markings, and devices which conform with the State Manual and not inconsistent with this Act placed or erected by authority ...

Operate . To ride in or on, other than as a passenger, use or control in any manner the operation of any device or vehicle whether motorized ...

Operator . Every person who operates or is in actual physical control of any device or vehicle whether motorized or propelled by human power. (Source: P.A. ...

Organ transport vehicle . A motor vehicle of the second division equipped and used exclusively for the transportation of organs for human transplant or the transportation of ...

Out-of-service order . A temporary prohibition against driving a commercial motor vehicle. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer . A person who is licensed in another state for the primary purpose of acquiring salvage vehicles and who is issued an out-of-state ...

Owner . A person who holds legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale ...

Owner-operator . A commercial motor vehicle lessor who leases the commercial motor vehicle, with driver, to a lessee. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Park or Parking . Means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or ...

Park district . Any park district formed under the Park District Code or any Submerged Land Park District as that term is defined in subsection (c) of ...

Passenger car . A motor vehicle of the First Division including a multipurpose passenger vehicle, that is designed for carrying not more than 10 persons. (Source: ...

Peace officer . Any person who by virtue of his or her public employment is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make ...

Pedestrian . Any person afoot, including a person with a physical, hearing, or visual disability. (Source: P.A. 88-685, eff. 1-24-95.) ...

Penalties and offenses-definitions . The following words and phrases when used in this Act, shall for the purposes of this Act, have the meanings ascribed to them ...

Person . Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Person with disabilities . A natural person who, as determined by a licensed physician, by a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to make this ...

Personally identifying information . Information that identifies an individual, including his or her driver identification number, name, address (but not the 5 digit zip code), and telephone ...

Photograph . Any color photograph or digitally produced and captured image of an applicant for a driver's license or permit. (Source: P.A. 90-191, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Pneumatic tire . Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support the load. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Pole trailer . Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or ...

Police officer . Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests and issue citations for violations of traffic regulations. (Source: P.A. 90-89, ...

Principal place of business . The place where any person transacts his principal business, or where he makes up and approves his payroll, maintains a central ...

Private road or driveway . Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-162.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Probationary license to drive . A conditional license granting full driving privileges during a period of suspension. (Source: P.A. 86-549.) ...

Processing costs . Processing costs consist of fees paid to the Secretary of State for a record search to determine the name and address of the last ...

Proof of financial responsibility . Proof of ability to respond in damages for any liability thereafter incurred resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a ...

Public utility . Each firm lawfully licensed and engaged in any of the following: the transmission of telegraphic or telephonic messages; the production, storage, transmission, distribution, sale, ...

Railroad . A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Railroad-highway grade crossing . The intersection of stationary rails owned or used in the operation of a railroad corporation across a highway. (Source: P. A. 78-314.) ...

Railroad sign or signal . Any sign, signal or device, other than an official traffic control signal or device, erected in accordance with the laws governing same ...

Railroad train . A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Rebuilder . A person who is in the business of returning a vehicle for which a salvage certificate has been previously issued back to its original or ...

Rebuilt vehicle . A vehicle for which a salvage certificate has been issued and which subsequently has been put back into its original or operating condition by ...

Recognized repair technician . A person professionally engaged in vehicle repair, employed by a going concern whose purpose is vehicle repair, or possessing nationally recognized certification for ...

Recreational vehicle . Every camping trailer, motor home, mini motor home, travel trailer, truck camper or van camper used primarily for recreational purposes and not used commercially ...

Refuse . Any material or load consisting of waste from the facilities of the generator of the waste when transported for disposal or to a permitted recycling ...

Registration - Registration Sticker . Registration. The registration certificate or certificates, registration plates and registration stickers issued under the laws of this State pertaining to the registration ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-111.1a by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Remittance agent . For the purposes of Article IX of Chapter 3, the term "remittance agent" means any person who holds himself or herself out to the ...

Remittee . The State of Illinois location where the remittance agent brings the money and application he or she receives from the general public (remitter) to be ...

Remitter . Any person who gives money to a remittance agent to submit to the State of Illinois and its licensing and taxing agencies for the payment ...

Repaired vehicle . A vehicle other than a rebuilt vehicle which has been put back into its original or operating condition by restoring, mending, straightening, replacing, altering ...

Replica trolley . A motor vehicle that is a replica of or is specifically designed to resemble a cable car or an antique trolley car, except that ...

Repairer . A person who is in the business of returning a vehicle other than a vehicle for which a salvage certificate has been issued back to ...

Rescue squad . A voluntary association of individuals or a fire department dedicated to saving lives through the rescue of persons entrapped in wrecked vehicles or other ...

Rescue vehicle . Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, configured, and equipped for the performance of access and extrication of persons from hazardous ...

Residence district . The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 ...

Resident . (a) Every natural person who resides in this state shall be deemed a resident of this State. (b) In the case of a firm, ...

Restricted Driving Permit . A restricted driving permit is that document which grants and specifies limited privileges to drivers of motor vehicles who have had their full ...

Retail sale . The act or attempted act of selling vehicles or otherwise disposing of a vehicle to a person for use as a consumer. (Source: ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Revocation of driver's license . The termination by formal action of the Secretary of a person's license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle on the public ...

Ridesharing arrangement . The transportation by motor vehicle of not more than 16 persons, including the driver, (1) for purposes incidental to another purpose of the driver, ...

Right-of-way . The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of ...

Road tractor . Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any ...

Roadway . That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes ...

Rooftop . The major uppermost portion of a bus body that is flat in a fore and aft direction. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Rural mail delivery vehicle . Every vehicle used to deliver U. S. mail on a rural mail delivery route. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Safety glazing material . Any glazing material so constructed, treated, or combined with other materials as to reduce substantially, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate ...

Safety zone . The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked ...

School bus . (a) "School bus" means every motor vehicle, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section, owned or operated by or for any of ...

Scrap processor . A person who purchases a vehicle, junk vehicle, or vehicle cowl for processing into a form other than a vehicle, junk vehicle, or vehicle ...

Seat safety belts . A set of belts or a harness meeting the specifications established by the Department of Transportation and installed in such manner as to ...

Second stage manufacturer or converter . A person who prior to the retail sale of a motor vehicle, assembles, installs or affixes a body, cab, or special ...

Secretary . The Illinois Secretary of State or his or her designee. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Secretary of State . The Secretary of State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Security agreement . A written agreement which reserves or creates a security interest. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Security interest . An interest in a vehicle reserved or created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The term includes the interest ...

Selling price . The consideration received for a motor vehicle subject to the tax imposed by Section 3-1001 valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, ...

Semitrailer . Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and ...

Servicing of vehicles . The altering or maintaining of the parts of a vehicle other than its essential parts. Regarding engines and transmissions, however, repair or ...

Serious traffic violation . (a) A conviction when operating a motor vehicle for: (1) a violation of subsection (a) of Section 11-402, ...

Shoulder . That portion of the highway adjacent to the roadway for accommodating stopped vehicles or for emergency use. (Source: P.A. 84-873.) ...

Sidewalk . That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of ...

Signature . The name of a person as written by that person and captured in a manner acceptable to the Secretary of State. (Source: P.A. 90-191, ...

Situs or base of vehicle . The place where a vehicle is principally garaged, or from whence it is principally dispatched, or where the movements of such ...

Solid tire . Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load. (Source: P.A. ...

Special license plate . Registration plates issued by the Secretary of State that by statute require, in addition to the applicable registration fee, an additional fee that ...

Special hauling vehicle . A vehicle or combination of vehicles transporting asphalt or concrete in the plastic state or a vehicle or combination of vehicles that is ...

Special mobile equipment . Every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, ...

Specially constructed vehicle . Every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder that: (a) has been materially altered from its original construction by the ...

Speed-change lane . An auxiliary lane, including tapered areas, primarily for the acceleration or deceleration of vehicles entering or leaving the through traffic lanes. (Source: P.A. ...

Stand or standing . Means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. ...

State . A state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the Dominion of ...

State highways . Defined in the "Illinois Highway Code" as the same may from time to time be amended. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

State Police . The Illinois State Police. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Statutory summary alcohol or other drug related suspension of driver's privileges . The withdrawal by the circuit court of a person's license or privilege to operate a ...

Stinger-steered semitrailer . Every semitrailer which has its kingpin on a projection to the front of the structure of such semitrailer and is combined with the 5th ...

Stop . When required means complete cessation from movement. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Stop or stopping . Means any halting even momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in ...

Street . The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes ...

Streetcar . A car other than a railroad train for transporting persons or property and operated upon rails principally within a municipality. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Street rod . A motor vehicle that is a 1948 or older vehicle or a vehicle that has been certified by an inspector of the National Street ...

Strobe lamp . A vehicular signaling device that generates flashes of light by inducing intermittent flows of electricity through a gas. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Suburban district . That portion of any city, village or incorporated town other than the business and residence districts. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-197.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Suspension of driver's license . The temporary withdrawal by formal action of the Secretary of a person's license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle on the ...

Suspension system . The system of devices consisting of but not limited to springs, spring shackles, shock absorbers, torsion bars, a frame, or any other supporting members ...

Sworn report . A confirmation of correctness and truth by an affidavit, oath, deposition or a verification by certification executed pursuant to Section 1-109 of the Code ...

Tandem axles . Any 2 or more single axles whose centers are more than 40 inches and not more than 96 inches apart, measured to the nearest ...

Tank vehicle . Any commercial motor vehicle that is designed to transport any liquid or gaseous material within a tank that is either permanently or temporarily attached ...

Through highway . Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right of way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from ...

Tollroad or toll highway . All highways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Tow-Truck . Every truck designed or altered and equipped for and used to push, tow, carry upon, or draw vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, towbar, ...

Tower . A person who owns or operates a tow-truck or a wrecker. (Source: P.A. 83-1473.) ...

Trackless trolley coach . Every motor vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated upon rails. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Traffic . Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel. (Source: P.A. ...

Traffic control signal . Any official traffic control device other than a railroad sign or signal, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately ...

Trailer . Every vehicle without motive power in operation, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor ...

Transportation . The actual movement of property or passengers by motor vehicle, together with loading, unloading, and any other accessorial or ancillary service provided by the carrier ...

Transporter . Every person engaged in the driveaway or towaway business of transporting vehicles, not his own, by driving, either singly or by the towbar, saddle mount ...

Travel trailer . A trailer, not used commercially, designed to provide living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, and of a size or weight not requiring ...

Truck . Every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. (Source: P.A. 88-476.) ...

Truck camper . A truck, not used commercially, when equipped with a portable unit designed to be loaded onto the bed which is constructed to provide temporary ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-212.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Truck tractor . Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part ...

Truckster . Every motor vehicle or motorcycle with 3 wheels designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Type I school bus . A school bus with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating more than 10,000 pounds. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Type II school bus . A school bus with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of 10,000 pounds or less. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Urban district . The territory contiguous to and including any street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-214.8 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Urban area . An urban area is any incorporated or unincorporated area developed primarily for residential and/or business purposes. (Source: P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Used car dealer . Every person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging used motor vehicles and who has an established place of business for ...

Used motor vehicle . Every motor vehicle which has been sold, bargained, exchanged, given away, or title transferred from the person who first acquired it from the ...

Vehicle . Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or requiring a certificate ...

Vehicle cowl . The portion of the vehicle that separates the front compartment from the rear compartment, commonly referred to as the firewall, to which a vehicle ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P. A. 77-643. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Vehicle shell . Every sheet metal part of a vehicle whether or not attached to a chassis or part of a chassis. For the purposes of this ...

Verified evidence . A document that is confirmed or substantiated by a sworn report or any public record received from a court of competent jurisdiction. (Source: ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 79-715. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-171.6 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 82-433. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-171.8 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

(Blank) . (Source: Renumbered as 625 ILCS 5/1-158.5 by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Administration vested in Secretary of State . The Secretary of State is hereby vested with powers and duties and jurisdiction of administering Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, ...

Organization of administration . The Secretary of State shall organize the work of the administration of the portion of this Act delegated to him in such manner ...

Secretary of State to appoint subordinates . The Secretary of State shall appoint such subordinate officers, clerks, investigators, and other employees as may be necessary to carry ...

Powers and duties of the Secretary of State . (a) The administration of Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this Act is ...

Offices of Secretary of State . The Secretary of State shall maintain offices in the State capital and in such other places in the State as he may ...

Secretary of State to prescribe forms . The Secretary of State shall prescribe or provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, registration cards, driver's licenses and ...

Authority to administer oaths . Officers and employees of the Secretary of State designated by him are, for the purpose of administering the motor vehicle laws and ...

Authority to certify copies of records . The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to prepare under the seal of the Secretary of State certified copies of ...

Records of Secretary of State . The Secretary of State may destroy any records of his office relating to the administration of any laws relating to the ...

Exchange of information . (a) The Secretary of State shall exchange information with the Illinois Department of Public Aid which may be necessary for the establishment of ...

Authority to grant or refuse applications . The Secretary of State shall examine and determine the genuineness, regularity and legality of every application ...

Seizure or confiscation of documents and plates . (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to take possession of any certificate of title, registration card, permit, license, ...

Distribution of synopsis laws . The Secretary of State may publish a synopsis or summary of the laws of this State regulating the operation of vehicles and ...

Secretary of State may subpoena witnesses and request the production of books and records . (a) The Secretary of State, or employees designated by him, may request ...

Giving of notice . Whenever the Secretary of State is authorized or required to give any notice under this Act or other law regulating the operation of ...

Investigators . (a) The Secretary of State, for the purpose of more effectively carrying out the provisions of the laws in relation to motor vehicles, shall have ...

Secretary of State Department of Police . (a) The Secretary of State and the officers, inspectors, and investigators appointed by him shall cooperate with the State Police ...

Injunction . Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of State that any person is engaged or about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute ...

Hearings . (a) Upon the suspension, revocation or denial of the issuance of a license, permit, registration or certificate of title under this Code of any person ...

Opportunity for hearing; statutory summary alcohol or other drug related suspension . (a) A statutory summary suspension of driving privileges under Section 11-501.1 shall not become effective ...

Disposition of fees and taxes . (a) All moneys received from Salvage Certificates shall be deposited in the Common School Fund in the State Treasury. (b) ...

Disposition of fines and forfeitures . (a) Except as provided in subsection (f) of Section 11-605 of this Code, fines and penalties recovered under the provisions of ...

Local Government tax . (a) No owner of a vehicle who shall have obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State and paid the registration fee and ...

Remittance agents . The Secretary of State shall administer the law relating to remittance agents pursuant to the law. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Sale and Distribution of Information . (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the Secretary may make the driver's license, vehicle and title registration lists, in ...

Audits, interest and penalties . (a) Audits. The Secretary of State or employees and agents designated by him, may audit the books, records, tax returns, reports, and ...

The Secretary of State may in his discretion set maximum fees charged by any person, firm, corporation or private institution within the State of Illinois concerning the acceptance ...

Employees and agents of the Secretary of State, designated by him, who are employed at Drivers License Exam Stations throughout the State are authorized to deposit, on a ...

The Secretary of State shall compile and maintain a listing of those services and agencies, both public and private, that provide transportation to senior citizens and shall make ...

License plate feasibility studies . (a) The Secretary of State shall undertake a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a standard license plate that would (i) ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them: "Electronic" includes electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or ...

Use of electronic records . (a) To the extent authorized by the Secretary of State and in accordance with standards and procedures prescribed by the Secretary of ...

Electronic access; agreements with submitters . (a) The Secretary of State may allow, but not require, a person to submit any record required to be submitted to ...

Rules . The Secretary of State may adopt rules to implement this Article. (Source: P.A. 91-772, eff. 1-1-01.) ...

Certificate of title required . (a) Except as provided in Section 3-102, every owner of a vehicle which is in this State and for which no certificate ...

Exclusions . No certificate of title need be obtained for: 1. A vehicle owned by the State of Illinois; or a vehicle owned by the United ...

Optional certificate of title . The owner of an implement of husbandry or special mobile equipment may apply for and obtain a certificate of title on it. ...

Application for certificate of title . (a) The application for a certificate of title for a vehicle in this State must be made by the owner to ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 83-449. Repealed by P.A. 90-665, eff. 1-1-99.) ...

Examination of records . The Secretary of State, upon receiving application for a first certificate of title, shall check the identifying number of the vehicle shown in ...

Certificate of title - Issuance - Records . (a) The Secretary of State shall file each application received and, when satisfied as to its genuineness and regularity, ...

Contents and effect . (a) Each certificate of title issued by the Secretary of State shall contain: 1. the date issued; 2. the ...

Presumption of tenancy . When a certificate of title is made out to 2 or more persons, it shall be presumed that the title is held as ...

Delivery . The certificate of title shall be mailed or delivered to the first lienholder named in it or, if none, to the owner. (Source: P.A. ...

Registration without certificate of title; bond . If the Secretary of State is not satisfied as to the ownership of the vehicle or that there are no ...

Refusing certificate of title . The Secretary of State shall refuse issuance of a certificate of title if any required fee is not paid or if he ...

Lost, stolen or mutilated certificates . (a) If a certificate of title is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed or becomes illegible, the first lienholder or, if none, ...

Corrected certificates . An application for a corrected certificate of title must state the current vehicle odometer reading at the time of application and that the stated ...

Transfer . (a) If an owner transfers his interest in a vehicle, other than by the creation of a security interest, at the time of the delivery ...

Odometer . (a) All titles issued by the Secretary of State beginning January, 1990, shall provide for an odometer certification substantially as follows: "I certify to ...

Transfer to or from dealer; records . (a) After a dealer buys a vehicle and holds it for resale, the dealer must procure the certificate of title ...

Transfer by operation of law . (a) If the interest of an owner in a vehicle passes to another other than by voluntary transfer, the transferee shall, ...

Transfers to and from charitable organizations . When a charitable not-for-profit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code becomes ...

Fees - Registration cards - License plates . (a) An application for a certificate of title shall be accompanied by an application for, or a transfer of, ...

When Secretary of State to issue a certificate of title . (a) The Secretary of State, upon receipt of a properly assigned certificate of title, with an ...

When junking certificates or salvage certificates must be obtained . (a) Except as provided in Chapter 4 of this Code, a person who possesses a junk vehicle ...

Junk Vehicle Notification . Beginning July 1, 1989 a person licensed as a scrap processor pursuant to Section 5-301 of this Code who acquires a properly assigned ...

Application for salvage or junking certificate; contents . (a) An application for a salvage certificate or junking certificate shall be made upon the forms prescribed by ...

Whenever a certificate of title is issued for a vehicle with respect to which a salvage certificate has been previously issued, the new certificate of title shall bear ...

Excepted liens and security interests . This Article does not apply to or affect: (a) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a ...

Terminal rent adjustment clause leases . In the case of motor vehicles or trailers, a transaction does not create a sale or a security interest merely because ...

Perfection of security interest . (a) Unless excepted by Section 3-201, a security interest in a vehicle of a type for which a certificate of title is ...

Security interest . If an owner creates a security interest in a vehicle: (a) The owner shall immediately execute the application, in the space provided ...

Assignment by lienholder . (a) A lienholder may assign, absolutely or otherwise, his security interest in the vehicle to a person other than the owner without affecting ...

Release of security interest . (a) Within 21 days after receiving payment to satisfy a security interest in a vehicle for which the certificate of title is ...

Duty of lienholder . A lienholder named in a certificate of title shall, upon written request of the owner or of another lienholder named on the certificate, ...

Exclusiveness of procedure . The method provided in this act of perfecting and giving notice of security interests subject to this act is exclusive. Security interests subject ...

Suspension or revocation of certificates . (a) The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke a certificate of title, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard ...

Powers of Secretary of State . (a) The Secretary of State shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, notices of security interests, and ...

Court review . A person aggrieved by an act or omission to act of the Secretary of State under this Article is also entitled to a review ...

New certificate of title for rebuilt vehicle . (a) For vehicles 8 model years of age or newer, the Secretary of State shall issue a new certificate ...

Application for title; contents . Every application for a certificate of title for a rebuilt vehicle shall be made upon a form prescribed by the Secretary of ...

Application for title - attachments . Every application for a certificate of title for a rebuilt vehicle shall be accompanied by the following: 1. The ...

Application for title - affirmation . The applicant applying for a certificate of title for a rebuilt vehicle shall sign a written affirmation which states the following: ...

Inspection fee . The fee for the inspection of a rebuilt vehicle shall be $94. All such fees received by the Secretary of State shall be ...

Retention of documents . The original documents required to be submitted to the Secretary of State pursuant to Sections 3-301 through 3-305 shall be retained by the ...

Short term permit . The Secretary of State shall issue at no charge a short term permit for any vehicle for which an application for a certificate ...

Inspection of rebuilt vehicles . (a) The Secretary of State shall inspect any vehicle 8 model years of age or newer for which an application for a ...

Definition . Notwithstanding the definition set forth in Chapter 1 of this Act, for the purposes of this Article, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed ...

Effect of provisions . (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this Chapter or to drive or move or for an ...

Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions . A. Exemptions and Policy. Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer when driven or moved upon a highway shall ...

Proportional Registration . Any owner or rental owner engaged in operating a fleet of apportionable vehicles in this state and one or more other states may, in ...

Audits . In addition to audit authority set forth in Section 2-124 of this Act, the Secretary of State, when this state is the base jurisdiction, may ...

Relation to Other State Laws . The provisions of Section 3-402.1 shall constitute complete authority for the registration of vehicles upon a proportional registration basis without reference ...

Administrative Agreements and Rules . The Secretary of State may enter into agreements, compacts, or arrangements with other jurisdictions or agents for such jurisdictions, such as the ...

Trip and Short-term permits . (a) The Secretary of State may issue a short-term permit to operate a nonregistered first or second division vehicle within the State ...

Vehicles of second division carrying persons or property - Required documents . The Secretary of State shall require an appropriate document, including but not limited to ...

Application for registration . (a) Every owner of a vehicle subject to registration under this Code shall make application to the Secretary of State for the registration ...

Application for vanity and personalized license plates . (a) Vanity license plates mean any license plates, assigned to a passenger motor vehicle of the first division, to ...

Improper plates . The Secretary of State shall refuse to issue any license plates bearing a combination of letters or numbers, or both, which creates a potential ...

Application for fleet vehicles . (a) An owner engaged in operating a fleet of motor vehicles of the first division in this State or a fleet of ...

Audits . In addition to audit authority set forth in Section 2-124 of this Code, the Secretary of State may audit the registration plates and the inventory ...

Application for specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicles . (a) In the event the vehicle to be registered is a specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicle, such ...

Temporary permit or registration pending registration . (a) Temporary Permit. The Secretary of State in his discretion may grant a temporary permit or placard to operate a ...

Grounds for refusing registration or certificate of title . The Secretary of State shall refuse registration or any transfer of registration upon any of the following ...

Registration indexes . The Secretary of State shall file each application received and when satisfied as to the genuineness and regularity thereof, and that the applicant is ...

Secretary of State to issue registration card . (a) The Secretary of State upon registering a vehicle shall issue a registration card. (b) The registration card ...

Registration card to be carried and exhibited on demand . (a) Every registration card for a vehicle of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds or ...

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 ...

Display of registration plates, registration stickers and driveway decal permits . (a) Registration plates issued for a motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, trailer, semitrailer, truck-tractor, apportioned ...

Expiration of registration . (a) Every vehicle registration under this Chapter and every registration card and registration plate or registration sticker issued hereunder to a vehicle shall ...

Term of multi-year registration plates . (a) Registration plates issued for motor vehicles shall be valid for an indefinite term of not less than one year. ...

Application for and renewal of registration . (a) Calendar year. Application for renewal of a vehicle registration shall be made by the owner, as to those vehicles ...

Notice of change of address or name . (a) Whenever any person after making application for or obtaining the registration of a vehicle shall move from the ...

Lost or damaged or stolen cards, plates and registration stickers . (a) In the event any registration card, plate, registration sticker or other Illinois evidence of proper registration ...

Registration under new identifying number . When the Secretary of State issues a new identifying number, such motor vehicle shall be registered under such identifying number in ...

Regulations governing change of motors . The Secretary of State is authorized to adopt and enforce such registration rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary and ...

Right of reassignment . (a) Every natural person shall have the right of reassignment of the license number issued to him during the current registration plate term, ...

Registration expires on transfer by owner . Whenever the owner of a registered vehicle transfers or assigns his title, or interest thereto, the registration of such vehicle ...

Transfer or return of vanity or personalized license plates . When any person who has been issued vanity or personalized license plates sells, trades or otherwise releases the ...

New owner must secure new registration . The transferee before operating or permitting the operation of such vehicle upon a highway shall apply for and obtain the ...

Transfers to dealers . When the transferee of a vehicle is a dealer who holds the same for resale and lawfully operates the same under dealers' number ...

Transfer by operation of law . Except in case of joint tenancy with the right of survivorship or surviving spouse or transfer pursuant to an order of ...

Transfer of Reciprocity Permit or Prorate Decals . Whenever the owner of a vehicle properly registered in another State transfers his interest thereto, Illinois evidence of proper ...

Operation of vehicles under special plates . (a) A manufacturer owning any unregistered vehicle of a type otherwise required to be registered under this Act may operate ...

Certificate and special plates for dealers, manufacturers, and transporters . (a) Any dealer, manufacturer, or transporter may make application to the Secretary of State upon the appropriate ...

Application for drive-away permits . (a) A dealer who has sold a vehicle of a type otherwise required to be registered under this Act to a nonresident ...

Expiration of special plates . Every special plate issued, except those issued for dealers, manufacturers and transporters under Section 3-602 and persons with disabilities under Sections 3-609 ...

Manufacturers, engine and driveline component manufacturers, transporters, repossessors and dealers to maintain records . Every manufacturer, engine and driveline component manufacturer, repossessor, transporter or dealer shall keep ...

Members of General Assembly . Upon receipt of a request of a member of the General Assembly, accompanied by the appropriate application and fee, the Secretary of ...

Retired members of the General Assembly . Upon receipt of a request from a retired member of the General Assembly, accompanied by the appropriate application and fee, ...

Amateur Radio Operators . Amateur radio operators may obtain the issuance of registration plates for motor vehicles of the first division, and second division motor vehicles under ...

Disabled Veterans' Plates . Any disabled veteran who has been or declared eligible for funds for the purchase of a motor vehicle of the first division or ...

Congressional Medal of Honor plates . Any resident of the State of Illinois who has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, or an Illinois resident who is ...

Members of Congress . Upon receiving an application for a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle from a member of the Congress of the United States ...

Retired members of the Illinois congressional delegation . Upon receipt of a request from a retired member of the Illinois congressional delegation, accompanied by the appropriate ...

Special designations . The Secretary of State, in his discretion, may make special designations of certain designs or combinations of designs, or alphabetical letters or combination of ...

Repossessor plates . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application, made on the form prescribed by the Secretary of State may issue to financial institutions, to lending ...

Special inaugural license plate . Any resident of Illinois, being a member of the Official Presidential Inaugural Committee, may, during the period from January through February 15th ...

Manufacturers of engine and driveline components . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made on the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue to ...

Honorary Consular License Plate . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made on the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue Illinois Honorary Consular ...

Disability license plates . (a) Upon receiving an application for a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle of the first division or for a motor vehicle ...

Driver education plates . A High School operating passenger cars for a high school driver training program, may operate or move the same upon the highway without ...

Charitable vehicle plates . Charitable vehicle plates shall be of such color and design as prescribed by the Secretary. The fee for such plates shall be as ...

Sample Registration plates and stickers . The Secretary of State, upon receipt of an application made on the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue to any ...

The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made on the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration plates to United States citizens, who ...

The Secretary, upon receipt of an application, made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue to members of the Illinois National Guard, special registration ...

The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue to members of the United States Armed Forces Reserves ...

Purple Heart Plates . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue to recipients awarded the Purple ...

The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue to retired members of the United States Armed Forces ...

Pearl Harbor Plates . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration plates to ...

Korean War Veteran license plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

Environmental License Plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration plates ...

Bronze Star plates . (a) Beginning January 1, 1996, in addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications ...

Collegiate license plates; scholarship fund . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

Violence prevention license plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration ...

Sportsmen Series license plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration ...

Wildlife Prairie Park license plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special ...

Universal Charitable Organization license plate . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

Illinois Fire Fighters' License Plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special ...

Master Mason plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration ...

Knights of Columbus plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special ...

D.A.R.E. license plate . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, may issue special registration ...

U.S. Veteran License Plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

Special registration plate for a president of a village or incorporated town or mayor . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made ...

Illinois and Michigan Canal plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue ...

Deceased police officer or firefighter plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may ...

Silver Star plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration ...

Mammogram license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration plates designated as ...

Police Memorial Committee license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration plates ...

Vietnam Veteran License Plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the ...

Organ Donor Awareness license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration plates ...

World War II Veteran License Plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made ...

Hospice license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration plates designated as ...

West Point Bicentennial license plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

Army Combat Veteran license plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in ...

U.S. Marine Corps license plates . (a) In addition to any other special license plate, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made ...

Chicago and Northeast Illinois District Council of Carpenters license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed ...

Pet Friendly license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may issue special registration plates designated ...

Illinois Public Broadcasting System Stations special license plates . (a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by the ...

September 11th license plates . (a) Beginning on September 11, 2002, the Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and applications made in the form prescribed by ...

Medically Required Tinted Window plates or plate stickers . The Secretary, upon receipt of an application made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, shall issue special registration ...

Operation of vehicles without evidence of registration - Operation under mileage plates when odometer broken or disconnected . No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly ...

Operation of vehicle when registration cancelled, suspended or revoked . (a) No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon any highway: ...

Improper use of evidences of registration or certificate of title . No person shall lend to another any certificate of title, registration card, registration plate, registration sticker, special ...

Authority of Secretary of State to suspend or revoke a registration or certificate of title; authority to suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle . (a) ...

Municipal vehicle tax liability; suspension of registration . (a) As used in this Section: (1) "Municipality" means a city, village or ...

Failure to satisfy fines or penalties for toll violations or evasions; suspension of vehicle registration . (a) Upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by subsection ...

Suspending or revoking certificate or special plates of a manufacturer, engine and driveline component manufacturer, transporter, repossessor or dealer . The Secretary of State is also authorized ...

Owner to return evidences of registration upon cancellation, revocation or suspension . Whenever the Secretary of State cancels or revokes the registration of a vehicle or a certificate ...

Operation of uninsured motor vehicle - penalty . (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle unless the motor vehicle is covered by a liability insurance policy ...

Operation of motor vehicle when registration suspended for noninsurance . No person shall operate a vehicle the registration of which is suspended pursuant to Section 7-606 or ...

Display of false insurance card . No person shall display evidence of insurance to a law enforcement officer, court, or officer of the court, knowing there is ...

Whenever a court convicts a person of a violation of Section 3-707, 3-708 or 3-710 of this Code, or enters an order placing on supervision the person charged ...

Registration . (a) Except as provided herein for new residents, every owner of any vehicle which shall be operated upon the public highways of this State shall, ...

Reclassifications and upgrades . (a) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: "Reclassification" ...

Reductions . (a) Reduction of fees and taxes prescribed in this Chapter shall be applicable only to vehicles newly-acquired by the owner after the beginning of a ...

Antique vehicles . (a) The owner of an antique vehicle may register such vehicle for a fee not to exceed $13 for a 2-year antique plate. ...

Custom vehicles . (a) The owner of a custom vehicle may register that vehicle for the standard registration fee for a vehicle of the first division, other ...

Street rods . (a) The owner of a street rod may register the vehicle for the standard registration fee for a vehicle of the first division, other ...

Commuter Vans . The owner of a commuter van may register such van for an annual fee not to exceed $63. The Secretary may prescribe that ...

Electric vehicles . The owner of a motor vehicle of the first division propelled by an electric engine and not utilizing motor fuel, may register such ...

Registration Fees; Motor Vehicles of the First Division . Every owner of any other motor vehicle of the first division, except as provided in Sections 3-804, 3-805, 3-806.3, ...

Additional fees for vanity license plates . In addition to the regular registration fee, an applicant shall be charged $94 for each set of vanity license plates ...

Limitations on no-fee plates . No individual shall be issued more than one pair of plates of any category for which no fee is required. The ...

Senior Citizens . Commencing with the 2004 registration year and extending through the 2005 registration year, the registration fee paid by any vehicle owner who has claimed ...

Gold Star recipients . Commencing with the 1991 registration year, upon proper application, the Secretary of State shall issue one pair of registration plates to any Illinois resident, ...

Additional fees for personalized license plates . For registration periods commencing after December 31, 2003, in addition to the regular registration fee, an applicant shall be charged ...

Victims of domestic violence . (a) The Secretary shall issue new and different license plates immediately upon request to the registered owner of a vehicle who appears ...

Busses operating within Municipality; Registration Fee . The registration fee of $13 per 2-year registration period shall be paid by the owners of 2 axle motor vehicles ...

Governmental and charitable vehicles; Registration fees . (a) A registration fee of $10 per 2 year registration period shall be paid by the owner in the following ...

(a) Permanent vehicle registration plates shall be issued, at no charge, to the following: 1 . Vehicles, other than medical transport vehicles, ...

Farm machinery, exempt vehicles and fertilizer spreaders - registration fee . (a) Vehicles of the second division having a corn sheller, a well driller, hay press, clover ...

Vehicles of second division used for transporting soil and conservation machinery and equipment-Registration fee . Not for hire vehicles of the second division used, only in the territory ...

Dealers, Manufacturers, Engine and Driveline Component Manufacturers, Transporters and Repossessors - Registration Plates . (a) Dealers, manufacturers and transporters registered under this Act may obtain registration plates ...

Tow-Truck - Registration Plates . Tow-Truck operators registered under this Act may obtain registration plates for use as provided in this Act at the rate per set ...

Drive-away and other permits - Fees . (a) Dealers may obtain drive-away permits for use as provided in this Code, for a fee of $6 per permit ...

Vehicles with Permanently Mounted Equipment - Registration Fees . Vehicles having permanently mounted equipment thereon used exclusively by the owner for the transporting of such permanently mounted ...

Vehicles of second division - Registration fee . Except as otherwise provided in this Code, all owners of vehicles of the second division which are designed, equipped ...

Semitrailer registration fees . Effective with the 1984 registration year to the end of the 1998 registration year, an owner of a semitrailer shall pay to the ...

Apportionable trailer and semitrailer fees . Beginning April 1, 1994 through March 31, 1998, an owner of an apportionable trailer or apportionable semitrailer registered under Section 3-402.1 ...

Optional registration of converter devices . (a) The Secretary of State may provide for optional registration of devices that convert a semitrailer to a trailer and are ...

Registration of fleets of semitrailers or apportionable semitrailers . The Secretary of State may provide for the registration of large fleets of semitrailers or apportionable semitrailers by ...

Registration of fleet vehicles . The Secretary may issue fleet vehicle registration plates to owners of vehicle fleets registered in accordance with Section 3-405.3 of this ...

Flat weight tax; vehicles of the second division . (a) Except as provided in Section 3-806.3, every owner of a vehicle of the second division registered under ...

Commercial distribution fee . Beginning July 1, 2003, in addition to any tax or fee imposed under this Code: (a) Vehicles of the second division with a ...

Installment Payments . (a) The flat weight tax required to be paid by Section 3-815 for any vehicles on a calendar year basis may be paid if ...

(a) Mileage weight tax option . Any owner of a vehicle of the second division may elect to pay a mileage weight tax for such vehicle in lieu ...

Trailer; Flat weight tax . (a) Farm Trailer. Any farm trailer drawn by a motor vehicle of the second division registered under paragraph (a) or (c) of ...

Duplicate Number Plates . Upon filing in the Office of the Secretary of State an affidavit to the effect that an original number plate for a vehicle is ...

Miscellaneous Registration and Title Fees . (a) The fee to be paid to the Secretary of State for the following certificates, registrations or evidences of proper registration, ...

Fees for record searches . The fee to be paid to the Secretary of State by any towing service requesting a record search shall be in the ...

Delinquent Registration Renewal Fee . For registration renewal periods beginning on or after January 1, 2005, the Secretary of State may impose a delinquent registration renewal fee of ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 76-1586. Repealed by P.A. 94-239, eff. 1-1-06.) ...

When fees returnable . (a) Whenever any application to the Secretary of State is accompanied by any fee as required by law and such application is refused ...

Applicability of fee and tax increases . The fee and tax increases in this Code made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly that apply ...

Certificate of Safety . Every application for registration of a motor vehicle which is subject to vehicle inspection may be accompanied by proof that a valid and ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.) ...

Lien for violations . Any vehicle used in violation of the provision of this Act shall be subject to a lien for the full amount of all ...

Foreclosure of Lien - Service of Processes - Notices . In any action to foreclose the lien imposed by Section 3-828 service of process on all known ...

Notice of pendency of action - Time and number of publications - Default . The notice required by Section 3-829 may be given at any time after ...

Secretary to institute suits . The Secretary of State may institute, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, a suit or suits ...

Service of Process . The operation, with the consent of the owner, upon the highways of the State of any motor vehicle of the second division shall ...

Unlawful acts . It shall be unlawful for any person to own or operate a vehicle on the public highways of this State without complying with this ...

Violations of this Chapter 3 . (a) It is unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions of this Chapter 3, except as provided in ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 88-470. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Purpose of Article . Many persons throughout the State hold themselves out to the public as being engaged in, and have engaged in, accepting money from members ...

Application of Article . This Article shall not apply to (1) any person who accepts for remittance only such sums as he is authorized to collect by ...

License . It shall be unlawful for any person, either as principal or agent, to act as a "remittance agent" in the State of Illinois without first ...

Application - Contents - Affidavits . Any person who desires to act as a "remittance agent" shall first file with the Secretary of State a written application ...

Bond; fee; duration of license . Such applicant shall, with his application, deposit with the Secretary of State a bond as hereinafter provided, for each location at ...

Denial . The Secretary of State shall deny any application under this Article upon any of the following grounds: (1) That the application contains any false ...

Suspension or revocation . Such license may be suspended or revoked by the Secretary of State for the violation of any provision of this Act or any ...

Location . A licensee may not do business at a location not set forth in his license, but the Secretary of State may issue an amended license ...

Money accepted for remittance - Obligations of licensee . Each licensee shall forward to the remittee all money accepted for remittance not later than the fifth calendar ...

Records of transactions . Each licensee shall maintain for a period of three years the following records with reference to each transaction involving a remittance: 1. ...

Examination of business . The Secretary of State or any of his representatives designated by him may examine the business of any person who acts, or may ...

Rules and regulations . The Secretary of State may make such rules, regulations, direction, orders, decisions and findings as may be necessary for the enforcement of this ...

Hearing - Subpoenas . Hearings under this Article shall be governed by Section 2-118 of this Act and the Administrative Review Law as amended, shall apply to ...

Violations - Injunction . The violation of any provision of this Act by any remittance agent may be restrained by the issuance of an injunction by ...

Any person who violates, or who aids or abets another in the violation, of any provision of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, ...

Issuance of license - Effect . The issuance of a license pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall not be construed to grant to any remittance ...

Recovery of damages . Any person who shall have been damaged by reason of the failure of any "remittance agent" to fulfill the conditions of any bond ...

A tax is hereby imposed on the privilege of using, in this State, any motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of this Code acquired by gift, transfer, ...

The purchaser shall file a return signed by the purchaser with the Department of Revenue on a form prescribed by the Department . Such return shall contain ...

Any person required to file a return under this Article who willfully files a false or incomplete return is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor . (Source: ...

For the purpose of assisting in determining the validity of the "selling price" reported on returns filed with the Department, the Department may furnish the following information to ...

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Article; to collect all taxes, penalties and interest due hereunder; to dispose of taxes, penalties and interest ...

The State Department of Revenue shall, upon collecting any taxes as provided in this Article, pay such taxes over to the General Revenue Fund . (Source: P.A. ...

The Department shall have the authority to adopt such rules and regulations as are reasonable and necessary to implement the provisions of this Article . (Source: P.A. ...

For the purposes of this Article, "Department" is the Department of Revenue of the State of Illinois . (Source: P.A. 81-2nd S.S.-3.) ...

Until July 1, 2003, a tax of $200 is hereby imposed on the purchase of any passenger car as defined in Section 1-157 of this Code, purchased in ...

The purchaser insurance company or broker for an insurance company shall file a return with the Department of Revenue on a form prescribed by the Department . ...

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Article; to collect all taxes, penalties and interest due hereunder; to dispose of taxes, penalties and interest ...

The State Department of Revenue shall, upon collecting any taxes as provided in this Article, pay such taxes over to the General Revenue Fund . (Source: P.A. ...

The Department shall have the authority to adopt such rules and regulations as are reasonable and necessary to implement the provisions of this Article . (Source: P.A. ...

For the purposes of this Article, "Department" is the Department of Revenue of the State of Illinois . (Source: P.A. 83-114.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 85-572. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Applicability of this Chapter . The provisions of this Chapter apply to all vehicles. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Offenses relating to motor vehicles and other vehicles - Misdemeanors . (a) It is a violation of this Chapter for: (1) A person, without authority to ...

Offenses relating to motor vehicles and other vehicles - Felonies . (a) Except as provided in subsection (a-1), it is a violation of this Chapter for: ...

Vehicle theft conspiracy . (a) Elements of the offense. A person commits vehicle theft conspiracy when, with intent that a violation of Section 4-103 of this Code ...

Aggravated offenses relating to motor vehicles and other vehicles-Felonies . (a) Except as provided in subsection (a-1), it is a violation of this Chapter for: (1) ...

Organizer of an aggravated vehicle theft conspiracy . (a) A person commits the offense of organizer of a vehicle theft conspiracy if: (1) the person intentionally ...

Offenses relating to possession of titles and registration . (a) It is a violation of this Chapter for: 1. A person to possess without authority any ...

Offenses relating to disposition of titles and registration . (a) It is a violation of this Chapter for: 1. a person to alter, forge, ...

Offenses relating to deletion or falsification of information on title document . (a) It is a violation of this Code for a person to knowingly, with the ...

Attempt . As defined in Section 8-4 of the Criminal Code of 1961. (Source: P.A. 81-932.) ...

Principals . It shall be a violation of the provisions of this Chapter for a person, whether present or absent, to aid, abet, induce, procure or cause ...

Stolen, converted, recovered and unclaimed vehicles . (a) Every Sheriff, Superintendent of police, Chief of police or other police officer in command of any Police department in ...

Violations of this Chapter . (a) Any person who violates or aids or abets in the violation of any of the provisions of Section 4-102, 4-103, ...

Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Program . The Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Council, is hereby authorized to establish and operate a ...

Abandonment of vehicles prohibited . (a) The abandonment of a vehicle or any part thereof on any highway in this State is unlawful and subject to penalties ...

Abandoned, lost, stolen or unclaimed vehicle notification to law enforcement agencies . When an abandoned, lost, stolen or unclaimed vehicle comes into the temporary possession or custody ...

Removal of motor vehicles or other vehicles; Towing or hauling away . (a) When a vehicle is abandoned, or left unattended, on a toll highway, interstate highway, ...

Police tows; reports, release of vehicles, payment . When a vehicle is authorized to be towed away as provided in Section 4-202 or 4-203: (a) The ...

Record searches . (a) When a law enforcement agency authorizing the impounding of a vehicle does not know the identity of the registered owner, lienholder or other ...

Identifying and tracing of vehicle ownership by Illinois State Police . When the registered owner, lienholder or other person legally entitled to the possession of a vehicle cannot ...

Reclaimed vehicles; expenses . (a) Any time before a vehicle is sold at public sale or disposed of as provided in Section 4-208, the owner, lienholder or ...

Disposal of unclaimed vehicles . (a) In cities having a population of more than 500,000, whenever an abandoned, lost, stolen or unclaimed vehicle, or vehicle determined to ...

Disposal of unclaimed vehicles more than 7 years of age; disposal of abandoned or unclaimed vehicles without notice . (a) When the identity of the registered owner, ...

Disposal of hazardous dilapidated motor vehicles . Any hazardous dilapidated motor vehicle impounded pursuant to the provisions of this Article and Section 11-40-3.1 of the Illinois Municipal ...

Collection of unpaid charges . In an action to collect towing, storage, and processing charges that remain unpaid after disposition of a vehicle towed or relocated under ...

Police reports after vehicle is reclaimed or disposed of . When a vehicle in the custody of a law enforcement agency is reclaimed by the registered owner, ...

Disposition of proceeds of sale of unclaimed vehicles . (a) When a vehicle located within the corporate limits of a city, village or town is authorized to ...

Ownership documents for vehicles after public sale - removal of liens . When an applicant for a salvage certificate or junking certificate under this Chapter presents to the ...

In cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants, the corporate authorities may, by ordinance, designate any department of municipal government to do any of the following: (1) To ...

Liability of law enforcement officers, agencies, and towing services . (a) A law enforcement officer or agency, a department of municipal government designated under Section 4-212.1 or ...

Violations of Section 4-201 . (a) Any person who violates Section 4-201 of this Code or who aids and abets in that violation: (1) shall be ...

Failure to pay fines, charges, and costs on an abandoned vehicle . (a) Whenever any resident of this State fails to pay any fine, charge, or cost ...

Rebuilt vehicles; clean titles . Persons licensed under Section 5-301 of this Code may obtain a certificate of title that does not bear the notation "REBUILT" from ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Article, the following word shall have the meaning ascribed to it as follows: Board. The Vehicle Recycling Board of ...

State policy . The General Assembly finds that abandoned and derelict vehicles: constitute a safety hazard and a public nuisance; are detrimental to the health, safety and ...

Vehicle Recycling Board . There is hereby created the Vehicle Recycling Board of the State of Illinois composed of the Secretary of Transportation, the Director of State ...

Tenure, vacancies and expenses . State officers and their designated representatives on the Board and representatives of the State agencies serving on the advisory committee, shall serve ...

Implementation and administration of policy . The Board shall consider and adopt such programs as are designed to implement and administer the policies hereinbefore expressed and within ...

Inventory, collection and disposal facilities . If not otherwise economically practicable, the Board may provide by contract with private persons or agencies, or with political subdivisions of ...

Federal aid . The Board is authorized and empowered to do all things necessary and proper to fully cooperate with any agency of the United States in ...

Funding and fees . (a) The programs initiated by the Board shall be funded by appropriations by the General Assembly to the Board. In addition to any ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: "Additional place of business" means a ...

Findings and Purpose . The General Assembly finds that: (1) crimes involving the theft of vehicles and their parts have risen steadily over the past years, with ...

New vehicle dealers must be licensed . (a) No person shall engage in this State in the business of selling or dealing in, on consignment or otherwise, ...

Motor vehicle financing affiliates; licensing . (a) In this State no business shall engage in the business of a motor vehicle financing affiliate without a license to ...

Used vehicle dealers must be licensed . (a) No person, other than a licensed new vehicle dealer, shall engage in the business of selling or dealing in, ...

Permits for off site sales and exhibitions . (a) A licensed new or used motor vehicle dealer licensed under Section 5-101 or 5-102 shall not engage in ...

(a) Every new vehicle manufacturer shall specify the delivery and preparation obligations of its vehicle dealers prior to delivery of new vehicles to retail buyers . A copy ...

(a) On and after January 1, 1976, each manufacturer of a 1976 or later model year vehicle of the first division manufactured for sale in this State, other ...

Informational labels on pickup trucks; penalty . (1) Every manufacturer of second division vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or less which are ...

Nonconforming vehicles; sale . (a) Every manufacturer shall be prohibited from reselling any motor vehicle that has been finally ordered, determined, or adjudicated as having a nonconformity ...

Disclosure of rebuilt vehicle . (a) No person shall knowingly, with intent to defraud or deceive another, sell a vehicle for which a rebuilt title has been ...

Investigation of licensee required . Every person seeking a license under Chapter 5 of this Act, as part of the application process, authorizes an investigation to determine ...

No person may keep open, operate, or assist in keeping open or operating any established or additional place of business for the purpose of buying, selling, bartering, exchanging, ...

Bond exemption . The following persons shall be exempt from the bond required in Sections 5-101 and 5-102: (1) Any person who has been continuously licensed under ...

Vehicle Referral and Marketing Services . Nothing in this Code shall be construed to prohibit a credit union, as defined in the Illinois Credit Union Act, a ...

Manufacturers and Distributors; Fees . (a) "Manufacturer" means any person who manufactures or assembles new motor vehicles either within or without of this State. (b) "Distributor" ...

Transporters must apply for in-transit plates . (a) No person shall engage in this State in the business as a transporter until such person shall apply for ...

Tow or Wrecker operators must register tow or wrecker vehicles . (a) No person in this State shall engage in the business of operating a tow truck ...

Licensing of towing services as dealers . Any towing service that sells or disposes of 5 or more vehicles in a calendar year to anyone other than ...

Automotive parts recyclers, scrap processors, repairers and rebuilders must be licensed . (a) No person in this State shall, except as an incident to the servicing of ...

Out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer must be licensed . (a) No person in this State shall sell or offer at auction salvage vehicles to a nonresident who has ...

Licensees required to keep records and make inspections . (a) Every person licensed or required to be licensed under Section 5-101, 5-101.1, 5-102, 5-301 or 5-302 ...

Scrap processors required to keep records . (a) Every person licensed or required to be licensed as a scrap processor pursuant to Section 5-301 of this Chapter ...

Use of Department of Revenue Uniform Invoice for vehicle . Every person licensed as a new vehicle dealer, as a used vehicle dealer, or as a motor ...

Use of Secretary of State Uniform Invoice for Essential Parts . (a) Except for scrap processors, every person licensed or required to be licensed under Section 5-101, ...

(1) Authorized representatives of the Secretary of State including officers of the Secretary of State's Department of Police, other peace officers, and such other individuals as the Secretary ...

Inventory System . (a) Every person licensed or required to be licensed under the provisions of Sections 5-101, 5-101.1, 5-102 and 5-301 of this Code shall, under ...

Denial, suspension or revocation or cancellation of a license . (a) The license of a person issued under this Chapter may be denied, revoked or suspended if ...

Injunctions . If any person operates in violation of any provision of this Chapter, or any rule, regulation, order or decision of the Secretary of State, or ...

Failure to obtain dealer's license, operation of a business with a suspended or revoked license . (a) Any person operating a business for which he is ...

Effect of revoked or denied license - Notification to prospective buyers - Rescinding of contracts . (a) No license shall be issued to any person to conduct ...

Credit or conditional sale of certain motor vehicles - Liability insurance status stamped on bill of sale . Whenever, in connection with the credit sale of or ...

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not more than $500 . ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Article, the following phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section: Place of business for a vehicle ...

Vehicle auctioneers to be licensed . (a) No person, other than a licensed new vehicle dealer, a licensed used vehicle dealer, or municipality, shall engage in this ...

No person shall engage in the business of auctioning any vehicles for which a salvage certificate is required by law except to a bidder who is properly licensed ...

Penalties . Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Chapter, except as otherwise indicated, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Any ...

The violation of any rule or regulation promulgated by the Office of the Secretary of State under this Chapter shall not in and of itself constitute a criminal ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (a) Application Process. The process of obtaining ...

Drivers must have licenses or permits . (a) No person, except those expressly exempted by Section 6-102, shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway in this ...

What persons are exempt . The following persons are exempt from the requirements of Section 6-101 and are not required to have an Illinois drivers license or ...

What persons shall not be licensed as drivers or granted permits . The Secretary of State shall not issue, renew, or allow the retention of any driver's ...

New residents; out-of-state revocation . (a) The Secretary of State may not issue a driver's license to a nonresident who becomes a resident of this State while ...

Classification of Driver - Special Restrictions . (a) A driver's license issued under the authority of this Act shall indicate the classification for which the applicant therefor ...

Instruction permits and temporary licenses for persons 18 years of age or older . (a) Except as provided in this Section, the Secretary of State upon receiving ...

Temporary visitor's driver's license . (a) The Secretary of State may issue a temporary visitor's driver's license to a foreign national who (i) resides in this State, ...

Application for license or instruction permit . (a) Every application for any permit or license authorized to be issued under this Act shall be made upon a ...

School bus driver permit . (a) The Secretary of State shall issue a school bus driver permit to those applicants who have met all the requirements of ...

Cancellation of school bus driver permit; trace of alcohol . (a) A person who has been issued a school bus driver permit by the Secretary of State ...

Loss of school bus driver permit privileges; failure or refusal to submit to chemical testing . Unless the loss of school bus driver permit privileges based upon consumption ...

Religious organization bus driver . A religious organization bus driver shall meet the following requirements: 1. is 21 years of age or older; 2. ...

Senior citizen transportation - driver . A driver of a vehicle operated solely for the purpose of providing transportation for the elderly in connection with the activities ...

For-profit ridesharing arrangement - driver . No person may drive a commuter van while it is being used for a for-profit ridesharing arrangement unless such person: ...

(a) Any individual, corporation, partnership or association, who through contractual arrangements with a school district transports students, teachers or other personnel of that district for compensation, shall not ...

Graduated license . (a) The purpose of the Graduated Licensing Program is to develop safe and mature driving habits in young, inexperienced drivers and reduce or prevent ...

Instruction permit for a minor . (a) The Secretary of State, upon receiving proper application and payment of the required fee, may issue an instruction permit to ...

Rules for graduated licenses . The Secretary of State, using the authority to license motor vehicle operators, may adopt such rules as may be necessary to ...

Distinct nature of driver's license dependent on age . The Secretary of State shall provide that each graduated driver's license and each regular driver's license issued to ...

Cancellation of license issued to minor . (a) The Secretary of State shall cancel the license or permit of any minor under the age of 18 years ...

Notice to Secretary; denial of license; persons under 18 . (a) The State's Attorney must notify the Secretary of the charges pending against any person younger than ...

Examination of Applicants . (a) The Secretary of State shall examine every applicant for a driver's license or permit who has not been previously licensed as a ...

Licenses issued to drivers . (a) The Secretary of State shall issue to every qualifying applicant a driver's license as applied for, which license shall bear a ...

Confidentiality of captured photographs or images . The Secretary of State shall maintain a file on or contract to file all photographs and signatures obtained in the ...

License and Permits to be carried and exhibited on demand . Every licensee or permittee shall have his drivers license or permit in his immediate possession at all ...

Restricted licenses and permits . (a) The Secretary of State upon issuing a drivers license or permit shall have the authority whenever good cause appears to impose ...

Duplicate and Corrected Licenses and Permits . In the event that a drivers license or permit issued under the provisions of this Act is lost or destroyed, ...

Expiration of driver's license . (a) Except as provided elsewhere in this Section, every driver's license issued under the provisions of this Code shall expire 4 years ...

Notice of Change of Residence Address or Legal Name . (a) Whenever any person after applying for or receiving a drivers license or permit moves from the ...

Driver's duty to report medical condition . Every driver shall report to the Secretary any medical condition, as defined by the Driver's License Medical Review Law of ...

Records to be kept by the Secretary of State . (a) The Secretary of State shall file every application for a license or permit accepted under this ...

Fees . (a) The fee for licenses and permits under this Article is as follows: Original driver's license..............................$10 Original or renewal driver's license issued ...

When fees returnable-drivers license . (a) Whenever any application to the Secretary of State is accompanied by any fee as required by law and such application is ...

Inter-agency agreement for information . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the Secretary of State shall enter into an inter-agency agreement with the Department of Children ...

Authority to cancel licenses and permits . (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to cancel any license or permit upon determining that the holder thereof: ...

Non-residents and Unlicensed Persons-Revocation and Suspension-Reporting Convictions . (a) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on highways of this State given to a nonresident hereunder and ...

Suspending or revoking license or privilege upon conviction in another state . The Secretary of State is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any resident ...

(a) The Secretary of State is authorized to suspend the driving privileges of persons arrested in another state for driving under the influence of alcohol, other drug or ...

When Court to forward License and Reports . (a) For the purpose of providing to the Secretary of State the records essential to the performance of the ...

Mandatory revocation of license or permit; Hardship cases . (a) Except as provided in this Section, the Secretary of State shall immediately revoke the license, permit, or ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 90-590, eff. 1-1-99. Repealed by P.A. 92-458, eff. 8-22-01.) ...

Suspension of driver's license of person convicted of theft of motor fuel . The driver's license of a person convicted of theft of motor fuel under Section 16J-15 ...

Discretionary authority to suspend or revoke license or permit; Right to a hearing . (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to suspend or revoke the driving ...

Judicial Driving Permit . Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared a policy of the State of Illinois that the driver who is impaired by alcohol, other drug ...

Violations relating to an ignition interlock device . (a) It is unlawful for any person whose driving privilege is restricted by being prohibited from operating a motor ...

Secretary of State may require reexamination or reissuance of a license . (a) The Secretary of State, having good cause to believe that a licensed driver or ...

Period of Suspension - Application After Revocation . (a) Except as otherwise provided by this Code or any other law of this State, the Secretary of State ...

Period of statutory summary alcohol, other drug, or intoxicating compound related suspension . (a) Unless the statutory summary suspension has been rescinded, any person whose privilege to ...

Restoration of driving privileges; persons under age 21 . (a) Unless the suspension based upon consumption of alcohol by a minor or refusal to submit to testing ...

Notice of Cancellation, Suspension or Revocation - Surrender and Return of License . The Secretary of State upon cancelling, suspending or revoking a license or permit shall immediately ...

No operation under foreign license during suspension or revocation in this State . Any resident or nonresident whose drivers license or permit or privilege to operate a motor ...

Secretary of State to Administer Act-Notices Required . (a) The Secretary of State shall administer the provisions of this Chapter and may make and enforce rules and ...

Court Review . The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern ...

Unlawful use of license or permit . (a) It is a violation of this Section for any person: 1. To display or cause to be displayed ...

Fictitious or unlawfully altered driver's license or permit . (a) As used in this Section: 1. "A fictitious driver's license or permit" means ...

Fraudulent driver's license or permit . (a) (Blank). (b) It is a violation of this Section for any person: 1. To knowingly possess any fraudulent ...

Invalidation of a driver's license or permit . (a) The Secretary of State may invalidate a driver's license or permit: (1) when the holder voluntarily surrenders ...

Making false application or affidavit - Perjury . (a) It is a violation of this Section for any person: 1. To display or present any ...

Driving while driver's license, permit or privilege to operate a motor vehicle is suspended or revoked . (a) Any person who drives or is in actual physical ...

Permitting unauthorized person to drive . No person shall cause, authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven ...

Permitting a driver under the influence to operate a motor vehicle . No person shall knowingly cause, authorize, or permit a motor vehicle owned by, or under the ...

Renting motor vehicle to another . (a) No person shall rent a motor vehicle to any other person unless the latter person, or a driver designated by ...

Unlawful subleasing of a motor vehicle . (a) It is unlawful for any person who is not a party to a lease contract, conditional sale contract, or ...

Limited liability for damage . (a) Damage to private passenger vehicle. A person who rents a motor vehicle to another may hold the renter liable to ...

License as bail . (a) Except as provided in Section 6-306.4 of this Code, any person arrested and charged with violation of Section 3-701, 3-707, or 3-710, ...

Procedures for residents of other states . (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section, any resident of another state which is a member of ...

Failure to pay fine or penalty for standing, parking, or compliance violations; suspension of driving privileges . (a) Upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by ...

Failure to pay traffic fines, penalties, or court costs . (a) Whenever any resident of this State fails to pay any traffic fine, penalty, or cost imposed ...

Failure to satisfy fines or penalties for toll violations or evasions; suspension of driving privileges . (a) Upon receipt of a certified report, as prescribed by subsection ...

Injunctions . If any person operates in violation of any provision of this Chapter, or any rule, regulation, order or decision of the Secretary of State, or ...

Driver training schools-license required . No person, firm, association, partnership or corporation shall operate a driver training school or engage in the business of giving instruction for ...

Qualifications of driver training schools . In order to qualify for a license to operate a driver training school, each applicant must: (a) be of good ...

Established Place of Business . The established place of business of each driver training school must be owned or leased by the driver training school and regularly ...

Location of Schools . The established place of business of each driver training school must be located in a district which is zoned for business or commercial ...

Restrictions of Locations . The established place of business, or branch office, branch class room or advertised address of any driver training school shall not consist of ...

Required Facilities . (a) The established place of business of each driver training school must consist of at least the following permanent facilities: (1) An office ...

Locations and State Facilities . No office or place of business of a driver training school shall be established within 1,500 feet of any building used as ...

Records . All driver training schools licensed by the Secretary of State must maintain a permanent record of instructions given to each student. The record must contain ...

Courses for students or high school dropouts; limitation . (a) No driver training school or driving training instructor licensed under this Act may request a certificate of ...

Display of License . Each driver training school must display at a prominent place in its main office all of the following: (a) The State license ...

Vehicle inspections . The Department of Transportation shall provide for the inspection of all motor vehicles used for driver training, and shall issue a safety inspection sticker ...

Qualifications of Driver Training Instructors . In order to qualify for a license as an instructor for a driving school, an applicant must: (a) Be of ...

Issuance of Licenses to Driver Training Schools and Driver Training Instructors . The Secretary of State shall issue a license certificate to each applicant to conduct a ...

Expiration of Licenses . All outstanding licenses issued to any driver training school or driver training instructor under this Act shall expire by operation of law 24 ...

Renewal of Licenses . The license of each driver training school may be renewed subject to the same conditions as the original license, and upon the payment ...

Renewal Fee . The license of each driver training instructor may be renewed subject to the same conditions of the original license, and upon the payment of ...

Licenses: Form and Filing . All applications for renewal of a driver training school license or driver training instructor's license shall be on a form prescribed by ...

Instructor's license . Each driver training instructor's license shall authorize the licensee to instruct only at or for the driver training school indicated on the license. The ...

Instructor's Records . Every licensee shall keep a record showing the name and address of each person given instruction and the instruction permit or driver's license number ...

Rules and Regulations . The Secretary is authorized to prescribe by rule standards for the eligibility, conduct and operation of driver training schools, and instructors and to ...

Denial, Cancellation, Suspension, Revocation and Failure to Renew License . The Secretary may deny, cancel, suspend or revoke, or refuse to renew any driver training school license or ...

Judicial Review . The action of the Secretary in cancelling, suspending, revoking or denying any license under this Act shall be subject to judicial review in the ...

Prior law and licenses thereunder . This Act shall not affect the validity of any outstanding license issued to any driver training school or driver training instructor ...

Deposit of fees . Fees collected under this Article shall be deposited in the Road Fund. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Injunctions . If any person operates in violation of any provision of this Article, or any rule, regulation, order, or decision of the Secretary of State established ...

Definitions of words and phrases . Notwithstanding the definitions set forth elsewhere in this Code, for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Driver's License Act (UCDLA), the words and ...

Short title . This Article may be cited as the Uniform Commercial Driver's License Act or "UCDLA". (Source: P.A. 86-845.) ...

Statement of intent and purpose . The purpose of this UCDLA is to implement the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA) (Title XII of ...

Commercial drivers - permitted only one driver's license . No person who drives a commercial motor vehicle, on the highways, shall have more than one driver's license, ...

Commercial motor vehicle drivers - reporting of traffic violations to the Secretary of State . When required by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, every ...

Commercial motor vehicle drivers - reporting of traffic violations to employer . Every person who is a domiciliary of this State or who has been issued an ...

Commercial motor vehicle drivers - other reporting requirements . All drivers of commercial motor vehicles licensed or domiciled in Illinois: (1) who have their driving ...

Commercial motor vehicle driver - duty to report certain previous employment to potential employer . Each person who applies for employment as a driver of a commercial ...

Commercial motor vehicle driver - employer/owner responsibilities . (a) No employer or commercial motor vehicle owner shall knowingly allow, permit, or authorize an employee to drive a ...

Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Required . (a) Except as expressly permitted by this UCDLA, or when driving pursuant to the issuance of a commercial driver instruction permit ...

Commercial Driver's License (CDL) - qualification standards . (a) Testing. (1) General. No person shall be issued an original ...

Non-resident commercial driver's license . (a) The Secretary of State may issue a non-resident CDL to a domiciliary of a foreign jurisdiction if the United States Secretary ...

Application for Commercial Driver's License (CDL) . (a) The application for a CDL or commercial driver instruction permit, must include, but not necessarily be limited to, the ...

Change of legal name or domiciliary address . (a) All persons to whom a CDL has been issued, shall notify the Driver Services Department of the ...

Unlawful operation of a commercial motor vehicle pursuant to a non-Illinois issued CDL . No person, after becoming a domiciliary of this State for 30 days or ...

Commercial Driver's License or CDL . The content of the CDL shall include, but not necessarily be limited to the following: (a) A CDL shall be ...

Commercial Driver's License (CDL) - Disqualifications . (a) A person shall be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for a period of not less than 12 ...

Prohibitions against a person driving a commercial motor vehicle while having any alcohol, other drug, or both in such person's system . (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions ...

Implied consent requirements for commercial motor vehicle drivers . (a) Effective April 1, 1992, any person who drives a commercial motor vehicle upon the highways is hereby ...

Commercial driver; implied consent warnings . (a) Any person driving a commercial motor vehicle who is requested by a police officer, pursuant to Section 6-516, to submit ...

Notification of Traffic Convictions . (a) Within 10 days after receiving a report of an Illinois conviction, or other verified evidence, of any driver who has been ...

Driving Record Information To Be Furnished . Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary of State shall furnish full information regarding a commercial ...

CDL disqualification or out-of-service order; hearing . (a) A disqualification of commercial driving privileges by the Secretary of State, pursuant to this UCDLA, shall not become effective ...

Rulemaking Authority . (a) The Secretary of State, using the authority to license motor vehicle operators under this Code, may adopt such rules and regulations as may ...

Authority to Enter Agreements . The Secretary of State may enter into or make agreements, arrangements, or declarations to carry out the provisions of this UCDLA. ...

Reciprocity . (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person may drive a commercial motor vehicle in this State if such person has a valid commercial ...

Penalties . (a) Every person convicted of violating any provision of this UCDLA for which another penalty is not provided shall for a first offense be guilty ...

Severability . The provisions of this UCLDA shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this UCLDA is declared to be contrary to ...

Penalties . (a) It is a petty offense for any person to violate any of the provisions of this Chapter unless such violation is by this Code ...

Definitions . As used in this compact: (a) "State" means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth ...

Findings and Declaration of Policy . (a) The party states find that: 1. The safety of their streets and highways is materially affected by the ...

Reports of Conviction . The licensing authority of a party state shall report each conviction of a person from another party state occurring within its jurisdiction to ...

Effect of Conviction . (a) The licensing authority in the home state, for the purposes of suspension, revocation or limitation of the license to operate a motor ...

Applications for New Licenses . Upon application for a license to drive, the licensing authority in a party state shall ascertain whether the applicant has ever held, ...

Applicability of Other Laws . Except as expressly required by provisions of this compact, nothing contained herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party ...

Compact Administrator and Interchange of Information . (a) The head of the licensing authority of each party state shall be administrator of this compact for his state. ...

Entry into Force and Withdrawal . (a) This compact shall enter into force and become effective as to any state when it has enacted the same into ...

Construction and Severability . (a) This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and ...

The Nonresident Violator Compact, hereinafter referred to as the Compact, is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein . (Source: ...

Findings, Declaration of Policy and Purpose . (a) The party jurisdictions find that: 1. In most instances, a motorist who is cited for a traffic ...

Definitions . In the Nonresident Violator Compact, the following words have the meanings indicated, unless the context requires otherwise. 1. "Citation" means any summons, ticket, ...

Procedure for Issuing Jurisdiction . (a) When issuing a citation for a traffic violation, a police officer shall issue the citation to a motorist who possesses a ...

Procedure for Home Jurisdiction . (a) Upon receipt of a report of a failure to comply from the Secretary, the licensing authority of the home jurisdiction shall ...

Applicability of Other Laws . Except as expressly required by provisions of this Compact, nothing contained herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party ...

Compact Administrator Procedures . (a) For the purpose of administering the provisions of this Compact and to serve as a governing body for the resolution of all ...

Entry into Compact and Withdrawal . (a) This Compact shall become effective when it has been adopted by at least 2 jurisdictions. (b) Entry into the ...

Exceptions . The provisions of this Compact shall not apply to parking or standing violations, highway weight limit violations, or to violations of law governing the transportation ...

Amendments to the Compact . (a) This Compact may be amended from time to time. Amendments shall be presented in resolution form to the Chairman of ...

Construction . This Compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes stated herein. If this Compact shall be held contrary to the Constitution ...

Short title . This Article may be cited as the Driver's License Medical Review Law of 1992. (Source: P.A. 87-1249.) ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Article: "Board" means the Driver's License Medical Advisory Board. "Medical examiner" or "medical practitioner" means ...

Driver's License Medical Advisory Board; membership; terms; compensation; meetings . (a) There is established within the Office of the Secretary of State a Driver's License Medical Advisory ...

Standard for determining medical limitation; records . (a) The Secretary in cooperation with the Board shall establish standards for determining the degree to which a person's medical ...

Referral of cases by the Secretary . The Secretary shall, when he or she has good cause to believe an individual by reason of a medical limitation ...

Medical evaluations of individuals under review; scope of driving privileges; report to the Secretary . (a) Within the scope of the case request, as sent by the ...

Request for a hearing . (a) After utilizing all possible review by the Board under this Act or any regulation promulgated by the Secretary, any person who ...

Cooperation required of person under review . (a) In making an inquiry or conducting a hearing the Secretary or Board may require the person under review to: ...

Confidential information . As provided in subsection (j) of Section 2-123 of this Code, all information furnished to the Secretary or Board, the results of all examinations ...

Rules and regulations; review under Administrative Review Law . The Secretary, in cooperation with the Board, shall administer and enforce this Act and shall have the power ...

Liability of persons for information supplied to Board or Secretary . No member of the Board, medical practitioner, clinic, hospital, or mental institution, whether public or private, ...

Information submitted by medical practitioners; police officers; State's attorneys; or members of the judiciary . Any qualified medical practitioner, commissioned police officer, State's attorney, or member of ...

Severability . The provisions of this Article are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes. (Source: P.A. 87-1249.) ...

Definition of words and phrases . Notwithstanding the definitions set forth in Chapter 1, for the purposes of this Chapter, the following words shall have the following ...

Administration of Illinois Safety and Family Financial Responsibility Law . The Secretary of State and the Department, within the scope of their respective duties and powers under this ...

Court Review . The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern ...

Application of Article II . The Administrator as soon as practicable after the receipt of the report, required to be filed under Sections 11-406 and 11-410, of ...

If the Administrator has not received a report required to be filed under Sections 11-406 and 11-410, or if the information contained in a report is insufficient, the ...

The Administrator, within 30 days after compiling sufficient information on a motor vehicle accident, shall certify to the Secretary of State the name of each owner and the ...

Administrator to itemize potential claims . The Administrator shall send by mail to the person required to deposit security an itemization of each potential claim of personal ...

Exceptions to requirements of security . (a) The requirements as to security and suspension as provided by Sections 7-201 and 7-205 shall not apply: 1. ...

Requirements as to policy or bond . No such policy or bond referred to in Section 7-202 shall be effective under this Section unless issued by an ...

Form and amount of security - Definition . (A) Any security required to be deposited under this Act shall be in the form as the Secretary of ...

Failure to deposit security - Hearings and suspensions . The Secretary of State, within 15 days after receipt of the determination of the Administrator that a deposit ...

Release from liability . (a) A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security required by Section 7-201 in the event there shall be ...

Adjudication of non-liability . A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security, required by Section 7-201 of this Act, in the event there ...

Agreements for payment of damages . (a) Any 2 or more of the persons involved in a motor vehicle accident subject to the provisions of Section 7-201 ...

Payment upon judgment . The payment of a judgment arising out of a motor vehicle accident or the payment upon such judgment of an amount equal to ...

Termination of Security Requirement . The Secretary of State, if satisfied as to the existence of any fact which under Sections 7-206, 7-207, 7-208, or 7-209 would ...

Duration of suspension . (a) Unless a suspension is terminated under other provisions of this Code, the driver's license or registration and nonresident's operating privilege suspended as ...

Authority of Administrator and Secretary of State to decrease amount of security . The Administrator may reduce the amount of security ordered in any case within one ...

Custody of security . Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this Article shall be placed by the Secretary of State in the custody of the ...

Disposition of Security . Such security shall be applicable only to the payment of a judgment or judgments, rendered against the person or persons on whose behalf ...

Matters not to be evidence in civil suits . Any action taken pursuant to this Chapter, or the Rules and Regulations adopted hereunder, or findings of the ...

Reciprocity - Residents and nonresidents - Licensing of nonresidents . (a) When a nonresident's operating privilege is suspended pursuant to Section 7-205 the Secretary of State shall transmit ...

Application of Article III . The provisions of this Article requiring the deposit of proof of financial responsibility for the future, subject to certain exemptions, shall apply ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 85-1396. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Suspension of driver's licenses, registration certificates, license plates and registration stickers for failure to satisfy judgment . (a) The Secretary of State shall, except as provided in paragraph ...

Proof required . Upon the revocation of a driver's license of any person as provided in Section 6-113, 6-205 or 6-206, the Secretary of State shall suspend ...

Suspension until proof furnished . The suspension of such certificates of registration, license plates and registration stickers of such person as provided for in Section 7-304 shall ...

Action in respect to an unlicensed driver . Whenever any person who is not a resident of this State has been convicted of an offense which would ...

Courts to report nonpayments of judgment . The clerk of a court, or the judge of a court which has no clerk shall forward to the Secretary ...

Action in respect to nonresident for nonpayment of judgment . (a) If a person, whose failure to satisfy a judgment within 30 days after the same became final ...

Suspension to continue until judgments paid and proof given . (a) The suspension of such driver's license, license plates and registration stickers shall remain in effect and ...

Petition for discharge filed in bankruptcy . A petition for discharge filed in bankruptcy following the rendering of any judgment shall relieve the judgment debtor from the ...

Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements . (a) Judgments herein referred to arising out of motor vehicle accidents occurring on or after January 1, 1956, shall for ...

Installment payment . (a) A judgment debtor upon 5 days notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the trial court in which the judgment was entered ...

Suspension required upon breach of agreement . In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installments as permitted by the order of the court upon ...

Alternate methods of giving proof . Proof of financial responsibility when required under this Article may be given by filing with the Secretary of State: 1. ...

A certificate of insurance proof . (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be made by filing with the Secretary of State the written or electronic certificate of ...

Certificate furnished by nonresident as proof . Any nonresident owner of a motor vehicle not registered in this State may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with ...

Nonresidents and former residents; when proof not required . (a) Any nonresident or former Illinois resident who (i) has met all requirements for reinstatement of his ...

"Motor vehicle liability policy" defined . (a) Certification. -A "motor vehicle liability policy", as that term is used in this Act, means an "owner's policy" or an ...

Notice of Cancellation or Termination of Certified Policy . When an insurance carrier has certified a motor vehicle liability policy or policies under this Act, it shall notify ...

This Act Not to Affect Other Policies . Sections 7-301 through 7-329, each inclusive, of this Act shall not be held to apply to or affect bonds ...

Bond as Proof . A person required to give proof of financial responsibility may file with the Secretary of State a bond, executed by the person giving ...

When Bond Shall Constitute a Lien . Such bond shall constitute a lien upon the unregistered real estate so scheduled of any surety from the time when ...

Action on Bond . If a judgment is rendered against the principal of any such surety or real estate bond upon a liability covered by the conditions ...

Money Or Securities As Proof . A person may give proof of financial responsibility by delivering to the Secretary of State a receipt of the State Treasurer ...

Application of Deposit . All money or securities so deposited shall be subject to execution to satisfy any judgment mentioned in this Act but shall not otherwise ...

Owner may give proof for others . Whenever the Secretary of State determines that any person required to give proof under this Article by reason of a ...

Substitution of proof . The Secretary of State shall cancel any bond or return any certificate of insurance, or the Secretary of State shall direct and the ...

Other proof may be required . Whenever any evidence of proof of ability to respond in damages filed under the provisions of this Article no longer fulfills ...

Duration of proof - When proof may be canceled or returned . The Secretary of State shall upon request cancel any bond or return any certificate ...

Proof of financial responsibility made voluntarily . 1. Proof of financial responsibility may be voluntarily by or on behalf of any person. The privilege of operation ...

Transfer of registration to defeat purposes of act prohibited . (a) If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the ...

Surrender of license to drive and registration . Except as otherwise provided in this Code or Article V of the Supreme Court Rules, any person whose license ...

Forged Proof . Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility for the future, or who files or offers ...

Assigned Risk Plans . If, on or before January 1, 1946, every insurance carrier authorized to write automobile bodily injury liability insurance in this State shall not ...

Self-insurers . Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by ...

Unclaimed Security Deposits . During July, annually, the Secretary shall compile a list of all securities on deposit, pursuant to this Article, for more than 3 years ...

Emergency telephone system outages; reimbursement . Any person who negligently causes a motor vehicle accident that causes an emergency telephone system outage must reimburse the public safety ...

Required liability insurance policy . (a) No person shall operate, register or maintain registration of, and no owner shall permit another person to operate, register or maintain ...

Insurance card . Every operator of a motor vehicle subject to Section 7-601 of this Code shall carry within the vehicle evidence of insurance. The evidence shall ...

Illegal insurance cards - penalty . No person shall alter an invalid insurance card to make it appear valid. No person knowingly shall make, sell or ...

Verification of liability insurance policy . (a) The Secretary of State may select random samples of registrations of motor vehicles subject to Section 7-601 of this Code, ...

Uninsured motor vehicles - notice . If the Secretary determines that an owner has registered or maintained the registration of a motor vehicle without a liability insurance ...

Uninsured motor vehicles - suspension and reinstatement . The Secretary shall suspend the vehicle registration of any motor vehicle determined by the Secretary to be in ...

Submission of false proof - penalty . If the Secretary determines that the proof of insurance submitted by a motor vehicle owner under Section 7-604, 7-605 or ...

Verification-limitation . No verification procedure established under this Code shall include individual inspections of vehicles on a highway solely for the purpose of verifying the existence ...

Exemption for certain religious organizations . (a) Pursuant to the following minimum criteria, the Secretary may exempt from the provisions of Section 7-601 of this Code motor ...

Immunity . No state or local governmental unit and no government official or employee acting in the course of his or her official duties in the administration ...

(Repealed .) (Source: Repealed by 88-315.) ...

Findings and purpose . The General Assembly finds that the timely receipt of adequate financial support has the effect of reducing poverty and State expenditures for welfare ...

Suspension of driver's license for failure to pay child support . (a) The Secretary of State shall suspend the driver's license issued to an obligor upon receiving ...

Family financial responsibility driving permits . Following the entry of an order that an obligor has been found in contempt by the court for failure to pay court ...

Written agreement to pay past-due support . (a) An obligor who is presently unable to pay all past-due support and is subject to having his or her ...

Courts to report non-payment of court ordered support . (a) The clerk of the circuit court, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 505 of the Illinois ...

Suspension to continue until compliance with court order of support . (a) The suspension of a driver's license shall remain in effect unless and until the Secretary ...

Notice . The Secretary of State, prior to suspending a driver's license under this Chapter, shall serve written notice upon an obligor that the individual's driver's license ...

Notice of noncompliance with support order . Before forwarding to the Secretary of State the authenticated document under subsection (b) of Section 7-703, the circuit court must ...

Administrative hearing . A driver may contest this driver's license sanction by requesting an administrative hearing in accordance with Section 2-118 of this Code. If a ...

Hearing for compliance with support order . (a) An obligor may request in writing to the clerk of the circuit court a hearing to contest the claim ...

Payment of reinstatement fee . When an obligor receives notice from the Secretary of State that the suspension of driving privileges has been terminated based upon receipt ...

Rules . The Secretary of State, using the authority to license motor vehicle operators, may adopt such rules as may be necessary to establish standards, policies, and ...

Proof of financial responsibility - Persons who operate motor vehicles in transportation of passengers for hire . (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation ...

Proof of financial responsibility - Persons who operate medical transport vehicles . It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, other than a unit of local government, ...

Alternate methods of giving proof . Proof of financial responsibility, when required under Section 8-101 or 8-101.1, may be given by filing with the Secretary of State ...

Bond as proof of financial responsibility . 1. A bond of the owner of motor vehicles, subject to the provisions of Section 8-101 or 8-101.1, with a ...

Requirements of bond . 1. A surety bond or real estate bond filed as proof as provided in Section 8-103 shall be in the sum of $250,000 ...

Action on bond . The surety bond shall, by its terms, inure to the benefit of the person recovering any such judgment, and shall provide that an ...

Withdrawal by sureties from bond - Notice . Any surety or sureties may withdraw from any such bond by serving ten days previous notice in writing upon ...

Authority to require replacement of bond . If, at any time, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, said bond is not sufficient for any good ...

Insurance policy as bond . A policy of insurance in a solvent and responsible company authorized to do business in the State of Illinois, and having admitted ...

Requirements of policy . 1. The policy of insurance may cover one or more motor vehicles and for each such vehicle shall insure such owner ...

Cancellation of insurance policy - Notice . 1. In the event said policy of insurance be cancelled by the issuing company, or the authority of said issuing ...

Proof required after cancellation . If, at any time, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, said policy of insurance is not sufficient for any good ...

When bond on policy to expire . All bonds and policies of insurance filed with the Secretary of State, under this Act, shall expire not sooner than ...

Secretary of State to suspend registration certificates, registration plates and registration sticker when bond or policy cancelled or withdrawn . In the event that a bond or policy ...

Issuance of license upon proof of financial responsibility . The Secretary of State shall issue to each person who has in effect proof of financial responsibility ...

Display of certificate-Enforcement . The certificate issued pursuant to Section 8-114 shall be displayed upon a window of the motor vehicle for which it was issued, in ...

Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this Chapter, or who fails to obey, observe or comply with any order of the Secretary ...

Owner of for-rent motor vehicle to give proof of financial responsibility . For purposes of this Chapter, "for rent" means any transfer of the possession of or right ...

Alternate methods of giving proof of financial responsibility . Proof of financial responsibility when required under Section 9-101 may be given by the following methods. By filing ...

Bond as proof - requirements . A motor vehicle liability bond, conditioned that the owner of the motor vehicle will pay any judgment within 30 days after ...

Withdrawal of sureties-Notice . Any surety may withdraw from the bond by serving ten days previous notice in writing, either personally or by registered mail, upon the ...

Insurance policy as proof - requirements . A motor vehicle liability policy in a solvent and responsible company, authorized to do business in the State of Illinois, ...

Cancellation of policy - Notices . The policy shall provide that the insurance carrier may cancel it by serving 10 days' previous notice in writing, either personally ...

Authority to require replacement of bond . If, at any time, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, the liability policy filed hereunder, is not sufficient ...

Application for approval of insurance policy or bond required . Every person desiring to engage in the business of renting out a motor vehicle, to be operated ...

Secretary of State to cancel certificate and to suspend license plates and registration stickers when bond or policy cancelled or withdrawn . (a) If any insurance policy ...

Penalties for violations of this Act . Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this Chapter, or who fails to obey, observe or comply ...

Insurance . (a) Any public entity or corporation may insure against the liability imposed by law and may insure persons who are legally entitled to recover damages ...

Liability for bodily injury to or death of guest . No person riding in or upon a motor vehicle or motorcycle as a guest without payment for ...

Liability of employer in regard to ridesharing . (a) An employer shall not be liable for injuries to passengers and other persons resulting from the operation or ...

Service of process on non-resident . (a) The use and operation by any person or his duly authorized agent or employee of a vehicle over or upon ...

Definition of Administrator . For the purposes of this Chapter, "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Illinois Safety and Family Financial Responsibility Law in Chapter 7 of ...

Provisions of act refer to vehicles upon the highways-Exceptions . The provisions of this Chapter relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of ...

Required obedience to traffic laws . It is unlawful and, unless otherwise declared in this Chapter with respect to particular offenses, it is a petty offense for ...

Obedience to police officers . No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer, fireman, or school ...

Fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer . (a) Any driver or operator of a motor vehicle who, having been given a visual or audible signal ...

Aggravated fleeing or attempt to elude a peace officer . (a) The offense of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer is committed by any ...

Public officers and employees to obey Act-Exceptions . (a) The provisions of this Chapter applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the highways shall apply to the ...

Traffic laws apply to persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles . Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be ...

Provisions of this Chapter uniform throughout State . The provisions of this Chapter shall be applicable and uniform throughout this State and in all political subdivisions and ...

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 ...

Uniformity . The provisions of this Chapter of this Act, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by any State Officer, Office, Agency, Department or ...

Limitation on home rule units . The provisions of this Chapter of this Act limit the authority of home rule units to adopt local police regulations inconsistent ...

Administrative adjudication of violations of traffic regulations concerning the standing, parking, or condition of vehicles . (a) Any municipality may provide by ordinance for a system of ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by internal repealer, eff. 12-31-94.) ...

Prosecution of felony DUI by local authorities prohibited . (a) The powers of a local authority to enact or enforce any ordinance or rule with respect to ...

Powers of municipalities and counties - Contract with school boards, hospitals, churches, condominium complex unit owners' associations, and commercial and industrial facility, shopping center, and apartment complex owners ...

Powers of local authorities - enforcing the provisions of this Code on private streets and roads . (a) Any person or board of directors owning, operating or representing ...

This Chapter not to interfere with rights of owners of real property with reference thereto . Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent the owner ...

Local Laws . No owner of a motor vehicle shall be limited as to speed upon any public place, at any time when the same is or ...

Traffic stop statistical study . (a) From January 1, 2004 until December 31, 2007, whenever a State or local law enforcement officer issues a uniform traffic citation ...

Department to adopt sign manual . (a) The Department shall adopt a State manual and specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices consistent with this Chapter ...

Beginning July 1, 1988, all signs erected and used to designate the reservation of parking facilities for a person with disabilities shall be in a form and manner ...

Authority to designate through highway and stop and yield intersections . (a) The Department with reference to State highways under its jurisdiction, and local authorities with reference ...

The Department to place signs on all State highways . (a) The Department shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to its manual and specifications on ...

Local traffic-control devices; tourist oriented businesses signs . Local authorities in their respective maintenance jurisdiction shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices upon highways under their maintenance ...

Obedience to and required traffic-control devices . (a) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed or held ...

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, ...

Pedestrian-control signals . Whenever special pedestrian-control signals exhibiting the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk" or the illuminated symbols of a walking person or an upraised palm are ...

Lane-control signals . Whenever lane-control signals are used in conjunction with official signs, they shall have the following meanings: (a) Downward-pointing green arrow. A driver facing ...

Flashing Signals . Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in conjunction with a traffic control device it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic ...

Display of Unauthorized Signs, Signals or Markings . (a) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, ...

Interference with official traffic-control devices or railroad signs or signals . No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, ...

Unlawful Use or Damage to Highways, Appurtenances and Structures . It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or damage any public highway or street ...

Unlawful possession of highway sign or marker . The Department and local authorities, with reference to traffic control signs, signals, or markers owned by the Department or ...

Motor vehicle accidents involving death or personal injuries . (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting in personal injury to or ...

Motor vehicle accident involving damage to vehicle . (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle ...

Duty to give information and render aid . The driver of any vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting in injury to or death of any ...

Duty upon damaging unattended vehicle or other property . The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in a motor vehicle accident with any ...

Duty to report accident . (a) The driver of a vehicle that is in any manner involved in an accident within this State, resulting in injury to ...

Immediate notice of accident . (a) The driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident described in Section 11-406 of this Chapter ...

Police to report motor vehicle accident investigations . (a) Every law enforcement officer who investigates a motor vehicle accident for which a report is required by this ...

False motor vehicle accident reports or notices . Any person who provides information in an oral or written report required by this Code with knowledge or reason ...

When driver fails to report a motor vehicle accident . Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required written accident report and ...

Accident report forms . (a) The Administrator must prepare and upon request supply to police departments, sheriffs and other appropriate agencies or individuals, forms for written accident ...

Motor vehicle accident reports confidential . All required written motor vehicle accident reports and supplemental reports shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall ...

Coroners to report . All coroners shall on or before the 10th day of each month report in writing to the Administrator the death of any person ...

Department to tabulate and analyze motor vehicle accident reports . The Department shall tabulate and may analyze all written motor vehicle accident reports received in compliance with this ...

Municipalities may require traffic accident reports . Municipalities may by ordinance require that the driver or owner of a vehicle involved in a traffic accident file with ...

Furnishing copies - Fees . The Department of State Police may furnish copies of an Illinois State Police Traffic Accident Report that has been investigated by the ...

Definitions . For the purposes of interpreting Sections 6-206.1 and 6-208.1 of this Code, "first offender" shall mean any person who has not had a previous conviction ...

Immunity . (a) A person authorized under this Article to withdraw blood or collect urine shall not be civilly liable for damages when the person, in good ...

Driving while under the influence of alcohol, other drug or drugs, intoxicating compound or compounds or any combination thereof . (a) A person shall not drive or ...

Suspension of drivers license; statutory summary alcohol, other drug or drugs, or intoxicating compound or compounds related suspension; implied consent . (a) Any person who drives or ...

Chemical and other tests . (a) Upon the trial of any civil or criminal action or proceeding arising out of an arrest for an offense as defined ...

Admissibility of chemical tests of blood conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment . (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the results of ...

Reporting of test results of blood or urine conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment . (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the ...

Preliminary Breath Screening Test . (a) If a law enforcement officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that a person is violating or has violated Section 11-501 or ...

Driver involvement in personal injury or fatal motor vehicle accident - chemical test . (a) Any person who drives or is in actual control of a motor ...

(a) As a condition of probation or discharge of a person convicted of a violation of Section 11-501 of this Code, who was less than 21 years of ...

Suspension of driver's license; persons under age 21 . (a) A person who is less than 21 years of age and who drives or is in actual ...

Transportation or possession of alcoholic liquor in a motor vehicle . (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c), no driver may transport, carry, possess or have any ...

Reckless driving; aggravated reckless driving . (a) A person commits reckless driving if he or she: (1) drives any vehicle with a willful or ...

Drag racing . Any person who, as an operator of a motor vehicle, is convicted of being a participant in drag racing shall be guilty of a ...

No person shall operate any motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause or allow to be emitted squealing, screeching or other such noise from the vehicle's ...

General speed restrictions . (a) No vehicle may be driven upon any highway of this State at a speed which is greater than is reasonable and proper ...

Driving 40 miles per hour or more in excess of applicable limit . A person who drives a vehicle upon any highway of this State at a ...

Alteration of limits by Department . Whenever the Department determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation concerning any highway for which the Department ...

Alteration of limits by Toll Highway Authority . Whenever the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation concerning ...

Alteration of limits by local authorities . Subject to the limitations set forth in this Section, the county board of a county may establish absolute maximum speed ...

Special speed limit while passing schools . (a) For the purpose of this Section, "school" means the following entities: (1) A public or private primary or ...

Special limit while traveling through a highway construction or maintenance speed zone . (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle in a construction ...

Delegation of authority to set a special speed limit while traveling through highway construction or maintenance zones . (a) A local agency may delegate to its superintendent ...

Minimum speed regulation . (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement ...

Special speed limitation on elevated structures . (a) No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway ...

Charging Violations and Rule in Civil Actions . (a) In every charge of violation of any speed regulation in this article the complaint, and also the ...

No person shall drive or operate any motor vehicle on any street or highway in this State where the minimum allowable speed on that street or highway, as ...

Drive on right side of roadway - Exceptions . (a) Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the ...

Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions . Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon roadways having width for ...

Overtaking a vehicle on the left . The following rules govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions, ...

When overtaking on the right is permitted . (a) The driver of a vehicle with 3 or more wheels may overtake and pass upon the right of ...

Limitations on overtaking on the left . No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another ...

Further limitations on driving to the left of center of roadway . (a) No vehicle shall be driven on the left side of the roadway under ...

No-passing zones . (a) The Department and local authorities are authorized to determine those portions of any highway under their respective jurisdictions where overtaking and passing or ...

One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands . (a) The Department and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may designate any highway, roadway, part ...

Driving on roadways laned for traffic . Whenever any roadway has been divided into 2 or more clearly marked lanes for traffic the following rules in addition ...

(a) Vehicles shall be driven on a roadway, and shall only be driven on the shoulder for the purpose of stopping or accelerating from a stop while merging ...

Following too closely . (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard ...

Restrictions on use of controlled access highway . (a) No person may drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at entrances and exits ...

Required position and method of turning . (a) The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows: (1) Both ...

Limitations on U turns . (a) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such movement ...

Starting parked vehicle . No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped, standing, or parked unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. ...

When signal required . (a) No person may turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in ...

Signal by hand or arm or signal device . Any stop or turn signal when required herein shall be given either by means of the hand and ...

Method of giving hand and arm signals . All signals herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle ...

Vehicles approaching or entering intersection . (a) When 2 vehicles approach or enter an intersection from different roadways at approximately the same time, the driver of the ...

Vehicles approaching or entering a "T" intersection . The driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection of a highway from a highway which terminates at the ...

Vehicle turning left . The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left within an intersection or into an alley, private road, or driveway shall ...

Vehicles entering stop crosswalk . Where stop signs or flashing red signals are in place at an intersection or flashing red signals are in place at a ...

Vehicle entering stop or yield intersection . (a) Preferential right-of-way at an intersection may be indicated by stop or yield signs as authorized in Section 11-302 of ...

Merging traffic . Not withstanding the right of way provision in Sec. 11-901 of this Act, at an intersection where traffic lanes are provided for merging traffic ...

Vehicle entering highway from private road or driveway . The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from an alley, building, private road ...

Operation of vehicles and streetcars on approach of authorized emergency vehicles . (a) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and ...

Vehicle approaching or entering a highway construction or maintenance area or zone . (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any ...

Pedestrian obedience to traffic control devices and traffic regulations . (a) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device specifically applicable to him, ...

Pedestrians' right-of-way at crosswalks . (a) When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, ...

Crossing at other than crosswalks . (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at ...

Drivers to exercise due care . Notwithstanding other provisions of this Code or the provisions of any local ordinance, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due ...

Pedestrian with disabilities; right-of-way . The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian with clearly visible disabilities. (Source: P.A. 88-685, eff. 1-24-95.) ...

Motorized wheelchairs . Every person operating a motorized wheelchair upon a sidewalk or roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all the ...

Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalks . Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Electric personal assistive mobility devices . Every person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device upon a sidewalk or roadway has all the rights and is ...

Pedestrians soliciting rides or business . (a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle. ...

Pedestrians walking on highways . (a) Where a sidewalk is provided and its use is practicable, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along ...

Right-of-way on sidewalks . The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian on a sidewalk. (Source: P.A. 79-857.) ...

Pedestrians yield to authorized emergency vehicles . Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of an audible signal and visual signals meeting ...

Pedestrians under influence of alcohol or drugs . A pedestrian who is under the influence of alcohol or any drug to a degree which renders himself a ...

Bridge and railroad signals . (a) No pedestrian shall enter or remain upon any bridge or approach thereto beyond the bridge signal, gate, or barrier after a ...

Passing street car on left . (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass upon the left nor drive upon the left side of ...

Passing street car on right . The driver of a vehicle overtaking upon the right any street car stopped or about to stop for the purpose of ...

Driving on street car tracks . (a) The driver of any vehicle proceeding upon any street car track in front of a street car upon a street ...

Driving through safety zone prohibited . No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety zone. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...

Obedience to signal indicating approach of train . (a) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing such person must exercise due care and ...

Automated Railroad Crossing Enforcement System . (a) For the purposes of this Section, an automated railroad grade crossing enforcement system is a system operated by a law ...

Certain vehicles must stop at all railroad grade crossings . (a) The driver of any of the following vehicles shall, before crossing a railroad track or tracks ...

Moving heavy equipment at railroad grade crossing . (a) No person shall operate or move any crawler-type tractor, power shovel, derrick, roller, or any equipment or structure ...

Stop and yield signs . (a) Preferential right-of-way at an intersection may be indicated by stop signs or yield signs as authorized in Section 11-302 of this ...

Emerging from alley, building, or private road or driveway . The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, building, private road or driveway within an urban ...

Stopping, standing or parking outside of business or residence district . (a) Outside a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any ...

Persons with disabilities - Parking privileges - Exemptions . A motor vehicle bearing registration plates issued to a person with disabilities, as defined by Section 1-159.1, pursuant ...

Special decals for a person with disabilities parking . (a) The Secretary of State shall provide for, by administrative rules, the design, size, color, and placement of ...

Unauthorized use of parking places reserved for persons with disabilities . (a) It shall be prohibited to park any motor vehicle which is not properly displaying registration ...

Reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions . The Secretary of State, or his designee, may enter into agreements with other jurisdictions, including foreign jurisdictions, on behalf of this ...

Fictitious or unlawfully altered disability license plate or parking decal or device . (a) As used in this Section: "Fictitious disability license plate or parking ...

Fraudulent disability license plate or parking decal or device . (a) As used in this Section: "Fraudulent disability license plate or parking ...

Appointed volunteers and contracted entities; disabled person parking violations . (a) The chief of police of a municipality and the sheriff of a county authorized to enforce ...

Officers authorized to remove vehicles . (a) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle in violation of any of the provisions of Section 11-1301 such officer ...

Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places . (a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions ...

Additional parking regulations . (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or ...

Parking of vehicle with expired registration . No person may stop, park, or leave standing upon a public street, highway, or roadway a vehicle upon which is ...

Lessors of visitor vehicles - Duty upon receiving notice of violation of this Article or local parking regulation . Every person in whose name a vehicle is registered ...

Parking liability of lessor . No person who is the lessor of a vehicle pursuant to a written lease agreement shall be liable for the violation of ...

Unattended motor vehicles . No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ...

Limitations on backing . (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without interfering ...

Riding on motorcycles . (a) A person operating a motorcycle shall ride only upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and such operator shall not carry ...

Riding on motorized pedalcycles . (a) The operator of a motorized pedalcycle shall ride only astride the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and shall not permit ...

No person shall operate a motorcycle, motor driven cycle, or motorized pedalcycle on one wheel . (Source: P.A. 85-830.) ...

Intercom helmets . Any driver of a vehicle defined in Section 1-145.001, 1-147, or 1-148.2 of this Code may use a helmet equipped with an electronic intercom ...

Special equipment for persons riding motorcycles, motor driven cycles or motorized pedalcycles . (a) The operator of a motorcycle, motor driven cycle or motorized pedalcycle and every ...

Required equipment on motorcycles . Any motorcycle carrying a passenger, other than in a sidecar or enclosed cab, shall be equipped with footrests for such passenger. ...

Obstruction of driver's view or driving mechanism . (a) No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front ...

Opening and closing vehicle doors . No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless and until it is ...

Riding in house trailers . No person or persons shall occupy a house trailer, travel trailer while it is being towed upon a public highway. (Source: ...

Driving on mountain highways . The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold such motor vehicle under control ...

Coasting prohibited . (a) The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the gears or transmission of such vehicle ...

Following fire apparatus prohibited . The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a ...

Crossing fire hose . No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private road or driveway ...

Driving upon sidewalk . No person shall drive any vehicle upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area except upon a permanent or duly authorized temporary driveway. This ...

Operating an electric personal assistive mobility device on a public sidewalk . A person may not operate an electric personal assistive mobility device upon a public sidewalk ...

Depositing material on highway prohibited . (a) No person shall throw, spill or deposit upon any highway any bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or any litter ...

Approaching, overtaking, and passing school bus . (a) The driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus ...

School transportation of students . (a) Every student enrolled in grade 12 or below in any entity listed in paragraph (a) of Section 1-182 of this Code ...

School buses stopping, loading and discharging passengers on one-way roadways on highways having 4 or more lanes . (a) A school bus traveling on a one-way roadway or ...

Obstructing person in highways . No person shall wilfully and unnecessarily hinder, obstruct or delay, or wilfully and unnecessarily attempt to delay, hinder or obstruct any other ...

Travel regulated . It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or cause to be driven a vehicle of any description in or upon any portion ...

Farm tractor operation regulated . No person shall operate a farm tractor on a highway unless the tractor is being used as an implement of husbandry in ...

Operation of motor vehicles - Duration - Exceptions . It is unlawful for any owner to require, permit or allow any operator of any of his motor ...

Operating without a valid single trip permit . If a single trip permit is required by Section 13a.5 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law, a motor carrier ...

Failure to display a valid motor fuel use tax license . (a) If required by Section 13a.4 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law, every valid motor fuel ...

Failure to Display Valid External Motor Fuel Use Tax Decals . (a) Except as provided in the Motor Fuel Tax Law, a motor carrier shall not operate ...

Failure to carry a manifest . Any person who acts as a motor carrier and who fails to carry a manifest as provided in Section 5.5 of ...

A motor carrier shall not operate or cause to be operated a commercial motor vehicle upon the highways of this State with a revoked motor fuel use tax ...

Funeral processions . (a) Funeral processions have the right-of-way at intersections when vehicles comprising such procession have their headlights lighted, subject to the following conditions and ...

Conditions for operating ambulances and rescue vehicles . (a) No person shall operate an ambulance or rescue vehicle in a manner not conforming to the motor vehicle ...

Illegal operation of an ambulance or rescue vehicle - Penalty . A person who operates an ambulance or rescue vehicle in violation of Section 11-1421 shall be subject ...

Passengers boarding or exiting a school bus . (a) At all pick-up points where it is necessary for a school bus passenger to cross the roadway to ...

Operation of a religious organization bus . (a) No religious organization bus may be operated on any street or highway unless all passengers, except for supervisory personnel, ...

Stop when traffic obstructed . (a) No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk or drive onto any railroad grade crossing unless there is sufficient ...

Operation of all-terrain vehicles and off-highway motorcycles on streets, roads and highways . (a) Except as provided under this Section, it shall be unlawful for any person ...

Operation of neighborhood electric vehicles on streets, roads, and highways . (a) As used in this Section, "neighborhood electric vehicle" means a self-propelled, electronically powered four-wheeled motor ...

Illegal operation of an all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle . It is unlawful for any person to drive or operate any all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle in the ...

Operation of an all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle on ice . All-terrain vehicles and off-highway motorcycles may be operated on the frozen waters of this State subject ...

Special all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle event . Nothing contained in Section 11-1426, 11-1427, or 11-1427.1 shall be construed to prohibit any local authority of this State from ...

Rules for all-terrain vehicles and off-highway motorcycles . The Department of Natural Resources may adopt rules to implement and administer the provisions of Sections 11-1426, 11-1427, 11-1427.1, and ...

Signal from officer to stop . An all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle operator, after having received a visual or audible signal from a law enforcement officer to ...

Operation of golf carts on streets, roads and highways . (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive ...

Application of rules . (a) It is unlawful for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in Article XV of ...

Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles . Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject ...

Riding on bicycles . (a) A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto. (b) ...

Clinging to vehicles . No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon ...

Position of bicycles and motorized pedal cycles on roadways -Riding on roadways and bicycle paths . (a) Any person operating a bicycle or motorized pedal cycle upon a ...

Persons riding bicycles or motorized pedal cycles upon a roadway shall not ride more than 2 abreast, except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for their ...

Carrying articles . No person operating a bicycle shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the use of both hands in the control and operation ...

Lamps and other equipment on bicycles . (a) Every bicycle when in use at nighttime shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit ...

Lamps on motorized pedalcycles . Every motorized pedalcycle, when in use at nighttime, shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white ...

Bicycle identifying number . A person engaged in the business of selling bicycles at retail shall not sell any bicycle unless the bicycle has an identifying number ...

Inspecting bicycles . A uniformed police officer may at any time upon reasonable cause to believe that a bicycle is unsafe or not equipped as required by ...

Left Turns . (a) A person riding a bicycle or motorized pedalcycle intending to turn left shall follow a course described in Section 11-801 or in paragraph ...

Turn and stop signals . (a) Except as provided in this Section, a person riding a bicycle shall comply with Section 11-804. (b) A signal of ...

Bicycles on sidewalks . (a) A person propelling a bicycle upon and along a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, shall yield the ...

Bicycle parking . (a) A person may park a bicycle on a sidewalk unless prohibited or restricted by an official traffic-control device. (b) A bicycle parked ...

Bicycle racing . (a) Bicycle racing on a highway shall not be unlawful when a racing event has been approved by State or local authorities on any ...

No person, firm, or corporation shall operate a commercial bicycle messenger service in a city with a population of more than 2,000,000 unless the bicycles used are covered ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 83-1473. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Scope and effect of equipment requirements . (a) It is unlawful for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit ...

When lighted lamps are required . (a) When operated upon any highway in this State, every motorcycle shall at all times exhibit at least one lighted lamp, ...

Clearance, identification and side marker lamps . (a) Every motor vehicle of the second division, the length of which together with any trailer or trailers in tow ...

Lamps on parked vehicles . (a) During the period from sunset to sunrise every motorcycle or motor vehicle which is standing on any highway shall display a ...

Lamp or flag on projecting load . Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear 4 feet, or more beyond the bed or body of ...

Lamps on other vehicles and equipment . Every vehicle, including animal drawn vehicles, referred to in paragraph (b) of Section 12-101, not specifically required by the provisions ...

Implements of husbandry or slow-moving vehicles-Display of amber signal lamp . Every animal drawn vehicle, farm tractor, implement of husbandry and special mobile equipment, except when used for ...

Spot lamps and auxiliary driving lamps . (a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one spot lamp and every lighted spot lamp shall ...

Signal lamps and signal devices . (a) Every vehicle other than an antique vehicle displaying an antique plate operated in this State shall be equipped with a ...

Additional Lighting Equipment . (a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than 2 side cowl or fender lamps which shall emit an amber or ...

Use of head lamps and auxiliary driving lamps . (a) Whenever the driver of any vehicle equipped with an electric driving head lamp, driving head lamps, auxiliary ...

Number of driving lamps required or permitted . (a) At all times specified in Section 12-201, at least 2 lighted driving lamps shall be displayed, one on ...

Special restrictions on lamps . (a) No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any highway with any lamp or device on the vehicle ...

Special lighting equipment on rural mail delivery vehicles . If a rural mail delivery vehicle is equipped with special signal lamps, there shall be displayed to the ...

Tow trucks meeting federal motor carrier safety requirements; lighting and signalling equipment . Any tow truck that meets the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations ...

Oscillating, rotating or flashing lights on motor vehicles . Except as otherwise provided in this Code: (a) The use of red or white oscillating, rotating or flashing ...

Operation of oscillating, rotating or flashing lights . Oscillating, rotating or flashing lights located on or within police vehicles in this State shall be lighted whenever a ...

Special lighting equipment for interstate transportation authority . (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, an interstate transportation authority, as defined in this Section, in addition ...

Brakes . (a) Brake equipment required. 1. Every motor vehicle, other than a motor-driven cycle and ...

Brake fluid . No person shall sell, offer for sale or distribute brake fluid for use on motor vehicles for repair purposes unless such fluid conforms to ...

Restriction as to tire equipment . No metal tired vehicle, including tractors, motor vehicles of the second division, traction engines and other similar vehicles, shall be operated over ...

Sale or lease of siped or regrooved pneumatic tire . No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use on ...

Sale or lease of retreaded or "recapped" pneumatic tire . No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use ...

Sale or lease of pneumatic tire without marking . No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use on a ...

Operating condition of pneumatic tires . (a) Definition. The term "spare tire" as used in this Section 12-405 means any new, used or specially constructed tire that ...

Rules and regulations . The Department may promulgate rules and regulations to clarify or specify the requirements of this Article IV. (Source: P.A. 83-213.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P. A. 77-37. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Windshields and safety glazing material in motor vehicles . (a) Every motor vehicle operated upon the highways of this State shall be equipped with a front windshield ...

Mirrors . Every motor vehicle, operated singly or when towing another vehicle, shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the driver a ...

Windshields must be unobstructed and equipped with wipers . (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any sign, poster, window application, reflective material, nonreflective material ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 86-498. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Horns and warning devices . (a) Every motor vehicle when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of ...

Traffic control signal preemption devices . (a) As used in this Section, "traffic control signal preemption device" means any device, either mechanical or electrical, that emits a ...

Traffic control signal preemption devices; ambulances . (a) In a county with a population of 2,000,000 or more, subject to appropriation, any ambulance owned or operated ...

Mufflers, prevention of noise . Every motor vehicle driven or operated upon the highways of this State shall at all times be equipped with an adequate muffler ...

Seat safety belts . (a) No person shall sell any 1965 or later model motor vehicle of the first division unless the front seat of such motor ...

Driver and passenger required to use safety belts, exceptions and penalty . (a) Each driver and front seat passenger of a motor vehicle operated on a street ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 88-415. Repealed by P.A. 94-185, eff. 1-1-06.) ...

Video devices . (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle if a television receiver, a video monitor, a television or video screen, or any other ...

Taxicabs-Bullet proof shields . In municipalities with 1,000,000 or more population, any taxicab manufactured, owned or operated after September 1, 1970, and regularly operated in such a ...

(a) On or after two years from the effective date of this Act, no bus which was first placed in service after July 1, 1969, or which has ...

Beginning 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1988, no person shall consume any food or drink, excluding any medicine, upon any bus operated ...

Tow-trucks; identification; equipment; insurance . (a) Every tow-truck, except those owned by governmental agencies, shall have displayed on each side thereof, a sign with letters not less ...

Suspension System . (a) It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle on any highway of this State when the suspension system has been modified from ...

Frame and floor height . (a) No person shall operate upon a highway a first division vehicle which has a clearance between the frame and ground ...

Bumpers . (a) It shall be unlawful to operate any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 9,000 pounds or less or any motor vehicle ...

(a) No official or employee of the State, any political subdivision thereof, any county, municipality, or local authority, and no owner or employee of any new vehicle dealer, ...

Headset receivers . (a) Except as provided under Section 11-1403.3, no driver of a motor vehicle on the highways of this State shall wear headset receivers while ...

Wireless telephones . (a) As used in this Section, "wireless telephone" means a device that is capable of ...

Registration plate covers . (a) In this Section, "registration plate cover" means any tinted, colored, painted, marked, clear, or illuminated object that is designed to: (1) ...

No driver of any motor vehicle within this State shall operate or permit operation of any sound amplification system which can be heard outside the vehicle from 75 ...

False or secret compartment in a motor vehicle . (a) Offenses. It is unlawful for any person to own or operate any motor vehicle he or ...

Possession and use of radar or laser jamming devices prohibited . (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person may not operate or be in actual ...

Tractors, traction engines and motor trucks-Operation on highways-Turning on highways during farming operations-Violations . No tractor, traction engine, motor truck or other similar vehicle shall be operated across, ...

Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices . (a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds ...

Road oil vehicles-Dripping on certain highways forbidden . No person shall operate, on a durable all-weather highway of a type other than gravel or crushed stone, any ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P. A. 88-415.) ...

Motor vehicles using alternate fuels; markings . Notwithstanding any other regulation or requirement, every motor vehicle using liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas must be ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.) ...

Required use of biodiesel by certain vehicles . (a) Beginning July 1, 2006, any diesel powered vehicle owned or operated by this State, any county or unit ...

Fire apparatus-Safety belts . No fire apparatus equipped to carry firemen on the outside of such vehicle on the sides, or rear, or both, shall be operated ...

Vehicle passenger capacity . No school bus, commuter van or motor vehicle owned by or used for hire by and in connection with the operation of private ...

Liability insurance . No school bus, commuter van or motor vehicle owned by or used for hire by and in connection with the operation of private or ...

Operator protective frames on tractor-mower combinations . No tractor unit over 16 engine horsepower designed for mowing or tractor-mower combination unit over 16 engine horsepower owned or ...

Slow-moving vehicle emblem . (a) Every animal drawn vehicle, farm tractor, implement of husbandry and special mobile equipment, when operated on a highway must display a slow-moving ...

Rear fender splash guards . It is unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle of the second division, except a truck tractor, to which this Section ...

Commencing January 1, 1987, all trucks equipped with self-compactors or roll-off hoists and roll-on containers for garbage or refuse hauls shall, before operating on any public or private ...

Construction equipment to display company name . (a) Construction equipment that is capable of being self propelled or any construction equipment capable of being towed shall display ...

Commercial trucks used by construction contractors or subcontractors to display company name . (a) Every second division vehicle operating commercially in this State that is used by ...

Possession and use of radar detection devices prohibited . (a) No person shall operate or be in actual physical control of a commercial motor vehicle as defined ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 91-248, eff. 1-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 94-594, eff. 1-1-06.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 82-111. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Color . The exterior of each school bus shall be national school bus glossy yellow except as follows: The rooftop may be white. The fenders ...

Identification . Each school bus shall have the sign "SCHOOL BUS" painted on both the front and rear of the bus as high as practicable in letters ...

(a) Each school bus shall be equipped with a stop signal arm on the driver's side of the school bus that may be operated either manually or ...

Other vehicles - Color, stop signal arm and identification . No vehicle other than a school bus shall be identified with the sign "SCHOOL BUS", shall be equipped ...

Special lighting equipment . Each school bus purchased as a new vehicle after December 31, 1975 shall be equipped with an 8-lamp flashing signal system. Until December ...

Identification, stop signal arms and special lighting when not used as a school bus . Except as provided in Section 12-806a, whenever a school bus is operated ...

Identification, stop signal arms and special lighting on school buses used in connection with a youth camp, child care facility, or community based rehabilitation facility . (a) ...

Seat belt for driver . Each school bus shall be equipped with a retractable lap belt assembly for the driver's seat. No school bus shall be operated ...

Seat back height . No Type I school bus manufactured after June 30, 1987 shall be sold for use as, or purchased for use as, or used ...

Crossing control arms . (a) No Type I or Type II school bus may be operated or used as a school bus within this State after December ...

Fire extinguisher . Each school bus shall be equipped with at least one dry chemical gauge type fire extinguisher mounted in the extinguisher manufacturer's automobile type bracket ...

First aid kit . Each school bus shall be equipped with a first aid kit mounted in full view of and readily accessible to the driver. ...

Restraining devices for passengers who are persons with disabilities . Each school bus which is operated for transporting passengers who are persons with disabilities shall be equipped with ...

Amber 3 bar clearance light . Each type I school bus shall be equipped with an amber 3 bar clearance light on the front of the bus. ...

Rules and regulations . (a) The Department may promulgate rules and regulations to more completely specify the equipment requirements of this Article. (b) All rules, regulations ...

(a) The Department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the use of liquefied petroleum gases, compressed natural gases and liquefied natural gases as a propellant ...

Operation of a school bus while using a cellular radio telecommunication device . (a) In this Section: "School bus driver" means a person operating a school ...

Strobe lamp on school bus . (a) A school bus manufactured prior to January 1, 2000 may be equipped with one strobe lamp that will emit 60 ...

Emergency exits identification . On and after August 1, 2000, all emergency exits of a school bus shall be outlined around the perimeter of the exit with ...

Noise suppression switch . Any school bus manufactured on or after January 1, 2006 must be equipped with a noise suppression switch capable of turning off noise producing ...

Nursery school buses . The Department of Transportation, after conducting a Public Hearing, may, by regulation, modify and supplement the requirements pertaining to seat dimensions, spacing and ...

Color and markings . Each religious organization bus may be of any color and have any markings designating its purpose other than those required for school buses ...

Special lighting equipment . Any religious organization bus may be equipped with a 4-lamp flashing signal system having unison flashing amber lamps, 2 at the front and ...

Rules and regulations . The Department of Transportation may promulgate rules and regulations to more completely specify the equipment requirements for every motor vehicle defined as a ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 85-1407. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Definitions . As used in this Chapter, "affected areas" means the counties of Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, Will, Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe and the townships ...

Submission to safety test; Certificate of safety . To promote the safety of the general public, every owner of a second division vehicle, medical transport vehicle, tow ...

Senior citizen transportation vehicle . Any vehicle of 12 or more passengers used in the transportation of senior citizens shall bear placards on both sides indicating it ...

Tests and investigations . The Department shall conduct tests and make investigations to determine the kind and type of equipment necessary to test the brakes, lights, frame, ...

Diesel powered vehicle emission inspection report . Beginning July 1, 2000, the Department of Transportation and the Department of State Police shall each conduct an annual ...

Official testing stations - Fee - Permit - Bond . Upon the payment of a fee of $10 and the filing of an application by the proprietor ...

Annual certification of safety testers - Fee - Renewal . Only certified safety testers are authorized to perform safety tests and affix Certificates of Safety to ...

Reclassification of nonconforming station . The Department may not change the administrative classification of a nonconforming official testing station from its present classification to a less favorable ...

Obtaining or issuing a certificate of safety without proper test- Suspension or revocation of license . Any motor vehicle owner, driver or operator who accepts, obtains or ...

Inspection of official testing stations . Employees specifically authorized by the Department so to do shall inspect all "Official Testing Stations" at frequent intervals. Such employees shall ...

Rates and charges by official testing stations-Schedule to be filed . Every operator of an official testing station shall file with the Department, in the manner prescribed ...

Investigation of complaints against official testing stations . The Department shall, upon its own motion, or upon charges made in writing verified under oath, investigate complaints that ...

Hearing on complaint against official testing station-Suspension or revocation of permit . If it appears to the Department, either through its own investigation or upon charges verified ...

Safety test prior to application for license - Subsequent tests - Repairs - Retest . (a) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 13, each second division vehicle ...

Annual and nonscheduled emission inspection tests; standards; penalties; funds . (a) For each diesel powered vehicle that (i) is registered for a gross weight of more than ...

Pollution Control Board diesel emission standards and tests . Within 8 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, the Pollution ...

Exemption from diesel emissions inspections . Second division vehicles being operated on plates issued pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 3-815 are exempt from the diesel emissions ...

Certificate of safety . (a) Certificates of Safety shall be in contrasting colors, with a number on the face of the Certificate indicating the month of the ...

Operation without certificate of safety attached; Effective date of certificate . (a) Except as provided for in Chapter 13, no person shall operate any vehicle required to ...

Exemption from local tests . Any second division vehicle or limousine displaying a certificate of safety issued under this Chapter is exempt from any test required by ...

Sale or exchange of used vehicle without certificate of safety . No person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles shall sell, transfer or ...

Interstate carriers of property . Any vehicle registered in Illinois and operated by an interstate carrier of property shall be exempt from the provisions of this Chapter ...

School buses-pretrip inspections . Each day that a school bus is operated the driver shall conduct a pretrip inspection of the mechanical and safety equipment on the ...

All funds collected by the Department under this Chapter shall be deposited in the road fund in the State Treasury . (Source: P.A. 80-606.) ...

Emission inspection funding . The Department of Transportation shall be reimbursed for all expenses related to the training, equipment, recordkeeping, and conducting of diesel powered emission inspections ...

Home rule . A unit of local government within the affected areas, including home rule units, shall not require or conduct a diesel emission inspection program that ...

Short title . This Chapter may be cited as the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Law of 1995. (Source: P.A. 88-533.) ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Chapter: "Affected counties" means Cook County; DuPage County; Lake County; those parts of Kane County that are not included ...

Program . (a) The Agency shall establish a program to begin January 1, 1995, to reduce the emission of pollutants by motor vehicles. At a minimum, this ...

Inspections . (a) Beginning with the implementation of the program required by this Chapter, every motor vehicle that is owned by a resident of an affected county, ...

Rules and standards . (a) The Agency shall propose standards necessary to achieve reductions in the emission of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen from motor ...

Performance of inspections . (a) The inspection of vehicles required under this Chapter shall be performed only: (i) by inspectors who have been certified by the Agency ...

Waivers . (a) The Agency shall certify that a vehicle that has failed a vehicle emission retest qualifies for a waiver of the emission inspection standards if ...

Inquiries . The Agency shall develop a means of responding to inquiries from inspectors and members of the public concerning the program, including (i) when inspections are ...

Grievance and damage claim requirements and procedures . (a) Emissions inspection and waiver denial grievance procedures. Any person aggrieved by a decision regarding the failure of ...

Contracts . (a) The Agency may enter into contracts with one or more responsible parties to construct and operate official inspection stations, provide and maintain approved test ...

Costs . (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) of Section 13B-15, no fee shall be charged to motor vehicle owners for obtaining inspections required under ...

Enforcement . (a) The Agency shall cooperate in the enforcement of this Chapter by (i) identifying probable violations through computer matching of vehicle registration records and inspection ...

Other offenses . (a) Any person who knowingly displays an emission inspection sticker or exemption sticker on any vehicle other than the one for which the sticker ...

Legislative intent . It is the intent of the General Assembly that, to the greatest extent possible, there be continuity in the operation of the Vehicle Emissions ...

Home rule . Pursuant to subsections (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, the exercise by a home rule unit of ...

Definitions . For the purposes of this Chapter: "Affected counties" means Cook County; DuPage County; Lake County; those parts of Kane County that are not included ...

Program . (a) The Agency shall establish a program to begin February 1, 2007, to reduce the emission of pollutants by motor vehicles. This program shall ...

Inspections . (a) Beginning with the implementation of the program required by this Chapter, every motor vehicle that is owned by a resident of an affected county, ...

Rules and standards . (a) The rules and emission standards adopted under subsection (a) of Section 13B-20 of this Code shall apply to the program established under ...

Performance of inspections . (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the inspection of vehicles required under this Chapter shall be performed only: (i) by inspectors who ...

Waivers . (a) The Agency shall certify that a vehicle that has failed a vehicle emission retest qualifies for a waiver of the emission inspection standards if ...

Inquiries . The Agency shall develop a means of responding to inquiries from inspectors and members of the public concerning the program, including (i) when inspections are ...

Grievance and damage claim requirements and procedures . (a) Emissions inspection and waiver denial grievance procedures. (1) Any person aggrieved by a decision regarding the ...

Contracts . (a) The Agency may enter into contracts with one or more responsible parties to construct and operate official inspection stations, provide and maintain approved test ...

Costs . (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) of Section 13C-15, no fee shall be charged to motor vehicle owners for obtaining inspections required under ...

Enforcement . (a) The Agency shall cooperate in the enforcement of this Chapter by (i) identifying probable violations through computer matching of vehicle registration records and inspection ...

Other offenses . (a) Any person who knowingly displays an emission inspection sticker or exemption sticker on any vehicle other than the one for which the sticker ...

Home rule . The vehicle emission inspection program created by this Chapter is hereby declared to be the subject of exclusive State jurisdiction. Pursuant to subsection (h) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 87-1203. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.) ...

Scope and effect of Chapter 15 . (a) It is unlawful for any person to drive or move on, upon or across or for the owner to ...

Width of Vehicles . (a) On Class III and non-designated State and local highways, the total outside width of any vehicle or load thereon shall not exceed ...

Height of vehicles . The height of a vehicle from the under side of the tire to the top of the vehicle, inclusive of load, shall not ...

Projecting loads on passenger vehicles . No passenger-type vehicle shall be operated on any highway with any load carried thereon extending beyond the line of the fenders ...

Protruding members of vehicles . No vehicle with boom, arm, drill rig or other protruding component shall be operated upon any highway in this State unless such ...

Length of vehicles . (a) The maximum length of a single vehicle on any highway of this State may not exceed 42 feet except the following: ...

Planking edge of a pavement . No tractor, traction engine or other metal tired vehicle, weighing more than 4 tons, including the weight of the vehicle and ...

Spilling loads on highways prohibited . (a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to ...

Covers or tarpaulins required for certain loads . (a) No person shall operate or cause to be operated, on a highway, any second division vehicle loaded with ...

Towed vehicles . (a) When one vehicle is towing another, the drawbar or other connection shall be of sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed thereby ...

Wheel and axle loads and gross weights . (a) On non-designated highways, no vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with pneumatic tires may be operated, unladen or ...

Officers to weigh vehicles and require removal of excess loads . (a) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load ...

Violations; Penalties . (a) Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of the provisions of Section 15-111 or subsection (d) of Section 3-401, the owner or driver ...

Violations-Sentence of permit moves . Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of the provisions of a permit issued under the provisions of Sections 15-301 through 15-319 ...

Violations - Sentence of permit moves exceeding axle weights . Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of the provisions of a permit issued under the provisions of ...

Violations-Sentence of permit moves exceeding gross weight . Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of the provisions of a permit issued under the provisions of Sections ...

Pushing of disabled vehicles . It is unlawful under any circumstances for any vehicle to push any other vehicle on or along any highway outside an urban ...

By July 1, 1985, and every 3 years thereafter, the Department of Transportation shall publish and deliver to the Governor and the General Assembly a report which assesses ...

Vehicles exceeding prescribed weight limits - Preventing use of highway by . The Department of State Police is directed to institute and maintain a program designed to ...

Enforcement . Such program shall make provision for an intensive campaign by the State Police to apprehend any violators of the acts above mentioned, and at all ...

Records of violations . The Department of State Police shall maintain records of the number of violators of such acts apprehended and the number of convictions obtained. A ...

Permits for excess size and weight . (a) The Department with respect to highways under its jurisdiction and local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction ...

Fees for special permits . The Department with respect to highways under its jurisdiction shall collect a fee from the applicant for the issuance of a permit ...

Transmission Fees . When special transmission of permits is requested by an applicant, a service charge in an amount sufficient to defray the cost shall be charged. ...

Fees for house trailer combinations, or a unit carrying roof or floor trusses . Fees for special permits to move a house trailer, oversize storage building, modular home ...

Fees for legal weight but overdimension Vehicles, Combinations, and Loads, other than House Trailer Combinations . Fees for special permits to move overdimension vehicles, combinations, and loads, other ...

Fees for Overweight-Axle Loads . Fees for special permits to move legal gross weight vehicles, combinations of vehicles and loads with overweight-axle loads shall be paid by ...

Fees for Overweight-Gross Loads . Fees for special permits to move vehicles, combinations of vehicles and loads with overweight-gross loads shall be paid at the flat rate fees ...

Fees for overweight trucks hauling agricultural commodities . Fees for special permits for increased axle loads to be used for hauling agricultural commodities, as defined in subsection ...

Fees for moving oversize or overweight equipment to the site of rail derailments . Fees for permits to move oversize or overweight equipment to the sites of ...

Fees for special permits for tow-trucks . The fee for a special permit to operate a tow-truck pursuant to subsection (n) of Section 15-301 is $50 quarterly ...

Fees for special permits to transport raw milk . The fee for a special permit to transport raw milk is $12.50 quarterly and $50.00 annually. (Source: P.A. ...

Fees for Moves Directly across Highway . Fees for special permits for vehicles or vehicle combinations exceeding the legal sizes and weights specified in this Chapter either ...

Fees for Buildings and Special Moves . Fees for special permits for moving buildings or large machines. (a) When moved on house moving equipment or on ...

Fees for Engineering Inspections or Field Investigations . Engineering inspections or field investigations will be made by the Department and the following fees shall be paid by ...

Fees for Police Escort . When State Police escorts are required by the Department for the safety of the motoring public, the following fees shall be paid ...

Supplemental Permit Fee . The Department shall collect a fee of $5 and other applicable fees to cover the cost of processing an application for supplemental special ...

Payment of Fees . The Department shall prescribe the time and method of payment of all appropriate fees authorized by Section 15-302 through 15-313. The Department ...

Exemptions to requirement of fees . (a) The requirements as to fees authorized by Sections 15-302 through 15-314 shall not apply to the owner of the vehicle ...

When the Department or local authority may restrict right to use highways . (a) Local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction may by ordinance or ...

Special weight limitation on elevated structures . (a) No person shall operate a vehicle or combination of vehicles over a bridge or other elevated structure constituting a ...

Liability if highway or structure damaged . (a) Any person driving any vehicle, object or contrivance upon any highway or highway structure is liable for all damage ...

Special registration of vehicles by department . (a) Applicants for special permits authorized in Section 15-301 may apply to the Department for an Illinois Department of Transportation ...

Applicability . The provisions of this Chapter shall be applicable to the enforcement of this entire Code, except where another penalty is set forth in a specific ...

Arrests - Investigations - Prosecutions . (a) The State Police shall patrol the public highways and make arrests for violation of the provisions of this Act. ...

Enforcement by municipality . (a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance similar to subsection (f) of Section 3-413 or Section 11-1304.5 of this Code, any person that ...

Arrest outside county where violation committed . Whenever a defendant is arrested upon a warrant charging a violation of this Act in a county other than that ...

Penalties . Every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this Code for which another penalty is not provided shall, for a first or second ...

Additional penalty for certain violations . There is added to every fine imposed upon conviction of an offense reportable to the Secretary of State under the provisions ...

Amounts for Trauma Center Fund . In counties that have elected not to distribute moneys under the disbursement formulas in Sections 27.5 and 27.6 of the Clerks ...

Disposition of fines and forfeitures . (a) Except as provided in Section 16-104a of this Act and except for those amounts required to be paid into the ...

Payment to municipality . All revenues derived from the issuance of citations for violations of subsection (f) of Section 3-413 of this Code or a similar local ...

For offenses committed under the provisions of this Act or the ordinances of any municipality, park district or county which involve the regulation of the ownership, use or ...

Pilot project; notice of violation to owner . (a) A pilot project is created that shall be in operation from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2003 ...

Appearance of parent or guardian of minor in certain court proceedings - Judicial discretion . (a) Whenever an unemancipated minor is required to appear in court pursuant ...

Claims of diplomatic immunity . (a) This Section applies only to an individual that displays to a police officer a driver's license issued by the U.S. Department ...

Parties to a crime . Every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or aids, or abets in the commission of any act declared to ...

Offenses by persons owning or controlling vehicles . It is unlawful for the owner, or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the driver of any vehicle ...

Powers and duties of governor . The Governor, in addition to other duties and responsibilities conferred upon him by the constitution and laws of this State is ...

Definitions . As used in this Chapter: (1) "Commercial vehicle relocator" or "relocator" means any person or entity engaged in the business of removing trespassing vehicles from ...

Declaration of policy and delegation of jurisdiction . It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Illinois to supervise and regulate the commercial ...

Local regulation . Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to infringe upon the right of non-home rule units of local government to regulate the commercial ...

Review . A person aggrieved by an order of the Commission under this Chapter is entitled, in addition to any other remedy, to a review thereof by ...

Towing performed pursuant to police order . Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to regulate or otherwise affect towing performed by any relocator pursuant to ...

Exemptions . This Chapter shall not apply to the relocation of: (1) Vehicles registered for a gross weight in excess of 10,000 pounds, or if the ...

General powers and duties of Commission . The Commission shall: (1) Regulate commercial vehicle relocators and their employees or agents in accordance with this Chapter and ...

Additional officers and employees . The Commission, for the purpose of more effectively carrying out the provisions of this Chapter, shall obtain pursuant to the provisions of ...

Commercial vehicle relocators - Unlawful practices . It shall be unlawful for any commercial vehicle relocator: (1) To operate in any county in which this Chapter is ...

Commercial vehicle relocators - Security requirements . Every commercial vehicle relocator shall file with the Commission and have in effect an indemnity bond or insurance policy ...

Owner or other person in lawful possession or control of private property - Right to employ relocation service . It shall be unlawful for an owner or other ...

Civil and Criminal liability . Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to limit or alter the vehicle owner's civil or criminal liability for trespass. Nothing ...

Operators - Unlawful Practices . It shall be unlawful for any operator: (1) To act as an operator without a valid, current operator's employment permit. ...

Aiding and abetting . It shall be unlawful for any person to aid or abet in any violation of this Chapter, or of Commission regulations or orders ...

Equipment Leasing . Provisions in Section 18c-4103 of the Illinois Commercial Transportation Law, as amended, shall likewise govern equipment leasing by relocators except to the extent as ...

Enforcement . Provisions in Article VII of subchapter 1 of the Illinois Commercial Transportation Law, governing enforcement of the Illinois Commercial Transportation Law, shall likewise govern the ...

Relocator's licenses - Applications, original determinations . (a) Each application for a license to operate as a commercial vehicle relocator shall be made in writing to the ...

Relocator's licenses - Expiration and renewal . All relocator's licenses shall expire 2 years from the date of issuance by the Commission. The Commission may temporarily extend ...

Relocator's license - Transfer . A relocator's license is not transferable. (Source: P.A. 80-1459.) ...

Operator's or dispatcher's employment permits - Applications, original determinations . (1) Each application for an operator's or dispatcher's employment permit shall be made in writing to the ...

Operator's and dispatcher's employment permits - Revocation . (1) The Commission shall suspend or revoke the permit of an operator if it finds that: (a) The operator ...

Operator's employment permits - Expiration and renewal . All operator's employment permits shall expire 2 years from the date of issuance by the Commission. The Commission ...

Operator's employment permits - Transfer . An operator's employment permit is not transferrable to another operator or to another relocator. (Source: P.A. 85-923.) ...

Dispatcher's employment permits, expiration and renewal . All dispatcher's employment permits shall expire 2 years from the date of issuance by the Commission. The Commission may temporarily ...

Dispatcher's employment permit - Transfer . A dispatcher's employment permit is not transferable to another dispatcher or to another relocator. (Source: P.A. 85-923.) ...

Posting of rates . Every commercial vehicle relocator shall print and keep open to the public, all authorized rates and charges for towing, otherwise moving, and storing ...

Liens against relocated vehicles . Unauthorized vehicles removed and stored by a commercial vehicle relocator in compliance with this Chapter shall be subject to a possessory lien ...

Relocator's license . Each application for a license to operate as a commercial vehicle relocator, or for a renewal of such license, shall be accompanied by a ...

Operator's or dispatcher's employment permit . Each application for dispatcher's or an operator's employment permit shall be accompanied by a filing fee in the amount provided or ...

Establishment and Adjustment of Fees . (1) General Provisions. The Commission may exercise any and all powers with respect to establishment and adjustment of fees with ...

Disposition of funds . All fees and fines collected by the Commission under this Chapter shall be paid into the Transportation Regulatory Fund in the State Treasury. ...

Counties covered . (a) The provisions of this Chapter apply to all the activities of relocators and operators in any counties of 1,000,000 or more and ...

Short Title . This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Illinois Motor Carrier Safety Law". (Source: P.A. 86-611.) ...

Definitions . Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, as used in this Chapter: "Air mile" means a nautical mile, which is equivalent to 6,076 feet or 1,852 ...

Authority of Department . To the extent necessary to administer this Chapter, the Department is authorized to: (a) Adopt by reference all or any portion of ...

Compliance with this Chapter . Transportation by motor vehicle of persons or property in commerce that is not in compliance with this Chapter or any rules and ...

Obedience to Police Officer . (a) No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any officer authorized by law ...

Cooperation with State Agencies - Records and Data - Availability . The Department shall cooperate with other State agencies regulating transportation by motor vehicles and may enter ...

Rules and Regulations . (a) The Department is authorized to make and adopt reasonable rules and regulations and orders consistent with law necessary to carry out the ...

Application of Chapter and Regulations . Except as expressly specified within this Chapter, this Chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this Chapter shall be applicable ...

Hours of service of drivers employed by contract carriers transporting employees in the course of their employment . A contract carrier shall limit the hours of service by ...

Hours of service; utility service interruption emergencies . (a) As used in this Section: "Commercial driver's license" has the meaning set forth in Section 1-111.6 of ...

Violations - Civil penalties . Except as provided in Section 18b-108, any person who is determined by the Department after reasonable notice and opportunity for a fair and ...

Violations; Criminal penalties . (a) The provisions of Chapter 16 shall be applicable to acts committed by a driver of a motor vehicle that violate this Chapter ...

Enforcement of Rules and Regulations . Only the Illinois State Police shall enforce the rules and regulations issued under this Chapter against drivers. The Department and ...

Conflict With Other Laws . This Chapter is not intended to affect any State law or ordinance of a local authority now in effect or intrude upon ...

Review Under Administrative Review Law . All administrative decisions of the Department under this Chapter shall be subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law, as ...

Intermodal trailer, chassis, and safety . (a) Definitions. For purposes of this Section: "Department" means the Department of State Police. "Equipment interchange agreement" means ...

Short Title . This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Commercial Transportation Law". (Source: P.A. 84-796.) ...

Legislative Intent . The General Assembly finds that: (a) a comprehensive recodification of existing transportation regulatory ...

State Transportation Policy . It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Illinois to actively supervise and regulate commercial transportation of persons and ...

Definitions . The following terms, when used in this Chapter, have the hereinafter designated meanings unless their context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Broker" means any person ...

Jurisdiction . The jurisdiction of the Commission under this Chapter shall extend to for-hire transportation by motor carrier and rail carrier, the activities of brokers, and to ...

Enumeration of Powers . The Commission shall have the power to: (1) Administer and enforce provisions of this Chapter; (2) Regulate the entry, exit, and ...

Initial Decisions . (1) Delegation of Authority. (a) General Delegation. The power to make an ...

Transportation Division . (1) Establishment. There shall be established within the staff of the Commission a Transportation Division in which primary staff responsibility for the administration and ...

Docketing Procedures . (1) Mandatory Docketing Requirement. All pleadings filed with the Commission under this Chapter and Chapter 18a shall be docketed in a timely manner. ...

Certification of Records . Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according to the law in the office of the Commission under this Chapter ...

Independent Review of Decisions on Administrative Appeal . (1) Requirement of Independent Review. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this Section: (a) Review ...

Staff participation . (1) General Provisions. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, Commission staff participation in the administration or enforcement of this Law in a ...

Communications with the Office of Chairman and Commissioners . (1) The chairman, members and executive director shall jointly adopt and adhere to written procedures concerning communication with ...

Qualifications of Transportation Compliance Program Staff . (1) General provisions. The manager of the Transportation Division shall establish and adhere to written professional standards and procedures for ...

Employee Boards Generally . The Commission may, except as expressly provided in this Section, delegate one or more of its functions under this Chapter to Transportation Employee ...

Members of Employee Boards . (1) Appointment of Members. Each board shall have 3 members. Members of employee boards established under provisions of this Article shall ...

Conduct of Employee Board Proceedings . A majority of an Employee Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Decisions on matters before an ...

Orders of Employee Boards . Employee Board orders shall be served, in writing, on all parties to the proceeding in which the order is entered. Such ...

Modification of Standards and Procedures in Response to Preemptive Federal Legislation . The Commission may, except with regard to licensing and ratemaking standards for motor carriers of property ...

Interim Rulemaking . The Commission may, by publishing interim rules in the official state newspaper and simultaneously initiating rulemaking proceedings in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act: ...

Franchise, Franchise Renewal, Filing and Other Fees for Motor Carriers of Property . (1) Franchise, Franchise Renewal, Filing, and Other Fee Levels in Effect Absent Commission Regulations ...

Gross Receipts Taxes For Motor Carriers of Passengers and Rail Carriers . Each motor carrier of passengers and rail carrier shall pay to the Commission, in accordance with ...

Route Mileage Fee for Rail Carriers . Beginning with calendar year 2004, every rail carrier shall pay to the Commission for each calendar year a route mileage ...

Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing and Grade Separation Fee . Beginning with calendar year 2004, every rail carrier shall pay to the Commission for each calendar year a fee ...

Legislative Intent . It is the intent of the Legislature that the exercise of powers under Sections 18c-1501 and 18c-1502 of this Chapter shall not diminish revenues ...

Reciprocity . The Commission may enter into agreements with agencies in other jurisdictions for the reciprocal waiver of motor carrier fees or taxes administered by the Commission, ...

Proration of Fees . The Commission may prorate fees and levies provided in this Chapter throughout the calendar year. (Source: P.A. 84-796.) ...

Deposit of Monies into the Transportation Regulatory Fund . (1) Deposit of Fees, Taxes, and Monies Other Than Criminal Fines. All fees, penalties (other than criminal penalties) ...

Appropriations from the Transportation Regulatory Fund . (1) Appropriation of Monies. Appropriations from the Transportation Regulatory Fund shall be separately identified both in the Commission's appropriations request ...

Expenditures from the Transportation Regulatory Fund . (1) Authorization of Expenditures from the Fund. Monies deposited in the Transportation Regulatory Fund shall be expended only for the ...

Annual Report of Expenditures . The Commission shall, within 60 calendar days after the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Governor and the General Assembly ...

Violations Defined . Each person who fails to comply, in whole or in part, with any provision of this Chapter, Commission regulations or orders shall have committed ...

Responsibility for Enforcement . It shall be the duty of the Commission and of the State Police and the Secretary of State to conduct investigations, make arrests, ...

Investigations and Arrests . (1) Enforcement Officers and Investigators. Enforcement officers and investigators appointed by the Commission shall have, and may exercise throughout the state, all the ...

Sanctions . Each violation of this Chapter shall subject the violator to the following sanctions, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this Chapter. Sanctions provided for ...

Expedited Enforcement Procedures . The Commission shall, within 60 days from the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987, implement expedited administrative enforcement procedures. (a) ...

Persons Who May be Served . It shall be the responsibility of each person subject to the licensing or ratemaking provisions of this Chapter to keep on ...

Time of Service . Notices, orders, process and other correspondence of the Commission shall be deemed served at the time they are deposited in the United States ...

Hearings in household goods carrier licensing cases . (1) Hearing required. The Commission shall issue orders in household goods carrier licensing cases only after notice and hearing ...

Hearings in other than household goods carrier authority cases . (1) Hearing required. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this Section, and in Section 18c-2108 ...

Rules of Practice . (1) General Provisions. The Commission shall adopt General and Special rules of practice to govern administrative proceedings under this Chapter. Such rules shall ...

Rules of Evidence . The rules of evidence which apply in civil cases before the circuit courts of this State shall, except as otherwise provided herein, apply ...

Discovery . (1) Discovery Generally. Any party may utilize written interrogatories, depositions, requests for discovery or inspection of documents or property and other discovery tools commonly ...

Standing . (1) General Provisions. Each person with an administratively cognizable interest in a proceeding before the Commission shall, upon compliance with procedural rules adopted by ...

Orders in household goods carrier authority proceedings . (1) Emergency Proceedings Orders. The Commission may, on request, and upon a finding that urgent and immediate public need ...

Orders in other than household goods carriers authority and enforcement proceedings . (1) Emergency Orders. The Commission may, on request, and upon a finding that urgent and ...

Prompt Final Disposition of Proceedings . The Commission shall consider matters properly before it in the most expeditious manner possible, and in no case shall the final ...

Reconsideration, Rehearing and Reopening of Proceedings . (1) Motions for Rehearing or Reconsideration. (a) Who May File Motions. Any party of record to an administrative proceeding ...

Availability of Judicial Review . (1) Standing to Seek Judicial Review. No person shall have standing to seek judicial review of a Commission action unless such person ...

Scope of Judicial Review . (1) Issues on Review. The reviewing court shall be limited in its review to whether: (a) The Commission's order is against ...

Submission of the Administrative Record . It shall be the responsibility of the Commission to submit to the court certified copies of the record before the Commission. ...

Relief . The reviewing court may grant relief in accordance with provisions of the Illinois Administrative Review Law. (Source: P.A. 84-796.) ...

Stay of Action Pending Judicial Review . (1) Commission Orders Not Stayed by Filing of Appeal. The filing or pendency of a petition for judicial review shall ...

Application of the Illinois Administrative Review Law . Where this Article is silent, proceedings for judicial review of a Commission action, regulation or order shall be governed ...

Initiation of Proceedings . The Commission may initiate either administrative or judicial proceedings, or both, to enforce provisions of this Chapter, and Commission regulations and orders. In ...

Governing Procedures . Administrative enforcement proceedings initiated hereunder shall be governed by the Commission's rules of practice. Judicial enforcement proceedings initiated hereunder shall be governed by ...

Venue and Jurisdiction in Actions for Judicial Review . (1) Venue. Actions for judicial review under this Chapter may be filed in the circuit courts of Sangamon ...

Venue and Jurisdiction in Actions to Enforce this Chapter . (a) Venue in Suits for Criminal Misdemeanor Penalties. Actions in which criminal misdemeanor penalties are sought ...

Terms, Conditions, and Limitations . The Commission may attach to the exercise of rights under any license or other authorization issued or granted by it such terms, ...

Geographical Restrictions . A prima facie determination whether transportation is within the geographical scope of a license may be made by reference to a copy of the ...

Prohibition of transportation services in the absence of effective rates . No common carrier by pipeline, household goods carrier, rail carrier, or passenger carrier shall render service until ...

Effective Dates of New or Amended Rates . The Commission shall prescribe the periods of notice which must elapse between the filing of a proposed rate and ...

Filing, publishing and posting of tariffs and schedules . (1) General requirement of filing, publication and posting. Each common carrier of household goods or passengers shall file, ...

Rate Proceedings . (1) Initiation of proceedings. The Commission may initiate a proceeding to investigate or prescribe tariffs or schedules on its own motion or on ...

Ratemaking Standards . (1) Reasonableness. Rates for household goods common carrier service must be just, reasonable, and not discriminatory. (2) Factors to be Considered. The Commission ...

Charges to conform to tariffs or schedules and orders of the Commission . (1) Overcharges and undercharges prohibited. No common or contract household goods or passenger carrier ...

Zones of Rate Flexibility . (1) Zone for Motor Carriers of Passengers. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Sub-chapter, the Commission may not investigate, suspend, revise, or ...

Joint rates and routes . (1) Establishment by carriers. Two or more common carriers of household goods or passengers may establish through routes and joint rates, provided ...

Charges Not Part of Direct Transportation Cost . Any agreement, arrangement, or device, or part thereof, which, as a condition to the provision of transportation service, requires ...

Presentation of freight bills, payment of freight charges, and extension of credit . Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, this Section is applicable only to household goods ...

Free or Reduced Rate Carriage . Nothing in this Chapter shall prevent a carrier from establishing reduced rate or free carriage rates applicable to transportation provided for ...

Statute of Limitations for Freight Charges . (1) Collection Actions. Actions to collect freight charges under lawfully applicable rates must be instituted within 3 years after rendition ...

Application of Rate Regulations to Exempt Traffic . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter to the contrary, the provisions of this Article shall not apply to traffic ...

Certain Third Party Payments Prohibited . Whenever a shipper or receiver of property requires that any person who owns or operates a motor vehicle transporting property in ...

Prohibition against discrimination . It shall be unlawful for any household goods carrier, rail carrier, common carrier by pipeline, or passenger carrier to discriminate by giving or ...

Failure to Reject or Suspend, or to Invoke Sanctions, Not to be Construed as Acceptance . Failure of the Commission to reject or suspend any rate, contract, application, ...

Records and accounts . Each household goods carrier, rail carrier, common carrier by pipeline, and passenger carrier shall: (1) Keep written accounts and records of its ...

Scope of Commission Jurisdiction . Except as provided in Section 18c-4102 of this Chapter, the jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend to all motor carriers of property ...

Exemptions from Commission Jurisdiction . The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to transportation, by motor vehicle: (a) of mail exclusively for the United States ...

Leasing . (1) Prohibition Against Single-Source Leasing. No private carrier shall lease any motor vehicle with driver, nor shall any person lease a motor vehicle with driver ...

Unlawful Operations . (1) Prohibition. Except as provided in Article I of this Sub-chapter, and subject to the provisions stated herein, it shall be unlawful for ...

Licensing cases . (1) Scope of Section. The provisions of this Chapter relating to household goods carrier licensing apply to applications: (a) For a license authorizing ...

Household goods common carrier certificates . (1) Prerequisite to operation as a household goods common carrier. No person shall operate as a household goods common carrier unless ...

Household goods contract carrier permits . (1) Prerequisite to operation as a household goods contract carrier. No person shall operate as a household goods contract carrier of ...

Standards to be considered in issuing common and contract household goods carrier licenses . The Commission shall exercise its discretion in regard to issuance of common carrier of ...

Fitness standards . (1) Establishment of administrative standards. The Commission shall, within 180 days from the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987, adopt and ...

Dual operations . (1) Dual common/contract operations. No person shall hold both a household goods common carrier certificate and a household goods contract carrier permit unless the ...

Cessation of service under a license . No household goods carrier shall abandon, discontinue, or suspend any service that it is authorized to provide pursuant to a ...

Power of Commission to Approve Transfers . A license issued under this Sub-chapter may be transferred, with Commission approval, under the conditions specified in this Article and ...

Types of Transfers Which May be Approved . It is lawful, with prior authorization from the Commission, for: (1) Two or more motor carriers of property ...

Applications for Approval . Applications for approval of the transfer of a license shall be on forms prescribed by the Commission and shall, where possible, be accompanied ...

Standard for Review of Applications . The Commission may approve a proposed transfer if it finds that: (1) The license to be transferred is in good ...

Abandonment, Discontinuance, or Suspension of Service Under a License to be Transferred . In determining whether the proposed transferor has abandoned, discontinued or suspended service without authorization, the ...

Expedited Transfer Procedures . (1) The Commission may provide for the transfer of a license, without notice and hearing, and without the necessity of making the findings ...

Unapproved Transfers . (1) Unapproved Transfers Prohibited. Except as provided in this Article, no person may enter into a transaction to accomplish or effectuate, or participate in ...

Enforcement of Transfer Requirements . The Commission may, on its own motion or on complaint, investigate and determine whether violations of this Article have occurred. When ...

Temporary Suspension and Transfer . Periods during which a license is temporarily suspended by order of the Commission shall not be considered as part of the 1-year ...

Registration required . (1) General provisions. No intrastate public carrier and no interstate motor carrier of property shall operate over the public roads of this State without ...

Registration Standards . The Commission shall not issue a registration until after the carrier has: (1) Properly filed an application for registration; and (2) Complied ...

Issuance of registrations . The Commission may issue registrations to any qualified applicant authorizing bona fide intrastate public carrier or interstate operations, if it is found that ...

Revocation of Registrations . The Commission may revoke any registration if it determines that the carrier has failed to comply with this Chapter, Commission regulations or orders, ...

Intrastate public carrier rate filings . Public carriers that voluntarily file rates under an agreement approved by the Commission under Section 18c-4502 of this Chapter are subject ...

Jurisdiction and power of the Commission . (1) Power to set rates. The Commission shall have jurisdiction and power to set the maximum or minimum, or maximum ...

Collective Ratemaking . (1) Application for Approval. Any carrier party to an agreement between or among 2 or more carriers relating to rates, fares, classifications, divisions, allowances, ...

Terminal Area Operations . (1) Exemption From Rate Regulation. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this Section, nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed ...

Cab Card and Identifier to be Carried and Displayed in Each Vehicle . (1) General Provisions. (a) Carrying Requirement. Each motor vehicle used in for-hire transportation ...

Commission to Prescribe Cab Cards and Identifiers . The Commission shall prescribe the cab cards and identifiers required under Section 18c-4601 of this Chapter. (Source: P.A. ...

Issuance of Cab Cards and Identifiers . (1) Applications for Cards and Identifiers. Applications for cab cards and identifiers shall be on forms prescribed by the Commission ...

Enforcement . It shall be a violation of this Chapter, separate and apart from any other violation, for a person to: (1) Operate a vehicle without ...

Insignia on Vehicles . (1) General Requirements to be Prescribed by Commission. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, no intrastate carrier shall operate any motor vehicle ...

Identification of Carrier in Advertising, Solicitation, and other Documents . No carrier shall use in any advertising, solicitation, correspondence, publication, or other document connected with its transportation service ...

Rights, Obligations, and Liabilities . The provisions of Sections 7-101, 7-102, 7-103, 7-104, 7-105, 7-301, 7-302, 7-303, 7-304, 7-305, 7-306, 7-307, 7-308, 7-309, 7-401, 7-402, 7-403, 7-404, ...

Straight Bill of Lading . A bill in which it is stated that the goods are consigned or destined to a specific person is a straight ...

Order Bill of Lading . A bill of lading in which it is stated that the goods are consigned or destined to the order of any person ...

Limitation of Liability . The provisions of this Section respecting liability for full actual loss, damage or injury, notwithstanding subsection 2 of Section 7-309 of the "Uniform ...

Other Remedies Available to Holder of Bill of Lading Not Preempted . This Article does not deprive any holder of a receipt or bill of lading of any ...

Delivering Carrier Defined . For the purposes of this Section the delivering carrier is the carrier performing transportation service to or nearest to the point of destination. ...

Bill of Lading or Similar Documentation Required . (1) General Requirements. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this Section, every motor common carrier of property shall ...

Insurance Coverage as a Prerequisite to Operations . No motor carrier of property shall operate within this State unless it has on file with the Commission or ...

Commission to Set Insurance Coverage Limits and Establish Procedures . The Commission shall prescribe the amounts of insurance or surety coverage required as a minimum, the maximum ...

Implied Terms of Insurance Coverage . Each certificate or other proof of insurance or surety coverage shall have, as an implied term, that the insurance or surety ...

Liability to Be Covered by Insurance . Insurance or surety under this Article shall cover the carrier's liability for injury to persons and damage to property other ...

Self-insurance . The Commission may exempt a carrier from the requirement of Sections 18c-4901, 18c-4902, 18c-4903, and 18c-4904 of this Chapter if it determines that the carrier ...

Unlawful Activities . It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) To act as a broker without a license in good standing issued to it by ...

Licensing of Brokers . (1) Procedures for Issuing Brokers' Licenses. The Provisions of Article II of Sub-chapter 4 of this Chapter which govern the form and manner ...

The Fitness Standard . A person shall be rebuttably presumed unfit to act or to continue to act as a broker if: (1) The person has ...

Transfer of Brokers' Licenses . (1) Transfer of Brokers' Licenses Permitted. A broker's license may be transferred, with Commission approval, under the conditions specified in this Section ...

Bonds and Insurance . The Commission may prescribe for brokers such requirements regarding bonds, insurance, and the terms of coverage thereof, as the Commission determines are needed ...

Records of Brokers . (1) Records to be Kept by Brokers. A broker shall keep a record of each transaction which shows: (a) The name, address, ...

Brokers and Motor Carrier Applications . A Broker shall not have standing to support any application for motor carrier of property authority. (Source: P.A. 84-796.) ...

Application of Article . The provisions of this Article apply to the collect-on-delivery transportation of household goods for non-commercial use where: (1) The dispute relates to ...

Commission to prescribe dispute resolution procedures . (1) Within 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995, the Commission shall propose rules specifying ...

Award of Attorneys Fees . (1) Award to Complaining Shipper. In any court action to resolve a dispute within the scope of this Article, the court shall ...

Investigation of Practices of Household Goods Carriers . The Commission may, on its own motion or on complaint, conduct an investigation to determine whether a household goods carrier ...

Applicability of Article . This Article applies to disputes arising from transactions which occur at least 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of ...

Application of Article . The provisions of this Article shall apply to non-relocation towing. Where the provisions of this Article conflict with any other provisions in ...

Commission to Adopt Special Rules . (1) General Provisions. The Commission shall, within 180 days after the effective date of this Article, have finally adopted special ...

The Fitness Test . (1) Prima Facie Evidence of Applicant Fitness in Licensing Cases. Applicants for non-relocation towing licenses may establish a prima facie showing of fitness ...

The Public Need/Public Convenience and Necessity Test . Applicants for non-relocation towing licenses may establish, and other parties may rebut, a prima facie showing of public need/public ...

Hearings in Non-Relocation Towing Authority Cases . (1) Hearings on Fitness Required. Hearings on applications for non-relocation towing licenses shall be governed by the provisions of ...

Denial, Suspension, or Revocation of Licenses . If, at any time during or after adjudication of a non-relocation towing license application, there exists an issue with regard ...

False Statements by Applicant . Any false statement of a material fact by an applicant shall be grounds for denial or revocation of a license. (Source: ...

Intervention in Opposition to Non-Relocation Towing applications . (1) Filing Fee for Petitions for Leave to Intervene in Opposition. The Commission shall prescribe a filing fee of ...

Ratemaking . Unless otherwise specified in the tariff, rates applicable to non-relocation towing shall be the maximum rates which may be charged by carriers participating in the ...

Insurance . (1) Implied Garagekeeper's Liability. The filing of a form E certificate of insurance shall constitute a representation by the insurance company that the underlying ...

Scope of Commission Jurisdiction . Except as provided in Section 18c-6102 of this Chapter, the jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend to all motor carriers of passengers ...

Exemptions From Commission Jurisdiction . The provisions of this Sub-chapter shall not, except as provided in Section 18c-6501 of this Chapter, apply to: (1) carriers ...

Unlawful Operations . Except as provided in Article I of this Sub-chapter, and subject to the provisions stated herein, no person shall: (1) Operate as a ...

Requirements for Issuance of Licenses . (1) General Requirements. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this Section, the Commission shall grant an application for a motor ...

Other Provisions Relating to Licensing and Registration . Provisions in Articles II, III, and IV of Sub-chapter 4 of this Chapter, governing the suspension, revocation, and transfer of ...

General Provisions . No motor common carrier of passengers shall add to, change, reduce, or discontinue service to any point along a route over which the carrier ...

Definitions . The following terms, when used in this Article, shall have the hereinafter designated meanings. (1) "Addition" to service means the institution of new scheduled ...

Schedule Changes and Reductions in Service . Any motor common carrier of passengers may add to, change, or reduce the level of its service to any point ...

Discontinuances . No motor common carrier of passengers shall discontinue service to any point along a route over which the carrier is authorized to provide service except ...

Prior Notice and Petition for Authorization . (1) Annual and Amended Lists of Points Under Consideration for Discontinuance. By March of each calendar year, each motor carrier ...

Ratemaking . The Commission may exercise, with respect to rate regulation of motor carriers of passengers, any and all power which it may exercise with respect to ...

Hours of Service for Drivers . No motor carrier of passengers shall operate any vehicle with a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of more than 8 persons, including ...

Report and Investigation of Accidents . (1) Reports. Every motor carrier of passengers shall report to the Commission, by the speediest means possible, whether telephone, telegraph, or ...

Insurance . The provisions of Article IX of Subchapter 4 of this Chapter regarding insurance for motor carriers of property shall apply to motor carriers of passengers ...

Jurisdiction Over Rail Carriers . The jurisdiction of the Commission under this Sub-chapter shall be exclusive and shall extend to all intrastate and interstate rail carrier operations ...

Registration as a Rail Carrier . (1) General Provisions. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this Section, no person shall operate as a rail carrier, and ...

Duties and Obligations of Rail Carriers . Each rail carrier shall provide adequate service to the public at reasonable rates and without discrimination. (Source: P.A. 84-796.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 84-796. Repealed by P.A. 90-257, eff. 7-30-97.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 84-796. Repealed by P.A. 90-257, eff. 7-30-97.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 84-796. Repealed by P.A. 90-257, eff. 7-30-97.) ...

Safety Requirements for Track, Facilities, and Equipment . (1) General Requirements. Each rail carrier shall, consistent with rules, orders, and regulations of the Federal Railroad Administration, construct, ...

Rules for safe railroad worker walkways . Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the Commission shall adopt ...

Safety Requirements for Railroad Operations . (1) Obstruction of Crossings. (a) Obstruction of Emergency Vehicles. Every ...

Pilot projects; automated audible warning devices . (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that, for the communities of the State that are traversed by railroads, there ...

(Repealed) . (Source: P.A. 90-187, eff. 1-1-98. Repealed internally, eff. 2-1-01.) ...

Enforcement and Waiver of Safety Requirements . (1) Enforcement. Except with regard to grade crossing obstructions under Section 18c-7402 of this Chapter and trespass on railroad rights ...

Transportation of Hazardous Materials by Rail Carriers . (1) Commission to Regulate Hazardous Materials Transportation by Rail Carrier. (a) Powers of the Commission. The Commission is ...

Accident counseling . (a) Every Class I rail carrier, according to federal regulations, operating in this State must establish a counseling or trauma program and provide or ...

Closure of at-grade crossings; bicycle and pedestrian trails . When considering the closure of an at-grade railroad crossing to public use, the Commission shall consider the status of ...

Eminent Domain . If any rail carrier shall be unable to agree with the owner for the purchase of any real estate required for the purposes of ...

Malicious removal of or damage to railroad property or freight . (a) Malicious removal of or damage to railroad property or freight. A person is guilty ...

Trespassing on railroad property . (1) Trespassing on railroad property prohibited. (a) General prohibition. Except as otherwise ...

Construction of Fences, Farm Crossings, and Damages . (1) Fencing. Every rail carrier shall, within 6 months after any part of its line is open for use, erect ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96.) ...

(Repealed) . (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96.) ...

Remedies Cumulative . Rights and remedies under this Chapter shall be cumulative of each other and of rights and remedies under other provisions of law, except as ...

Grandfather Clause . Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Chapter, valid regulations adopted, licenses, registrations, certifications and other authorizations issued or recognized, rates established or recognized, ...

Moneys derived from registration, operation and use of automobiles and from fuel taxes - Use . From and after the effective date of this Act, except as provided ...

Effect of headings . Chapter, Article and Section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning ...

Gender . When used in this Code, words importing the masculine may be applied to females and vice versa. (Source: P.A. 82-123.) ...

Number . When used in this Code, words importing the singular may extend and be applied to several persons or things, and words importing the plural number ...

Tense . When used in this Code, words importing the present tense may include the future and vice versa. (Source: P.A. 82-123.) ...

Act not retroactive . This Act shall not have a retroactive effect and shall not apply to any traffic accident, to a cause of action arising out ...

Constitutionality . If any part or parts of this Act shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts ...

The corporate authorities of a municipality may adopt all or any portion of this Illinois Vehicle Code by reference . (Source: P.A. 78-738.) ...

Repeal . The following acts are repealed: (a) The "Illinois Vehicle Law", approved July 11, 1957, as amended. (b) "AN ACT in relation to motor ...

Saving provisions . The repeal of any Act by this Chapter shall not affect any right accrued or liability incurred under said repealed Act to the effective ...

Effective Date . This Act is effective July 1, 1970. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.) ...