Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 1
  The General Assembly finds and declares that the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas adjacent to Interstate highways...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 2
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971". (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3
  As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 4 have the...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.01
  "Department" means the Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.02
  "Interstate highway" means any highway designated by the Department and approved by the United States Department of Transportation as a part of the National...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.03
  "Primary highway" means any highway, other than an Interstate highway, designated by the Department and approved by the United States Department of Transportation as...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.04
  "Expressway" means a primary highway constructed as a freeway which has complete control of access. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.05
  "Main-traveled way" means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.06
  "Maintain" means to allow to exist and includes the periodic changing of advertising messages as well as the normal maintenance or repair of signs and...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.07
  "Sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, notice, figure painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, which is designated, intended, or used...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.08
  "Erect" means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any other way bring into being or establish; but does...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.09
  "Municipality" means a city, village, or incorporated town in the State of Illinois, but, unless the context otherwise provides, "municipal" or "municipality" does not...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.10
  "Commercial or industrial activities" means those activities located within 660 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way generally recognized as commercial or industrial...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.11
  "Unzoned commercial or industrial area" means any area adjacent to the right-of-way of a primary highway not zoned by any county or municipality and...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.12
  Business area. "Business area" means any part of an area adjacent to and within 660 feet of the right-of-way which is zoned for business, commercial...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.13
  "Visible" means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by persons of normal visual acuity. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.14
  For purposes of this Act, "urban area" means an urbanized area or, in the case of an urbanized area encompassing more than one state,...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.15
  "National Highway System" is a designation provided to certain highways by the Department, which designation must be approved by the United States Department of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.16
  "Scenic byway" means that portion of a highway that has been nominated by the Department to the United States Department of Transportation for designation...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.17
  On-premise sign. "On-premise sign" means any sign advertising a business or activity conducted on the property on which they are located. (Source: P.A. 98-56, eff.
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.18
  Off-premise sign. "Off-premise sign" means any sign advertising a business or activity not being conducted on the same property as the sign. (Source: P.A. 98-56,...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.19
  Real estate sign. "Real estate sign" means any sign advertising solely the sale or lease of the property on which the sign is located. (Source:...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 3.20
  Municipal network sign. "Municipal network sign" means an official sign or a sign that: (1) is located on property owned or controlled by a local...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4
  Signs shall not be erected or maintained along primary or Interstate highways except those described in Sections 4.01 through 4.08. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.01
  Directional and other official signs, including, but not limited to, signs pertaining to natural wonders, scenic and historical attractions, which are required or authorized...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.02
  Real estate signs. Real estate signs as defined in Section 3.19 of this Act. However, real estate signs must comply only with the provisions in...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.03
  On-premise signs. On-premise signs as defined in Section 3.17 of this Act. However, on-premise signs must comply only with the provisions in Section 5 of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.04
  Off-premise signs. Off-premise signs which are erected in business areas after the effective date of this Act and which comply, when erected, with Sections 5,...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.05
  Signs in existence in a "business area", except signs which do not comply with Section 5, subsection (b) of Section 6.02, subsection (a) of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.06
  Signs affixed by public utilities to their poles and other facilities for identification. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.07
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-1009. Repealed by P.A. 98-56, eff. 7-5-13.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 4.08
  Signs, displays and devices giving specific information in the interest of the traveling public may be erected and maintained by the Department within the...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 5
  No sign may be erected or maintained that: (a) Imitates or resembles an official traffic sign, signal or device; (b) Is erected, painted or...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 6
  Signs permitted under Section 4.04 must comply with the requirements of Sections 6.01, 6.02 and 6.03. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 6.01
  Size of signs. No sign may be erected which exceeds 1,200 square feet in area, 30 feet in height and 60 feet in length,...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 6.02
  Lighting. (a) No sign may be erected which contains, includes or is illuminated by any flashing, intermittent or moving light or lights, except those...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 6.03
  Spacing. (a) No sign may be erected or maintained in such a manner as to obscure or otherwise physically interfere with an official traffic...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 6.04
  The size, lighting and spacing provisions of Section 6 shall not be construed to apply to, or to impose additional limitations upon, signs of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 7
  In zoned commercial and industrial areas, whenever a State, county or municipal zoning authority has adopted laws or ordinances, which include regulations with respect...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 8
  Within 90 days after the effective date of this Act, each sign, except signs described by Sections 4.01, 4.02, and 4.03, must be registered with...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 9
  In order to obtain compliance with this Act, the Department may after July 1, 1973 acquire property and other rights by purchase, gift, condemnation...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 9.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 10
  The following signs are unlawful and a public nuisance: (a) Signs erected after the effective date of this Act in violation of this Act;...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 11
  The Department, on behalf of the State of Illinois, may seek agreement with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States under Section 131...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 12
  The Department may accept any allotment of funds by the United States, or by any agency thereof, appropriated to carry out the purposes of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 13
  If any provision of this Act or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity does not affect other provisions...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 14
  Nothing contained in this Act shall change, alter or otherwise affect the power of the Department to provide for the preservation of the natural...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 14.01
  The Department may establish rules and regulations regarding implementation and enforcement of this Act, which regulations are not inconsistent with the terms of this...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 14.02
  Scenic byways; nomination. (a) The Department shall limit its nominations for national designation of scenic byways to roads or highways that: (1) possess any...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 14.1
  Applicability. The changes made to this Act by Public Act 98-56 shall not be applicable if the application would impact the receipt, use, or reimbursement...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 15
  "An Act relating to the restriction, prohibition, regulation, and control of billboards and other outdoor advertising devices on certain lands adjacent to National System of...
• Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. - 225 ILCS 440, Section 16
  This Act takes effect July 1, 1972. (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015