Illinois Compiled Statutes 625 Vehicles: Article 11 - Rules Of The Road
Article I. Special Definitions
Article II. Obedience to and Effect of Traffic Laws
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-201
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-202
Required obedience to traffic laws. It is unlawful and, unless otherwise declared in this Chapter with respect to particular offenses, it is a petty...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-203
Obedience to police officers. No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer, fireman, person...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-204
Fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer. (a) Any driver or operator of a motor vehicle who, having been given a visual or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-204.1
Aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer. (a) The offense of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer is committed by...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-205
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-206
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-207
Provisions of this Chapter uniform throughout State. The provisions of this Chapter shall be applicable and uniform throughout this State and in all political...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208
Powers of local authorities. (a) The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways under...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.1
Uniformity. The provisions of this Chapter of this Act, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by any State Officer, Office, Agency,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.2
Limitation on home rule units. The provisions of this Chapter of this Act limit the authority of home rule units to adopt local police...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.3
Administrative adjudication of violations of traffic regulations concerning the standing, parking, or condition of vehicles, automated traffic law violations, and automated speed enforcement system violations....
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.4
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by internal repealer, eff. 12-31-94.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.5
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.6
Automated traffic law enforcement system. (a) As used in this Section, "automated traffic law enforcement system" means a device with one or more motor vehicle...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.7
Administrative fees and procedures for impounding vehicles for specified violations. (a) Any county or municipality may, consistent with this Section, provide by ordinance procedures for...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.8
Automated speed enforcement systems in safety zones. (a) As used in this Section: "Automated speed enforcement system" means a photographic device, radar device, laser device,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-208.9
Automated traffic law enforcement system; approaching, overtaking, and passing a school bus. (a) As used in this Section, "automated traffic law enforcement system" means a...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-209
Powers of municipalities and counties - Contract with school boards, hospitals, churches, condominium complex unit owners' associations, and commercial and industrial facility, shopping center, and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-209.1
Powers of local authorities - enforcing the provisions of this Code on private streets and roads. (a) Any person or board of directors owning,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-210
This Chapter not to interfere with rights of owners of real property with reference thereto. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-211
Local Laws. No owner of a motor vehicle shall be limited as to speed upon any public place, at any time when the same...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-212
Traffic stop statistical study. (a) Whenever a State or local law enforcement officer issues a uniform traffic citation or warning citation for an alleged violation...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-213
Power of a fire department officer; highway or lane closure. In the absence of a law enforcement officer or a representative of the highway agency...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-214
Local government reporting. (a) Local units of government shall report to the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Department shall post on its official website...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-215
Secretary of State to provide information on use of truck global positioning systems. (a) The Secretary of State shall include in its commercial drivers license...
Article III. Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-301
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-301.1
Beginning July 1, 1988, all signs erected and used to designate the reservation of parking facilities for a person with disabilities shall be in...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-302
Authority to designate through highway and stop and yield intersections. (a) The Department with reference to State highways under its jurisdiction, and local authorities...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-303
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-304
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-305
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-306
Traffic-control signal legend. Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights or color lighted arrows, successively one at a time or in...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-307
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-308
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-309
Flashing Signals. Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in conjunction with a traffic control device it shall require obedience by...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-310
Display of Unauthorized Signs, Signals or Markings. (a) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-311
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,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-312
Unlawful Use or Damage to Highways, Appurtenances and Structures. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or damage any public highway...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-313
Unlawful possession of highway sign or marker. The Department and local authorities, with reference to traffic control signs, signals, or markers owned by the...
Article IV. Accidents
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-401
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-402
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-403
Duty to give information and render aid. The driver of any vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting in injury to or death...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-404
Duty upon damaging unattended vehicle or other property. (a) The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in a motor vehicle accident...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-406
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-407
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-408
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-409
False motor vehicle accident reports or notices. Any person who provides information in an oral or written report required by this Code with knowledge...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-410
When driver fails to report a motor vehicle accident. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required written accident...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-411
Accident report forms. (a) The Administrator must prepare and upon request supply to police departments, sheriffs and other appropriate agencies or individuals, forms for...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-412
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-413
Coroners to report. All coroners shall on or before the 10th day of each month report in writing to the Administrator the death of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-414
Department to tabulate and analyze motor vehicle accident reports. The Department shall tabulate and may analyze all written motor vehicle accident reports received in...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-415
Municipalities may require traffic accident reports. Municipalities may by ordinance require that the driver or owner of a vehicle involved in a traffic accident...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-416
Furnishing copies - Fees. The Department of State Police may furnish copies of an Illinois State Police Traffic Accident Report that has been investigated...
Article V. Driving While Intoxicated, Transporting Alcoholic Liquor, and Reckless Driving
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-500
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-500.1
Immunity. (a) A person authorized under this Article to withdraw blood or collect urine shall not be civilly liable for damages when the person,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.01
Additional administrative sanctions. (a) After a finding of guilt and prior to any final sentencing or an order for supervision, for an offense based upon...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.1
Suspension of drivers license; statutory summary alcohol, other drug or drugs, or intoxicating compound or compounds related suspension or revocation; implied consent. (a) Any person...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.2
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.4
Admissibility of chemical tests of blood or urine conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.4-1
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,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.5
Preliminary Breath Screening Test. (a) If a law enforcement officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that a person is violating or has violated Section...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.6
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.7
(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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.8
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-501.9
Suspension of driver's license; medical cannabis card holder; failure or refusal of field sobriety tests; implied consent. (a) A person who has been issued a...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-502
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-502.1
Possession of medical cannabis in a motor vehicle. (a) No driver, who is a medical cannabis cardholder, may use medical cannabis within the passenger area...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-503
Reckless driving; aggravated reckless driving. (a) A person commits reckless driving if he or she: (1) drives any vehicle with a willful or wanton disregard...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-504
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-831. Repealed by P.A. 95-310, eff. 1-1-08.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-505
No person shall operate any motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause or allow to be emitted squealing, screeching or other such...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-506
Street racing; aggravated street racing. (a) No person shall engage in street racing on any street or highway of this State. (b) No owner of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-507
Supervising a minor driver while under the influence of alcohol, other drug or drugs, intoxicating compound or compounds or any combination thereof. (a) A person...
Article VI. Speed Restrictions
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-601
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-601.5
Driving 26 miles per hour or more in excess of applicable limit. (a) A person who drives a vehicle upon any highway of this State...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-602
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-603
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-604
Alteration of limits by local authorities. (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in this Section, the county board of a county may establish absolute...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-605
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-605.1
Special limit while traveling through a highway construction or maintenance speed zone. (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle in a construction or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-605.2
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-605.3
Special traffic protections while passing parks and recreation facilities and areas. (a) As used in this Section: (1) "Park district" means the following entities: (A)...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-606
Minimum speed regulation. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-608
Special speed limitation on elevated structures. (a) No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-610
Charging Violations and Rule in Civil Actions. (a) In every charge of violation of any speed regulation in this article the complaint, and also...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-611
No person shall drive or operate any motor vehicle on any street or highway in this State where the minimum allowable speed on that...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-612
Certain systems to record vehicle speeds prohibited. Except as authorized in the Automated Traffic Control Systems in Highway Construction or Maintenance Zones Act and Section...
Article VII. Driving on Right Side of Roadway; Overtaking and Passing, Etc.
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-701
Drive on right side of roadway - Exceptions. (a) Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-702
Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions. Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon roadways having...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-703
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,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-704
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-705
Limitations on overtaking on the left. No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-706
Further limitations on driving to the left of center of roadway. (a) No vehicle shall be driven on the left side of the roadway...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-707
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-708
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,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-709
Driving on roadways laned for traffic. Whenever any roadway has been divided into 2 or more clearly marked lanes for traffic the following rules...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-709.1
Driving on the shoulder. (a) Vehicles shall be driven on a roadway, and shall only be driven on the shoulder for the purpose of stopping...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-709.2
Bus on shoulder pilot program. (a) For purposes of this Section, "bus on shoulders" is the use of specifically designated shoulders of roadways by authorized...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-709.3
Transit buses on shoulders - toll highways. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may allow transit buses to use the shoulders of highways under its...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-710
Following too closely. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-711
Restrictions on use of controlled access highway. (a) No person may drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at entrances...
Article VIII. Turning and Starting and Signals on Stopping and Turning
Article IX. Right-of-way
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-901
Vehicles approaching or entering intersection. (a) When 2 vehicles approach or enter an intersection from different roadways at approximately the same time, the driver...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-901.01
Vehicles approaching or entering a "T" intersection. The driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection of a highway from a highway which terminates at...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-902
Vehicle turning left. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left within an intersection or into an alley, private road, or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-903
Vehicles entering stop crosswalk. Where stop signs or flashing red signals are in place at an intersection or flashing red signals are in place...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-904
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-905
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-906
Vehicle entering highway from private road or driveway. The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from an alley, building,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-907
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-908
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...
Article X. Pedestrians' Rights and Duties
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1001
Pedestrian obedience to traffic control devices and traffic regulations. (a) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device specifically applicable...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1002
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 stop and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1002.5
Pedestrians' right-of-way at crosswalks; school zones. (a) For the purpose of this Section, "school" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 11-605. On...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1003
Crossing at other than crosswalks. (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1003.1
Drivers to exercise due care. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Code or the provisions of any local ordinance, every driver of a vehicle shall...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1004
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.
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1004.1
Motorized wheelchairs. Every person operating a motorized wheelchair upon a sidewalk or roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1005
Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalks. Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks. (Source: P.A. 76-1586.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1005.1
Electric personal assistive mobility devices. Every person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device upon a sidewalk or roadway has all the rights and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1006
Pedestrians soliciting rides or business. (a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1007
Pedestrians walking on highways. (a) Except as provided in subsection (e), where a sidewalk is provided and its use is practicable, it shall be unlawful...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1008
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.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1009
Pedestrians yield to authorized emergency vehicles. Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of an audible signal and visual signals...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1010
Pedestrians under influence of alcohol or drugs. A pedestrian who is under the influence of alcohol or any drug to a degree which renders...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1011
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...
Article XI. Street Cars and Safety Zones
Article XII. Special Stops Required
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1201
Obedience to signal indicating approach of train or railroad track equipment. (a) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing where the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1201.1
Automated Railroad Crossing Enforcement System. (a) For the purposes of this Section, an automated railroad grade crossing enforcement system is a system in a municipality...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1201.5
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-771, eff. 1-1-07. Repealed by P.A. 96-478, eff. 1-1-10.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1202
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1203
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1204
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1205
Emerging from alley, building, or private road or driveway. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, building, private road or driveway within...
Article XIII. Stopping, Standing, and Parking
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301
Stopping, standing or parking outside of business or residence district. (a) Outside a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park or leave...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.1
Persons with disabilities - Parking privileges - Exemptions. (a) A motor vehicle bearing registration plates issued to a person with disabilities, as defined by Section...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.2
Special decals for parking; persons with disabilities. (a) The Secretary of State shall provide for, by administrative rules, the design, size, color, and placement of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.3
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.4
Reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions. The Secretary of State, or his designee, may enter into agreements with other jurisdictions, including foreign jurisdictions, on behalf...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.5
Fictitious or unlawfully altered disability license plate or parking decal or device. (a) As used in this Section: "Fictitious disability license plate or parking decal...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.6
Fraudulent disability license plate or parking decal or device. (a) As used in this Section: "Fraudulent disability license plate or parking decal or device" means...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.7
Appointed volunteers and contracted entities; disabled person parking violations. (a) The chief of police of a municipality and the sheriff of a county authorized...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1301.8
Obstruction of parking places for persons with disabilities. (a) No property owner shall allow any unreasonable obstruction of a designated aisle or parking place specifically...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1302
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1303
Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. (a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1304
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1304.5
Parking of vehicle with expired registration. No person may stop, park, or leave standing upon a public street, highway, or roadway a vehicle upon...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1305
Lessors of visitor vehicles - Duty upon receiving notice of violation of this Article or local parking regulation. Every person in whose name a...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1306
Parking liability of lessor. No person who is the lessor of a vehicle pursuant to a written lease agreement shall be liable for the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1307
Centralized parking meter systems. (a) As used in this Section: "Centralized parking meter system" means a system of regulating the standing or parking of vehicles...
Article XIV. Miscellaneous Laws
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1401
Unattended motor vehicles. No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1402
Limitations on backing. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1403
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1403.1
Riding on mopeds. (a) The operator of a moped shall ride only astride the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and shall not permit 2...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1403.2
Operating a motorcycle, motor driven cycle, or moped on one wheel; aggravated operating a motorcycle, motor driven cycle, or moped on one wheel. (a) No...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1403.3
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1404
Special equipment for persons riding motorcycles, motor driven cycles or mopeds. (a) The operator of a motorcycle, motor driven cycle or moped and every passenger...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1405
Required equipment on motorcycles. Any motorcycle carrying a passenger, other than in a sidecar or enclosed cab, shall be equipped with footrests for such...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1406
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1407
Opening and closing vehicle doors. No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless and until...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1408
Riding in towed vehicles. No person or persons shall occupy a trailer, semitrailer, farm wagon, or any other vehicle while it is being towed upon...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1409
Driving on mountain highways. The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold such motor vehicle...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1410
Coasting prohibited. (a) The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the gears or transmission of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1411
Following fire apparatus prohibited. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1412
Crossing fire hose. No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private road...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1412.1
Driving upon sidewalk. No person shall drive any vehicle upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area except upon a permanent or duly authorized temporary driveway....
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1412.2
Operating an electric personal assistive mobility device on a public sidewalk. A person may not operate an electric personal assistive mobility device upon a...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1413
Depositing material on highway prohibited. (a) No person shall throw, spill or deposit upon any highway any bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1414
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1414.1
School transportation of students. (a) Every student enrolled in grade 12 or below in any entity listed in subsection (a) of Section 1-182 of this...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1415
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1416
Obstructing person in highways. No person shall wilfully and unnecessarily hinder, obstruct or delay, or wilfully and unnecessarily attempt to delay, hinder or obstruct...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1417
Travel regulated. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or cause to be driven a vehicle of any description in or upon...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1418
Farm tractor operation regulated. No person shall operate a farm tractor on a highway unless the tractor is being used as an implement of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 84-1308. Repealed by P.A. 98-512, eff. 1-1-14.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419.01
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419.02
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419.03
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419.04
Failure to carry a manifest. Any person who acts as a motor carrier and who fails to carry a manifest as provided in Section...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1419.05
A motor carrier shall not operate or cause to be operated a commercial motor vehicle upon the highways of this State with a revoked...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1420
Funeral processions. (a) Funeral processions have the right-of-way at intersections when vehicles comprising such procession have their headlights and hazard lights lighted, subject to the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1421
Conditions for operating ambulances and rescue vehicles. (a) No person shall operate an ambulance or rescue vehicle in a manner not conforming to the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1422
Illegal operation of an ambulance or rescue vehicle - Penalty. A person who operates an ambulance or rescue vehicle in violation of Section 11-1421...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1423
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1424
Operation of a religious organization bus. (a) No religious organization bus may be operated on any street or highway unless all passengers, except for...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1425
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1426
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 95-575, eff. 8-31-07. Repealed by P.A. 96-279, eff. 1-1-10.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1426.1
Operation of non-highway vehicles on streets, roads, and highways. (a) As used in this Section, "non-highway vehicle" means a motor vehicle not specifically designed to...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1426.2
Operation of low-speed vehicles on streets. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, it is lawful for any person to drive or operate a...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427.1
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427.2
Special all-terrain vehicle or off-highway motorcycle event. Nothing contained in Section 11-1427 or 11-1427.1 shall be construed to prohibit any local authority of this State...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427.3
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 11-1427, 11-1427.1,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427.4
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1427.5
Recreational off-highway vehicles. All provisions of this Code that apply to an all-terrain vehicle shall apply the same to a recreational off-highway vehicle. (Source: P.A....
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1428
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-683, eff. 1-1-99. Repealed by P.A. 96-279, eff. 1-1-10.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1429
Excessive idling. (a) The purpose of this law is to protect public health and the environment by reducing emissions while conserving fuel and maintaining adequate...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1430
Vehicle immobilization and impoundment upon certification of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Any municipality may provide by ordinance for a program of vehicle...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1430.1
Vehicle immobilization for failure to pay municipal vehicle tax violation liability. (a) A municipality may provide by ordinance for a program of vehicle immobilization to...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1431
Solicitations at accident or disablement scene prohibited. A tower, as defined by Section 1-205.2 of this Code, or an employee or agent of a tower...
Article XV. Bicycles
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1501
Application of rules. (a) It is unlawful for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in Article...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1502
Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1503
Riding on bicycles. (a) A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto....
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1504
Clinging to vehicles. No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1505
Position of bicycles and motorized pedal cycles on roadways - Riding on roadways and bicycle paths. (a) Any person operating a bicycle or motorized pedal...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1505.1
Persons riding bicycles or motorized pedal cycles upon a roadway shall not ride more than 2 abreast, except on paths or parts of roadways...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1506
Carrying articles. No person operating a bicycle shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the use of both hands in the control...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1507
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1507.1
Lamps on mopeds. Every moped, when in use at nighttime, shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1508
Bicycle identifying number. A person engaged in the business of selling bicycles at retail shall not sell any bicycle unless the bicycle has an...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1509
Inspecting bicycles. A uniformed police officer may at any time upon reasonable cause to believe that a bicycle is unsafe or not equipped as...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1510
Left Turns. (a) A person riding a bicycle or moped intending to turn left shall follow a course described in Section 11-801 or in paragraph...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1511
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1512
Bicycles on sidewalks. (a) A person propelling a bicycle upon and along a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, shall...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1513
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1514
Bicycle racing. (a) Bicycle racing on a highway shall not be unlawful when a racing event has been approved by State or local authorities...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1515
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 11-1516
Low-speed bicycles. (a) A person may operate a low-speed electric bicycle or low-speed gas bicycle only if the person is at least 16 years of...
Last modified: February 18, 2015