Illinois Compiled Statutes 625 Vehicles: Article 12 - Equipment Of Vehicles
Article I. General Provisions
Article II. Lights and Lamps
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-201
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-202
Clearance, identification and side marker lamps. (a) Second division vehicles with a GVWR over 10,000 pounds, the length of which together with any trailer or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-203
Lamps on parked vehicles. (a) During the period from sunset to sunrise every motorcycle or motor vehicle which is standing on any highway shall...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-204
Lamp or flag on projecting load. Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear 4 feet, or more beyond the bed or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-205
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-205.1
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-207
Spot lamps and auxiliary driving lamps. (a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one spot lamp and every lighted spot...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-208
Signal lamps and signal devices. (a) Every vehicle other than an antique vehicle displaying an antique plate or an expanded-use antique vehicle displaying expanded-use antique...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-209
Additional Lighting Equipment. (a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than 2 side cowl or fender lamps which shall emit an...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-210
Use of head lamps and auxiliary driving lamps. (a) Whenever the driver of any vehicle equipped with an electric driving head lamp, driving head...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-211
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,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-212
Special restrictions on lamps. (a) No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any highway with any lamp or device on...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-214
Special lighting equipment on rural mail delivery vehicles. If a rural mail delivery vehicle is equipped with special signal lamps, there shall be displayed...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-214.1
Tow trucks meeting federal motor carrier safety requirements; lighting and signalling equipment. Any tow truck that meets the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-215
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-215.1
Possession of oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights in motor vehicles; police equipment, markings, and other indicia of emergency vehicle authority. (a) A person, except those...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-216
Operation of oscillating, rotating or flashing lights. Oscillating, rotating or flashing lights located on or within police vehicles in this State shall be lighted...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-217
Special lighting equipment for interstate transportation authority. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, an interstate transportation authority, as defined in this Section,...
Article III. Brakes
Article IV. Tires
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-401
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-402
Sale or lease of siped or regrooved pneumatic tire. No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-403
Sale or lease of retreaded or "recapped" pneumatic tire. No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-404
Sale or lease of pneumatic tire without marking. No person or organization shall sell or lease or offer for sale or lease, for use...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-405
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-407
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.)
Article V. Glass, Windshields and Mirrors
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-500
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-37. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-501
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-502
Mirrors. Every motor vehicle, operated singly or when towing another vehicle, shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-503
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...
Article VI. Miscellaneous Requirements
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-600
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-498. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-601
Horns and warning devices. (a) Every motor vehicle when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-601.1
Traffic control signal preemption devices. (a) As used in this Section, "traffic control signal preemption device" means any device, either mechanical or electrical, that...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-601.2
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-602
Mufflers, prevention of noise. Every motor vehicle driven or operated upon the highways of this State shall at all times be equipped with an...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-602.1
Excessive engine braking noise signs. (a) A county or municipality may post signs that prohibit the driver of a commercial vehicle, as defined in Section...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-603
Seat safety belts. (a) No person shall sell any 1965 or later model motor vehicle of the first division unless the front seat of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-603.1
Driver and passenger required to use safety belts, exceptions and penalty. (a) Each driver and passenger of a motor vehicle operated on a street or...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-604
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-415. Repealed by P.A. 94-185, eff. 1-1-06.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-604.1
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-605
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-605.1
(a) On or after two years from the effective date of this Act, no bus which was first placed in service after July 1,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-605.2
Beginning 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1988, no person shall consume any food or drink, excluding any medicine,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-606
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-607
Suspension System. (a) It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle on any highway of this State when the suspension system has been...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-607.1
Frame and floor height. (a) No person shall operate upon a highway a first division vehicle which has a clearance between the frame and...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-608
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-609
(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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-610
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-610.1
Wireless telephones. (a) As used in this Section, "wireless telephone" means a device that is capable of transmitting or receiving telephonic communications without a wire...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-610.2
Electronic communication devices. (a) As used in this Section: "Electronic communication device" means an electronic device, including but not limited to a hand-held wireless telephone,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-610.5
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 97-672, eff. 7-1-12. Repealed by P.A. 97-743, eff. 1-1-13.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-611
No driver of any motor vehicle within this State shall operate or permit operation of any sound amplification system which can be heard outside...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-612
False or secret compartment in a vehicle. (a) Offenses. It is unlawful for any person: (1) to own or operate with criminal intent any vehicle...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-613
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...
Article VII. Special Requirements for Vehicles of the Second Division
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-701
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-702
Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices. (a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle of the second division weighing more than...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-703
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-704
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-704.1
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-704.3
Motor vehicles using alternate fuels; markings. Notwithstanding any other regulation or requirement, every motor vehicle using liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas must...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-705
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-415.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-705.1
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-706
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-707
Vehicle passenger capacity. No school bus, commuter van or motor vehicle owned by or used for hire by and in connection with the operation...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-707.01
Liability insurance. (a) No school bus, first division vehicle including a taxi which is used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-708
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-709
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-710
Rear fender splash guards. It is unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle of the second division, except a truck tractor, to which...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-711
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-712
Construction equipment to display company name. (a) Construction equipment that is capable of being self propelled or any construction equipment capable of being towed...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-713
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-714
Possession and use of radar detection devices prohibited. (a) No person shall operate or be in actual physical control of a commercial motor vehicle...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-715
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-248, eff. 1-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 94-594, eff. 1-1-06.)
Article VIII. Special Requirements for School Buses
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-800
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 82-111. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.)
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-801
Color. The exterior of each school bus shall be national school bus glossy yellow except as follows: The rooftop may be white. The fenders...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-802
Identification. (a) Each school bus shall have the sign "SCHOOL BUS" painted on both the front and rear of the bus as high as practicable...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-803
(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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-804
Other vehicles - Color, stop signal arm and identification. No vehicle other than a school bus shall be identified with the sign "SCHOOL BUS",...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-805
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....
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-806
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-806a
Identification, stop signal arms and special lighting on school buses used in connection with a youth camp, child care facility, or community based rehabilitation...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-807
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-807.1
Seat back height. No Type I school bus manufactured after June 30, 1987 shall be sold for use as, or purchased for use as,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-807.2
Crossing control arms. (a) No Type I or Type II school bus may be operated or used as a school bus within this State...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-808
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-809
First aid kit. Each school bus shall be equipped with a first aid kit mounted in full view of and readily accessible to the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-810
Restraining devices for passengers who are persons with disabilities. Each school bus which is operated for transporting passengers who are persons with disabilities shall...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-811
Amber 3 bar clearance light. Each type I school bus shall be equipped with an amber 3 bar clearance light on the front of...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-812
Rules and regulations. (a) The Department may promulgate rules and regulations to more completely specify the equipment requirements of this Article. (b) All rules,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-812.1
(a) The Department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the use of liquefied petroleum gases, compressed natural gases and liquefied natural gases...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-813.1
School bus driver communication devices. (a) In this Section: "School bus driver" means a person operating a school bus who has a valid school bus...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-815
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-815.1
Emergency exits identification. On and after August 1, 2000, all emergency exits of a school bus shall be outlined around the perimeter of the...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-815.2
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...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-816
Pre and post-trip inspection policy for school buses. (a) In order to provide for the welfare and safety of children who are transported on school...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-820
Nursery school buses. The Department of Transportation, after conducting a Public Hearing, may, by regulation, modify and supplement the requirements pertaining to seat dimensions,...
- Illinois Vehicle Code. - 625 ILCS 5, Section 12-821
Display of telephone number; complaint calls. (a) Each school bus and multifunction school-activity bus shall display at the rear of the bus a sign, with...
Article IX. Special Requirements for Religious Organization Buses
Last modified: February 18, 2015