Chapter 10-84
MISCELLANEOUS TRAFFIC RULES
Sections:
10-84-010 Report of accidents.
10-84-020 Duty upon striking unattended vehicle.
10-84-030 Duty upon striking fixtures or other property.
10-84-040 Destructive substances on public ways.
10-84-050 Abandoning motor vehicles.
10-84-060 Unlawful moving of vehicles.
10-84-070 Blocking of streets by railroad tracks.
10-84-080 Parking for certain purposes prohibited.
10-84-090 Lights on parked vehicles.
10-84-100 Picking up solicitors on roadways.
10-84-110 Repairs to vehicles on boulevards.
10-84-120 Boarding or alighting from vehicles.
10-84-140 Parking in private parking lots.
10-84-150 Parking in public parking lots.
10-84-160 General speed restrictions.
10-84-170 Alteration of speed limits by city.
10-84-180 Special speed limit while passing schools.
10-84-190 Minimum speed regulation.
10-84-010 Report of accidents.
The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or property damage to an apparent extent of fifty dollars ($50.00) or more, if such operator is physically capable of doing so, shall immediately report such accident to the police department. (Ord. 1668 § 20.7, 1964)
10-84-020 Duty upon striking unattended vehicle.
The operator of any vehicle which collides with any vehicle which is unattended shall immediately stop and shall then and there either locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle of the name and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle striking the unattended vehicle or shall leave in a conspicuous place in the vehicle struck a written notice giving name and address of the driver and of the owner of the vehicle doing the striking and a statement of the circumstances thereof. (Ord. 1668 § 20.8, 1964)
10-84-030 Duty upon striking fixtures or other property.
The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to fixtures or other property legally upon or adjacent to a public way shall take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or persons in charge of such property of such fact and of his name and address and of the registration number of the vehicle he is driving and shall upon request and if available exhibit his operator’s or chauffeur’s license. (Ord. 1668 § 20.9, 1964)
10-84-040 Destructive substances on public ways.
A. No person shall throw or deposit upon any public way any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wires, cans or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or vehicle upon such public way.
B. Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any public way any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
C. Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a public way shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle. (Ord. 1668 § 21.1, 1964)
10-84-050 Abandoning motor vehicles.
It is unlawful for any person to abandon any motor vehicle on any public way within the city. Any motor vehicle standing or parked on any public way in such a state of disrepair as to be incapable of being driven in its present condition, or any motor vehicle which has not been moved or used for more than seven consecutive days and is apparently deserted shall be presumed to have been abandoned. Each day such vehicle remains so abandoned shall constitute a separate and distinct offense for which a separate penalty may be imposed. (Ord. 1668 § 21.2, 1964)
10-84-060 Unlawful moving of vehicles.
No person other than a police officer shall move a vehicle, not lawfully under his control, into any area where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited or away from a curb or edge of roadway such distance as is unlawful or start or cause to be started the motor of any motor vehicle, or shift, change or move the levers, brake, starling device, gears or other mechanism, of a parked motor vehicle, to a position other than that in which is was left by the owner or driver thereof, or attempt to do so. (Ord. 1668 § 21.3, 1964)
10-84-070 Blocking of streets by railroad tracks.
It is unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street, for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than ten minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to trains or cars in motion other than those engaged in switching. (Ord. 1668 § 21.4, 1964)
10-84-080 Parking for certain purposes prohibited.
No person shall park a vehicle upon a roadway;
A. To display such vehicle for sale;
B. To grease or repair such vehicle except for repairs necessitated by an emergency;
C. To sell merchandise from such vehicle except in a duly established market place. (Ord. 1668 § 21.5, 1964)
10-84-090 Lights on parked vehicles.
A. Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked at night time upon any lighted street within a business or residence district no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.
B. Whenever a vehicle is parked upon an unlighted street or highway during the hours between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps which shall exhibit a white light on the roadway side visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of the vehicle and a red light visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the rear.
C. Any lighted head lamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed. (Ord. 1668 § 21.6, 1964)
10-84-100 Picking up solicitors on roadways.
No person operating a private vehicle shall pick up any person standing in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride. (Ord. 1668 § 21.7, 1964)
10-84-110 Repairs to vehicles on boulevards.
No person shall change any parts, repair, wash, grease, wax, polish or clean a vehicle on any boulevard except such repairing, cleaning or polishing as is necessary to insure good vision, or such emergency repairs as are necessary to remove such vehicle from the boulevard. Such emergency repairs shall be made only as close as possible to the right-hand edge of the roadway, with the vehicle facing in the direction of the traffic flow. (Ord. 1668 § 21.8, 1964)
10-84-120 Boarding or alighting from vehicles.
No person shall board or alight from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion. (Ord. 1668 § 21.9, 1964)
10-84-130 Unlawful riding.
No person shall ride on any vehicle upon any portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of passengers. This provision shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended for merchandise. (Ord. 1668 § 21.10, 1964)
10-84-140 Parking in private parking lots.
It is unlawful for any person not so entitled to park a vehicle in a private parking lot established to provide off-street parking facilities for tenants or employees of the owner. (Ord. 1668 § 21.11, 1964)
10-84-150 Parking in public parking lots.
It is unlawful for any person not so entitled to park a vehicle in a public parking lot. (Ord. 1668 § 21.12, 1964)
10-84-160 General speed restrictions.
The provisions of Illinois Vehicle Code § 5/11-601, as amended, are adopted as follows:
A. No vehicle may be driven upon any highway of this state at a speed which is greater than is reasonable and proper with regard to traffic conditions and the use of the highway, or endangers the safety of any person or property. The fact that the speed of a vehicle does not exceed the applicable maximum speed limit does not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, or when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions. Speed must be decreased as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person or vehicle on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care.
B. No person may drive a vehicle upon any highway of this state at a speed which is greater than the applicable statutory maximum speed limit established by subsections C, D, E, F or G of this section, by Section 10-84-180 or by a regulation or ordinance made under Chapter 5/11 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
C. Unless some other speed restriction is established under this chapter, the maximum speed limit in an urban district for all vehicles is:
1. Thirty (30) miles per hour; and
2. Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
D. Unless some other speed restriction is established under this chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for any vehicle of the first division, or a vehicle of the second division designed or used for the carrying of a gross weight of less than eight thousand (8,000) pounds (including the weight of the vehicle and maximum load), is sixty-five (65) miles per hour; provided, however, that during the period for which the federal government, through Section 114 of the “Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974,” enacted by the Congress of the United States of America as Public Law 93-643, requires that the states maintain a maximum speed limit of fifty-five (55) miles per hour, the maximum speed limit pursuant to this subsection shall be temporarily reduced to fifty-five (55) miles per hour.
E. Unless some other speed restriction is established under this chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for a vehicle of the second division designed or used for the carrying of a gross weight of eight thousand (8,000) pounds or more (including the weight of the vehicle and maximum load) is fifty-five (55) miles per hour.
F. Unless some other speed restriction is established under this chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for a bus is:
1. Sixty-five (65) miles per hour upon any highway which has at least four lanes of traffic and of which the roadways for traffic moving in opposite directions are separated by a strip of ground which is not surfaced or suitable for vehicular traffic; provided, however, that during the period for which the federal government through Section 114 of the “Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974,” enacted by the Congress of the United States of America as Public Law 93-643, requires that the states maintain a maximum speed limit of fifty-five (55) miles per hour, the maximum speed limit pursuant to this section shall be temporarily reduced to fifty-five (55) miles per hour, and
2. Sixty (60) miles per hour on any other highway; provided, however, that during the period for which the federal government, through Section 114 of the “Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974,” enacted by the Congress of the United States of America as Public Law 93-643, requires that the states maintain a maximum speed limit of fifty-five (55) miles per hour, the maximum speed limit pursuant to this section shall be temporarily reduced to fifty-five (55) miles per hour.
G. Unless some other speed restriction is established under this chapter, the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for a house car, camper, private living coach, vehicles licensed as recreational vehicles, and any vehicle towing any other vehicle is fifty-five (55) miles per hour or the posted speed limit, whichever is less. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. I (part)), 1995)
10-84-170 Alteration of speed limits by city.
The provisions of Illinois Vehicle Code § 5/11-604, as amended, are adopted as follows:
A. Subject to the limitations set forth in this section, the county board of a county may establish absolute maximum speed limits on all county highways, township roads and district roads as defined in the Illinois Highway Code, except those under the jurisdiction of the department or of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as described in Sections 11-602 and 11-604 of Chapter 5/11 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and any park district, city, village, or incorporated town may establish absolute maximum speed limits on all streets which are within its corporate limits and which are not under the jurisdiction of the department or of such authority, and for which the county or a highway commissioner of such county does not have maintenance responsibility.
B. Whenever any such city or park district determines, upon the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation concerning a highway or street on which it is authorized by this section to establish speed limits, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section 10-84-160 of this chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or safe with respect to the conditions found to exist at any place or along any part or zone of such highway or street, the city or park district shall determine and declare by ordinance a reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along such part or zone, which:
1. Decreased the limit within an urban district, but not to less than twenty (20) miles per hour, or
2. Increases the limit within an urban district, but not to more than sixty-five (65) miles per hour, provided, however, that during the period for which the federal government through Section 114 of the “Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974,” enacted by the Congress of the United States of America as Public Law 93-643, requires that the states maintain a maximum speed limit of fifty-five (55) miles per hour, the maximum speed limit pursuant to this subsection shall be temporarily reduced to fifty-five (55) miles per hour, or
3. Decreases the limit outside of an urban district, but not to less than thirty-five (35) miles per hour, except as otherwise provided in subsection B(4) of this section, or
4. Decreases the limit within a residence district, but not to less than twenty-five (25) miles per hour, except as otherwise provided in subsection B(1) of this section.
C. The city or park district may make such limit applicable at all times or only during certain specified times. Not more than six such alterations shall be made per mile along a highway or street; and the difference in limit between adjacent altered speed zones shall not be more than ten miles per hour.
D. A limit so determined and declared by a park district, city, village, or incorporated town becomes effective, and suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section 10-84-160 of this chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper place or along the proper part or zone of the highway or street. Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used within five hundred (500) feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in violation of this section, evidence obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding. However, nothing in this section prohibits the use of such electronic speed-detecting devices within five hundred (500) feet of a sign within a special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements of Section 10-84-180, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school speed zone. A county engineer or superintendent of highways may submit to the department for approval, a county policy establishing altered speed zones on township and county highways based upon engineering and traffic investigations.
E. A county board shall forward to the department for approval a copy of its ordinance so declaring a limit, together with the supporting data collected in the investigation. The department shall approve the limit only if the same is not inconsistent with the county policy as approved by the department or with corresponding limits as determined for and in effect on highways for which the department has the maintenance responsibility. If the department approves the limit, the same becomes effective, and suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section 10-84-160 of this chapter, when appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected at the proper place or along the proper part of the zone of the highway. Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used within five hundred (500) feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so used in violation of this section, evidence obtained thereby shall be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding. However, nothing in this section prohibits the use of such electronic speed-detecting devices within five hundred (500) feet of a sign within a special school speed zone indicating such zone, conforming to the requirements of Section 1084-180, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school speed zone. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. I (part)), 1995)
10-84-180 Special speed limit while passing schools.
The provisions of Illinois Vehicle Code § 5/11-605, as amended, are adopted as follows:
A. On a school day when school children are present and so close thereto that a potential hazard exists because of the close proximity of the motorized traffic, no person shall drive a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour while passing a school zone or while traveling upon any public thoroughfare where children pass going to and from school.
B. For the purpose of this section a school day shall begin at seven ante meridian and shall conclude at four post meridian.
C. This section shall not be applicable unless appropriate signs are posted upon streets and highways under their respective jurisdiction and maintained by the department, township, county, park district, city, village or incorporated town wherein the school zone is located. Such signs shall give proper due warning that a school zone is being approached and shall indicate the school zone and the maximum speed limit in effect during school days when school children are present. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the use of electronic speed-detecting devices within five hundred (500) feet of signs within a special school speed zone indicating such zone, as defined in this section, nor shall evidence obtained thereby be inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding provided the use of such device shall apply only to the enforcement of the speed limit in such special school speed zone. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. I (part)), 1995)
10-84-190 Minimum speed regulation.
The provisions of Illinois Vehicle Code § 5/11-606, as amended, are adopted as follows:
A. No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of his vehicle or in compliance with law.
B. Whenever the department, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, or city described in Section 10-84-170 of this chapter determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation concerning a highway or street under its jurisdiction that slow vehicle speeds along any part or zone of such highway or street consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the department, the Toll Highway Authority, or city (as appropriate) may determine and declare by proper regulation or ordinance a minimum speed limit below which no person shall drive except when necessary for safe operation of his vehicle or in compliance with law. A limit so determined and declared becomes effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the limit are erected along such part or zone of the highway or street. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. I (part)), 1995)