Whenever in this chapter the following terms are used, they
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
A public way within a block generally giving access to the
rear of lots or buildings, and not used for general traffic circulation.
Every device propelled by human power, upon which any person
may ride, having two tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices.[1]
The territory of any city, village or incorporated town contiguous
to and including a highway when within any 600 feet along such highway
there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including
but not limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations,
and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on
one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
That portion of the roadway included within the prolongation
of the sidewalk lines at street intersections.[2]
That portion of the roadway included within the connections
of the lateral lines prolongation of the sidewalks on opposite sides
of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs,
from the edges of the traversable roadway, and in the absence of a
sidewalk on one side of the highway, that part of the highway included
within the extension of the lateral line of the existing sidewalk
to the side of the highway without the sidewalk, with such extension
forming a right angle to the center line of the highway.
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface placed in accordance with the provisions in the Manual adopted
by the Department of Transportation as authorized in 625 ILCS 5/11-301.
The act of two or more individuals competing or racing on
any street or highway in this state in a situation in which one of
the motor vehicles is beside or to the rear of a motor vehicle operated
by a competing driver and the one driver attempts to prevent the competing
driver from passing or overtaking him, either by acceleration or maneuver,
or against time on any street or highway in the Village.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle or a motor vehicle.
[Amended 7-5-2005 by Ord.
No. 508]
Police vehicles, vehicles of the Fire Department, ambulances,
vehicles carrying a state, county or Village officer or employee in
response to an emergency call, and emergency vehicles of public service
corporations on an emergency call.
Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly
used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which
contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in
such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire,
by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by a detonator of any
part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation
of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable
of producing destructible effects on contiguous objects or of destroying
life or limb.
Any liquid which has a flash point of 70° F. or
less, as determined by tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.
A roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam or gravel.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of
the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately
at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon
different roadways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
Where a highway includes two roadways 40 feet or more apart,
then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an
intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
The junction of an alley with a street or highway does not constitute
an intersection.[3]
A street, the roadway of which is divided into two or more
clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
A maneuver executed by the drivers of vehicles on converging
roadways to permit simultaneous or alternate entry into the junction
thereof, wherein the driver of each vehicle involved is required to
adjust his vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid a collision
with any other vehicle.
Every tire the surface of which in contact with the roadway
is wholly or partially of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of
the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in
contact with the ground, but excluding an autocycle or tractor.[4]
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which
is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires
but not operated upon rails, except for vehicles moved solely by human
power, motorized wheelchairs, low-speed electric bicycles, and low-speed
gas bicycles.
[Amended 7-5-2005 by Ord.
No. 508[5]]
To stand a vehicle, whether occupied or not, for a period
of time greater than is reasonably necessary for the actual loading
or unloading of persons or merchandise.[6]
Any person afoot or wearing in-line speed skates, including
a person with a physical, hearing, or visual disability.[7]
Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support
the load.
All members of the regularly constituted Police Department,
special police, auxiliary police and patrolmen duly constituted and
appointed by proper authorities of the Village.
The line marking the boundary between any street and the
lots or property abutting thereon.
A building used by the Village, the county, any park district,
school district, the State of Illinois, or the United States government.
Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically
designed, configured, and equipped for the performance of access to
and extrication of persons from hazardous or life-endangering situations,
as well as for the emergency transportation of persons who are sick,
injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.[8]
The territory of any city, village, or incorporated town
contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district
when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more
is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings
in use for business. For purposes of establishing maximum speed limits,
a residence district shall be at least a quarter of a mile long with
residences or residences and buildings in use for businesses spaced
no more than 500 feet apart.[9]
A lane of a two or more laned roadway upon which traffic
may be directed to move in either direction by means of lane-control
signals or other devices, in conjunction with official signs.
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles
and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently
or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for
the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked
or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times
while set apart as a safety zone.
Every motor vehicle, except as provided in Subsection B of this definition, owned or operated by or for any of the following entities for the transportation of persons regularly enrolled as students in grade 12 or below in connection with any activity of such entity:
This definition shall not include the following:
A bus operated by a public utility, municipal corporation or
common carrier authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation
of passengers when such bus is not traveling a specific school bus
route but is:
On a regularly scheduled route for the transportation of other
fare-paying passengers;
Furnishing charter service for the transportation of groups
on field trips or other special trips or in connection with other
special events; or
Being used for shuttle service between attendance centers or
other educational facilities.
A motor vehicle of the First Division.
A multifunction school-activity bus.
Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying
persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests
upon or is carried by another vehicle.
That portion of a street between the curbline or roadway
and the adjacent property line designated for pedestrian use.
Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does
not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
An auxiliary lane, including tapered areas, primarily for
the acceleration or deceleration of vehicles entering or leaving the
through traffic lanes.
The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public,
as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic.[11]
That portion of any city, village or incorporated town other
than the business and residence districts.
Every highway or portion thereof at the entrance to which
vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to
stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are
erected as provided in this chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances, whether singly or together, while using any highway for
the purpose of travel.
Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying
passengers or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and
so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing
other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than
a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
The territory contiguous to and including any street which
is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling
houses situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance
of a 1/4 mile or more.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or requiring a certificate
of title under 625 ILCS 5/3-101(d), except devices moved by human
power, devices used or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks
and snowmobiles as defined in the Snowmobile Registration and Safety
Act (625 ILCS 40/1-1 et seq.).
For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise prescribed,
a device shall be considered to be a vehicle until such time as it
either comes within the definition of a "junk vehicle,' as defined
under this chapter, or a junking certificate is issued for it.
For the purpose of this chapter, motor vehicles as a class shall
be divided into two divisions:
First Division: those vehicles which are designed for the carrying
of not more than 10 persons.
Second Division: those vehicles which are designed or used for
living quarters, those designed for pulling or carrying freight or
the carrying of more than 10 persons, those motor vehicles of the
First Division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the
Second Division, and those motor vehicles of the First Division used
and registered as school buses.
When required by an official sign means the act of granting
the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to
traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the
right or left, provided that when the roadway is clear the vehicle
may proceed into the intersection.
Members of the Police Department, special police, auxiliary
police and patrolmen assigned to traffic duty are hereby authorized
to direct all traffic in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
or in emergencies as public safety or convenience may require, and
it shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to comply with
any lawful order, signal or direction of a policeman. Except in case
of emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by
law to direct or attempt to direct traffic. Any person convicted of
violating this section is guilty of a petty offense and shall be subject
to a mandatory fine of $150.
The Fire Chief, or any fireman designated by him, may exercise
the powers and authority of a policeman in directing traffic at the
scene of any fire or where the Fire Department has responded to an
emergency call for so long as Fire Department equipment is on the
scene in the absence of or in assisting the police.
Whenever flashing red or yellow signals are used, they shall
require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows:
A.
Flashing red (stop signal). When a red lens is illuminated by rapid
intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering
the nearest crosswalk at any intersection or at a limit line when
marked or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and the
right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after making
a stop at a stop sign.
B.
Flashing yellow (caution signal). When a yellow lens is illuminated
with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through
the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
A.
No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any
street any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, light, reflector or
device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an
official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, or which
attempts to direct the movement of traffic, nor shall any person place,
maintain or display upon or in view of any street any other sign which
hides from view or interferes with the movement of traffic or effectiveness
of any traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal, and
no person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit
upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising. No tree, bush or foliage of any kind shall be so placed,
maintained, allowed to remain, or displayed upon either public or
private property in such a manner as to hide from view or interfere
with the movement of traffic or the effectiveness of any traffic-control
devices, sign or signal.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, move
or interfere with any official traffic sign or signal.
A.
It shall be unlawful to maintain anywhere in the Village any sign,
signal, marking or device, other than a traffic sign or signal authorized
by the Village Board or the Illinois State Department of Transportation,
which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official
traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, in view of any
street or highway, and it shall be unlawful to place or maintain any
sign which hides from view any lawful traffic-control device.
B.
It shall be unlawful to maintain or operate in view of any street
or highway any flashing or rotating beacon of light.
No person shall operate an ambulance or rescue vehicle, which
shall include any motor vehicle primarily designed and used for conveyance
of sick or injured persons, in a manner not conforming to a provision
of the motor vehicle laws and regulations of this state or ordinances
of this Village as such provision applies to motor vehicles in general,
except in compliance with the following conditions:
A.
The person operating the ambulance or rescue vehicle shall be either
responding to a bona fide emergency call or specifically directed
by a licensed physician to disregard traffic laws in operating the
ambulance or rescue vehicle during and for the purpose of the specific
trip or journey that is involved.
B.
The ambulance or rescue vehicle shall be equipped with a siren producing
an audible signal of an intensity of 100 decibels at a distance of
50 feet from the siren, and with a lamp emitting an oscillating, rotating
or flashing red beam directed in part toward the front of the vehicle,
and these lamps shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at 500
feet in normal sunlight; in addition to other lighting requirements,
these vehicles may also operate with a lamp or lamps emitting an oscillating,
rotating, or flashing green light.
C.
The aforesaid siren and lamp shall be in full operation at all times
when it is reasonably necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers
of the approach thereof during such trip or journey.
D.
Whenever the ambulance or rescue vehicle is operated at a speed in
excess of 40 miles per hour, the ambulance or rescue vehicle shall
be operated in complete conformance with every other motor vehicle
law and regulation of this state and ordinances of this Village in
which the ambulance or rescue vehicle is operated, relating to the
operation of motor vehicles, as such provision applies to motor vehicles
in general, except laws and regulations pertaining to compliance with
official traffic-control devices or to vehicular operation up the
right half of the roadway.
E.
The ambulance or rescue vehicle shall display registration plates
identifying the vehicle as an ambulance or rescue vehicle.
Any person riding a bicycle or an animal, or driving any animal
drawing a vehicle upon any street, shall be subject to the provisions
of this chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those
provisions which can have no application to one riding a bicycle or
driving or riding an animal.
A.
The provisions of this chapter regulating the movement or parking
of vehicles shall not apply to the driver of any authorized emergency
vehicle when responding to an emergency call, but such driver, when
approaching, shall slow down as necessary for safety but may proceed
cautiously past a red or stop sign or signal. At other times, drivers
of authorized emergency vehicles shall stop in obedience to a stop
sign or signal.
B.
No driver of any authorized emergency vehicle shall assume any special
privileges except when such vehicle is operated in response to an
emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected
violator of the law.
C.
The provisions of this chapter regulating the movement and parking
of vehicles shall not apply to persons, equipment or vehicles while
actually engaged in installing, repairing, or otherwise improving
streets or street pavements.
