Members of the Police Department, Special Police, and Auxiliary
Police assigned to traffic duty are hereby authorized to direct all
traffic in accordance with the provisions of this article 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 cases of emergency,
it shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by law to direct
or attempt to direct traffic. (See 625 ILCS 5/11-203.)
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Fire Department officer in command or any firefighter designated
by him may exercise the powers and authority of a police officer in
directing traffic at the scene of any fire or where the Fire Department
has responded to an emergency call for so long as the Fire Department
equipment is on the scene in the absence of or in assisting the Police
Department, and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse
to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of such a firefighter.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey
the instructions of any traffic sign or signal placed in view by authority
of the corporate authorities or in accordance with the laws of the
State of Illinois, except upon direction of a police officer. All
signs and signals established by direction of the governing body shall
conform to the Illinois State Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices
for Streets and Highways. (See 625 ILCS 5/11-301.)
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 device, sign or signal. (625 ILCS 5/11-310)
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, move
or interfere with any official traffic sign or signal.
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 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. It shall be unlawful to maintain or operate any flashing or rotating beacon of light in view of any street or highway. (See Chapter 260, Offenses, and Chapter 295, Streets and Sidewalks. of the Village Code; see also Chapter 360, Zoning, of the Village Code.)
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 someone riding a bicycle
or driving or riding an animal. (See 625 ILCS 5/11-206.)
When used at nighttime, every bicycle shall be equipped with
the following:
A.
A lamp upon the front which emits a white light visible from a distance
of at least 500 feet to the front.
B.
A red reflector on the rear which shall be visible from all distances
from 100 feet to 600 feet to the rear when directly in front of the
lawful lower beams of headlights on a motor vehicle, except that a
lamp emitting a steady or flashing red light visible from a distance
of 500 feet to the rear may be used in addition to or instead of the
red reflector.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
C.
A reflex reflector on each pedal visible from the front and rear
of the bicycle from a distance up to 200 feet when viewed within the
lawful lower beams of headlights on a motor vehicle.
D.
Side reflectors upon each side of the bicycle which shall be visible
up to a distance of 500 feet when viewed directly in front of a lawful
lower beam of motor vehicle headlights. The requirements of this subsection
may be met by reflective materials which shall be at least 3/16 of
an inch wide on each side of each tire or rim which may indicate as
clearly as possible the continuous circular shape and size of the
tires or rims of such bicycle and which reflective materials may be
of the same color on both the front and rear tire or rim.
(625 ILCS 5/11-1507)
