Public Act 099-0598
 
HB4105 EnrolledLRB099 08149 RJF 28299 b


  
    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended  by changing 
Section 12-208 as follows:
 
    (625 ILCS 5/12-208)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-208)

    Sec. 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 vehicle plates operated in this State 
shall be equipped with a stop lamp or lamps on
the rear of the 
vehicle which shall display a red or amber light visible
from a 
distance of not less than 500 feet to the rear in normal 
sunlight
and which shall be actuated upon application of the 
service (foot) brake,
and which may but need not be 
incorporated with other rear lamps. During
times when lighted 
lamps are not required, an antique vehicle or an expanded-use 
antique vehicle may be
equipped with a stop lamp or lamps on 
the rear of such vehicle of the same
type originally installed 
by the manufacturer as original equipment and in
working order. 
However, at all other times, except as provided in subsection

(a-1), such antique vehicle or expanded-use antique vehicle 
must be
equipped with stop lamps meeting the requirements of 
Section 12-208 of this
Act.


    (a-1) A motorcycle or an An antique vehicle or an 
expanded-use antique vehicle, including an antique motorcycle, 
may display a blue light or lights of up to one
inch in 
diameter as part of the vehicle's rear stop lamp or lamps.


    (b) Every motor vehicle other than an antique vehicle 
displaying an
antique plate or an expanded-use antique vehicle 
displaying expanded-use antique vehicle plates shall be 
equipped with an electric turn signal device which
shall 
indicate the intention of the driver to turn to the right or to 
the
left in the form of flashing lights located at and showing 
to the front and
rear of the vehicle on the side of the vehicle 
toward which the turn is to
be made. The lamps showing to the 
front shall be mounted on the same level
and as widely spaced 
laterally as practicable and, when signaling, shall
emit a 
white or amber light, or any shade of light between white and 
amber.
The lamps showing to the rear shall be mounted on the 
same level and as
widely spaced laterally as practicable and, 
when signaling, shall emit a
red or amber light. An antique 
vehicle or expanded-use antique vehicle shall be equipped with 
a turn signal
device of the same type originally installed by 
the manufacturer as
original equipment and in working order.


    (c) Every trailer and semitrailer shall be equipped with an 
electric
turn signal device which indicates the intention of 
the driver in the power
unit to turn to the right or to the left 
in the form of flashing red or
amber lights located at the rear 
of the vehicle on the side toward which
the turn is to be made 
and mounted on the same level and as widely spaced
laterally as 
practicable.


    (d) Turn signal lamps must be visible from a distance of 
not less than
300 feet in normal sunlight.


    (e) Motorcycles and motor-driven cycles need not be 
equipped with
electric turn signals. Antique vehicles and 
expanded-use antique vehicles need not be equipped with turn

signals unless such were installed by the manufacturer as 
original
equipment.


    (f) (Blank).


    (g) Motorcycles and motor-driven cycles may be equipped 
with a stop lamp or lamps on the rear of the vehicle that 
display a red or amber light, visible from a distance of not 
less than 500 feet to the rear in normal sunlight, that flashes 
and becomes steady only when the brake is actuated. 
(Source: P.A. 96-487, eff. 1-1-10; 97-412, eff. 1-1-12; 97-743, 
eff. 1-1-13.)