SB3025 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3025

Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 5/1-125.5 new
625 ILCS 5/1-146	from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-146

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Defines "high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle". Provides that a high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle is a first division vehicle for purposes of the enforcement and implementation of the Code.

A BILL FOR

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 1-146 and adding Section 1-125.5 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/1-125.5 new)

Sec. 1-125.5. High mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle. A four-wheel drive military light truck.

(625 ILCS 5/1-146) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-146)

Sec. 1-146. Motor vehicle. 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. For this Act, motor vehicles are divided into two divisions:

First Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for the carrying of not more than 10 persons. A high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle is a First Division vehicle for purposes of the enforcement and implementation of this Code.

Second Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for carrying more than 10 persons, those motor vehicles designed or used for living quarters, those motor vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying freight, cargo or implements of husbandry, and those motor vehicles of the First Division remodelled for use and used as motor vehicles of the Second Division.

(Source: P.A. 96-125, eff. 1-1-10.)