2005 Illinois 625 ILCS 5/ Illinois Vehicle Code. Article II - Vehicles Exceeding Weight Limits

(625 ILCS 5/Ch. 15 Art. II heading)
ARTICLE II.

VEHICLES EXCEEDING WEIGHT LIMITS

(625 ILCS 5/15‑116)
Sec. 15‑116. Designated truck route system.

  The  Department of Transportation shall maintain and provide a listing of all Class I, Class II, and Class III designated streets and highways as defined in Chapter 1 of this Code.

   The Department shall also maintain and provide a listing of all local streets or highways that have been designated Class II or Class III by local agencies.  Local agencies shall be responsible for reporting to the Department all streets and highways under their jurisdiction designated Class II and Class III.  Local agencies shall also provide to the Department reference contact names and telephone numbers.

   The Department shall also maintain and provide an official map of the Designated State Truck Route System that includes State and local streets and highways that have been designated Class I, Class II, or Class III.

(Source: P.A. 94‑763, eff. 1‑1‑07.)

(625 ILCS 5/15‑201) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15‑201)

Sec. 15‑201.

Vehicles exceeding prescribed weight limits ‑ Preventing use of highway by.

The Department of State Police is directed to institute
and maintain
a program designed to prevent the use of public highways by vehicles which
exceed the maximum weights allowed by Section 15‑111 of this Act or which
exceeds the maximum weights allowed as evidenced by the license plates
attached to such vehicle and which license is required by this Act.

(Source: P.A. 84‑25.)

(625 ILCS 5/15‑202) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15‑202)

Sec. 15‑202.

Enforcement.

Such program shall make provision for an intensive campaign by the State
Police to apprehend any violators of the acts above mentioned, and at all
times to maintain a vigilant watch for possible violators of such acts.

(Source: P.A. 77‑506.)

(625 ILCS 5/15‑203) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15‑203)

Sec. 15‑203.

Records
of violations.
The Department of State Police shall maintain records
of the number
of violators of such acts apprehended and the number of convictions
obtained. A resume of such records shall be included in the Department's
annual report to the Governor; and the Department shall also present such
resume to each regular session of the General Assembly.

The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the Minority
Leader and the Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research
Unit, as required
by Section 3.1 of "An Act
to revise the law in relation to the General Assembly", approved February
25, 1874, as amended, and filing such additional copies with the State Government
Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required under
paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.

(Source: P.A. 84‑1438.)

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