New
Legislation:
- Primary
Seat Belt Law
Vehicles
may now be stopped on an officer's observed violation of seat belt
usage by the
driver and/or front seat passenger.
This law is effective immediately.
- Graduated
Drivers License
The
Illinois Vehicle Code was amended to prohibit a graduated driver's
license holder under the age of 18 when
(s)he receives the license to operate a motor vehicle with more
than one passenger in the vehicle under the age of 20 for the first
six
months (s)he
holds the license or until (s)he reaches the age of 18 (whichever
occurs first). An exception to the single-passenger-under-the-age-of-20
rule
applies if the additional passenger or passengers are siblings,
step-siblings, children,
or stepchildren of the driver.
This
law is effective January 1, 2004.
- Child
Passenger Protection Act
Senate Bill 52 amended
the Child Passenger Protect Act to require that a person transporting
a child under
the age of eight (rather than four) is responsible for properly
securing the child in an appropriate child restraint system. An "appropriate
child restraint system" includes a booster seat.
A child weighing
more than 40 pounds may be transported in the back seat of a motor
vehicle while wearing only a lap belt if the back
seat of
the motor vehicle is not equipped with a combination lap and shoulder
belt.
A person who transports a child eight years of age or older,
but under the age of 16, is responsible for properly securing that child
in seatbelts.
The parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of eight years
must provide child restraint system to any person who transports
his or her
child. Any person who transports the child of another is not in violation
of the law unless the child restraint system provided by the parent
or legal guardian was not used to transport the child.
This law is
effective January 1, 2004.
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A Few Summer
Reminders
Keep
your lawn cut and don't blow grass clippings into
the roadway.
No illegal burning. Ordinance
allows city residents to only burn sticks, grass clippings, anything
that comes from nature.
Recreational
Fires.
5 foot by 5 foot using only seasoned dry firewood. 3 hour
limit on fire. Must be 50 foot from any residence or structure.
Remember when
burning...only grass, leaves, and branches during the hours of
10:00 am and 6:00 p.m. No burning if wind is over 10 miles
per hour.
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