Article II - Vehicles Exceeding Weight Limits

ILLINOIS STATUTES AND CODES

Article II - Vehicles Exceeding Weight Limits

(625 ILCS 5/Ch. 15 Art. II heading)ARTICLE II. VEHICLES EXCEEDING WEIGHT LIMITS

    (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.)