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Stopped School Buses
School busses make numerous stops picking up and dropping off
students throughout the city. Passing a stopped school
bus with the stop sign out and the red lights flashing is against
the law. Passing a loading or unloading school bus can result
in a minimum fine of $150 and a mandatory suspension of your driving
privileges for 3 months for the first violation. A second or
subsequent offense is a $500 fine and up to a 5 year suspension of
your driving privileges.
Illinois Vehicle Code: (625 ILCS 5/11-1414) (from Ch. 95
½, par. 11-1414)
(Text of Section from P.A. 93‑180)
Sec. 11‑1414. Approaching, overtaking, and passing school bus.
- The driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle before meeting
or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus stopped at
any location for the purpose of receiving or discharging pupils.
Such stop is required before reaching the school bus when there is
in operation on the school bus the visual signals as specified in
Sections 12‑803 and 12‑805 of this Code. The driver of the vehicle
shall not proceed until the school bus resumes motion or the
driver of the vehicle is signaled by the school bus driver to
proceed or the visual signals are no longer actuated.
- The stop signal arm required by Section 12‑803 of this Code
shall be extended after the school bus has come to a complete stop
for the purpose of loading or discharging pupils and shall be
closed before the school bus is placed in motion again. The stop
signal arm shall not be extended at any other time.
- The alternately flashing red signal lamps of an 8‑lamp
flashing signal system required by Section 12‑805 of this Code
shall be actuated after the school bus has come to a complete stop
for the purpose of loading or discharging pupils and shall be
turned off before the school bus is placed in motion again. The
red signal lamps shall not be actuated at any other time except as
provided in paragraph (d) of this Section.
- The alternately flashing amber signal lamps of an 8‑lamp
flashing signal system required by Section 12‑805 of this Code
shall be actuated continuously during not less than the last 100
feet traveled by the school bus before stopping for the purpose of
loading or discharging pupils within an urban area and during not
less than the last 200 feet traveled by the school bus outside an
urban area. The amber signal lamps shall remain actuated until the
school bus is stopped. The amber signal lamps shall not be
actuated at any other time.
- The driver of a vehicle upon a highway having 4 or more lanes
which permits at least 2 lanes of traffic to travel in opposite
directions need not stop such vehicle upon meeting a school bus
which is stopped in the opposing roadway; and need not stop such
vehicle when driving upon a controlled access highway when passing
a school bus traveling in either direction that is stopped in a
loading zone adjacent to the surfaced or improved part of the
controlled access highway where pedestrians are not permitted to
cross.
- Beginning with the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1985, the Secretary of State shall suspend for a period of 3
months the driving privileges of any person convicted of a
violation of subsection (a) of this Section or a similar provision
of a local ordinance; the Secretary shall suspend for a period of
one year the driving privileges of any person convicted of a
second or subsequent violation of subsection (a) of this Section
or a similar provision of a local ordinance if the second or
subsequent violation occurs within 5 years of a prior conviction
for the same offense. In addition to the suspensions authorized by
this Section, any person convicted of violating this Section or a
similar provision of a local ordinance shall be subject to a
mandatory fine of $150 or, upon a second or subsequent violation,
$500. The Secretary may also grant, for the duration of any
suspension issued under this subsection, a restricted driving
permit granting the privilege of driving a motor vehicle between
the driver's residence and place of employment or within other
proper limits that the Secretary of State shall find necessary to
avoid any undue hardship. A restricted driving permit issued
hereunder shall be subject to cancellation, revocation and
suspension by the Secretary of State in like manner and for like
cause as a driver's license may be cancelled, revoked or
suspended; except that a conviction upon one or more offenses
against laws or ordinances regulating the movement of traffic
shall be deemed sufficient cause for the revocation, suspension or
cancellation of the restricted driving permit. The Secretary of
State may, as a condition to the issuance of a restricted driving
permit, require the applicant to participate in a designated
driver remedial or rehabilitative program. Any conviction for a
violation of this subsection shall be included as an offense for
the purposes of determining suspension action under any other
provision of this Code, provided however, that the penalties
provided under this subsection shall be imposed unless those
penalties imposed under other applicable provisions are greater.
The owner of any vehicle alleged to have violated paragraph (a)
of this Section shall, upon appropriate demand by the State's
Attorney or other authorized prosecutor acting in response to a
signed complaint, provide a written statement or deposition
identifying the operator of the vehicle if such operator was not the
owner at the time of the alleged violation. Failure to supply such
information shall be construed to be the same as a violation of
paragraph (a) and shall be subject to the same penalties herein
provided. In the event the owner has assigned control for the use of
the vehicle to another, the person to whom control was assigned
shall comply with the provisions of this paragraph and be subject to
the same penalties as herein provided.
(Source: P.A. 91‑260, eff. 1‑1‑00; 93‑180, eff. 7‑11‑03.)
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