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It shall be unlawful for any driver or operator of a motor vehicle who, having been given a visual or audible signal by a police officer directing the driver or operator to bring his vehicle to a stop, willfully fails or refuses to obey that direction, increases his speed, extinguishes his lights, or otherwise flees or attempts to elude the officer. The signal given by the police officer may be by hand, voice, siren, or a red or blue light. However, the officer giving the signal shall be in police uniform and, if driving a vehicle, the vehicle shall be marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.
TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, AND MARKINGS
(A) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed or held in accordance with the provisions of this traffic code, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this traffic code.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to leave the roadway and travel across private property to avoid an official traffic control device.
(C) No provision of this traffic code for which official traffic-control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that official traffic-control devices are required, such section shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
(D) Whenever any official traffic-control device is placed or held in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this traffic code and purports to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such device, such device shall be presumed to have been so placed or held by the official act or direction of lawful authority, and comply with the requirements of this traffic code, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
(E) The driver of a vehicle approaching a traffic control signal on which no signal light facing such vehicle is illuminated shall stop before entering the intersection in accordance with rules applicable in making a stop at a stop sign. This provision does not apply to the driver of a vehicle approaching a pedestrian hybrid beacon.
(F) Any violation of division (A) of this section that occurs within a designated highway construction zone or maintenance zone shall result in a fine of no less than $100 and no more than $1,000.
(625 ILCS 5/11-305) Penalty, see § 70.99
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