EQUIPMENT
(A) It is unlawful for any person to drive or move, or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in an unsafe condition as to endanger any person or property, or which does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with the lamps and other equipment in proper condition and adjustment as required in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-100 et seq., or which is equipped in any manner in violation of ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-100 et seq., or for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required under ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-100 et seq.
(B) The provisions of ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-100 et seq., with respect to equipment on vehicles shall not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, road rollers, or farm tractors, or to farm-wagon type trailers having a fertilizer spreader attachment permanently mounted thereon, having a gross weight of not to exceed 36,000 pounds and used only for the transportation of bulk fertilizer, or to farm-wagon type tank trailers of not to exceed 2000 gallons capacity, used during the liquid fertilizer season as field-storage "nurse tanks," supplying the fertilizer to a field applicator and highways only for bringing the fertilizer to a field applicator from a local source of supply to the farm or field or from one farm or field to another.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-101) Penalty, see § 70.99
LOADS
(A) It is unlawful for any person to drive or move on, upon, or across, or for the owner to cause to knowingly permit to be driven or moved on, upon, or across any highway any vehicle or vehicles of a size and weight exceeding the limitations stated in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 15-100 et seq., or otherwise in violation of ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 15-100 et seq.
(B) The provisions of ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 15-100 et seq. governing size, weight, and load do not apply to fire equipment for snow and ice removal operations owned or operated by the city, or to implements of husbandry, as defined in § 70.01, temporarily operated or towed in a combination upon a highway provided such combination does not consist of more than three vehicles or, in the case of hauling fresh, perishable fruits or vegetables from farm to the point of first processing, not more than three wagons being towed by an implement of husbandry, or to a vehicle operated under the terms of a special permit issued hereunder. Except for weight limits on Class I highways under this chapter, the provisions of ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 15-100 et seq. governing size, weight and load do not apply to fire apparatus or emergency vehicles.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 15-101)
(C) No person shall use the highways under the jurisdiction of the city in violation of weight and location restrictions and commercial vehicle restrictions set forth in Title XVII of this code.
Statutory reference:
Power of city to regulate loads, see ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-40-1
No passenger-type vehicle shall be operated on any street with any load carried thereon extending beyond the line of the fenders on the left side of the vehicle, nor extending more than six inches beyond the line of the fenders on the right side thereof.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 15-105) Penalty, see § 70.99
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