(A) Every owner of a second division vehicle, medical transport vehicle, tow truck or contract carrier transporting employees in the course of their employment in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer passengers shall, before operating the vehicle in the village, submit it to a safety test and secure a certificate of safety furnished by the State Department of Transportation (ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 13-101, from Ch. 95-1/2, par. 13-101).
(B) No person shall operate in the village any vehicle required to be inspected under the provisions of this chapter unless there is affixed to that vehicle a certificate of safety.
(C) None of the provisions of this section shall apply to the following:
(1) Farm tractors, machinery and implements, wagons, wagon-trailers or similar farm vehicles used primarily in agricultural pursuits;
(2) A semi-trailer or trailer having a gross weight of 5,000 pounds or less including vehicle weight and maximum load;
(3) Recreational vehicles as defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code;
(4) Vehicles registered as and displaying valid state antique vehicle plates;
(5) House trailers equipped and used for living quarters;
(6) Vehicles registered as and displaying state permanently mounted equipment plates or similar vehicles eligible therefore, but registered as governmental vehicles; provided that, if said vehicle is reclassified from a permanently mounted equipment plate so as to lose the exemption of not requiring a certificate of safety, such vehicle must be safety tested within 30 days of the reclassification;
(7) Vehicles owned or operated by a manufacturer, dealer or transporter displaying special plates while such vehicle is being delivered from the manufacturing or assembly plant directly to the purchasing dealership or distributor, or being temporarily road driven for quality control testing, or from one dealer or distributor to another, or are being moved by the most direct route from one location to another for the purpose of installing special bodies or equipment, or driven for purposes of demonstration by a prospective buyer with the dealer or his or her agent present in the cab of the vehicle during the demonstration;
(8) Pole trailers and auxiliary axles;
(9) Special mobile equipment;
(10) Vehicles properly registered in another state pursuant to law and displaying a valid registration plate; except that, vehicles of contract carriers transporting employees in the course of their employment in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer passengers are only exempted to the extent that the safety testing requirements applicable to such vehicles in the state of registration are no less stringent than the safety testing requirements applicable to contract carriers that are lawfully registered in Illinois;
(11) Water-well boring apparatuses or rigs;
(12) Any vehicle which is owned and operated by the federal government and externally displays evidence of such ownership; and
(13) Second division vehicles registered for a gross weight of 8,000 pounds or less, except when such second division motor vehicles pull or draw a trailer, semi-trailer or pole trailer having a gross weight of or registered for a gross weight of more than 8,000 pounds and except for motor buses, religious organization buses, school buses, senior citizen transportation vehicles, medical transport vehicles and tow trucks.
(D) Certificates of safety shall be in contrasting colors, as determined by the State Department of Transportation, with a number on the face of the certificate indicating the month of the next inspection period in which the vehicle is subject to inspection.
(E) (1) Any person convicted of violating this section shall be guilty of a petty offense and subject to a fine of $250.
(2) The village shall utilize its system of administrative adjudication for vehicular standing and parking violations, violations regarding the display of municipal stickers/licenses, select ordinance violations and automated traffic law violations. The administrative adjudication system for all violations of the village code subject to administrative adjudication shall be comprised of a Code Hearing Unit which shall be comprised of a Hearing Officer and any other officials deemed necessary, including a Traffic Compliance Administrator with respect to all parking, standing, condition and use of vehicle equipment, display of municipal stickers/licenses and automated traffic law regulations, as well as those other ordinances identified by the ordinances of the village pertaining to such administrative hearing body. Such officers shall be vested with the power, authority and limitations as are hereinafter set forth.
(Ord. 12-O-06, passed 3-22-2012)