A. The driver of a vehicle upon a street upon meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus which has stopped on the street for the purpose of receiving or discharging pupils shall stop the vehicle before reaching the school bus when there is in operation on the school bus the visual signals as specified in Article XV of this Chapter and the driver 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.
1. Any person convicted of violating this Section, upon conviction, shall be fined as set forth in Chapter 2, Village Government, Article X, Tax, Fee, Fine and Penalty Schedules, Section 2.1003, Fine and Penalty Schedule.
2. The Illinois Secretary of State shall suspend for thirty (30) days the driver's license of any driver convicted of violating this Subsection A.
B. The stop signal arm required by Article XV of this Chapter 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 starting out again. The stop signal arm shall not be extended at any other time.
C. The alternately flashing signal lamps of a 4-lamp or 8-lamp flashing signal system required by Article XV of this Chapter 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 starting out again. The red signal lamps shall not be actuated at any other time except as provided in Subsection D of this Section.
D. The alternately flashing amber signal lamps of a 8-lamp flashing signal system, or the alternately flashing red signal lamps of a 4-lamp flashing signal system, required by Article XV of this Chapter shall be actuated continuously during not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the bus before stopping for the purpose of loading or discharging pupils within a business or residential district and during not less than the last 200 feet traveled by the bus outside a business or residential district. The amber signal lamps shall remain actuated until the bus is stopped. The amber signal lamps shall not be actuated at any other time.
E. The driver of a vehicle upon a highway of which the roadways for traffic moving in opposite directions are separated by a strip of ground which is not surfaced or suitable for vehicular traffic need not stop his vehicle upon meeting or passing a school bus which is on the opposite roadway; and need not stop his vehicle when driving upon a controlled access highway when a school bus 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 such controlled access highway.
(Am. Ord. 852, passed 10-20-2020)