(A) The driver of a vehicle shall stop the vehicle before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus stopped at any location for the purpose of receiving or discharging pupils. This stop is required before reaching the school bus when there is in operation on the school bus the visual signals as specified in §§ 74.063 and 74.065. 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.
(B) The stop signal arm required by § 74.063 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.
(C) The alternately flashing red signal lamps of an 8-lamp flashing signal system required by § 74.065 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 division (D).
(D) (1) The alternately flashing amber signal lamps of an 8-lamp flashing signal system required by § 74.065 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 an urban area and during not less than the last 200 feet traveled by the 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.
(2) The alternately flashing head lamps permitted by ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 12-805 may be operated while the alternately flashing read or amber signal lamps required by that section are actuated.
(E) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway having four or more lanes which permits at least two lanes of traffic to travel in opposite directions need not stop his vehicle upon meeting or passing a school bus which is stopped on the opposing roadway; and need not stop his 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.
(F) Beginning with July 25, 1985 the Secretary of State shall suspend for a period of three months the driving privileges of any person convicted of a violation of division (A) above; the Secretary shall suspend for a period of one year the driving privileges of any person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of division (A) above if the second or subsequent violation occurs within five years of a prior conviction for the same offense. The Secretary may also grant, for the duration of any suspension issued under this division, 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 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 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 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 division 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 division shall be imposed unless those penalties imposed under other applicable provisions are greater.
(G) The owner of any vehicle alleged to have violated division (A) above 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 the operator was not the owner at the time of the alleged violation.
(1) Failure to supply this information shall be construed to be the same as a violation of division (A) above and shall be subject to the same penalties provided in § 70.999.
(2) 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 section and be subject to the same penalties as provided in § 70.999.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-1414) Penalty, see § 70.999