For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public way within a block, generally giving access to the rear of lots or buildings, and not used for general traffic circulation.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-102)
ARTERIAL STREET. Any U.S. or state-numbered route, controlled-access highway or other major radial or circumferential street or highway designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial system of streets or highways.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Emergency vehicles of village departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by proper local authorities; police vehicles; vehicles of the Fire Department; vehicles of a HazMat or technical rescue team authorized by a county board under Section 5-1127 of the Counties Code; ambulances; vehicles of the Illinois Department of Corrections; vehicles of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice; vehicles of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency; vehicles of the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal; mine rescue and explosives emergency response vehicles of the Department of Natural Resources; vehicles of the Illinois Department of Public Health; vehicles of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority with a gross vehicle weight rating of 9,000 pounds or more and those identified as Highway Emergency Lane Patrol; vehicles of the Illinois Department of Transportation identified as Emergency Traffic Patrol; and vehicles of a municipal or county emergency services and disaster agency, as defined by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-105)
BICYCLE. Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is more than 16 inches in diameter.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-106)
BUS. Every motor vehicle, other than a commuter van, designed for carrying more than ten persons.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-107)
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within 600 feet along the highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side, or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-108)
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle operated for the transportation of persons or property in the furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise, for-hire or not-for-hire, but not including, a commuter van, a arrangement when being used for that purpose, or a recreational vehicle not being used commercially.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-111)
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY. Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at the points only and in the manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-112)
CROSSWALK.
(1) The part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway, and in the absence of a sidewalk on one side of a highway, that part of the highway included within the extension of the lateral line of the existing sidewalk to the side of the highway without the sidewalk, with the extension forming a right angle to the centerline of the highway; and
(2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface, placed in accordance with the provisions in the manual adopted by the Department of Transportation as authorized in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-301.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-113)
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-116)
FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing wagons, plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry, and every implement of husbandry which is self-propelled.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-120)
GROSS WEIGHT. The weight of a vehicle, whether operated singly or in combination, without load, plus the weight of load thereon.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-125)
HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-126)
IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY. Every vehicle designed and adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock raising operations, including farm wagons, wagon trailers or like vehicles used in connection therewith, or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry; provided that, no farm wagon, wagon trailer or like vehicle having a gross weight of more than 36,000 pounds shall be included hereunder.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-130)
IMPROVED HIGHWAY. Any roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam and crushed stone, or gravel.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-131)
INTERSECTION.
(1) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different roadways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(2) Where a highway includes two roadways 40 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate
INTERSECTION.
(3) The junction of an alley with a street or highway does not constitute an
INTERSECTION.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-132)
LANE-CONTROL SIGNAL. An official traffic-control device consisting of an electrically controlled and illuminated signal of a square or rectangular design, and employing distinctive colors or symbols used to control the direction of vehicular flow on the particular lane to which the indication applies.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-135)
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-136)
LEASE. A written document vesting exclusive possession, use, control and responsibility of the lessee during the periods the vehicle is operated by or for the lessee for a specific period of time.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-137)
LICENSE TO DRIVE. Any driver’s license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under the laws of the state including:
(1) Any temporary license or instruction permit;
(2) The privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle, whether or not the person holds a valid license or permit; and
(3) Any non-resident’s driving privilege, as defined herein.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-138)
LIMOUSINE. Any privately owned first division vehicle intended to be used for the transportation of persons for-hire when the payment is not based on a meter charge, but is prearranged for a designated destination.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-139.1)
LOCAL AUTHORITIES. Every county, village and other local board or body having authority to enact laws relating to traffic under the Constitution and laws of the state.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-140)
MAIL. To deposit in the United States mail properly addressed and with postage prepaid.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-141)
MERGING TRAFFIC. A maneuver executed by the drivers of vehicles on converging roadways to permit entry into the junction thereof, wherein the driver of each vehicle involved adjusts his or her vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid a collision with any other vehicle.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled, except for vehicles moved solely by human power, and motorized wheelchairs. For this section, MOTOR VEHICLES are divided into two divisions:
(1) First division: motor vehicles designed for carrying not more than ten persons; and
(2) Second division: motor vehicles designed for carrying more than ten persons, those designed or used for living quarters, and those motor vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying freight or cargo, and those motor vehicles of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-146)
MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE. Every motorcycle and every motor scooter with less than 150 cubic centimeter piston displacement, including motorized pedalcycles.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-145.001)
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider, and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding an autocycle or tractor.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §1-147)
MOTORIZED PEDALCYCLE. A motor-driven cycle whose speed attainable in one mile is 30 mph or less, which is equipped with a motor that produces two brake horsepower or less. If an internal combustion engine is used, the displacement shall not exceed 50 cubic centimeter displacement and the power drive system shall not require the operator to shift gears.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.2)
MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR. Any self-propelled vehicle designed for and used by a handicapped excess of eight mph on level ground.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.3)
NON-COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle that is not a commercial vehicle.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.6)
NOT-FOR-HIRE. Operation of a commercial vehicle in furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise, but not-for-hire.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-153)
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings and devices which conform with the state manual, and not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-154)
OWNER. A person who holds legal title of a motor vehicle, or in the event a motor vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement, and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of the motor vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the OWNER for the purpose of this title.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-155)
PARK or PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-156)
PASSENGER CAR. A motor vehicle of the first division, including a multipurpose passenger vehicle, that is designed for carrying not more than ten persons.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-157)
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-158)
PERSON WITH DISABILITIES. A natural person who, as determined by a licensed physician, by a licensed physician assistant, or by a licensed advanced practice registered nurse: (1) cannot walk without the use of, or assistance from, a brace, cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other assistive device; (2) is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that his or her forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at rest; (3) uses portable oxygen; (4) has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person’s functional limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV, according to standards set by the American Heart Association; (5) is severely limited in the person’s ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, oncological, or orthopedic condition; (6) cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest because of one of the above five conditions; or (7) is missing a hand or arm or has permanently lost the use of a hand or arm.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-159.1)
PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. Information that identifies an individual, including his or her driver's license number, name, address (but not the five digit zip code), date of birth, height, weight, hair color, eye color, email address, and telephone number, but "personally identifying information" does not include information on vehicular crashes, driving violations, and driver's status.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-159.2)
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic, or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-162)
POLICE VEHICLE. Any vehicle, recreational off-highway vehicle, all-terrain vehicle, watercraft, aircraft, bicycle, or electric personal assistive mobility device that is designated or authorized by proper state, county, or local authorities for police use.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-162.3)
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS. The place where any person transacts his or her principal business, or where he or she makes up and approves his or her payroll, maintains a central file of records, and maintains his or her principal executive offices. In the event that not all of these functions are performed in one place, then that place where a majority of these functions are performed, or the place where the person does in fact principally transact and control his or her business affairs shall be considered as the PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-162.5)
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every way or place in private ownership, and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-163)
PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. Proof of ability to respond in damages for any liability thereafter incurred resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a motor vehicle for bodily injury to or death of any person in the amount of $25,000, and subject to this limit for any one person injured or killed, in the amount of $50,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one crash, and for damage to property in the amount of $20,000 resulting from any one crash. This proof in these amounts shall be furnished for each motor vehicle registered by every person required to furnish this proof.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-164.5)
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-166)
RAILROAD-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING. The intersection of stationary rails owned or used in the operation of a railroad corporation across a highway.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-166.1)
RAILROAD SIGNS OR SIGNAL. Any sign, signal or device, other than an official traffic-control signal or device, erected in accordance with the laws governing the same, and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-167)
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-168)
RECREATIONAL OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE. Any motorized off-highway device designed to travel primarily off-highway, 64 inches or less in width, having a manufacturer's dry weight of 2,000 pounds or less for gas-powered engines or 3,000 pounds or less for electric-powered engines, traveling on four or more non-highway tires, designed with a non-straddle seat and a steering wheel for steering control, except equipment such as lawnmowers.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-168.8)
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. Every camping trailer, motor home, mini motor home, travel trailer, truck camper or van camper used primarily for recreational purposes, and not used commercially nor owned by a commercial business.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-169)
REGISTRATION. The registration certificate or certificates and registration plates issued under the laws of the state pertaining to the registration of vehicles.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171)
REGISTRATION STICKER. A device to be attached to a registration plate that will renew the registration and registration plate or plates for a predetermined period, not to exceed one registration year.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171)
REMOVE. Includes removing, defacing, covering or destroying.
RESCUE SQUAD. A voluntary association of individuals, or a fire department, dedicated to saving lives through the rescue of persons entrapped in wrecked vehicles or other hazardous circumstances, and associated with some unit of government.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171.6)
RESCUE SQUAD VEHICLE. A vehicle specifically designed, configured and equipped for the performance of access and extrication from hazardous or life-endangering situations. However, if the vehicles have emergency medical transport capability, they must be classified as “rescue vehicles”.
RESCUE VEHICLE. Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, configured and equipped for the performance of access and extrication of persons from hazardous or life-endangering situations, as well as for the emergency transportation of persons who are sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171.8)
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway, not comprising a business district, when the property on the highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business. For purposes of establishing maximum speed limits, a RESIDENCE DISTRICT shall be at least a quarter of a mile long with residences or residences and buildings in use for businesses spaced no more than 300 feet apart.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-172)
RETAIL SALE. The act or attempted act of selling vehicles or otherwise disposing of a vehicle to a person for use as a consumer.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-174)
REVERSIBLE LANE. A lane of a two or more laned roadway upon which traffic may be directed to move in either direction by means of lane-control signals or other devices, in conjunction with official signs.
REVOCATION OF DRIVER’S LICENSE. The termination by formal action of the secretary, of a person’s license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle on the public highways, which termination shall not be subject to renewal or restoration; except that, an application for a new license may be presented and acted upon by the secretary after the expiration of at least one year after the date of revocation.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-176)
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision, unless one grants precedence to the other.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-177)
ROAD TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-178)
ROADWAY. The portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY as used herein shall refer to any roadway separately, but not to all roadways collectively.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-179)
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians, and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-181)
SCHOOL BUS.
(1) Every motor vehicle, except as provided in division (2) below, owned or operated by or for any of the following entities for the transportation of persons regularly enrolled as students in grade 12 or below in connection with any activity of the entity:
(a) A public or private primary or secondary school;
(b) A primary or secondary school operated by a religious institution; or
(c) Any public, private or religious nursery school.
(2) This definition does not include the following:
(a) A bus operated by a public utility, village corporation or common carrier authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation of passengers when the bus is not traveling a specific school bus route, but is:
1. On a regularly scheduled route for the transportation of other fare-paying passengers;
2. Furnishing charter service for the transportation of groups on field trips or other special trips or in connection with special events; or
3. Being used for shuttle service between attendance centers or other educational facilities.
(b) A motor vehicle of the first division.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-182)
SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-187)
SHOULDER. The portion of the highway adjacent to the roadway for accommodating stopped vehicles or for emergency use.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-187.1)
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of roadway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-188)
SPEED-CHANGE LANE. An auxiliary lane, including tapered areas, primarily for the acceleration or deceleration of vehicles entering or leaving the through traffic lanes.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-193)
STAND or STANDING. The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-194)
STATE. A state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the Dominion of Canada.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-195)
STATE HIGHWAYS. Defined in the Illinois Highway Code as the same may from time to time be amended.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-196)
STATE POLICE. The Illinois State Police.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-197)
STOP. The complete cessation from movement.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-199)
STOP or STOPPING. Any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-200)
STREET. The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-201)
SUBURBAN DISTRICT. The portion of any city, village or incorporated town, other than the business and residence districts.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-203)
THROUGH HIGHWAY. Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the through highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when those signs are erected as provided in this title.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-205)
TOW TRUCK. Every truck designed or altered and equipped for and used to push, tow or draw vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, towbar, towline or auxiliary axle, or to render assistance to disabled vehicles.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-205.1)
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-207)
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any official traffic-control device other than a railroad sign or signal, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-208)
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. Any provision of this code or other regulatory ordinance the purpose of which is to directly control or improve traffic and safety of both vehicles and pedestrians.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power in operation, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-209)
TRAVEL TRAILER. A trailer, not used commercially, designed to provide living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, and of a size or weight not requiring an over-dimension permit when towed on a highway.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-210.01)
TRUCK. Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-211)
TRUCK CAMPER. A truck, not used commercially, when equipped with a portable unit designed to be loaded onto the bed which is construed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, travel or camping use.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-211.01)
TRUCK TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn, or a power unit that carries as property motor vehicles when operating in combination with a semitrailer in transporting motor vehicles or any other commodity, including cargo or general freight, on a backhaul.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-212)
URBAN AREA. An urban area is any incorporated or unincorporated area developed primarily for residential or business purposes.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-214.8)
URBAN DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including any street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses, and situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance of one-fourth mile or more.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-214)
UTILITY TRAILER. A trailer, as defined in this section, consisting of only one axle, weighing under 2,000 pounds, and used primarily for personal or individual use and not commercially used nor owned by a commercial business.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-216.5)
VEHICLE.
(1) Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or requiring a certificate of title under ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 3-101(d), except devices moved by human power, devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, and snowmobiles as defined in the Snowmobile Registration and Safety Act, being ILCS Ch. 625, Act 40.
(2) For the purposes of this section, unless otherwise prescribed, a device shall be considered to be a VEHICLE until the time it either comes within the definition of a “junk vehicle”, as defined under this section, or a junking certificate is issued for it.
(3) For this section, VEHICLES are divided into two divisions:
(a) First division: those motor vehicles which are designed for the carrying of not more than ten persons;
(b) Second division: Those vehicles which are designed for carrying more than ten persons, those designed or used for living quarters and those vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying property, freight, or cargo and those motor vehicles of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-217)
YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY. When required by an official sign, the act of granting the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the right or left, but when the roadway is clear may proceed into the intersection.
(Prior Code, § 70.01)