G2-18 Ordinance No. G2-18
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING TITLE 11 OF THE ELGIN MUNICIPAL CODE, 1976,
AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC"
WHEREAS, the City of Elgin is a home rule unit, and as a home rule unit may exercise
any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, various regulations as to the operation of vehicles, traffic and parking on
streets and other areas within the City pertain to the government and affairs of the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ELGIN, ILLINOIS:
Section 1. That Chapter 11.14 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended, entitled
"Traffic Signs, Signals and Markings" be and is hereby further amended by adding a new Section
11.14.025 thereto entitled "Presumption of Legality" to read as follows:
"11.14.025: PRESUMPTION OF LEGALITY:
A. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position approximately
conforming to the requirements of this Title, such devices shall be presumed
to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority,
unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
B. Any official traffic controlled device placed pursuant to provisions of this
Title and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such
devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this Title,
unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence."
Section 2. That Section 11.14.030 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Right Turns on Red:" be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Intersections where right turns against a steady red signal are prohibited shall be
those intersections designated to be no right turns on red intersections by ordinance
or by the director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director
of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine the
intersections where right turns against a steady red signal are prohibited and shall
place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same."
Section 3. That Section 11.14.035 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Left Turns Prohibited:" be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"The locations where left turns are prohibited shall be as designated by ordinance or
by the director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director of
public works, or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine the
locations where left turns are prohibited and shall place and maintain appropriate
signs indicating the same."
Section 4. That Section 11.20.03)0 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Speed Regulations:" be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"It is determined, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation,that the
maximum speed limits on the following streets shall be as hereinafter set forth:
A. Fifteen Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed limit
for vehicles of fifteen (15) miles per hour along and upon the following streets and
highways in the City:
Riverside Drive, northbound lane, from Prairie Street to East Chicago Street.
Riverside Drive, southbound lane, from East Chicago Street to Prairie Street.
B. Twenty Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed limit
for vehicles of twenty (20) miles per hour along and upon the following streets and
highways in the City:
(Reserved)
C. Twenty Five Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed
limit for vehicles of twenty five (25) miles per hour along and upon the following
streets and highways in the City:
Airlite Street between Larkin Avenue and Country Knoll Lane.
Alberta Road from Bowes Road to dead end of Alberta Road.
Bowen Court between Regent Street and Sherman Avenue.
Canfield Circle from Pompton Avenue to Pompton Avenue.
Center Street between Kimball Street and Dexter Avenue.
East Chicago Street between State Street and Geneva Street.
College Green Drive between Randall Road and Covered Bridge Drive.
College Green Drive between Randall Road and McLean Boulevard.
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Conifer Drive from Pompton Avenue to Alberta Road.
Covered Bridge Drive from College Green Drive to Otter Creek Drive.
Dexter Avenue between Dexter Court and Center Street.
Division Street between Douglas Avenue and Geneva Street.
Douglas Avenue between Kimball Street and East Chicago Street.
DuPage Street between Villa Street and Spring Street.
Erie Street between South McLean Boulevard and South Jane Drive.
Fulton Street between Villa Street and Spring Street.
Gifford Place between Michigan Street and Raymond Street.
Grand Avenue between Hiawatha Drive and Grand Boulevard.
Grand Boulevard between Grand Avenue and Linden Avenue.
Lucca Drive from Airlite Street to Lucca Court.
North Grove Avenue between Kimball Street and East Chicago Street.
Padua Drive from Airlite Street to dead end of Padua Drive.
Salem Road from Lucca Drive to Airlite Street.
South Grove Avenue between Fulton Street and Chicago Street.
South Grove Avenue between Prairie Street and National Street.
East Highland Avenue between North State Street and Geneva Street.
South Jane Drive between Larkin Avenue and Meyer Street.
Lake Street between the Fox River and Villa Street.
Linden Avenue between Grand Boulevard and Bode Road.
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Mark Avenue between Mildred Avenue and the west terminus.
Michigan Street between Lake Street and Gifford Place.
Muirfield Circle from College Green Drive to College Green Drive.
National Street between State Street and Villa Street.
Pebble Beach Circle from College Green Drive to College Green Drive.
Pompton Avenue from Corron Road to dead end of Pompton Avenue.
Prairie Street between Villa Street and Riverside Drive.
River Bluff Road between Slade Avenue and North Spring Street.
Scott Drive between Royal Boulevard and Mildred Avenue.
Sheffield Drive between North Lyle Avenue and the southerly intersection of
Devonshire Circle.
Sienna Drive from Highland Avenue to Padua Drive.
North Spring Street between Kimball Street and East Chicago Street.
South Spring Street between East Chicago Street and Grove Avenue.
Symphony Way between North Grove Avenue and Dundee Avenue.
Torino Drive from Airlite Street to Sienna Drive.
D. Thirty Five Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed
limit for vehicles of thirty five (35) miles per hour along and upon the following
streets and highways in the city:
Bode Road from Highbury Drive to the easterly corporate limits of the city.
Chicago Street from Willard Avenue to Woodview Drive.
Congdon Avenue from Blackhawk Drive to Dundee Avenue.
West Highland Avenue from Thomas More Drive to Randall Road.
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McLean Boulevard between U.S. 20 bypass and Bowes Road.
Villa Street between Illinois Avenue and Peck Place.
Weld Road from South Street to Shepard Drive.
E. Forty Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed limit for
vehicles of forty (40) miles per hour along and upon the following streets and
highways in the city:
Villa Street between Ramona Avenue and Peck Place.
Chicago Street from Woodview Drive to the city limits.
Congdon Avenue between Blackhawk Drive to Wakefield Drive.
F. Forty Five Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed limit
for vehicles of forty five(45)miles per hour along and upon the following streets and
highways in the city:
Coombs Road from Highland Avenue to Illinois Route 20.
Gifford Road from Bluff City Boulevard to West Bartlett Road.
Highland Avenue from Stonehaven Drive to the city limits.
Plank Road from Highland Avenue to Russell Road.
Russell Road from Plank to city limits.
Villa Street from Peck Place to Illinois Route 20.
G. Fifty Miles Per Hour: There is established an absolute maximum speed limit for
vehicles of fifty (50) miles per hour along and upon the following streets and
highways in the city:
Damisch Road between Reinking Road and Homestead Drive.
H. Duty To Use Caution: The fact that the speed of a vehicle is lower than the
foregoing prima facie limits shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease
speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, when approaching and going
around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or
winding roadway or when special hazards exist with respect to pedestrians or other
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traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions,and speed shall be decreased as
may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person or vehicle or on entering the
highway in compliance with legal requirements and duty of all persons to use care."
Section 5. That Section 11.24.020 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"One Way Streets and Alleys:" be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"The streets and alleys in which traffic shall move in only one specified direction
shall be those designated by ordinance or by the director of public works,or the chief
of police in his absence. The director of public works, or the chief of police in his
absence,is authorized to determine the streets and alleys on which traffic shall move
in only one specified direction and shall place and maintain appropriate signs
indicating same including the direction of traffic, such signs to be erected and
maintained at every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is
prohibited. The director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, is
further authorized to designate one-way traffic on drives in public parks in the city
and to cause signs indicating the direction of traffic to be maintained at intersecting
drives in such public parks."
Section 6. That Section 11.32.020 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Through Streets:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Streets and parts of streets which shall be through streets shall be those streets and
parts of streets designated to be through streets by ordinance or by the director of
public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director of public works, or
the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine which streets and parts
of streets are declared to be through streets. The director of public works shall
maintain a schedule of through streets."
Section 7. That Section 11.32.030 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Stop Intersections:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Stop intersections shall be those intersections designated to be stop intersections by
ordinance or by the director of public works,or the chief of police in his absence,and
all vehicles being operated on such streets so determined to be stop intersections
must stop before crossing or entering the designated streets. The director of public
works, or the chief of police in his absence, shall place and maintain appropriate
signs at every such place where a stop is required. The director of public works shall
maintain a schedule of stop intersections."
Section 8. That Section 11.32.040 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Yield Intersections:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Yield intersections shall be those intersections designated to be yield intersections
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by ordinance or by the director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence.
The director of public works or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to
determine the location of yield intersections and shall place and maintain appropriate
signs indicating the same."
Section 9. That Section 11.32.050 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended,
entitled "Signs Required at Through Streets:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Whenever any ordinance,or the director of public works,or the chief of police in his
absence, designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the director
of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, to place and maintain a stop
sign, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection a
yield sign, on each and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at
any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic control signals; provided,
however,that at the intersection of two(2) such through streets or at the intersection
of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be
erected at the approaches of either of the streets as may be determined by the director
of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic study."
Section 10. That Section 11.60.050 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Stopping, Standing, Parking Prohibited Where:" be and is hereby further amended by amending
subparagraph O thereof to read as follows:
"O. In any of the additional designated places designated by ordinance or by the
director of public works,or the chief of police in his absence. The director of
public works,or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine
the places on streets where standing, stopping, or parking is prohibited
including the area and time of such restriction. The director of public works,
or the chief of police in his absence, shall place and maintain appropriate
signs indicting same. The director of public works shall maintain a schedule
of such additional designated places including the area and time of such
restriction."
Section 11. That Section 11.60.065 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited on Private Property:"be and is hereby further amended by
repealing and deleting subparagraph C thereof.
Section 12. That Section 11.60.070 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Limited Parking Area; One Hour or More:", Section 11.60.080 entitled "Limited Parking Areas;
Less Than One Hour:", Section 11.60.082 entitled "Thirty Minute Parking Zones:", Section
11.60.083 entitled"One Hour Parking Zones:", Section 11.60.083.2 entitled"Ninety Minute Parking
Zones:", Section 11.60.084 entitled"Two Hour Parking Zones:",and Section 11.60.086 entitled"Ten
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Hour Parking Zones:" be and are hereby further amended to read as follows:
"11.60.070: LIMITED TIME DURATION PARKING AREAS:
A. Limited time duration parking areas shall be those areas on streets designated
as limited time duration parking areas by ordinance or by the director of
public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director of public
works, or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine the
streets or portions thereof which shall have limited time duration parking and
shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating and providing notice of
same. The director of public works shall maintain a schedule of those areas
designated as limited time duration parking areas.
B. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to permit the parking of
vehicles in any place where such parking is prohibited by any other ordinance
or any other section of this Title.
C. The director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, may
designate by official signs a space on sides of the street in each block in the
limited time duration parking areas not to exceed eighteen feet(18')in length
where it shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicles for more than
five (5) minutes. Such five-minute parking shall be so located so as to
prevent the operator of a vehicle to pull away from the curb without backing
across any cross walk."
Section 13. That Section 11.60.087 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Limited Parking Areas; Buses Only:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"The areas on streets on which no parking other than for a school bus shall be
permitted shall be those areas on streets designated by ordinance or by the director of
public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director of public works, or
the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine the areas on streets on
which parking is prohibited other than for a school bus including the times for such
parking restrictions. No person shall park a vehicle, other than a school bus, within
the areas on streets so designated as limited parking areas for school buses only. The
director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, shall place and
maintain appropriate signs at every such place where parking is limited to school
buses."
Section 14. That Section 11.60.088 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Limited Parking Areas; Ambulances Only:" be and is hereby repealed and deleted.
Section 15. That Section 11.60.089 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
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"Monthly Permit Parking Zones:" be and is hereby repealed and deleted.
Section 16. That Section 11.60.090 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Snow Emergency Routes:" be and is hereby further amended by amending subparagraph A thereof
to read as follows:
"A. Snow emergency routes shall be those streets designated as snow emergency
routes by ordinance or by the director of public works, or the chief of police
in his absence. The director of public works, or the chief of police in his
absence, is authorized to determine the streets to be designated as snow
emergency routes and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating
the same. The director of public works shall maintain a schedule of snow
emergency routes."
Section 17. That Section 11.60.156 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Handicapped Parking Spaces:" be and is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Handicapped parking spaces shall be those parking spaces designated by ordinance
or by the director of public works, or the chief of police in his absence. The director
of public works, or the chief of police in his absence, is authorized to determine the
parking lots and streets to be designated as handicapped parking spaces and shall
place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same. When signs are erected
giving notice thereof,no person shall park a vehicle,which is not bearing registration
plates or decals issued to a handicapped person, within the parking lots or any of the
streets so designated."
Section 18. That Section 11.60.205 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976,as amended,entitled
"Tow Away Zones:"be and is hereby further amended by amending subparagraph A thereof to read
as follows:
"A. Tow away zones on streets shall be on areas of streets designated as tow away
zones by ordinance or by the director of public works,or the chief of police in
his absence. The director of public works, or the chief of police in his
absence, is authorized to determine the streets to be designated as tow away
zones and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same.
Any car or other vehicle parked on any street designated as a tow away zone
during the hours when parking thereon is prohibited may be removed and
towed as herein provided."
Section 19. That Chapter 11.68 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended, entitled
"Parking Meters" be and is hereby repealed and deleted.
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Section 20. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and
publication in the manner provided by law.
OAP
avid J. Ka in, or
Presented: January 10, 2018
Passed: January 10, 2018
Omnibus Vote: Yeas: 9 Nays: 0
Recorded: January 10, 2018
Published: January 12, 2018
Attes ..........
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Kimberly Dewi Clerk
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