(625 ILCS 5/11-1008.5) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 11-1008.5. Toy vehicles. (a) Toy vehicles shall only be operated on sidewalks and bicycle paths. Every person operating a toy vehicle upon a sidewalk or bicycle path shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all the duties applicable to a pedestrian. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any person operating a toy vehicle. The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward who is operating a toy vehicle to violate any of the provisions of this Code. (b) The use of toy vehicles on property owned, managed, or leased by any municipality, park district, forest preserve district, conservation district, or transit district is allowed, unless specifically prohibited in an ordinance or resolution adopted by the municipality, park district, forest preserve district, conservation district, or transit district. The Department of Natural Resources is authorized to adopt administrative rules for the regulation of toy vehicles on any and all properties owned, managed, or leased by the Department of Natural Resources. (c) No person shall knowingly tamper with or modify the speed capability or engagement of a toy vehicle beyond the original speed capabilities of the device. (d) No unit of local government, including a home rule unit, may regulate toy vehicles in a manner that is less restrictive than this Section. This paragraph is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 104-854, eff. 1-1-27.)