Chapter 625 — VEHICLES

(625 ILCS 5/7-209) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-209) Sec. 7-209. Payment upon judgment. The payment of a judgment arising out of a motor vehicle crash or the payment upon such judgment of an amount equal to the maximum amount which could be required for deposit under this Article sha…

(625 ILCS 5/7-210) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-210) Sec. 7-210. Termination of Security Requirement. The Secretary of State, if satisfied as to the existence of any fact which under Sections 7-206, 7-207, 7-208, or 7-209 would entitle a person to be relieved from the security requir…

(625 ILCS 5/7-211) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-211) Sec. 7-211. Duration of suspension. (a) Unless a suspension is terminated under other provisions of this Code, the driver's license or registration and nonresident's operating privilege suspended as provided in Section 7-205 shall …

(625 ILCS 5/7-212) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-212) Sec. 7-212. Authority of Administrator and Secretary of State to decrease amount of security. The Administrator may reduce the amount of security ordered in any case within one year after the date of the crash, but in no event for …

(625 ILCS 5/7-213) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-213) Sec. 7-213. Custody of security. Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this Article shall be placed by the Secretary of State in the custody of the State Treasurer. (Source: P.A. 83-831.)

(625 ILCS 5/7-214) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-214) Sec. 7-214. Disposition of security. Such security shall be applicable only to the payment of a judgment or judgments, rendered against the person or persons on whose behalf the deposit was made, for damages arising out of the cras…

(625 ILCS 5/7-215) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-215) Sec. 7-215. Matters not to be evidence in civil suits. Any action taken pursuant to this Chapter, or the Rules and Regulations adopted hereunder, or findings of the Administrator or the Secretary of State upon which such action is …

(625 ILCS 5/7-216) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-216) Sec. 7-216. Reciprocity; residents and nonresidents; licensing of nonresidents. (a) When a nonresident's operating privilege is suspended pursuant to Section 7-205 the Secretary of State shall transmit a certified copy of the recor…

(625 ILCS 5/7-301) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-301) Sec. 7-301. Application of Article III. The provisions of this Article requiring the deposit of proof of financial responsibility for the future, subject to certain exemptions, shall apply with respect to persons whose driver's lic…

(625 ILCS 5/7-302) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-302) Sec. 7-302. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 85-1396. Repealed by P.A. 90-89, eff. 1-1-98.)

(625 ILCS 5/7-303) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-303) Sec. 7-303. Suspension of driver's licenses, registration certificates, license plates or digital license plates, and registration stickers or digital registration stickers for failure to satisfy judgment. (a) The Secretary of Stat…

(625 ILCS 5/7-304) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-304) Sec. 7-304. Proof required. Upon the revocation of a driver's license of any person as provided in Section 6-113, 6-205 or 6-206, the Secretary of State shall suspend any and all of the registration certificates, license plates and…

(625 ILCS 5/7-305) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-305) Sec. 7-305. Suspension until proof furnished. The suspension of such certificates of registration, license plates and registration stickers of such person as provided for in Section 7-304 shall remain in effect and the Secretary of…

(625 ILCS 5/7-306) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-306) Sec. 7-306. Action in respect to an unlicensed driver. Whenever any person who is not a resident of this State has been convicted of an offense which would require the revocation of the driver's license of a resident, such nonresid…

(625 ILCS 5/7-307) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-307) Sec. 7-307. Courts to report nonpayments of judgment. The clerk of a court, or the judge of a court which has no clerk, or the judgment creditor or his or her attorney of record shall forward to the Secretary of State, on a form pr…

(625 ILCS 5/7-308) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-308) Sec. 7-308. Action in respect to nonresident for nonpayment of judgment. (a) If a person, whose failure to satisfy a judgment within 30 days after the same became final would require a suspension or revocation hereunder in respect …

(625 ILCS 5/7-309) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-309) Sec. 7-309. Suspension to continue until judgments paid and proof given. (a) The suspension of such driver's license, license plates and registration stickers shall remain in effect and no other vehicle shall be registered in the n…

(625 ILCS 5/7-310) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-310) Sec. 7-310. Petition for discharge filed in bankruptcy. A petition for discharge filed in bankruptcy following the rendering of any judgment shall relieve the judgment debtor from the requirements of this Chapter 7, except that the…

(625 ILCS 5/7-311) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-311) Sec. 7-311. Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements. (a) Judgments herein referred to arising out of motor vehicle crashes occurring on or after January 1, 2015 (the effective date of Public Act 98-519) shall for the purpose of…

(625 ILCS 5/7-312) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-312) Sec. 7-312. Installment payment. (a) A judgment debtor upon 5 days notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the trial court in which the judgment was entered for the privilege of paying such judgment in installments and the cou…

(625 ILCS 5/7-313) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-313) Sec. 7-313. Suspension required upon breach of agreement. In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installments as permitted by the order of the court upon notice of such default, the Secretary of State, upon receipt of a …

(625 ILCS 5/7-314) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-314) Sec. 7-314. Alternate methods of giving proof. Proof of financial responsibility when required under this Article may be given by filing with the Secretary of State: 1. A certificate of insurance as provided in Section 7-315 or Sec…

(625 ILCS 5/7-315) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-315) Sec. 7-315. Certificate of insurance proof. (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be made by filing with the Secretary of State the electronic certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business in this State, c…

(625 ILCS 5/7-316) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-316) Sec. 7-316. Certificate furnished by nonresident as proof. Any nonresident owner of a motor vehicle not registered in this State may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with the Secretary of State a certificate or cert…

(625 ILCS 5/7-316.1) Sec. 7-316.1. Nonresidents and former residents; when proof not required. (a) Any nonresident or former Illinois resident who (i) has met all requirements for reinstatement of his or her driving or registration privileges under this Chapter except for filing …

(625 ILCS 5/7-317) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-317) Sec. 7-317. "Motor vehicle liability policy" defined. (a) Certification. -A "motor vehicle liability policy", as that term is used in this Act, means an "owner's policy" or an "operator's policy" of liability insurance, certified a…

(625 ILCS 5/7-318) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-318) Sec. 7-318. Notice of cancellation or termination of certified policy. When an insurance carrier has certified a motor vehicle liability policy or policies under this Act, it shall notify the Secretary of State of any cancellation …

(625 ILCS 5/7-319) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-319) Sec. 7-319. This Act Not to Affect Other Policies. Sections 7-301 through 7-329, each inclusive, of this Act shall not be held to apply to or affect bonds or policies of automobile insurance against liability which may now or herea…

(625 ILCS 5/7-320) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-320) Sec. 7-320. Bond as Proof. A person required to give proof of financial responsibility may file with the Secretary of State a bond, executed by the person giving such proof and by a surety company, duly authorized to transact busin…

(625 ILCS 5/7-321) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-321) Sec. 7-321. When Bond Shall Constitute a Lien. Such bond shall constitute a lien upon the unregistered real estate so scheduled of any surety from the time when a copy of such bond is filed in the office of the recorder in and for …

(625 ILCS 5/7-322) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-322) Sec. 7-322. Action on Bond. If a judgment is rendered against the principal of any such surety or real estate bond upon a liability covered by the conditions of such bond and such judgment is not satisfied within thirty (30) days a…

(625 ILCS 5/7-323) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-323) Sec. 7-323. Money Or Securities As Proof. A person may give proof of financial responsibility by delivering to the Secretary of State a receipt of the State Treasurer showing the deposit with said State Treasurer of money in amount…

(625 ILCS 5/7-324) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-324) Sec. 7-324. Application of Deposit. All money or securities so deposited shall be subject to execution to satisfy any judgment mentioned in this Act but shall not otherwise be subject to attachment or execution. The State Treasurer…

(625 ILCS 5/7-325) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-325) Sec. 7-325. Owner may give proof for others. Whenever the Secretary of State determines that any person required to give proof under this Article by reason of a revocation is not the owner of a motor vehicle but was, at the time of…

(625 ILCS 5/7-326) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-326) Sec. 7-326. Substitution of proof. The Secretary of State shall cancel any bond or return any certificate of insurance, or the Secretary of State shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return any money or securities to the pers…

(625 ILCS 5/7-327) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-327) Sec. 7-327. Other proof may be required. Whenever any evidence of proof of ability to respond in damages filed under the provisions of this Article no longer fulfills the purpose for which required, the Secretary of State shall, fo…

(625 ILCS 5/7-328) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-328) Sec. 7-328. Duration of proof; when proof may be canceled or returned. The Secretary of State shall upon request cancel any bond or return any certificate of insurance, or the Secretary of State shall direct and the State Treasurer…

(625 ILCS 5/7-329) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-329) Sec. 7-329. Proof of financial responsibility made voluntarily. 1. Proof of financial responsibility may be made voluntarily by or on behalf of any person. The privilege of operation of any motor vehicle within this State by such p…

(625 ILCS 5/7-401) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-401) Sec. 7-401. Transfer of registration to defeat purposes of act prohibited. (a) If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the vehicle in respect to which such registratio…

(625 ILCS 5/7-402) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-402) Sec. 7-402. Surrender of license to drive and registration. Except as otherwise provided in this Code or Article V of the Supreme Court Rules, any person whose license to drive has been suspended shall immediately return to the Sec…

(625 ILCS 5/7-403) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-403) Sec. 7-403. Forged Proof. Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility for the future, or who files or offers for filing any such evidence of proof knowing or having reas…

(625 ILCS 5/7-501) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-501) Sec. 7-501. Assigned Risk Plans. If, on or before January 1, 1946, every insurance carrier authorized to write automobile bodily injury liability insurance in this State shall not subscribe to an assigned risk plan approved by the …

(625 ILCS 5/7-502) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-502) Sec. 7-502. Self-insurers. Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the Director of the Department of Insurance as prov…

(625 ILCS 5/7-503) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-503) Sec. 7-503. Unclaimed Security Deposits. During July, annually, the Secretary shall compile a list of all securities on deposit, pursuant to this Article, for one year since the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations a…

(625 ILCS 5/7-504) Sec. 7-504. Emergency telephone system outages; reimbursement. Any person who negligently causes a motor vehicle crash that causes an emergency telephone system outage must reimburse the public safety agency that provides personnel to answer calls or to maintai…

(625 ILCS 5/7-601) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-601) Sec. 7-601. Required liability insurance policy. (a) No person shall operate, register or maintain registration of, and no owner shall permit another person to operate, register or maintain registration of, a motor vehicle designed…

(625 ILCS 5/7-602) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-602) Sec. 7-602. Insurance card. Every operator of a motor vehicle subject to Section 7-601 of this Code shall carry within the vehicle evidence of insurance. The evidence shall be legible and sufficient to demonstrate that the motor ve…

(625 ILCS 5/7-603) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-603) Sec. 7-603. Illegal insurance cards - penalty. No person shall alter an invalid insurance card to make it appear valid. No person knowingly shall make, sell or otherwise make available an invalid or counterfeit insurance card. Any …

(625 ILCS 5/7-603.5) Sec. 7-603.5. Electronic verification of a liability insurance policy. (a) The Secretary may implement a program of electronic motor vehicle liability insurance policy verification for motor vehicles subject to Section 7-601 of this Code for the purpose of ve…

(625 ILCS 5/7-604) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 7-604) Sec. 7-604. Verification of liability insurance policy. (a) The Secretary of State may select random samples of registrations of motor vehicles subject to Section 7-601 of this Code, or owners thereof, for the purpose of verifying …