Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1010 - CERTIFICATES OF TITLE, REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES › Subpart E - SPECIAL PERMITS AND PLATES › Section 1010.430 - Registration Plates for Motor Vehicles Used for Transportation of Persons for Compensation and Tow Trucks

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
				For purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
"Ambulance" - any publicly or privately owned vehicle which
				  is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and is intended
				  to be used for, and is maintained or operated for the emergency transportation
				  of persons who are sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or
				  helpless as provided in Section 1-102.01 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"Bus" - every motor vehicle, other than a commuter van,
				  designed for carrying more than 10 persons as provided in Section 1-107 of the
				  Illinois Vehicle Code.
"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 vehicle used in a ridesharing arrangement when being used for that
				  purpose, or a recreational vehicle not being used commercially as provided in
				  Section 1-114 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"Commuter Van" - a motor vehicle designed for the
				  transportation of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, which is: used
				  in a ridesharing arrangement; or owned or leased by or on behalf of a company
				  or an employee organization and operated on a non-profit basis with the primary
				  purpose of transporting employees of the company between the employees' homes
				  and the company's place of business or a public transportation station and in
				  which the operating, administrative, maintenance and reasonable depreciation
				  costs are paid principally by the persons utilizing the commuter van as
				  provided in Section 1-114.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"Compensation" - remuneration or payment of any kind which is
				  received or owed for use of the motor vehicle or the service provided by the
				  use of the motor vehicle.
"Funeral Home Vehicle" - any privately owned first or second
				  division vehicle weighing 8,000 pounds or less which is owned or leased by a
				  funeral home.
"Livery Vehicle" - any privately owned first division vehicle
				  which is intended to be used for the transportation of persons when the payment
				  is not based on a meter charge but is prearranged for a designated
				  destination.
"Medical Carrier" - any publicly or privately owned motor
				  vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped,
				  and is intended to be used for, and is maintained or operated for the
				  nonemergency transportation of persons for compensation for the purpose of
				  obtaining medical services as provided in Section 1-142.1 of the Illinois
				  Vehicle Code.
"Medical Transport Vehicle" - includes ambulances, medical
				  carriers, and rescue vehicles as provided in Section 1-142.2 of the Illinois
				  Vehicle Code.
"Motor Vehicle" - every vehicle which is self-propelled and
				  every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead
				  trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, except for vehicles moved solely by
				  human power and motorized wheelchairs. For this Act, motor vehicles are divided
				  into two divisions:
First Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for
				  the carrying of not more than 10 persons.
Second Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for
				  carrying more than 10 persons, those designed or used for living quarters and
				  those motor vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying property,
				  freight or cargo, and those motor vehicles of the first division remodelled for
				  use and used as motor vehicles of the second division as provided in Section
				  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
A second division vehicle also includes a motor vehicle of
				  the first division used and registered as a school bus as provided in Section
				  1-217 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"Public Transportation Vehicle" - any privately owned first
				  or second division motor vehicle which is intended to be used for and is
				  maintained or operated for the nonemergency transportation of persons for
				  compensation, excluding motor vehicles regulated by the Illinois Commerce
				  Commission.
"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 as defined in
				  Section 1-224 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"School Bus" - every motor vehicle, except as provided for in
				  this definition, 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 such entity:
Any public or private primary or secondary school;
Any primary or secondary school operated by a religious
				  institution; or
Any public, private or religious nursery school.
This definition shall not include the following:
A bus operated by a public utility, municipal corporation or
				  common carrier authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation of
				  passengers when such bus is not traveling a specific school bus route but
				  is:
on a regularly scheduled route for the transportation of
				  other fare paying passengers;
furnishing charter service for the transportation of groups
				  on field trips or other special trips or in connection with other special
				  events; or
being used for shuttle service between attendance centers or
				  other educational facilities.
A motor vehicle of the first division as provided in Section
				  1-182 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"Taxicab" - any privately owned first division vehicle which
				  is intended to be used for the transportation of persons when the payment is
				  usually based and recorded as a taxi meter charge between a point of origin and
				  a destination.
"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 as
				  defined in Section 1-205.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
b) The Department shall issue for every motor
				vehicle owned or operated by a person, firm or corporation, and used for
				transportation of persons or property for compensation, distinctive
				registration plates displaying a special designation as provided in Sections
				3-611, 3-412(e), 3-412(g), and 3-412(j) of the Illinois Vehicle Title &
				Registration Law of the Illinois Vehicle Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 951/2,
				pars. 3-611, 3-412(e), 3-412(g), and 3-412(j)). The statutory registration fee
				required shall be determined based on Sections 3-806 and 3-808 of the Illinois
				Vehicle Title & Registration Law of the Illinois Vehicle Code (Ill. Rev.
				Stat. 1987, ch. 951/2, pars. 3-806 and 3-808) for vehicles of the first
				division and based on gross vehicle weight as provided in Section 3-815 of the
				Illinois Vehicle Title & Registration Law of the Illinois Vehicle Code
				(Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 951/2, par. 3-815) for vehicles of the second
				division.
c) Motor vehicles
				privately owned by a person, firm or corporation and used for transportation of
				persons or property for compensation shall be issued the following distinctive
				registration plates:
1) Ambulances as defined
				in subsection (a) shall be issued ambulance plates. These distinctive plates
				shall be numbered to denote the following:
A)
				First digit - the emergency medical service region.
B) Next three digits - the number of the
				company providing the service as registered with the Illinois Department of
				Public Aid.
C) Last two digits -
				the vehicle's number in the company's fleet.