Bill Amendment: IL HB1047 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

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Bill Title: WILDLIFE-TECH

Status: 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1047 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB1047-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

Filed: 4/20/2015

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1047
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1047 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
Sections 1.13, 2.6, 2.7, and 2.13 as follows:
(520 ILCS 5/1.13) (from Ch. 61, par. 1.13)
Sec. 1.13. The Department is authorized to issue a "Public
Hunting Grounds for Waterfowl" daily usage stamp at a fee not
to exceed $10 for duck hunting areas, and not to exceed $15 for
Canada goose hunting areas; and assess a daily "Public Hunting
Grounds for Game Birds Pheasants" fee not to exceed $25 ($35
for non-residents) in 2008 and increasing by $5 every third
year until the maximum fee is $50 ($60 for non-residents). Each
person shall obtain such a stamp from the Department to be
attached to the permit assigned to a person, or pay the daily
fee to hunt game birds pheasants, under the provisions of the

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rules and regulations made by the Department for the operation
of State Public Hunting Grounds. Rulemaking authority to
implement this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, if
any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance
with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on
Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for
whatever reason, is unauthorized.
The Department is authorized to permit hunters to harvest
both male and female hand reared pheasants, bobwhite quail,
chukar partridge, and gray partridge released on such public
hunting grounds. The Department is further authorized to permit
hunters to harvest hand-reared game birds on State Public
Hunting Grounds during a season set by administrative rule
between the dates of September 1 and March 31, both inclusive.
The Department shall cause an administrative rule, setting
forth the rules and regulations for the operation of Public
Hunting Areas on lands and waters owned or leased by this
State.
(Source: P.A. 95-1037, eff. 2-17-09.)
(520 ILCS 5/2.6) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.6)
Sec. 2.6. Pheasant season; limits.
It shall be unlawful for any person to take cock pheasants
except with shotgun or bow and arrow during the open season
which will be set annually by the Director between the dates of

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October 15--January 31st, both inclusive, except as provided in
Section 1.13. Dogs may be used in hunting with either shotgun
or bow and arrow.
It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the daily
limit and possession limit of cock pheasants. The daily and
possession limits for cock pheasants shall be set annually by
the Director of the Department and shall not exceed a daily
limit of 3 and a possession limit of 6, except as provided by
Sections 1.13, 3.27 and 3.28 of this Act.
It is unlawful to remove plumage of pheasants in the field
or while being transported from the field to one's home or to a
commercial preservation facility.
It shall be unlawful to take or possess hen pheasants at
any time, except as provided in Section 2.4, 3.23 or 3.27.
The provisions of this Section are subject to modification
by administrative rule.
(Source: P.A. 90-225, eff. 7-25-97.)
(520 ILCS 5/2.7) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.7)
Sec. 2.7. It shall be unlawful for any person to take quail
except with shotgun, or bow and arrow, and only during the open
season which will be set annually by the Director between the
dates of October 15th - January 31st, both inclusive, except as
provided in Section 1.13. Dogs may be used in hunting with
either shotgun or bow and arrow.
It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the daily

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limit and possession limit of bobwhite quail that shall be set
annually by the Director of the Department which cannot exceed
a daily take limit of 10 and a possession limit of 20.
The provisions of this Section are subject to modification
by administrative rule.
(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
(520 ILCS 5/2.13) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.13)
Sec. 2.13. It shall be unlawful for any person to take
Hungarian partridge except with shotgun, or bow and arrow,
during the open season which will be set annually by the
Director between the dates of October 15th - January 31st, both
inclusive, except as provided in Section 1.13.
It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the daily
limit and possession limit of Hungarian partridge that will be
set annually by the Director of the Department which cannot
exceed a daily take limit of 6 and a possession limit of 12.
Dogs may be used in hunting with either gun or bow and arrow.
(Source: P.A. 81-382.)".