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1		AN ACT concerning animals.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		Section 5. The Illinois Domestic Animals Running At Large
5		Act is amended by changing Sections 1.1, 1.2, and 3.1 as
6		follows:
7		(510 ILCS 55/1.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 1.1)
8		Sec. 1.1. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
9		context otherwise requires:
10		"Livestock", for the purposes of this Act only, means
11		bison, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, equidae, camelids,
12		ratites, or fowl or geese.
13		"Owner" means any person who (a) has a right of property in
14		an animal, (b) keeps or harbors an animal, (c) has an animal in
15		his care, or (d) acts as custodian of an animal.
16		"Person" means any individual, firm, association,
17		partnership, corporation, or other legal entity, any public or
18		private institution, the State of Illinois, or any municipal
19		corporation or political subdivision of the State.
20		"Running at large" or "run at large" means livestock that
21		strays from confinement or restraint and from the limits of the
22		owner.
23		(Source: P.A. 84-28.)

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1		(510 ILCS 55/1.2) (from Ch. 8, par. 1.2)
2		Sec. 1.2. A notice of a violation of this Act shall be
3		given to the person or owner of livestock running at large if
4		known and a maximum of 24 hours may be granted in which to make
5		the necessary corrections if the violation is an accidental
6		occurrence and an investigation reveals no identifiable
7		individual at fault. Any livestock allowed to run at large may
8		be impounded at a facility capable of restraining such
9		livestock. A notice of impoundment shall be delivered to the
10		owner of such livestock in person or by certified mail.
11		Law enforcement officials such as State Police, County
12		Sheriffs, or municipal police officers, animal control
13		administrators, animal control officers, or authorized agents
14		of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, or authorized agents
15		of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, or the owner
16		or occupier of land may give notice and cause stray animals
17		which trespass to be impounded.
18		The person or persons having stray livestock impounded
19		shall make every reasonable effort to notify the owner or
20		keeper of the impounded livestock where such livestock is
21		impounded.
22		The person or persons requesting impoundment shall be held
23		harmless of any liability for injury to or for any financial
24		responsibility for such animals.
25		Stray animals may be impounded at any public stockyards,

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1		livestock auction markets or any other facilities willing to
2		accept such animals for impoundment. The impounding facility
3		and its owner or owners shall not be held liable for any injury
4		or accrue any financial responsibility for such impounded
5		animals.
6		Any expense incurred in such impoundment shall become a
7		lien on the livestock impounded and must be discharged before
8		the livestock are released from the facility. The livestock may
9		be released to the owner prior to the expiration of the
10		impoundment period if impoundment costs are satisfied and the
11		owner provides evidence that he is capable of restraining the
12		livestock from running at large. If the owner refuses or fails
13		to provide such restraints, or the impounded animals are not
14		claimed and incurred costs paid within the period of
15		impoundment, such animals shall be sold either at a public
16		auction, or through a public stockyard or a livestock auction
17		market, offered for adoption, or humanely euthanized in
18		accordance with this Section. Before any livestock can be sold,
19		offered for adoption, or humanely euthanized as herein
20		provided, the person or court requesting the impoundment shall
21		have published notice of the intended sale, adoption, or
22		euthanization thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in
23		the area where the impounded animals were found to be running
24		at large. If the impounded livestock is not claimed within 10
25		days after the date of publication of such notice, the
26		livestock may be sold, offered for adoption, or humanely

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1		euthanized in accordance with this Section. The proceeds of the
2		sale shall be applied first to discharge the lien and costs
3		associated with the sale of the livestock, and any balance
4		shall be paid to the owner. If any court of competent
5		jurisdiction issues any order concerning any impounded animal,
6		such animal shall immediately pass to the jurisdiction and
7		possession of the court bailiff of the jurisdiction in which
8		the order was issued.
9		If the lien and costs of the associated sale of the
10		livestock is determined to exceed the expected value of the
11		animal, then the animal may be deemed adoptable by the animal
12		control facility and may be offered for adoption. If no such
13		placement is available, then the animal may be humanely
14		euthanized.
15		(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
16		(510 ILCS 55/3.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 3.1)
17		Sec. 3.1. Any person who violates this Act shall be guilty
18		of a Class C misdemeanor, except a 10th or subsequent violation
19		of this Act is a Class 4 felony and the court may order the
20		livestock impounded. Each day of violation shall constitute a
21		separate offense.
22		In the event the person who violates this Act is a
23		corporation or partnership, any officer, director, manager or
24		managerial agent of the partnership or corporation who violates
25		this Section or causes the partnership or corporation to

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1		violate this Section shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
2		(Source: P.A. 84-28.)
3		Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4		becoming law.