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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning animals.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 2 as follows:
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| 6 | | (510 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 169)
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| 7 | | Sec. 2. Duty to investigate; rulemaking. It is the duty of |
| 8 | | the Department to investigate all cases or
alleged cases coming |
| 9 | | to its knowledge of contamination or contagious and infectious |
| 10 | | diseases
among animals within the State and to provide for the |
| 11 | | suppression,
prevention, and extirpation of contamination or |
| 12 | | infectious and contagious diseases of such
animals.
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| 13 | | The Department may make and adopt reasonable rules and |
| 14 | | regulations for
the administration and enforcement of the |
| 15 | | provisions of this Act. No rule
or regulation made, adopted or |
| 16 | | issued by the Department pursuant to the
provisions of this Act |
| 17 | | shall be effective unless such rule or regulation
has been |
| 18 | | submitted to the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners for
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| 19 | | approval. The Department shall maintain on its website access |
| 20 | | to the Department's rules under this Act. All rules of the |
| 21 | | Department, and all amendments or revocations of
existing |
| 22 | | rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall |
| 23 | | be
adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the |