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Public Act 103-0176
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HB3087 Enrolled | LRB103 27417 RLC 53789 b |
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AN ACT concerning animals.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by |
changing Section 9 as follows:
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(510 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 8, par. 176)
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Sec. 9. The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable |
rules and regulations
to prevent the spread of any |
contamination or contagious or infectious disease within this
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State. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request |
the Governor
to issue a proclamation quarantining an affected |
municipality or geographical
district whereby all animals of |
the kind diseased or contaminated would not be permitted
to be |
moved from one premises to another within the municipality or |
geographical
district,
or over any public highway, or any |
unfenced lot or piece of ground, or from
being brought into, or |
taken from the infected or contaminated municipality or |
geographical
district, except by a special permit, signed by |
the Director. Any such proclamation
shall, from
the time of |
its publication, bind all persons. Within one week after the
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publication of any such proclamation, every person who owns, |
or who is in
charge of animals of the kind diseased or |
contaminated
within the municipality or geographical district, |