Bill Text: IL HB3665 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act. Provides that if a quarantine issued by the Department of Agriculture is violated, the Department or the Department's designee may seize and destroy any of the animals subject to the quarantine, impose a fine not exceeding $1,000 for each animal in violation of the quarantine, or both. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3665 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB3665-Introduced.html
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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 21 as follows:
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6 | (510 ILCS 50/21) (from Ch. 8, par. 188)
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7 | Sec. 21. Any person who, knowing that any contamination or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | contagious or infectious disease exists
among his animals, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | conceals such fact, or knowing of the existence of such
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10 | disease, sells any animal or animals so contaminated or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | diseased, or any exposed animal, or
knowing the same, removes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | any such contaminated, diseased, or exposed animal from his
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13 | premises to the premises of another, or along any public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | highway, or
knowing of the existence of such contamination, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | disease, or exposure thereto, transports,
drives, leads or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | ships any animal so contaminated, diseased, or exposed, by any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | motor
vehicle, car or steamboat, to any place in or out of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | State; and any
person who brings any such contaminated or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | diseased, or knowingly, brings any such contaminated or exposed
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20 | animals into this State from another state; and any person who | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | knowingly
buys, receives, sells, conveys, or engages in the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | traffic of such contaminated, diseased,
or exposed stock, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | any person who violates any quarantine regulation
established |
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1 | under the provisions of this or any other Act, for each,
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2 | either, any or all
acts above mentioned in this Section, is | ||||||
3 | guilty of a petty offense and
shall forfeit all right to any | ||||||
4 | compensation for any animal or property
destroyed under the | ||||||
5 | provisions of this Act. If a quarantine issued by the | ||||||
6 | Department is violated, the Department or the Department's | ||||||
7 | designee may seize and destroy any of the animals subject to | ||||||
8 | the quarantine, impose a fine not exceeding $1,000 for each | ||||||
9 | animal in violation of the quarantine, or both.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)
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11 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
12 | becoming law.
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