Bill Text: IL HB3827 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Makes it unlawful to propagate, buy, sell, barter, trade, transfer, or loan silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis), and black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3827 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3827-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB3827 Introduced 2/25/2009, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
515 ILCS 5/10-100 from Ch. 56, par. 10-100
Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Makes it unlawful to propagate, buy, sell, barter, trade, transfer, or loan silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis), and black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning fish.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by
changing Section 10-100 as follows:
(515 ILCS 5/10-100) (from Ch. 56, par. 10-100)
Sec. 10-100. Release of aquatic life.
(a) It shall be unlawful to release any aquatic life into
the wild in this State without first securing permission of the
Department to do so, except that the owner of a body of water
may release aquatic life indigenous to the State of Illinois
into waters wholly upon his or her property. The Department
shall have the authority to promulgate necessary rules and
regulations, under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
regulating the possession, transportation, and shipping of
aquatic life not indigenous to the State of Illinois. All
aquatic life may be immediately returned unharmed from where
they were taken.
(b) It is unlawful to possess, transport, or release any
live specimen or viable gametes of any species listed as
injurious by administrative rule, unless authorized by that
rule. It is also unlawful to propagate, buy, sell, barter,
trade, transfer, or loan silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys

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molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis), and
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). A violation of this
subsection (b) is a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 94-592, eff. 1-1-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.