Bill Text: IL HB4318 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may sell at cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more as the same agribusiness. Defines "agribusiness".
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-11)
Status: (Passed) 2016-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0823 [HB4318 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB4318-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 099-0823 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil | ||||
Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section | ||||
205-15 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)
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Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities.
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(a) The Department has the power to encourage and promote, | ||||
in every
practicable manner,
the interests of agriculture, | ||||
including horticulture, the livestock
industry, dairying, | ||||
cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production | ||||
of wool, and all other allied industries. In furtherance of
the | ||||
duties set forth in this Section subsection (a) , the Department | ||||
may
establish trust
funds and bank accounts in adequately | ||||
protected financial institutions
to receive and disburse | ||||
monies in connection with the conduct of food
shows, food | ||||
expositions, trade shows, and other promotional activities and
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to
sell
at cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating | ||||
farms that
have been
owned for 100
years
or more
or 150 years | ||||
or more
by lineal or collateral descendants of the same family | ||||
as
"Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial Farms", | ||||
respectively. The
Department shall provide applications for |
the signs, which shall
be submitted
with the
required fee. | ||
"Centennial Farms"
and "Sesquicentennial Farms"
signs shall | ||
not contain within their
design
the name,
picture, or other | ||
likeness of any elected public official or any appointed
public | ||
official.
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(b) The Department has the power to promote improved
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methods of conducting the several
industries described in | ||
subsection (a) with a view to increasing the
production and | ||
facilitating the
distribution thereof at the least cost.
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(c) The Department may sell at cost, to qualified | ||
applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been | ||
operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more | ||
as the same agribusiness. As used in this subsection (c), | ||
"agribusiness" means a business or businesses under the same | ||
name or ownership that are collectively associated with the | ||
production, processing, and distribution of agricultural | ||
products. The Department shall provide applications for the | ||
signs, which shall be submitted with the required fee. | ||
(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, | ||
eff. 6-2-00.)
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