Bill Text: IL HB5869 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Provides that an individual who knowingly imports any nuisance organism into this State is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor or a fine not exceeding $1,500 per organism imported, with a maximum fine not exceeding $25,000. Defines "nuisance organism" as a nonnative aquatic organism that will foreseeably alter and threaten to harm the ecosystem or the abundance and diversity of native or naturalized fish and other organisms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-08-25 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1044 [HB5869 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5869-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Provides that an individual who knowingly imports any nuisance organism into this State is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor or a fine not exceeding $1,500 per organism imported, with a maximum fine not exceeding $25,000. Defines "nuisance organism" as a nonnative aquatic organism that will foreseeably alter and threaten to harm the ecosystem or the abundance and diversity of native or naturalized fish and other organisms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-08-25 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1044 [HB5869 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5869-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning fish.
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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 Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 10-100 as follows:
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| 6 | (515 ILCS 5/10-100) (from Ch. 56, par. 10-100)
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| 7 | Sec. 10-100. Release of aquatic life. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) It shall be unlawful to
release any aquatic life
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| 9 | the wild in this State without first securing permission of the
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| 10 | Department to do so, except that the owner of a body of water | ||||||
| 11 | may release
aquatic life indigenous to the State of Illinois | ||||||
| 12 | into waters wholly upon his or her property. The Department | ||||||
| 13 | shall have the authority to promulgate
necessary rules and | ||||||
| 14 | regulations, under the Illinois Administrative
Procedure Act, | ||||||
| 15 | regulating the possession, transportation, and shipping of
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| 16 | aquatic life not indigenous to the State of Illinois. All | ||||||
| 17 | aquatic life may be
immediately returned unharmed from where | ||||||
| 18 | they were taken. A violation of this subsection (a) is a Class | ||||||
| 19 | B misdemeanor.
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| 20 | (b) It is unlawful to possess, transport, or release any | ||||||
| 21 | live specimen or viable gametes of any species listed as | ||||||
| 22 | injurious by administrative rule, unless authorized by that | ||||||
| 23 | rule. A violation of this subsection (b) is a Class A | ||||||
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| 1 | misdemeanor.
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| 2 | (Source: P.A. 94-592, eff. 1-1-06.)
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