Bill Text: IL SB0139 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Limits the situations when a person could dock an animal's tail or crop its ears without violating the Act's prohibition against "animal torture". Establishes that the following is not "animal torture": (i) tail docking performed by an Illinois licensed veterinarian for a medical reason (now, just "tail docking") or (ii) ear cropping performed by an Illinois licensed veterinarian for a medical reason (now, just "ear cropping"). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Re-referred to Assignments; Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b). [SB0139 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0139-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0139 Introduced 1/30/2009, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
510 ILCS 70/3.03
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Limits the situations when a person could dock an animal's tail or crop its ears without violating the Act's prohibition against "animal torture". Establishes that the following is not "animal torture": (i) tail docking performed by an Illinois licensed veterinarian for a medical reason (now, just "tail docking") or (ii) ear cropping performed by an Illinois licensed veterinarian for a medical reason (now, just "ear cropping"). Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning animals.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by
changing Section 3.03 as follows:
(510 ILCS 70/3.03)
Sec. 3.03. Animal torture.
(a) A person commits animal torture when that person
without legal justification knowingly or intentionally
tortures an animal. For purposes of this Section, and subject
to subsection (b), "torture" means infliction of or subjection
to extreme physical pain, motivated by an intent to increase or
prolong the pain, suffering, or agony of the animal.
(b) For the purposes of this Section, "animal torture" does
not include any death, harm, or injury caused to any animal by
any of the following activities:
(1) any hunting, fishing, trapping, or other activity
allowed under the Wildlife Code, the Wildlife Habitat
Management Areas Act, or the Fish and Aquatic Life Code;
(2) any alteration or destruction of any animal done by
any person or unit of government pursuant to statute,
ordinance, court order, or the direction of a licensed
veterinarian;

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(3) any alteration or destruction of any animal by any
person for any legitimate purpose, including, but not
limited to: castration, culling, declawing, defanging, ear
cropping, euthanasia, gelding, grooming, neutering,
polling, shearing, shoeing, slaughtering, spaying, tail
docking, and vivisection; and
(4) any other activity that may be lawfully done to an
animal; and .
(5) tail docking performed by an Illinois licensed
veterinarian for a medical reason or ear cropping performed
by an Illinois licensed veterinarian for a medical reason.
(c) A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty
of a Class 3 felony. As a condition of the sentence imposed
under this Section, the court shall order the offender to
undergo a psychological or psychiatric evaluation and to
undergo treatment that the court determines to be appropriate
after due consideration of the evaluation.
(Source: P.A. 91-351, eff. 7-29-99; 92-650, eff. 7-11-02.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.