Bill Text: IL SB1467 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during the appropriate archery season. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1467 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1467-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during the appropriate archery season. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1467 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1467-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning wildlife.
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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 Wildlife Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 2.5 as follows:
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6 | (520 ILCS 5/2.5) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | following conditions are met: | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | (1) the user is a person age 62 and older; | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | (2) the user is a person with a disability to whom the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | by administrative rule; or | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | (3) the date of using the crossbow is during the period | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | of the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | through the last day of the archery deer hunting season | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (both inclusive) set annually by the Director. | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | (b) As used in this Section, "person with a disability" | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | means a person who has a physical impairment due to injury or | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | bow, or compound bow. Permits must be issued only after the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is |
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1 | a person with a disability as defined above.
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2 | (c) Any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during | ||||||
3 | the appropriate archery season. | ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
6 | becoming law.
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