Bill Text: IL SB2272 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act of 1993. Provides that a county may prohibit or regulate the housing and keeping of any pigeons. Provides that a municipality may regulate, but not prohibit, the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, and show pigeons. Provides that a municipality may prohibit or regulate the housing and keeping of any pigeons other than carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons. (Now, the Act provides that neither a municipality located in a county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants nor a county may enact an ordinance which prohibits the orderly keeping of carrier pigeons, hobby, or show pigeons, except that any municipality located within a county having 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an ordinance to prohibit or regulate the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons.) Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0646 [SB2272 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SB2272-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning animals.
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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 Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act | ||||||
| 5 | of 1993 is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
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| 6 | (510 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 907)
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| 7 | Sec. 7.
A municipality located in a county having with | ||||||
| 8 | fewer than 3,000,000
inhabitants or a county shall not enact an
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| 9 | ordinance to prohibit which prohibits the orderly keeping of | ||||||
| 10 | carrier pigeons, racing, hobby, or
show pigeons, except that | ||||||
| 11 | (i) any municipality located in within a county having
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| 12 | 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an ordinance to | ||||||
| 13 | prohibit or regulate
the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, | ||||||
| 14 | hobby, or show pigeons and (ii) any municipality located in a | ||||||
| 15 | county having fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants may enact an | ||||||
| 16 | ordinance to regulate, but not prohibit, the orderly keeping of | ||||||
| 17 | carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons.
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| 18 | (Source: P.A. 88-136; 89-651, eff. 8-14-96.)
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| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 20 | becoming law.
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