Bill Text: IL SB2272 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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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-Engrossed.html



SB2272 Engrossed LRB096 04806 JDS 14870 b
1 AN ACT concerning animals.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act
5 of 1993 is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
6 (510 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 907)
7 Sec. 7. A municipality located in a county with fewer than
8 3,000,000 inhabitants or a county shall not enact an ordinance
9 which prohibits the orderly keeping of carrier pigeons, hobby,
10 or show pigeons, except that any municipality located within a
11 county having 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an
12 ordinance to prohibit or regulate the orderly keeping of
13 carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons. A county shall not
14 enact an ordinance which prohibits or regulates the orderly
15 keeping of carrier pigeons, hobby, or show pigeons.
16 (Source: P.A. 88-136; 89-651, eff. 8-14-96.)
17 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.
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