Bill Text: IL SB3103 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Parks Act. Specifies that certain actions are not violations of the Act if they are done with the approval of the Department of Natural Resources. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-1004 [SB3103 Detail]

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3103 Introduced 1/11/2022, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 835/6 from Ch. 105, par. 468b
Amends the State Parks Act. Specifies that certain actions that violations of the Act are violations if they are done without approval by the Department of Natural Resources. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Parks Act is amended by changing
Section 6 as follows:
(20 ILCS 835/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 468b)
Sec. 6. It is a violation of this Section for any person to
do any of the following without approval by the Department of
Natural Resources:
(1) cut, break, injure, destroy, take or remove any
tree, shrub, timber, plant, or natural object in any park
or parkway, except that the Department of Natural
Resources may, by administrative rule, authorize edible
fungi, nut, and berry collection in those areas of
Department owned, leased, or managed lands where the
collecting would not be in conflict or incompatible with
(i) Department of Natural Resources natural resource
management or recreational programs for that area and (ii)
the Natural Areas Preservation Act;
(2) kill, cause to be killed, or pursue with intent to
kill any bird or animal in a park or parkway, provided that
the Department of Natural Resources may by administrative
order authorize hunting in those areas of state parks

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where such hunting would not be in conflict or
incompatible with Department of Natural Resources
recreational programs for that area;
(3) take any fish from the waters of any park or
parkway, contrary to the rules and regulations of the
Department of Natural Resources;
(4) wilfully mutilate, injure, deface, or destroy any
guide post, notice, tablet, fence, enclosure or work for
the protection or ornamentation of any park or parkway;
(5) light any fire upon any park or parkway, except in
an authorized place or places or wilfully or carelessly
permit any fire which he has lighted or caused to be
lighted, or which shall be under his charge, to spread or
extend to or burn any shrubbery, trees, timber, ornaments,
or improvements upon any State park, nature preserve or
parkways, or leave any camp fires which he shall have
lighted or caused to be lighted, or which shall have been
left in his charge, unattended by a competent person;
(6) place within any park or parkway or affix to any
object therein contained, any work, character, or device
designed to advertise any business, profession, article,
thing, exhibition, matter or event;
(7) violate any rule or regulation adopted and
published by the Department of Natural Resources pursuant
to the provisions of this Act.
A person who violates this Section shall, for each

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offense, be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 93-341, eff. 7-24-03.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.