Bill Text: IL SB3564 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county board may adopt reasonable regulations for the control and eradication of diseased, damaged, dead, or insect-infested trees, including trees: with Dutch elm disease or elm blight; infested by the Emerald Ash Borer, Asian Longhorn Beetle, Gypsy Moth, or other parasitic organisms; or that have been severely damaged or at a risk of falling (currently, the county board may regulate for the control and eradication of Dutch elm disease or elm blight). Provides that a county board may adopt an ordinance declaring it to be a nuisance to keep or maintain any diseased, damaged, dead, or insect-infested tree which presents a risk of falling onto any public way or public property, including utility easements and watercourses. Provides that the ordinance may authorize the county to remove nuisance trees when the property owner fails to do so in a timely manner after receiving notice thereof and to have a lien placed on the subject property for the costs of the tree removal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3564 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3564-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3564 Introduced 2/13/2020, by Sen. John F. Curran SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1077 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1077
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county board may adopt reasonable regulations for the control and eradication of diseased, damaged, dead, or insect-infested trees, including trees: with Dutch elm disease or elm blight; infested by the Emerald Ash Borer, Asian Longhorn Beetle, Gypsy Moth, or other parasitic organisms; or that have been severely damaged or at a risk of falling (currently, the county board may regulate for the control and eradication of Dutch elm disease or elm blight). Provides that a county board may adopt an ordinance declaring it to be a nuisance to keep or maintain any diseased, damaged, dead, or insect-infested tree which presents a risk of falling onto any public way or public property, including utility easements and watercourses. Provides that the ordinance may authorize the county to remove nuisance trees when the property owner fails to do so in a timely manner after receiving notice thereof and to have a lien placed on the subject property for the costs of the tree removal.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5-1077 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1077) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1077)
Sec. 5-1077. Eradication of nuisance trees fungous elm
disease. A county board may adopt reasonable regulations for
the control and eradication of diseased, damaged, dead or
insect infested trees, including trees: (i) with a fungous
disease of elms caused by Graphium ulmi, (commonly known as
Dutch elm disease or elm blight); (ii) infested by the Emerald
Ash Borer, Asian Longhorn Beetle, Gypsy Moth, or other
parasitic organism; or (iii) that have been severely damaged or
at a risk of falling. A county board may adopt an ordinance
declaring it to be a nuisance to keep or maintain any diseased,
damaged, dead, or insect-infested tree which presents a risk of
falling onto any public way or public property, including
utility easements and watercourses. The ordinance may
authorize the county to remove nuisance trees when the property
owner fails to do so in a timely manner after receiving notice
thereof and to have a lien placed on the subject property for
the costs of the tree removal. Such regulations shall be

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applicable to all area outside the corporate limits of any
municipality. No such regulation shall permit the use of
poisonous sprays.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)