Bill Text: IL HB2998 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act. Deletes a provision providing that all rules of the Department of Agriculture, and all amendments or revocations of existing rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall be adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the Department, and shall constitute a public record and that the rules shall be printed in pamphlet form and furnished, upon request, to the public free of cost. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0111 [HB2998 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB2998-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 100-0111 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning animals.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by | ||||
changing Section 2 as follows:
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(510 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 169)
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Sec. 2. Duty to investigate; rulemaking. It is the duty of | ||||
the Department to investigate all cases or
alleged cases coming | ||||
to its knowledge of contamination or contagious and infectious | ||||
diseases
among animals within the State and to provide for the | ||||
suppression,
prevention, and extirpation of contamination or | ||||
infectious and contagious diseases of such
animals.
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The Department may make and adopt reasonable rules and | ||||
regulations for
the administration and enforcement of the | ||||
provisions of this Act. No rule
or regulation made, adopted or | ||||
issued by the Department pursuant to the
provisions of this Act | ||||
shall be effective unless such rule or regulation
has been | ||||
submitted to the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners for
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approval. The Department shall maintain on its website access | ||||
to the Department's rules under this Act. All rules of the | ||||
Department, and all amendments or revocations of
existing | ||||
rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall | ||||
be
adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the | ||||
Department, and
shall constitute a public record. Such rules | ||
shall be printed in pamphlet
form and furnished, upon request, | ||
to the public free of cost.
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(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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