Bill Text: IL HB3257 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that no person may sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as a pet or novelty any hermit crab or goldfish that has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color. Provides that a violation is a Class B misdemeanor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-09 - Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Linda Holmes [HB3257 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3257-Engrossed.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 Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 4 as follows:
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| 6 | (510 ILCS 70/4) (from Ch. 8, par. 704)
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| 7 | Sec. 4. Prohibited acts. No person may sell, offer for | ||||||
| 8 | sale, barter,
or give away as a pet or a novelty any rabbit,
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| 9 | hermit crab, goldfish, or any baby chick, duckling or
other | ||||||
| 10 | fowl which has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to | ||||||
| 11 | impart an
artificial color thereto. Baby chicks or ducklings | ||||||
| 12 | shall not be sold, offered
for sale, bartered, or given away as | ||||||
| 13 | pets or novelties. Rabbits, ducklings
or baby chicks shall not | ||||||
| 14 | be awarded as prizes.
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| 15 | No person may allow for the adoption, transfer, sale, | ||||||
| 16 | offer for sale, barter, or give away any animal forfeited or | ||||||
| 17 | relinquished under Section 3.04 or 3.05 of this Act to the | ||||||
| 18 | person who forfeited the animal or a person residing in that | ||||||
| 19 | person's household. | ||||||
| 20 | A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty of | ||||||
| 21 | a Class B
misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a | ||||||
| 22 | Class 4 felony, with
every day that a violation continues | ||||||
| 23 | constituting a separate offense.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 100-504, eff. 6-1-18.)
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