Bill Text: IL HB3390 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that a kennel operator that maintains dogs and cats for boarding that is not staffed at all times shall be equipped with at least one fire alarm system or fire sprinkler system in operating condition in every building of the kennel operator that is used for the housing of animals. Provides that an applicable federal, State, or local law, rule, or building code requiring the installation or maintenance of fire alarm monitoring systems in a manner different from, but providing a level of safety for occupants that is equal to or greater than that provided by the amendatory Act, shall be deemed to comply with the amendatory Act and the requirements of the more stringent law shall govern. Provides that the State Fire Marshal shall inspect, or shall direct a local fire marshal to inspect, a kennel operator that maintains dogs and cats for boarding when a resident makes a credible complaint alleging that the kennel operator is not in compliance with the amendatory Act. Provides that local fire inspectors shall determine whether a kennel operator is in compliance with the amendatory Act during the course of routine building and fire inspections of the kennel operator. Provides that local fire officials and the State Fire Marshal shall immediately notify the Department of Agriculture upon discovery that a kennel operator is not in compliance with the amendatory Act. Provides that the Department shall deny issuing a license under the Act to a kennel operator that is not in compliance with the amendatory Act. Provides that a kennel operator that is already licensed under the Act and found by the Department not to be in compliance with amendatory Act shall be liable for $500 for the first violation, $1,500 for the second violation, and $2,500 and the loss of the license for the third violation.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-5)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0210 [HB3390 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3390-Engrossed.html



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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Animal Welfare Act is amended by adding
5Section 18.2 as follows:
6 (225 ILCS 605/18.2 new)
7 Sec. 18.2. Fire alarm system.
8 (a) In this Section:
9 "Fire alarm system" means a system that automatically
10triggers notification to local emergency responders when
11activated.
12 "Staffing plan" means a plan to staff a kennel operator
13anytime dogs or cats are on the premises. At a minimum, a
14staffing plan must include the kennel operator's hours of
15operation, number of staff, names of staff, and the staff's
16contact information. The Department may adopt rules adding
17requirements to a staffing plan.
18 "Qualified fire inspector" means a local fire official or a
19building inspector working for a unit of local government or
20fire protection district who is qualified to inspect buildings
21for fire safety or building code compliance.
22 (b) A kennel operator that maintains dogs or cats for
23boarding and that is not staffed at all times dogs or cats are

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1on the premises shall be equipped with at least one fire alarm
2system or fire sprinkler system in operating condition in every
3building of the kennel operator that is used for the housing of
4animals. The kennel operator shall certify in its license
5application and annually certify in its license renewal that
6either: (1) its facility has a fire alarm system or a fire
7sprinkler system, and shall include with the application or
8license renewal an attached description and picture of the make
9and model of the system used; or (2) the kennel is staffed at
10all times dogs or cats are on the premises, and shall include
11with the application or license renewal an attached staffing
12plan. The Department shall include this certification on each
13application for license or license renewal.
14 (c) A qualified fire inspector may inspect a kennel
15operator that maintains dogs and cats for boarding during the
16course of performing routine inspections. If during a routine
17inspection a qualified fire inspector determines that the
18kennel operator does not have a fire alarm system or fire
19sprinkler system the inspector may inform the Department.
20 (d) For the purposes of this Section, veterinary hospitals,
21practices, or offices are not kennel operators.
22 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
231, 2020.
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