Bill Text: IL SB2093 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act. Provides that if the condition so warrants, the Director of Agriculture may declare a temporary prohibition on the sale, movement, or exhibition of certain types of animals in order to prevent or reduce the spread of any contamination or disease in the State. Provides that the declaration shall be for a period not to exceed 30 days, but the declaration may be extended in increments not to exceed 30 days if the condition so warrants.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-12 - Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer [SB2093 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2093-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2093 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
510 ILCS 50/9 from Ch. 8, par. 176
Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act. Provides that if the condition so warrants, the Director of Agriculture may declare a temporary prohibition on the sale, movement, or exhibition of certain types of animals in order to prevent or reduce the spread of any contamination or disease in the State. Provides that the declaration shall be for a period not to exceed 30 days, but the declaration may be extended in increments not to exceed 30 days if the condition so warrants.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning animals.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by
changing Section 9 as follows:
(510 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 8, par. 176)
Sec. 9. The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable
rules and regulations to prevent the spread of any
contamination or contagious or infectious disease within this
State. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request
the Governor to issue a proclamation quarantining an affected
municipality or geographical district whereby all animals of
the kind diseased or contaminated would not be permitted to be
moved from one premises to another within the municipality or
geographical district, or over any public highway, or any
unfenced lot or piece of ground, or from being brought into, or
taken from the infected or contaminated municipality or
geographical district, except by a special permit, signed by
the Director. Any such proclamation shall, from the time of
its publication, bind all persons. Within one week after the
publication of any such proclamation, every person who owns,
or who is in charge of animals of the kind diseased or
contaminated within the municipality or geographical district,

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shall report to the Department the number and description of
such animals, their location, and the name and address of the
owner or person in charge, and during the continuance of the
quarantine to report to the Department all cases of sickness,
deaths or births among such animals.
If the condition so warrants, the Director may declare a
temporary prohibition on the sale, movement, or exhibition of
certain types of animals in order to prevent or reduce the
spread of any contamination or disease in this State. The
declaration shall be for a period not to exceed 30 days, but
the declaration may be extended in increments not to exceed 30
days if the condition so warrants.
(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)