Bill Text: IL SB2272 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled


Bill Title: Amends the Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act of 1993. Provides that a county may prohibit or regulate the housing and keeping of any pigeons. Provides that a municipality may regulate, but not prohibit, the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, and show pigeons. Provides that a municipality may prohibit or regulate the housing and keeping of any pigeons other than carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons. (Now, the Act provides that neither a municipality located in a county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants nor a county may enact an ordinance which prohibits the orderly keeping of carrier pigeons, hobby, or show pigeons, except that any municipality located within a county having 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an ordinance to prohibit or regulate the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons.) Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0646 [SB2272 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB2272-Enrolled.html



SB2272 Enrolled LRB096 04806 JDS 14870 b
1 AN ACT concerning animals.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act
5 of 1993 is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
6 (510 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 907)
7 Sec. 7. A municipality located in a county having with
8 fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants or a county shall not enact an
9 ordinance to prohibit which prohibits the orderly keeping of
10 carrier pigeons, racing, hobby, or show pigeons, except that
11 (i) any municipality located in within a county having
12 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an ordinance to
13 prohibit or regulate the orderly keeping of carrier, racing,
14 hobby, or show pigeons and (ii) any municipality located in a
15 county having fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants may enact an
16 ordinance to regulate, but not prohibit, the orderly keeping of
17 carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons.
18 (Source: P.A. 88-136; 89-651, eff. 8-14-96.)
19 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20 becoming law.
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