Bill Text: IL SB2993 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may designate "Bicentennial Farms". Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-12 - Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Andrew F Skoog [SB2993 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2993-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil | ||||||
| 5 | Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 6 | 205-15 as follows:
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| 7 | (20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)
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| 8 | Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities.
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| 9 | (a) The Department has the power to encourage and promote, | ||||||
| 10 | in every
practicable manner,
the interests of agriculture, | ||||||
| 11 | including horticulture, the livestock
industry, dairying, | ||||||
| 12 | cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production | ||||||
| 13 | of wool, and all other allied industries. In furtherance of
the | ||||||
| 14 | duties set forth in this subsection (a), the Department may
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| 15 | establish trust
funds and bank accounts in adequately protected | ||||||
| 16 | financial institutions
to receive and disburse monies in | ||||||
| 17 | connection with the conduct of food
shows, food expositions, | ||||||
| 18 | trade shows, and other promotional activities and
to
sell
at | ||||||
| 19 | cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating farms that
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| 20 | have been
owned for 100
years
or more,
or 150 years or more, or | ||||||
| 21 | 200 years or more
by lineal or collateral descendants of the | ||||||
| 22 | same family as
"Centennial Farms", or "Sesquicentennial | ||||||
| 23 | Farms", or "Bicentennial Farms" respectively. The
Department | ||||||
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| 1 | shall provide applications for the signs, which shall
be | ||||||
| 2 | submitted
with the
required fee. "Centennial Farms",
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| 3 | "Sesquicentennial Farms", and "Bicentennial Farms"
signs shall | ||||||
| 4 | not contain within their
design
the name,
picture, or other | ||||||
| 5 | likeness of any elected public official or any appointed
public | ||||||
| 6 | official.
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| 7 | (b) The Department has the power to promote improved
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| 8 | methods of conducting the several
industries described in | ||||||
| 9 | subsection (a) with a view to increasing the
production and | ||||||
| 10 | facilitating the
distribution thereof at the least cost.
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| 11 | (Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, | ||||||
| 12 | eff. 6-2-00.)
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| 13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 14 | becoming law.
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