99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3810
 
Introduced , by Rep. Al Riley
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
520 ILCS 5/2.5

     Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that a person may use a crossbow if the user is 55 and older (instead of 62 and older). Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning wildlife.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing Section 
52.5 as follows:
 
6    (520 ILCS 5/2.5)
7    Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions. A person may use a crossbow 
8if one or more of the following conditions are met:
9        (1) the user is a person age 55 62 and older;
10        (2) the user is a handicapped person to whom the 
11    Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided 
12    by administrative rule; or
13        (3) the  date of using the crossbow is during the period 
14    of  the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday 
15    through the last day of the archery deer hunting season 
16    (both inclusive) set annually by the Director. 
17    As used in this Section, "handicapped person" means a 
18person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, 
19congenital or acquired, which renders the person them so 
20severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve 
21bow, or compound bow.  Permits must be issued only after the 
22receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is 
23handicapped as defined above.

 
 
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1(Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12; revised 12-10-14.)
 
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
3becoming law.