Public Act 103-0176
 
HB3087 EnrolledLRB103 27417 RLC 53789 b


  
    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, 
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.)