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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB4542 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 20 ILCS 835/6 | from Ch. 105, par. 468b |
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Amends the State Parks Act. Specifies that certain actions that violations of the Act are violations if they are done without approval by the Department of Natural Resources. Effective immediately.
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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 State Parks Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 6 as follows:
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| 6 | | (20 ILCS 835/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 468b)
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| 7 | | Sec. 6.
It is a violation of this Section for any person
to |
| 8 | | do any of the following without approval by the Department of |
| 9 | | Natural Resources:
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| 10 | | (1) cut, break, injure, destroy, take or remove any |
| 11 | | tree, shrub, timber,
plant, or natural object in any park |
| 12 | | or parkway, except that the Department
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Natural |
| 13 | | Resources may, by administrative rule, authorize
edible |
| 14 | | fungi, nut, and berry collection in those areas of |
| 15 | | Department owned,
leased, or
managed lands where the |
| 16 | | collecting would not be in conflict or incompatible
with |
| 17 | | (i)
Department of Natural Resources natural resource |
| 18 | | management or recreational
programs
for that area and (ii) |
| 19 | | the Natural Areas Preservation Act;
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| 20 | | (2) kill, cause to be killed, or pursue with intent to |
| 21 | | kill any bird or
animal in a park or parkway, provided that |
| 22 | | the Department of Natural
Resources may by administrative |
| 23 | | order authorize hunting in
those areas of state parks |
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| 1 | | where such hunting would not be in conflict or
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| 2 | | incompatible with Department of Natural Resources
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| 3 | | recreational programs for that area;
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| 4 | | (3) take any fish from the waters of any park or |
| 5 | | parkway, contrary to the
rules and regulations of the |
| 6 | | Department of Natural Resources;
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| 7 | | (4) wilfully mutilate, injure, deface, or destroy any |
| 8 | | guide post,
notice, tablet, fence, enclosure or work for |
| 9 | | the protection or
ornamentation of any park or parkway;
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| 10 | | (5) light any fire upon any park or parkway, except in
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| 11 | | an authorized place or places or wilfully or carelessly |
| 12 | | permit any fire
which he has lighted or caused to be |
| 13 | | lighted, or which shall be under his
charge, to spread or |
| 14 | | extend to or burn any shrubbery, trees, timber,
ornaments, |
| 15 | | or improvements upon any State park, nature preserve or
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| 16 | | parkways, or leave any camp fires which he shall have |
| 17 | | lighted or caused to
be lighted, or which shall have been |
| 18 | | left in his charge, unattended by a
competent person;
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| 19 | | (6) place within any park or parkway or affix to any
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| 20 | | object therein contained, any work, character, or device |
| 21 | | designed to
advertise any business, profession, article, |
| 22 | | thing, exhibition, matter or
event;
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| 23 | | (7) violate any rule or regulation adopted and |
| 24 | | published by the Department
of Natural Resources pursuant |
| 25 | | to the provisions of this
Act.
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| 26 | | A person who violates this Section shall, for each |