Sen. Chapin Rose
Filed: 3/17/2015
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1668 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1668 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
 
4    "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 2.5 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 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; or . 
 
 
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1        (4) the user is 16 years old or younger. 
2    As used in this Section, "handicapped person" means a 
3person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, 
4congenital or acquired, which renders the person them so 
5severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve 
6bow, or compound bow.  Permits must be issued only after the 
7receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is 
8handicapped as defined above.

9(Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12; revised 12-10-14.)".