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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB3425
Introduced 2/27/2007, by Rep. Karen May SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that if a municipality or other unit of local government conducts certain research and finds that the deer population of the municipality or other unit of local government may be managed, using an alternative strategy, in a way that results in sustainable deer populations, then the Department must either (i) permit the municipality or other unit of local government to implement the alternative method of deer population control on the lands of that municipality or other unit of local government; or (ii) provide funding for the municipality or other unit of local government to conduct any additional research, that is requested by the Department, on the alternative deer population control method. Effective immediately.
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HB3425 |
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LRB095 10014 CMK 32159 b |
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| AN ACT concerning wildlife.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by adding Section |
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| 2.39 as follows: |
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| (520 ILCS 5/2.39 new) |
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| Sec. 2.39. Local control of deer population. A municipality |
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| or other unit of local government that conducts a scientific |
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| study, of at least 4 years, on controlling the deer population, |
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| using a method other than taking of the deer, in that |
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| municipality or other unit of local government and concludes, |
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| as a result of that study, that the deer population of the |
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| municipality or other unit of local government may be managed, |
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| using that alternative method, in a way that results in |
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| sustainable deer populations, then the Department must either: |
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| (1) permit the municipality or other unit of local |
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| government to implement the alternative method of deer |
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| population control on the lands of that municipality or other |
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| unit of local government; or
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| (2) provide funding for the municipality or other unit of |
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| local government to conduct any additional research, that is |
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| requested by the Department, on the alternative deer population |
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| control method.
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