95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2157

 

Introduced 2/14/2008, by Sen. Dale E. Risinger

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
415 ILCS 5/22.49

    Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that a facility that is operated by a municipality or county is not deemed to be a waste management facility under the Act due to the fact that it is used for the cremation of deceased noncompanion animals. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning environmental safety.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5 changing Section 22.49 as follows:
 
6     (415 ILCS 5/22.49)
7     Sec. 22.49. Animal cremation. Unless subject to the
8 requirements of Title XV of this Act as potentially infectious
9 medical waste, a deceased companion animal, as defined in the
10 Companion Animal Cremation Act, that is delivered to a provider
11 of companion animal cremation services subject to the Companion
12 Animal Cremation Act is not waste for the purposes of this Act.
13 Providing companion animal cremation services at a location
14 does not make that location a waste management facility for the
15 purposes of this Act. Additionally, the cremation of deceased
16 animals other than companion animals does not make a facility a
17 waste management facility for the purposes of this Act if that
18 facility of operated by a municipality or county.
19     For the purposes of this Section, "companion animal" does
20 not include livestock.
21 (Source: P.A. 93-121, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1 becoming law.