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1     AN ACT concerning wildlife.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by adding Section
5 2.33c as follows:
 
6     (520 ILCS 5/2.33c new)
7     Sec. 2.33c. Prohibited permits and licenses.
8     (a) No permit or license shall be valid for the taking with
9 a firearm of wildlife protected under this Code by any of the
10 following persons:
11         (1) Any person who has been convicted of a felony under
12     the laws of this or any other jurisdiction.
13         (2) Any person subject to an existing order of
14     protection prohibiting him or her from possessing a
15     firearm.
16         (3) Any person convicted within the previous 5 years of
17     battery, assault, aggravated assault, violation of an
18     order of protection, or a substantially similar offense in
19     another jurisdiction, in which a firearm was used or
20     possessed.
21         (4) Any person convicted of domestic battery or a
22     substantially similar offense in another jurisdiction
23     committed on or after the effective date of this amendatory

 

 

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1     Act of the 95th General Assembly.
2         (5) Any person convicted within the previous 5 years of
3     domestic battery or a substantially similar offense in
4     another jurisdiction committed before the effective date
5     of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
6         (6) Any person not an adult who had been adjudicated a
7     delinquent minor under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 for
8     the commission of an offense that if committed by an adult
9     would be a felony.
10     The Department shall require all applicants for firearm
11 deer permits or firearm turkey permits to swear, under penalty
12 of perjury, that they do not fit any of the categories of
13 person listed in items (1) through (6).
14     (b) Penalty: An applicant who falsely signs an application
15 for a firearm deer permit or firearm turkey permit swearing
16 that he or she does not fit within any of the categories in
17 items (1) through (6) of subsection (a) is guilty of perjury
18 and, upon a finding of guilty, shall, in addition to any other
19 penalties set by law, have all privileges under the Wildlife
20 Code suspended for 5 years.
21     A person who did not fit within one of the categories
22 listed in items (1) through (6) of subsection (a) at the time
23 of application for a permit, but does fit within one of the
24 those categories at the time found hunting with a firearm, is
25 guilty of hunting without a valid permit and, in addition to
26 any other penalties set by law, shall have all privileges under

 

 

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1 the Wildlife Code suspended for 5 years.