HB3827 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3827

Introduced 2/25/2009, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

515 ILCS 5/10-100

from Ch. 56, par. 10-100

Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Makes it unlawful to propagate, buy, sell, barter, trade, transfer, or loan silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis), and black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). Effective immediately.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning fish.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by changing Section 10-100 as follows:

(515 ILCS 5/10-100) (from Ch. 56, par. 10-100)

Sec. 10-100. Release of aquatic life.

(a) It shall be unlawful to release any aquatic life into the wild in this State without first securing permission of the Department to do so, except that the owner of a body of water may release aquatic life indigenous to the State of Illinois into waters wholly upon his or her property. The Department shall have the authority to promulgate necessary rules and regulations, under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, regulating the possession, transportation, and shipping of aquatic life not indigenous to the State of Illinois. All aquatic life may be immediately returned unharmed from where they were taken.

(b) It is unlawful to possess, transport, or release any live specimen or viable gametes of any species listed as injurious by administrative rule, unless authorized by that rule. It is also unlawful to propagate, buy, sell, barter, trade, transfer, or loan silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis), and black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). A violation of this subsection (b) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 94-592, eff. 1-1-06.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.