Full Text of HB5692 100th General Assembly
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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 changing Section | 5 | | 2.30 as follows:
| 6 | | (520 ILCS 5/2.30) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.30)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.30. Except as provided in this Section, it shall be | 8 | | unlawful for any person to trap or to hunt
with gun, dog, dog | 9 | | and gun, or bow and arrow, gray fox, red fox,
raccoon, weasel, | 10 | | mink, muskrat, badger, bobcat, and opossum except during
the | 11 | | open season which will be set annually by the Director between | 12 | | 12:01
a.m., November 1 to 12:00 midnight, February 15, both | 13 | | inclusive.
| 14 | | It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or trap bobcat | 15 | | in this State on and after the effective date of this | 16 | | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly in the counties of | 17 | | Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, | 18 | | Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, | 19 | | LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McHenry, McLean, | 20 | | Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, Vermilion, | 21 | | Will, Winnebago, and Woodford and north of U.S. Route 36 in | 22 | | Edgar and Douglas and north of U.S. Route 36 to the junction | 23 | | with Illinois Route 121 and north or east of Illinois Route 121 |
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| 1 | | in Macon. For the season beginning in 2017, a total number of | 2 | | 350 bobcats may be hunted or trapped lawfully, or the | 3 | | conclusion of the season occurs, whichever is earlier. For the | 4 | | season beginning in 2018, a total number of 375 bobcats may be | 5 | | hunted or trapped lawfully, or the conclusion of the season | 6 | | occurs, whichever is earlier. The changes added to this Section | 7 | | by this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, except | 8 | | for this sentence, are inoperative on and after June 30, 2019. | 9 | | It is unlawful to pursue any fur-bearing mammal with a dog | 10 | | or dogs
between the hours of sunset and sunrise during the 10 | 11 | | day period
preceding the opening date of the raccoon hunting | 12 | | season and the 10 day
period following the closing date of the | 13 | | raccoon hunting season except
that the Department may issue | 14 | | field trial permits in accordance with Section
2.34 of this | 15 | | Act. A non-resident from a state with more restrictive
| 16 | | fur-bearer pursuit regulations for any particular species than | 17 | | provided for
that species in this Act may not pursue that | 18 | | species in Illinois except
during the period of time that | 19 | | Illinois residents are allowed to pursue
that species in the | 20 | | non-resident's state of residence. Hound running areas | 21 | | approved by the Department shall be exempt from the
provisions | 22 | | of this Section.
| 23 | | It shall be unlawful to take beaver, river otter, weasel, | 24 | | mink, or muskrat except during
the open season set annually by | 25 | | the Director, and then, only with traps, except that a firearm, | 26 | | pistol, or airgun of a caliber not larger than a .22 long rifle |
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| 1 | | may be used to remove the animal from the trap.
| 2 | | It shall be unlawful for any person to trap beaver or river | 3 | | otter with traps except during
the open season which will be | 4 | | set annually by the Director between 12:01
a.m., November 1st | 5 | | and 12:00 midnight, March 31, both inclusive.
| 6 | | Coyote may be taken by trapping methods only during the | 7 | | period from
September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by | 8 | | hunting methods at any time.
| 9 | | Striped skunk may be taken by trapping methods only during | 10 | | the period
from September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by | 11 | | hunting methods at
any time.
| 12 | | Muskrat may be taken by trapping methods during an open | 13 | | season set annually by the Director. | 14 | | For the purpose of taking fur-bearing mammals, the State | 15 | | may be
divided into management zones by administrative rule.
| 16 | | It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the | 17 | | season limit or possession limit of fur-bearing mammals that | 18 | | shall be set annually by the Director. The season limit for | 19 | | river otter shall not exceed 5 river otters per person per | 20 | | season. The season limit for bobcat shall not exceed one bobcat | 21 | | per permit. Possession limits shall not apply to fur buyers, | 22 | | tanners, manufacturers, and taxidermists, as defined by this | 23 | | Act, who possess fur-bearing mammals in accordance with laws | 24 | | governing such activities. | 25 | | Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the taking or | 26 | | possessing of fur-bearing mammals found dead or |
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| 1 | | unintentionally killed by a vehicle along a roadway during the | 2 | | open season provided the person who possesses such fur-bearing | 3 | | mammals has all appropriate licenses, stamps, or permits; the | 4 | | season for which the species possessed is open; and that such | 5 | | possession and disposal of such fur-bearing mammals is | 6 | | otherwise subject to the provisions of this Section. | 7 | | The provisions of this Section are subject to modification | 8 | | by administrative rule. | 9 | | (Source: P.A. 99-33, eff. 1-1-16; 100-524, eff. 9-22-17.)
| 10 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 | | becoming law.
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