SB2157 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning environmental safety.

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

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by changing Section 22.49 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/22.49)

Sec. 22.49. Animal cremation. Unless subject to the requirements of Title XV of this Act as potentially infectious medical waste, a deceased companion animal, as defined in the Companion Animal Cremation Act, that is delivered to a provider of companion animal cremation services subject to the Companion Animal Cremation Act is not waste for the purposes of this Act. Providing companion animal cremation services at a location does not make that location a waste management facility for the purposes of this Act. Additionally, the cremation of deceased animals other than companion animals does not make a facility a waste management facility for the purposes of this Act if that facility of operated by a municipality or county.

For the purposes of this Section, "companion animal" does not include livestock.

(Source: P.A. 93-121, eff. 1-1-04.)

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