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Full Text of SB2906  95th General Assembly

SB2906sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Gary Forby

Filed: 3/11/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2906

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2906 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
5 Section 3.1 as follows:
 
6     (520 ILCS 5/3.1)  (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1)
7     Sec. 3.1. License and stamps required.
8     (a) Before any person shall take or attempt to take any of
9 the species protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season
10 is established under this Act, he shall first have procured and
11 possess a valid hunting license, except as provided in Section
12 3.1-5 of this Code.
13     Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take or
14 attempt to take any bird of the species defined as migratory
15 waterfowl by Section 2.2, including coots, he shall first have
16 procured a State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp.

 

 

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1     Before any person 16 years of age or older takes, attempts
2 to take, or pursues any species of wildlife protected by this
3 Code, except migratory waterfowl, coots, and hand-reared birds
4 on licensed game breeding and hunting preserve areas and state
5 controlled pheasant hunting areas, he or she shall first obtain
6 a State Habitat Stamp. Disabled veterans and former prisoners
7 of war shall not be required to obtain State Habitat Stamps.
8 Any person who obtained a lifetime license before January 1,
9 1993, shall not be required to obtain State Habitat Stamps.
10 Income from the sale of State Furbearer Stamps and State
11 Pheasant Stamps received after the effective date of this
12 amendatory Act of 1992 shall be deposited into the State
13 Furbearer Fund and State Pheasant Fund, respectively.
14     Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take,
15 attempt to take, or sell the green hide of any mammal of the
16 species defined as fur-bearing mammals by Section 2.2 for which
17 an open season is established under this Act, he shall first
18 have procured a State Habitat Stamp.
19     (b) Before any person who is a non-resident of the State of
20 Illinois shall take or attempt to take any of the species
21 protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season is
22 established under this Act, he shall, unless specifically
23 exempted by law, first procure a non-resident license as
24 provided by this Act for the taking of any wild game.
25     Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take
26 white-tailed deer, he shall first have procured a Deer Hunting

 

 

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1 Permit as defined in Section 2.26 of this Code.
2     Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take wild
3 turkeys, he shall have procured a Wild Turkey Hunting Permit as
4 defined in Section 2.11 of this Code.
5     (c) The owners residing on, or bona fide tenants of, farm
6 lands and their children, parents, brothers, and sisters
7 actually permanently residing on their lands shall have the
8 right to hunt any of the species protected by Section 2.2 upon
9 their lands and waters without procuring hunting licenses; but
10 the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with
11 devices and by methods as are permitted by this Act. Any person
12 on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States who
13 is now and who was at the time of entering the Armed Forces a
14 resident of Illinois and who entered the Armed Forces from this
15 State, and who is presently on ordinary leave from the Armed
16 Forces, and any resident of Illinois who is disabled may hunt
17 any of the species protected by Section 2.2 without procuring a
18 hunting license, but the hunting shall be done only during such
19 periods of time and with devices and by methods as are
20 permitted by this Act. For the purpose of this Section a person
21 is disabled when that person has a Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2
22 disability as defined in Section 4A of the Illinois
23 Identification Card Act. For purposes of this Section, an
24 Illinois Disabled Person Identification Card issued pursuant
25 to the Illinois Identification Card Act indicating that the
26 person named has a Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2 disability shall

 

 

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1 be adequate documentation of the disability.
2     (d) A courtesy non-resident license, permit, or stamp for
3 taking game may be issued at the discretion of the Director,
4 without fee, to any person officially employed in the game and
5 fish or conservation department of another state or of the
6 United States who is within the State to assist or consult or
7 cooperate with the Director; or to the officials of other
8 states, the United States, foreign countries, or officers or
9 representatives of conservation organizations or publications
10 while in the State as guests of the Governor or Director. The
11 Director may provide to nonresident participants and official
12 gunners at field trials an exemption from licensure while
13 participating in a field trial.
14     (e) State Migratory Waterfowl Stamps shall be required for
15 those persons qualifying under subsections (c) and (d) who
16 intend to hunt migratory waterfowl, including coots, to the
17 extent that hunting licenses of the various types are
18 authorized and required by this Section for those persons.
19     (f) Registration in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Migratory
20 Bird Harvest Information Program shall be required for those
21 persons who are required to have a hunting license before
22 taking or attempting to take any bird of the species defined as
23 migratory game birds by Section 2.2, except that this
24 subsection shall not apply to crows in this State or
25 hand-reared birds on licensed game breeding and hunting
26 preserve areas, for which an open season is established by this

 

 

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1 Act. Persons registering with the Program must carry proof of
2 registration with them while migratory bird hunting.
3     The Department shall publish suitable prescribed
4 regulations pertaining to registration by the migratory bird
5 hunter in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird
6 Harvest Information Program.
7 (Source: P.A. 94-1024, eff. 7-14-06.)".