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510 ILCS 50/3

(510 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 170)

Sec. 3.

Upon its becoming known to the Department that any animals are
infected, or suspected of being infected, with any contagious or infectious
disease, or contaminated with any chemical or radiological substance, the
Department shall have the authority to quarantine and to cause proper examination thereof to
be made. If such disease is found to be of a dangerously contagious
or dangerously infectious nature, or the contamination level is such that may be harmful to humans or other animals, the Department shall order such
diseased or contaminated animals and such
as have been exposed to such disease or contamination, and the premises in or on which they
are, or have recently occupied, to be quarantined. The Department shall also have the authority to issue area-wide quarantines on animals and premises in order to control the spread of the dangerously contagious or infectious disease and to reduce the spread of contamination. The Department may, in
connection with any such quarantine, order that no
animal which has been or
is so diseased, contaminated, or exposed to such disease or contamination, may be removed from the
premises so quarantined and that no animal susceptible to such disease
or contamination may be brought therein or thereon, except under such rules as the Department
may prescribe.

(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)