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510 ILCS 68/5-10

    (510 ILCS 68/5-10)
    Sec. 5-10. Commercialization; herpetoculture.

(a) It is unlawful to take, possess, buy, sell, offer to buy or sell or barter any herptile, or their eggs, any resulting offspring, or parts taken from the wild in this State for commercial purposes unless otherwise authorized by law.

(b) The trier of fact may infer that a person is collecting from the wild within this State for commercial purposes if he or she possesses indigenous herptiles, in whole or in part, for which no documentation exists stating that the animals were legally collected from the wild outside this State.

(c) (Blank).

(d) A valid, Department-issued Herpetoculture permit shall apply only to indigenous herptile taxa.  A Herpetoculture permit shall not be required in order to commercialize non-indigenous herptile taxa except as otherwise prohibited or regulated under this Act or federal law.

(e) Indigenous herptile taxa collected from the wild in this State may  not be bred unless otherwise authorized by the Department for research or recovery purposes unless otherwise authorized by this Act or administrative rule.

(Source: P.A. 102-315, eff. 1-1-22.)