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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 674
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 674 on page 1, by
3 replacing lines 1 and 2 with the following:
4 "AN ACT regarding the Department of Agriculture, amending
5 named Acts."; and
6 on page 6, below line 33, by inserting the following:
7 "Section 10. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is
8 amended by changing Sections 1, 3, 19, 22, and 24 as follows:
9 (510 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 168)
10 Sec. 1. For the purposes of this Act:
11 "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the
12 State of Illinois.
13 "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department
14 of Agriculture, or his duly appointed representative.
15 "Contagious or infectious disease" means a specific
16 disease designated by the Department as contagious or
17 infectious under rules pertaining to this Act.
18 "Reportable disease" means a specific disease designated
19 by the Department as reportable under rules pertaining to
20 this Act.
21 "Infectious disease" means the reaction resulting from
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1 the introduction into the body of a specific
2 disease-producing organism or its toxic product.
3 "Contagious disease" means a specific infectious disease
4 which is readily transmitted from host to host by direct
5 contact or by means of an intermediate host.
6 "Animals" means domestic animals, poultry, and wild
7 animals in captivity.
8 (Source: P.A. 81-196.)
9 (510 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 170)
10 Sec. 3. Upon its becoming known to the Department that
11 any animals are infected, or suspected of being infected,
12 with any contagious or infectious disease, the Department
13 shall have the authority to cause proper examination thereof
14 to be made; and if such disease is found to be of a
15 dangerously contagious or dangerously infectious nature,
16 shall order such diseased animals and such as have been
17 exposed to such disease, and the premises in or on which they
18 are, or have recently occupied, to be quarantined. The
19 Department may, in connection with any such quarantine, order
20 that no animal which has been or is so diseased, or exposed
21 to such disease, may be removed from the premises so
22 quarantined and that no animal susceptible to such disease
23 may be brought therein or thereon, except under such rules as
24 the Department may prescribe.
25 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3164.)
26 (510 ILCS 50/19) (from Ch. 8, par. 186)
27 Sec. 19. Any railroad, truck, steamboat, transportation
28 or stockyard company violating any of the provisions of
29 Section 18, or any of the rules of the Department referred to
30 therein, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be
31 fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000)
32 for each offense.
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1 (Source: P.A. 77-2679.)
2 (510 ILCS 50/22) (from Ch. 8, par. 189)
3 Sec. 22. Any veterinarian having information of the
4 existence of any reportable contagious or infectious disease
5 among animals in this State, who fails to promptly report
6 such knowledge to the Department, shall be guilty of a
7 business offense and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
8 $1,000 for each offense Class A misdemeanor.
9 (Source: P.A. 77-2679.)
10 (510 ILCS 50/24) (from Ch. 8, par. 191)
11 Sec. 24. Any owner or person having charge of any animal
12 swine and having knowledge of, or reasonable grounds to
13 suspect the existence among them of, the disease known as
14 "hog cholera," or of any other contagious or infectious
15 disease and who does not use reasonable means to prevent the
16 spread of such disease; or who conveys upon or along any
17 public highway or other public grounds or any private lands,
18 any diseased animal swine, or animal swine known to have died
19 of, or been slaughtered on account of, any contagious or
20 infectious disease, shall be liable in damages to the person
21 or persons who may have suffered loss on account thereof.
22 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 1, p. 24.)
23 Section 15. The Illinois Swine Disease Control and
24 Eradication Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
25 (510 ILCS 100/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 503)
26 Sec. 3. It is the duty of the owner or person having
27 charge of any swine and having knowledge of or reasonable
28 grounds to suspect the existence among such swine of any
29 contagious or infectious disease, as defined in Section 1 of
30 the Illinois Diseased Animals Act, to use all reasonable
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1 means to prevent the spread of the disease. When such
2 knowledge comes to such person that any swine had died of, or
3 had been slaughtered on account of any such disease, it is
4 such person's duty to immediately dispose of such swine as
5 provided in "An Act in relation to the disposal of dead
6 animals", approved July 16, 1941, as now or hereafter
7 amended.
8 (Source: P.A. 86-231.)".