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Public Act 093-0734
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AN ACT concerning mosquito abatement districts.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended |
by changing
Section 8 as
follows:
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(70 ILCS 1005/8)
(from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81)
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Sec. 8. The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement |
district shall, in
its work, advise and cooperate with the |
Department of Public Health of the
State, and the board of |
trustees of such district shall submit to such
Department, on |
or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work
done |
and results obtained by the district during the preceding year.
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The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district, |
or its designee,
shall conduct routine
surveillance of |
mosquitoes to detect the presence
of mosquito-borne
diseases of |
public health significance. The surveillance shall be |
conducted in
accordance with mosquito
abatement and
control |
guidelines as set forth by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control |
and
Prevention. Areas reporting
disease in humans shall be |
included in the surveillance activities. Mosquito
abatement |
districts
shall report to the local certified public health |
department the results of
any positive mosquito
samples |
infected with any arboviral infections, including, but not
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limited
to: West Nile
Virus, St. Louis Encephalitis, and |
Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Reports shall
be made to the local
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certified public health department's director of environmental |
health, or a
designee of the department, within 24 hours
after |
receiving a positive report. The report shall include the type |
of
infection, the number of
mosquitoes collected in the |
trapping device, the type of trapping device used,
and
the type |
of
laboratory testing used to confirm the infection.
Any |
trustee of a mosquito abatement district, or designee of the |