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Public Act 91-0717
HB2885 Enrolled LRB9107327DHmgA
AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
by changing Section 205-15.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Section 205-15 as follows:
(20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)
Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities.
(a) The Department has the power to encourage and
promote, in every practicable manner, the interests of
agriculture, including horticulture, the livestock industry,
dairying, cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production of wool, and all other allied industries. In
furtherance of the duties set forth in this subsection (a),
the Department may establish trust funds and bank accounts in
adequately protected financial institutions to receive and
disburse monies in connection with the conduct of food shows,
food expositions, trade shows, and other promotional
activities and to sell at cost, to qualified applicants,
signs designating farms that have been owned for 100 years or
more or 150 years or more by lineal or collateral descendants
of the same family as "Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial
Farms", respectively. The Department shall provide
applications for the signs, which shall be submitted with the
required fee. "Centennial Farms" and "Sesquicentennial
Farms" signs shall not contain within their design the name,
picture, or other likeness of any elected public official or
any appointed public official.
(b) The Department has the power to promote improved
methods of conducting the several industries described in
subsection (a) with a view to increasing the production and
facilitating the distribution thereof at the least cost.
(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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