SB0048 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0048

Introduced 1/15/2015, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

520 ILCS 10/3.5 new

Amends the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act. Provides that the removal of an endangered animal from its habitat that is imminently necessary to avoid serious injury, additional injury, or death of the animal, does not violate the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act. Requires a person who removes an animal under this Section to immediately take the endangered animal to an animal shelter. Requires both the person removing the animal and the animal shelter to report the removal to the Department of Natural Resources within 24 hours of the removal.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning wildlife.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act is amended by adding Section 3.5 as follows:

(520 ILCS 10/3.5 new)

Sec. 3.5. Good samaritan exemption.

(a) It shall not be a violation of this Act to remove an endangered animal from its habitat if:

(1) the removal is imminently necessary to avoid serious injury, additional injury, or death to an endangered animal;

(2) reasonable care is taken to prevent any further injury to the endangered animal;

(3) the endangered animal is immediately taken to an animal shelter; and

(4) both the person removing the animal and the animal shelter report the removal of the endangered animal to the Department of Natural Resources within 24 hours of the removal.