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510 ILCS 10/0.01

(510 ILCS 10/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 105.10)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Animal Disease Laboratories Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

510 ILCS 10/1

(510 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 105.11)

Sec. 1. Laboratory services.

(a) The Department of Agriculture is authorized to establish such
additional number of animal disease laboratories, not exceeding five, as may be
necessary to serve the livestock and poultry industry of the State.

(b) Such laboratories each shall be in charge of a licensed
veterinarian, who in addition to making serological blood tests, shall be
competent to make diagnoses of such cases of livestock and poultry diseases as
may be submitted to such laboratories.

(c) The Department may enter into an arrangement with the College of
Veterinary Medicine of the University of Illinois whereby any cases
submitted to such laboratories which are not susceptible of diagnosis in
the field or by common laboratory procedure, or upon which research is
required, may be submitted to such College of Veterinary Medicine for
diagnosis or research.

(d) The Department may establish and collect reasonable fees for 
services performed by such animal disease laboratories.

(e) The fees shall be
deposited into the Illinois Department of
Agriculture Laboratory Services Revolving Fund.

(f) Moneys collected under subsection (e) shall be appropriated from the
Illinois Department of Agriculture Laboratory Services Revolving Fund
solely for the purposes of (1) testing specimens submitted in support of
Department programs established for animal health, welfare, and safety, and the
protection of Illinois consumers of Illinois agricultural
products, and (2) testing specimens submitted by veterinarians and agency
personnel to determine whether chemically hazardous or biologically
infectious substances or other disease causing conditions are present.

(g) The Director may issue rules, consistent with the provisions of this
Act, for the administration and enforcement of this Act.  These rules shall be
approved by the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 96-1310, eff. 7-27-10; 97-888, eff. 8-2-12.)