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91_HB2885enr
HB2885 Enrolled LRB9107327DHmgA
1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
2 by changing Section 205-15.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by changing Section 205-15 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)
8 Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities.
9 (a) The Department has the power to encourage and
10 promote, in every practicable manner, the interests of
11 agriculture, including horticulture, the livestock industry,
12 dairying, cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
13 production of wool, and all other allied industries. In
14 furtherance of the duties set forth in this subsection (a),
15 the Department may establish trust funds and bank accounts in
16 adequately protected financial institutions to receive and
17 disburse monies in connection with the conduct of food shows,
18 food expositions, trade shows, and other promotional
19 activities and to sell at cost, to qualified applicants,
20 signs designating farms that have been owned for 100 years or
21 more or 150 years or more by lineal or collateral descendants
22 of the same family as "Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial
23 Farms", respectively. The Department shall provide
24 applications for the signs, which shall be submitted with the
25 required fee. "Centennial Farms" and "Sesquicentennial
26 Farms" signs shall not contain within their design the name,
27 picture, or other likeness of any elected public official or
28 any appointed public official.
29 (b) The Department has the power to promote improved
30 methods of conducting the several industries described in
31 subsection (a) with a view to increasing the production and
HB2885 Enrolled -2- LRB9107327DHmgA
1 facilitating the distribution thereof at the least cost.
2 (Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.
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