Public Act 0785 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Public Act 098-0785

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Dead Animal Disposal Act is amended by changing Sections 1.1, 4, 6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12, and 18 as follows:

(225 ILCS 610/1.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 149.1)

Sec. 1.1. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois.

(b) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other business entity.

(c) "Renderer" means any person who, for other than human consumption, collects, cooks and processes bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish, or used cooking grease and oils, for the purpose of salvaging hides, wool, skins or feathers, and for the production of animal, poultry, or fish protein, blood meal, bone meal, grease or tallow.

(d) "Blender" means any person who acquires inedible by-products of bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish, or used cooking grease and oils, for the purpose of blending them to obtain a desired percentage of protein, degree of quality or color for use in animal feed, poultry feed or fertilizers.

(e) "Collection center" means any place where bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish, or used cooking grease and cooking oils, are collected for loading into a permitted vehicle for delivery to the renderer.

(f) "Permittee" means any person issued a vehicle permit under the provisions of this Act.

(g) "Licensee" means any person licensed under the provisions of this Act.

(h) "Rendering materials" means bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish, or used cooking grease and oils.

(i) "Animal collection service" means a company that conveys dead animals to a landfill facility licensed under the Environmental Protection Act when no rendering service is available. Waste haulers collecting waste in which a dead animal is included incidental to such waste shall not be considered an "animal collection service" activity.

(j) "Grease and oil collector" means any person who collects for reuse or recycling used cooking grease and cooking oils in a permitted vehicle for delivery to a grease and cooking oil processor for purposes other than rendering or blending.

(k) "Grease and oil processor" means any person who stores, filters, processes, or distributes for reuse or recycling used cooking grease and cooking oils for uses other than rendering or blending.

(Source: P.A. 88-133.)

(225 ILCS 610/4) (from Ch. 8, par. 152)

Sec. 4. Application for such license shall be made to the Department on forms provided by it, which application shall set forth the name and residence of the applicant, classification of license or licenses requested, his place or proposed place of business, and the particular method which he intends to employ in disposing of rendering material and such other information as the Department may require. The licenses shall be classified according to type of plant operated. Renderer: Class "A"--dead animals only; Class "B"--parts of bodies of animals, scrap, bones, fat, used cooking grease and oils; Class "C"--poultry or parts of poultry and Class "D"--fish or parts of fish; Blender: Class "E"; Collection Center: Class "F"; Animal Collection Service: Class "G"; grease and oil processor: Class "H".

(Source: P.A. 88-133.)

(225 ILCS 610/6) (from Ch. 8, par. 154)

Sec. 6. On the receipt of the certification described in Section 5, and the payment of the fee provided herein, the Department shall issue a license to the applicant to conduct such business at the place specified in the application for one calendar year or for the portion of the calendar year remaining at the time the license is issued. No license shall be issued for a plant not located within the boundaries of the State of Illinois. No license issued under this Section is transferable.

The following nonrefundable fees shall accompany each application for a license.

(Source: P.A. 88-133.)

(225 ILCS 610/9.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 157.1)

Sec. 9.1. Except as otherwise provided in Section 14, no person shall operate a vehicle used to transport rendering materials or used cooking grease or cooking oils in this State without a vehicle permit issued by the Department or without complying with this Act. Applications for vehicle permits shall be accepted only from licensed renderers and grease and oil processors and shall include the name and address of the proposed permittee, the location of the place or intended place of the proposed permittee's business, the number and types of vehicles to be used by the proposed permittee and such other information as may be required by regulations of the Department. Owners or operators of vehicles not owned by licensed renderers or grease and oil processors in this State shall secure a permit through the licensed renderer, or renderers, or grease and oil processors to whom the rendering material or used cooking grease and cooking oil will be delivered. The Department shall issue a Class 1 permit for the transporting of dead animals, fish or poultry; a Class 2 permit for transporting parts of bodies of animals, scrap, bones, fat, or used cooking grease and oils; a Class 3 permit for transporting hides; and a Class 4 permit for transporting bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish to a landfill as an animal collection service. Permits issued hereunder shall be renewable annually during December of each year. All vehicle permits not renewed during December of each year shall expire on December 31 of that year. A $10 fee shall accompany each application for a vehicle permit or renewal thereof.

(Source: P.A. 88-133.)

(225 ILCS 610/9.2) (from Ch. 8, par. 157.2)

Sec. 9.2. Each vehicle issued a Class 1 permit shall have the inscription "Illinois Dead Animal Disposal Permit No. ...", as assigned; each truck granted a Class 2 permit shall have the inscription "Illinois Scrap and Grease Permit No. ...", as assigned; and each truck granted a Class 3 permit shall have the inscription "Illinois Hide Permit No. ...", as assigned. All of these inscriptions shall be painted in a conspicuous place in contrasting color on the left side of the bed of the vehicle in letters not less than 3 inches high. If the vehicle transporting the rendering material or used cooking grease and cooking oil or conveying dead animals to a landfill is not a van type truck, the vehicle bed, as well as any properly identified tanks or barrels used for the transportation of rendering material, or used cooking grease and cooking oil when loaded or partially loaded, shall be covered when traveling highways of the State of Illinois. Vehicle beds shall be leak-proof or constructed so that no drippings or seepage can escape.

Collection vehicles containing rendering material or used cooking grease and cooking oil or used for transporting dead animals, poultry, fish, or parts of bodies thereof shall be thoroughly scrubbed and disinfected after hauling each load, or before proceeding for another load. All vehicle beds shall be painted as necessary, and kept in good condition and repair at all times.

(Source: P.A. 88-133.)

(225 ILCS 610/9.3) (from Ch. 8, par. 157.3)

Sec. 9.3. All permittees shall record each collection of rendering materials or used cooking grease and cooking oil, setting forth the date, quantity and description of rendering material or used cooking grease and cooking oil collected, and the person to whom such material was delivered. The permittee shall give a receipt to every person from whom the permittee collects rendering materials or used cooking grease and cooking oil. The original of such records, and a copy of all receipts given by the permittee for rendering material or used cooking grease and cooking oil shall be retained by the permittee until the rendering materials or used cooking grease and cooking oil are delivered to their destination. Thereafter, the record and receipt shall be retained by the permittee for a minimum of 3 months and shall be available for inspection by authorized personnel of the Department.

(Source: P.A. 83-760.)

(225 ILCS 610/12) (from Ch. 8, par. 160)

Sec. 12. The Department shall make such reasonable regulations for the carrying on and conduct of such business as it may deem advisable and all persons engaged in such business shall comply therewith. The Department, or its representatives, in performing the duties vested in it under this Act is empowered to enter, during usual working hours, any premises, buildings, or other places where dead animals or used cooking grease and cooking oil may be found, for the purpose of administering the provisions of this Act.

Licensees shall comply with rules, bulletins, manuals of procedure and guidelines pertaining to renderers and blenders and the handling and distribution of condemned or inedible meat or poultry products which implement the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Inspection Act. Such rules, bulletins, manuals and guidelines shall become effective on the date designated by the United States Department of Agriculture.

(Source: P.A. 86-231.)

(225 ILCS 610/18) (from Ch. 8, par. 166)

Sec. 18. The transportation of bodies or parts of bodies of dead animals, poultry or fish, or used cooking greases and oils, raw or unrendered, except green or salted hides, shall not be allowed into other states except by reciprocal agreements with other states under rules of the Department.

(Source: P.A. 87-157.)

Section 10. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing Section 48-7 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/48-7)

Sec. 48-7. Feeding garbage to animals.

(a) Definitions. As used in this Section:

"Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois.

"Garbage" has the same meaning as in the federal Swine Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3802) and also includes putrescible vegetable waste. "Garbage" does not include the contents of the bovine digestive tract means putrescible vegetable waste, animal, poultry, or fish carcasses or parts thereof resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food, but does not include the contents of the bovine digestive tract. "Garbage" also means the bodies or parts of bodies of animals, poultry or fish.

"Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity, any public or private institution, the State, or any municipal corporation or political subdivision of the State.

(b) A person commits feeding garbage to animals when he or she feeds or permits the feeding of garbage to swine or any animals or poultry on any farm or any other premises where swine are kept.

(c) Establishments licensed under the Illinois Dead Animal Disposal Act or under similar laws in other states are exempt from the provisions of this Section.

(d) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to apply to any person who feeds garbage produced in his or her own household to animals or poultry kept on the premises where he or she resides except this garbage if fed to swine shall not contain particles of meat.

(e) Sentence. Feeding garbage to animals is a Class B misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 and for a second or subsequent offense shall be fined not less than $200 nor more than $500 or imprisoned in a penal institution other than the penitentiary for not more than 6 months, or both.

(f) A person violating this Section may be enjoined by the Department from continuing the violation.

(g) The Department may make reasonable inspections necessary for the enforcement of this Section, and is authorized to enforce, and administer the provisions of this Section.

(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)