Public Act 099-0823
 
HB4318 EnrolledLRB099 14578 MGM 38710 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of 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 Section 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.
    (c) The Department may sell at cost, to qualified
applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been
operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more
as the same agribusiness. As used in this subsection (c),
"agribusiness" means a business or businesses under the same
name or ownership that are collectively associated with the
production, processing, and distribution of agricultural
products. The Department shall provide applications for the
signs, which shall be submitted with the required fee.
(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717,
eff. 6-2-00.)