Public Act 099-0824
 
HB5790 EnrolledLRB099 15941 MGM 40258 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 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, or 
200 years or more
by lineal or collateral descendants of the 
same family as
"Centennial Farms", or "Sesquicentennial 
Farms", or "Bicentennial Farms" respectively.  The
Department 
shall provide applications for the signs, which shall
be 
submitted
with the
required fee.  "Centennial Farms",
and 
"Sesquicentennial Farms", and "Bicentennial 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.

(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, 
eff. 6-2-00.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.