Sen. Neil Anderson
Filed: 3/8/2017
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1466




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1466 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 2.5 as follows:
 
6    (520 ILCS 5/2.5)
7    Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions.
8    (a) A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the 
9following conditions are met:
10        (1) the user is a person age 62 and older;
11        (2) the user is a person with a  disability to whom the 
12    Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided 
13    by administrative rule; or
14        (3) the  date of using the crossbow is during the period 
15    of  the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday 
16    through the last day of the archery deer hunting season 
 
 
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1    (both inclusive) set annually by the Director. 
2    (b) As used in this Section, "person with a disability" 
3means a person who has a physical impairment due to injury or 
4disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so 
5severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve 
6bow, or compound bow.  Permits must be issued only after the 
7receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is 
8a person with a disability as defined above.

9    (c) A person may use a crossbow to take coyotes when it is 
10legal to use a bow and arrow to take coyotes. 
11(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)".