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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1096
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1096 on page 1, in
3 line 5 by replacing "and 2.26" with ", 2.26, 3.2, 3.27, 3.29,
4 and 3.30"; and
5 on page 5, by inserting after line 32 the following:
6 "(520 ILCS 5/3.2) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.2)
7 Sec. 3.2. Hunting license; application; instruction.
8 Before the Department or any county, city, village, township,
9 incorporated town clerk or his duly designated agent or any
10 other person authorized or designated by the Department to
11 issue hunting licenses shall issue a hunting license to any
12 person, the person shall file his application with the
13 Department or other party authorized to issue licenses on a
14 form provided by the Department and further give definite
15 proof of identity and place of legal residence. Each clerk
16 designating agents to issue licenses and stamps shall furnish
17 the Department, within 10 days following the appointment, the
18 names and mailing addresses of the agents. Each clerk or his
19 duly designated agent shall be authorized to sell licenses
20 and stamps only within the territorial area for which he was
21 elected or appointed. No duly designated agent is authorized
22 to furnish licenses or stamps for issuance by any other
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1 business establishment. Each application shall be executed
2 and sworn to and shall set forth the name and description of
3 the applicant and place of residence.
4 No hunting license shall be issued to any person born on
5 or after January 1, 1980 unless he presents the person
6 authorized to issue the license evidence that he has held a
7 hunting license issued by the State of Illinois or another
8 state in a prior year, or a certificate of competency as
9 provided in this Section. Persons under 16 years of age may
10 be issued a Lifetime Hunting or Sportsmen's Combination
11 License as provided under Section 20-45 of the Fish and
12 Aquatic Life Code but shall not be entitled to hunt unless
13 they have a certificate of competency as provided in this
14 Section and they shall have the certificate in their
15 possession while hunting.
16 The Department of Natural Resources shall authorize
17 personnel of the Department or certified volunteer
18 instructors to conduct courses, of not less than 10 hours in
19 length, in firearms and hunter safety, which may include
20 training in bow and arrow safety, at regularly specified
21 intervals throughout the State. Persons successfully
22 completing the course shall receive a certificate of
23 competency. The Department of Natural Resources may further
24 cooperate with any reputable association or organization in
25 establishing courses if the organization has as one of its
26 objectives the promotion of safety in the handling of
27 firearms or bow and arrow.
28 The Department of Natural Resources shall designate any
29 person found by it to be competent to give instruction in
30 the handling of firearms, hunter safety, and bow and arrow.
31 The persons so appointed shall give the course of instruction
32 and upon the successful completion shall issue to the person
33 instructed a certificate of competency in the safe handling
34 of firearms, hunter safety, and bow and arrow. No charge
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1 shall be made for any course of instruction except for
2 materials or ammunition consumed. The Department of Natural
3 Resources shall furnish information on the requirements of
4 hunter safety education programs to be distributed free of
5 charge to applicants for hunting licenses by the persons
6 appointed and authorized to issue licenses. Funds for the
7 conducting of firearms and hunter safety courses shall be
8 taken from the fee charged for the Firearm Owners
9 Identification Card.
10 The fee for a hunting license to hunt all species for a
11 resident of Illinois is $7. For residents age 65 or older,
12 the fee is one-half of the fee charged for a hunting license
13 to hunt all species for a resident of Illinois. Nonresidents
14 shall be charged $50 for a hunting license.
15 Nonresidents may be issued a nonresident hunting license
16 for a period not to exceed 10 consecutive days' hunting in
17 the State and shall be charged a fee of $28.
18 A special nonresident hunting license authorizing a
19 nonresident to take game birds by hunting on a game breeding
20 and hunting preserve area only, established under Section
21 3.27, shall be issued upon proper application being made and
22 payment of a fee equal to that for a resident hunting
23 license. The expiration date of this license shall be on the
24 same date March 31 of each year that game breeding and
25 hunting preserve area licenses expire.
26 Each applicant for a State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp,
27 regardless of his residence or other condition, shall pay a
28 fee of $10 and shall receive a stamp. Except as provided
29 under Section 20-45 of the Fish and Aquatic Life Code, the
30 stamp shall be signed by the person or affixed to his license
31 or permit in a space designated by the Department for that
32 purpose.
33 Each applicant for a State Habitat Stamp, regardless of
34 his residence or other condition, shall pay a fee of $5 and
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1 shall receive a stamp. Except as provided under Section 20-45
2 of the Fish and Aquatic Life Code, the stamp shall be signed
3 by the person or affixed to his license or permit in a space
4 designated by the Department for that purpose.
5 Nothing in this Section shall be construed as to require
6 the purchase of more than one State Habitat Stamp by any
7 person in any one license year.
8 The Department shall furnish the holders of hunting
9 licenses and stamps with an insignia as evidence of
10 possession of license, or license and stamp, as the
11 Department may consider advisable. The insignia shall be
12 exhibited and used as the Department may order.
13 All other hunting licenses and all State stamps shall
14 expire upon March 31 of each year.
15 Every person holding any license, permit, or stamp issued
16 under the provisions of this Act shall have it in his
17 possession for immediate presentation for inspection to the
18 officers and authorized employees of the Department, any
19 sheriff, deputy sheriff, or any other peace officer making a
20 demand for it. This provision shall not apply to Department
21 owned or managed sites where it is required that all hunters
22 deposit their license, permit, or Firearm Owner's
23 Identification Card at the check station upon entering the
24 hunting areas.
25 (Source: P.A. 89-75, eff. 1-1-96; 89-338, eff. 1-1-96;
26 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-225, eff.
27 7-25-97.)
28 (520 ILCS 5/3.27) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.27)
29 Sec. 3.27. Any person owning, holding or controlling, by
30 lease, which possession must be for a term of 5 or more
31 years, any contiguous tract of land having an area of not
32 less than 200 acres, and not more than 1280 acres, with at
33 least 100 acres of suitable wildlife habitat, who desires to
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1 establish a game breeding and hunting preserve area, to
2 propagate, preserve and hunt game birds shall make
3 application to the Department for a license as herein
4 provided. Such application shall be made under oath of the
5 applicant or under oath of one of its principal officers if
6 the applicant is an association, club or corporation. In the
7 case of releasing and harvesting hand reared mallards, the
8 tract of land, with the approval of the Department, may be
9 smaller than that required in this Section but in all other
10 respects the applicant shall conform to the provisions of
11 this Act. The application shall be accompanied by a license
12 fee of not to exceed $100 for a Class A license or a license
13 fee not to exceed $200 for a Class B license.
14 Every licensee under this Section shall release not less
15 than 250 Bobwhite quail or pheasants each season.
16 Upon receipt of such application, the Department shall
17 inspect the proposed licensed area described in such
18 application and the premises and facilities where game birds
19 are to be propagated and the cover for game birds and the
20 ability of the applicant to operate a property of this
21 character. If the Department finds that the area meets the
22 requirements of all applicable laws and administrative rules
23 and that the game birds are reasonably healthy and disease
24 free; and that the issuing of the license will otherwise be
25 in the public interest; the Department shall approve the
26 application and issue the license for the operation of the
27 property described in the application with the rights and
28 subject to the limitations in this Act prescribed.
29 All game breeding and hunting preserve area licenses
30 expire on April 30 of each year.
31 Upon receipt of such license, the licensee shall promptly
32 post such licensed areas at intervals of not more than 500
33 feet with signs to be prescribed by the Department. The
34 boundaries of such licensed game breeding and hunting
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1 preserve areas shall also be clearly defined by natural or
2 artificial boundaries and by signs.
3 (Source: P.A. 85-152.)
4 (520 ILCS 5/3.29) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.29)
5 Sec. 3.29. For the purpose of this Act, game birds shall
6 be released upon licensed game breeding and hunting preserve
7 areas in a manner satisfactory to the Department. The
8 licensee shall keep a register on forms prescribed by the
9 Department which shall clearly show the number and kind of
10 game birds released and propagated each year, the month date
11 of release, and also the number and kind of game birds taken,
12 the month date when taken and the disposition made of such
13 game birds, and shall submit such reports under oath as to
14 game birds released, propagated and taken, to the Department
15 not later than 10 days following the end of each month during
16 the season. The Department shall keep an adequate record of
17 the number of birds released and propagated on each licensed
18 game breeding and hunting preserve area in each year and of
19 the birds taken.
20 The Department shall prepare special tags suitable for
21 use upon legs of game birds, including hand reared mallard
22 ducks, which tags shall be of a type not removable without
23 breaking and mutilating the tag, such tags to be used to
24 designate birds taken upon a licensed game breeding and
25 hunting preserve area, and such tag shall remain upon the leg
26 of such game bird until such bird is finally prepared for
27 consumption. Those licensed areas which dress game birds may
28 affix the tag to the bag in which the dressed game birds are
29 bird is contained. Upon application and payment of a fee of
30 10 cents for each such tag, the Department shall furnish
31 licensees with such tags; provided that the Department shall
32 not in any year furnish any licensee a number of tags in
33 excess of the number of game birds which may lawfully be
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1 taken from such licensed area as hereinbefore provided. All
2 game birds harvested on licensed areas are to be properly
3 banded on the same day they are taken.
4 (Source: P.A. 84-150.)
5 (520 ILCS 5/3.30) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.30)
6 Sec. 3.30. Game birds may be taken upon a Class A game
7 breeding and hunting preserve area only during the period
8 from September 1st to April 15th, or as otherwise determined
9 by the Director through the issuance of an Administrative
10 Rule, of each year, both dates inclusive. Game birds may be
11 taken upon a Class B game breeding and hunting preserve area
12 all year.
13 Before any person shall take or attempt to take game
14 birds upon such licensed game breeding and hunting preserve
15 areas, he shall first secure a hunting license in accordance
16 with this Act.
17 (Source: P.A. 85-152.)".