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 1        AN ACT concerning State parks.

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

 4        Section 5.  The State Parks Act is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 6 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 835/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 468b)
 7        Sec.  6. It is a violation of this Section for any person
 8    to:
 9        (1)  Cut, break, injure,  destroy,  take  or  remove  any
10    tree,  shrub, timber, plant, or natural object in any park or
11    parkway, except that the Department of Natural Resources may,
12    by administrative rule,  authorize  edible  fungi,  nut,  and
13    berry  collection in those areas of Department owned, leased,
14    or managed  lands  where  the  collecting  would  not  be  in
15    conflict  or  incompatible  with  (i)  Department  of Natural
16    Resources  natural  resource   management   or   recreational
17    programs   for   that   area   and  (ii)  the  Natural  Areas
18    Preservation Act;
19        (2)  Kill, cause to be killed, or pursue with  intent  to
20    kill  any  bird or animal in a park or parkway, provided that
21    the Department of Natural  Resources  may  by  administrative
22    order  authorize  hunting in those areas of state parks where
23    such hunting would not be in conflict  or  incompatible  with
24    Department  of  Natural  Resources  recreational programs for
25    that area;
26        (3)  Take any  fish  from  the  waters  of  any  park  or
27    parkway,  contrary  to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the
28    Department of Natural Resources;
29        (4)  Wilfully  mutilate,  injure,  deface, or destroy any
30    guide post, notice, tablet, fence, enclosure or work for  the
31    protection or ornamentation of any park or parkway;
 
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 1        (5)  Light  any  fire upon any park or parkway, except in
 2    an authorized place  or  places  or  wilfully  or  carelessly
 3    permit any fire which he has lighted or caused to be lighted,
 4    or which shall be under his charge, to spread or extend to or
 5    burn any shrubbery, trees, timber, ornaments, or improvements
 6    upon  any  State  park, nature preserve or parkways, or leave
 7    any camp fires which he shall have lighted or  caused  to  be
 8    lighted,  or  which  shall  have  been  left  in  his charge,
 9    unattended by a competent person;
10        (6)  Place within any park or parkway  or  affix  to  any
11    object  therein  contained,  any  work,  character, or device
12    designed to  advertise  any  business,  profession,  article,
13    thing, exhibition, matter or event;
14        (7)  Violate any rule or regulation adopted and published
15    by  the  Department  of  Natural  Resources  pursuant  to the
16    provisions of this Act.
17        A person  who  violates  this  Section  shall,  for  each
18    offense, be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
19    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)

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