99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3234
 
Introduced , by Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
520 ILCS 5/2.5

     Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that any person may use a crossbow to take coyotes during any coyote season. Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning wildlife.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing Section 
52.5 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 handicapped person 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 
17    (both inclusive) set annually by the Director. 
18    (b) As used in this Section, "handicapped person" means a 
19person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, 
20congenital or acquired, which renders the person them so 
21severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve 
22bow, or compound bow.  Permits must be issued only after the 
23receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is 
 
 
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1handicapped as defined above.

2    (c) Any person may use a crossbow to take coyotes during 
3any coyote season. 
4(Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12; revised 12-10-14.)
 
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
6becoming law.