99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5790
 
Introduced , by Rep. Charles E. Meier
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



20 ILCS 205/205-15  was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8

     Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may designate "Bicentennial Farms". Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil 
5Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended  by changing Section 
6205-15 as follows:
 



7    (20 ILCS 205/205-15)  (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)



8    Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities. 

9    (a) The Department has the power to encourage and promote, 
10in every
practicable manner,
the interests of agriculture, 
11including horticulture, the livestock
industry, dairying, 
12cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production 
13of wool, and all other allied industries.   In furtherance of
the 
14duties set forth in this subsection (a), the Department may

15establish trust
funds and bank accounts in adequately protected 
16financial institutions
to receive and disburse monies in 
17connection with the conduct of food
shows, food expositions, 
18trade shows, and other promotional activities and
to
sell
at 
19cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating farms that

20have been
owned for 100
years
or more,
or 150 years or more, or 
21200 years or more
by lineal or collateral descendants of the 
22same family as
"Centennial Farms", or "Sesquicentennial 
23Farms", or "Bicentennial Farms" respectively.  The
Department 
 
 
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1shall provide applications for the signs, which shall
be 
2submitted
with the
required fee.  "Centennial Farms",
and 
3"Sesquicentennial Farms", and "Bicentennial Farms"
signs shall 
4not contain within their
design
the name,
picture, or other 
5likeness of any elected public official or any appointed
public 
6official.

7    (b) The Department has the power to promote improved

8methods of conducting the several
industries described in 
9subsection (a) with a view to increasing the
production and 
10facilitating the
distribution thereof at the least cost.

11(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, 
12eff. 6-2-00.)

 
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
14becoming law.