Sen. Chapin Rose
Filed: 4/17/2015
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1668




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1668, AS AMENDED, 
3by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the 
4following:

 
 
5    "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing 
6Section 2.5 as follows:
 
7    (520 ILCS 5/2.5)
8    Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions. A person may use a crossbow 
9if one or more of the following 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 
 
 
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1    (both inclusive) set annually by the Director; or . 
2        (4) the user is 16 years old or younger hunting during 
3    a youth hunting season or during the first week of a 
4    regular hunting season. 
5    As used in this Section, "handicapped person" means a 
6person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, 
7congenital or acquired, which renders the person them so 
8severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve 
9bow, or compound bow.  Permits must be issued only after the 
10receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is 
11handicapped as defined above.

12(Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12; revised 12-10-14.)".