Rep. Joe Sosnowski
Filed: 2/23/2017
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3399
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3399 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 2.5 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 | ||||||
| 9 | following conditions are met: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) the user is a person age 62 and older; | ||||||
| 11 | (2) the user is a person with a disability 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. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) As used in this Section, "person with a disability" | ||||||
| 3 | means a person who has a physical impairment due to injury or | ||||||
| 4 | disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so | ||||||
| 5 | severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve | ||||||
| 6 | bow, or compound bow. Permits must be issued only after the | ||||||
| 7 | receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is | ||||||
| 8 | a person with a disability as defined above.
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| 9 | (c) A person may use a crossbow to take coyotes when it is | ||||||
| 10 | legal to use a bow and arrow to take coyotes. | ||||||
| 11 | (Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)".
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