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1    AN ACT concerning animals.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 9 as follows:
 



6    (510 ILCS 50/9)  (from Ch. 8, par. 176)



7    Sec. 9. The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable 
8rules and regulations
to prevent the spread of any 
9contamination or contagious or infectious disease within this

10State.  If the condition so warrants, the Director may request 
11the Governor
to issue a proclamation quarantining an affected 
12municipality or geographical
district whereby all animals of 
13the kind diseased or contaminated would not be permitted
to be 
14moved from one premises to another within the municipality or 
15geographical
district,
or over any public highway, or any 
16unfenced lot or piece of ground, or from
being brought into, or 
17taken from the infected or contaminated municipality or 
18geographical
district, except by a special permit, signed by 
19the Director. Any such proclamation
shall, from
the time of 
20its publication, bind all persons. Within one week after the

21publication of any such proclamation, every person who owns, 
22or who is in
charge of animals of the kind diseased or 
23contaminated
within the municipality or geographical district, 
 
 
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1shall report to the
Department the number and description of 
2such animals, their location,
and the name and address of the 
3owner or person in charge, and during
the continuance of the 
4quarantine to report to the Department all cases
of sickness, 
5deaths or births among such animals.

6    If the condition so warrants, the Director may declare a 
7temporary prohibition on the sale, movement, or exhibition of 
8certain types of animals in order to prevent or reduce the 
9spread of any contamination or disease in this State. The 
10declaration shall be for a period not to exceed 30 days, but 
11the declaration may be extended in increments not to exceed 30 
12days if the condition so warrants. 
13(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)