94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1797

 

Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Kurt M. Granberg

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
520 ILCS 5/3.1-2   from Ch. 61, par. 3.1-2

    Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning hunting by disabled veterans.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing Section
5 3.1-2 as follows:
 
6     (520 ILCS 5/3.1-2)  (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1-2)
7     Sec. 3.1-2. Veterans who, according to the the
8 determination of the Veterans' Administration as certified by
9 the Department of Veterans' Affairs, are at least 10% disabled
10 with service-related disabilities or in receipt of total
11 disability pensions may hunt any of the species protected by
12 Section 2.2, during such times, with such devices and by such
13 methods as are permitted by this Act, without procuring hunting
14 licenses, on the condition that their respective disabilities
15 do not prevent them from hunting in a manner which is safe to
16 themselves and others.
17 (Source: P.A. 83-58.)