Full Text of HB4801 96th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Dangerous Animals Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 0.1 and 1 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 585/0.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 240)
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| Sec. 0.1. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | 8 |
| context otherwise requires:
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| "Dangerous animal" means a lion, tiger, leopard, ocelot, | 10 |
| jaguar, cheetah,
margay, mountain lion, lynx, bobcat, | 11 |
| jaguarundi, bear, hyena, wolf or
coyote, or any poisonous or | 12 |
| life-threatening reptile.
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| "Owner" means any person who (a) has a right of property in | 14 |
| a dangerous
animal or primate , (b) keeps or harbors a dangerous | 15 |
| animal or primate , (c) has a dangerous animal
or primate in his | 16 |
| care, or (d) acts as custodian of a dangerous animal or | 17 |
| primate .
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| "Person" means any individual, firm, association, | 19 |
| partnership,
corporation, or other legal entity, any public or | 20 |
| private institution, the
State of Illinois, or any municipal | 21 |
| corporation or political subdivision of the State.
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| "Primate" means a nonhuman member of the order primate, | 23 |
| including but not limited to chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, |
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| bonobo, gibbon, monkey, lemur, loris, aye-aye, and tarsier. | 2 |
| (Source: P.A. 84-28 .)
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| (720 ILCS 585/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 241)
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| Sec. 1. Dangerous animals and primates; prohibitions. | 5 |
| (a) No person shall have a right of property in, keep, | 6 |
| harbor,
care for, act as custodian
of or maintain in
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| possession any dangerous animal or primate except at a properly | 8 |
| maintained zoological
park, federally licensed
exhibit, | 9 |
| circus, college or university, scientific or
educational | 10 |
| institution, research laboratory, veterinary hospital, hound | 11 |
| running area, or animal
refuge in an escape-proof enclosure. | 12 |
| (b) This Section does not prohibit a person who had lawful | 13 |
| possession of a primate before January 1, 2011, from continuing | 14 |
| to possess that primate if the person registers the animal by | 15 |
| providing written notification to the local animal control | 16 |
| administrator on or before April 1, 2011. The notification | 17 |
| shall include: | 18 |
| (1) the person's name, address, and telephone number; | 19 |
| and | 20 |
| (2) the type of primate, the age, a photograph, a | 21 |
| description of any tattoo, microchip, or other identifying | 22 |
| information, and a list of current inoculations. | 23 |
| (c) A person who registers a primate shall notify the local | 24 |
| animal control administrator within 30 days of a change of | 25 |
| address. If the person moves to another locality within the |
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| State, the person shall register the primate with the new local | 2 |
| animal control administrator within 30 days of moving by | 3 |
| providing written notification as provided in subsection (b) | 4 |
| and shall include proof of the prior registration. | 5 |
| (d) A person who registers a primate shall notify the local | 6 |
| animal control administrator immediately if the primate dies, | 7 |
| escapes, or bites, scratches, or injures a person.
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| (e) This Section does not prohibit a person who is | 9 |
| permanently disabled with a severe mobility impairment from | 10 |
| possessing a single capuchin monkey to assist the person in | 11 |
| performing daily tasks if: | 12 |
| (1) the capuchin monkey was obtained from and trained | 13 |
| at a licensed nonprofit organization described in Section | 14 |
| 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the | 15 |
| nonprofit tax status of which was obtained on the basis of | 16 |
| a mission to improve the quality of life of severely | 17 |
| mobility-impaired individuals; and | 18 |
| (2) the person complies with the notification | 19 |
| requirements as described in subsection (b). | 20 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-196, eff. 1-1-08.)
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