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| | 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB3565 Introduced 2/14/2014, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 415 ILCS 60/3 | from Ch. 5, par. 803 |
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Amends the Illinois Pesticide Act. Provides that the regulation of pesticides by any political subdivision of this State, including home rule units, is specifically prohibited except for counties with a population over 2,000,000 and municipalities entirely within Cook County with a population over 50,000.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB3565 | | LRB098 20146 MGM 55461 b |
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1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Pesticide Act is amended by |
5 | | changing Section 3 as follows:
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6 | | (415 ILCS 60/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 803)
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7 | | Sec. 3. Delegation of Authority. The Illinois Department of |
8 | | Agriculture
shall administer "The Illinois Pesticide Act".
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9 | | 1. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to |
10 | | enforce this
Act and such provisions of other Acts intended to |
11 | | control the
registration, purchase, use, storage and disposal
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12 | | of pesticides, unless otherwise specified in this Section. |
13 | | Also, the
Department of Agriculture shall control the purchase |
14 | | and use
of pesticides pertaining to the production, protection, |
15 | | care, storage, or
transportation of agricultural commodities |
16 | | and to control the use of pesticides
applied by agricultural |
17 | | equipment.
Also, the Department shall establish and implement |
18 | | an Agrichemical Facility
Response Action Program as provided in |
19 | | Section 19.3.
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20 | | 2. It shall be the duty of the Department of Public Health |
21 | | to enforce
such provisions of this Act and other Acts intended |
22 | | to control structural
pest pesticides, as defined in |
23 | | subparagraph 37 of Section 4, of this Act.
It shall be the duty |