Full Text of HB4318 99th General Assembly
HB4318eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil | 5 | | Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section | 6 | | 205-15 as follows:
| 7 | | (20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)
| 8 | | Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities.
| 9 | | (a) The Department has the power to encourage and promote, | 10 | | in every
practicable manner,
the interests of agriculture, | 11 | | including horticulture, the livestock
industry, dairying, | 12 | | cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production | 13 | | of wool, and all other allied industries. In furtherance of
the | 14 | | duties set forth in this subsection (a), the Department may
| 15 | | establish trust
funds and bank accounts in adequately protected | 16 | | financial institutions
to receive and disburse monies in | 17 | | connection with the conduct of food
shows, food expositions, | 18 | | trade shows, and other promotional activities and
to
sell
at | 19 | | cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating farms that
| 20 | | have been
owned for 100
years
or more
or 150 years or more
by | 21 | | lineal or collateral descendants of the same family as
| 22 | | "Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial Farms", respectively. | 23 | | The
Department shall provide applications for the signs, which |
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| 1 | | shall
be submitted
with the
required fee. "Centennial Farms"
| 2 | | and "Sesquicentennial Farms"
signs shall not contain within | 3 | | their
design
the name,
picture, or other likeness of any | 4 | | elected public official or any appointed
public official.
| 5 | | (b) The Department has the power to promote improved
| 6 | | methods of conducting the several
industries described in | 7 | | subsection (a) with a view to increasing the
production and | 8 | | facilitating the
distribution thereof at the least cost.
| 9 | | (c) The Department may sell at cost, to qualified | 10 | | applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been | 11 | | operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more | 12 | | as the same agribusiness. As used in this subsection (c), | 13 | | "agribusiness" means a business or businesses under the same | 14 | | name or ownership that are collectively associated with the | 15 | | production, processing, and distribution of agricultural | 16 | | products. | 17 | | (Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, | 18 | | eff. 6-2-00.)
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