Full Text of SB0681 99th General Assembly
SB0681 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 SB0681 Introduced 2/3/2015, by Sen. Daniel Biss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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525 ILCS 10/3 | from Ch. 5, par. 933 |
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Amends the Illinois Exotic Weed Act. Adds exotic bush honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii, Lonicera tatarica, Lonicera morrowii, and Lonicera fragrantissima), exotic olives (Elaeagnus umbellata, Elaeagnus pungens, Elaeagnus angustifolia), salt cedar (all members of the Tamarix genus), poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), and lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), teasel (all members of the Dipsacus genus), and Japanese, giant, and Bohemian knotweed (Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum; Fallopia sachalinensis; and Fallopia x bohemica, resp.) to designated exotic weeds.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning conservation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Exotic Weed Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (525 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 933)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. Designated Exotic Weeds. Japanese honeysuckle | 8 | | (Lonicera
japonica), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), purple | 9 | | loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria),
common buckthorn (Rhamnus | 10 | | cathartica), glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula),
saw-toothed | 11 | | buckthorn (Rhamnus arguta), dahurian buckthorn (Rhamnus | 12 | | davurica),
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica), Chinese | 13 | | buckthorn (Rhamnus
utilis), and kudzu
(Pueraria lobata) , | 14 | | exotic bush honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii, Lonicera tatarica, | 15 | | Lonicera morrowii, and Lonicera fragrantissima), exotic olives | 16 | | (Elaeagnus umbellata, Elaeagnus pungens, Elaeagnus | 17 | | angustifolia), salt cedar (all members of the Tamarix genus), | 18 | | poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), giant hogweed (Heracleum | 19 | | mantegazzianum), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), | 20 | | and lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), teasel (all members of | 21 | | the Dipsacus genus), and Japanese, giant, and Bohemian knotweed | 22 | | (Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum; Fallopia | 23 | | sachalinensis; and Fallopia x bohemica, resp.) are hereby |
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| 1 | | designated
exotic weeds. Upon petition the
Director of Natural | 2 | | Resources, by rule,
shall exempt varieties of any species | 3 | | listed in this Act that can be
demonstrated by published or | 4 | | current research not to be an exotic weed as
defined in Section | 5 | | 2.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 93-128, eff. 7-10-03.)
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