Full Text of SB3130 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning agriculture.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Seed Law is amended by adding | 5 | | Sections 2.1445 and 2.1446 and by changing Section 7 as | 6 | | follows: | 7 | | (505 ILCS 110/2.1445 new) | 8 | | Sec. 2.1445. Seed library. "Seed library" means a | 9 | | nonprofit, governmental, or cooperative organization, | 10 | | association, or activity for the purpose of facilitating the | 11 | | donation, exchange, preservation, and dissemination of seeds | 12 | | of open pollinated, public domain plant varieties by or among | 13 | | its members or members of the public when the use, exchange, | 14 | | transfer, or possession of seeds acquired by or from the seed | 15 | | library is free of charge or consideration. | 16 | | (505 ILCS 110/2.1446 new) | 17 | | Sec. 2.1446. Non-commercial seed sharing. "Non-commercial | 18 | | seed sharing" means seed sharing for which no monetary | 19 | | consideration or compensation is transferred in return for | 20 | | receiving seeds. A person participating in non-commercial seed | 21 | | sharing may not expect, or create the expectation, that seeds | 22 | | must be returned in exchange for receiving seeds, nor may such |
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| 1 | | distribution of seed be given as compensation for work or | 2 | | services rendered.
| 3 | | (505 ILCS 110/7) (from Ch. 5, par. 407)
| 4 | | Sec. 7. Exemptions. | 5 | | (a) The provisions of Sections 4 through 4.5 and
Sections 5 | 6 | | and 5.1 do not
apply:
| 7 | | (1) To seed or grain not intended for sowing purposes.
| 8 | | (2) To seed in storage in, or being transported or | 9 | | consigned to a
cleaning or conditioning establishment for | 10 | | cleaning or
conditioning, provided,
that the invoice or | 11 | | labeling accompanying any shipment of said seed bears
the | 12 | | statement "seed for conditioning"; and provided that
any | 13 | | labeling or
other representation which may be made with | 14 | | respect to the uncleaned or
unconditioned seed shall be | 15 | | subject to this Act.
| 16 | | (3) To any carrier in respect to any seed transported | 17 | | or delivered for
transportation in the ordinary course of | 18 | | its business as a carrier;
provided, that such carrier is | 19 | | not engaged in producing, processing, or
marketing | 20 | | agricultural, vegetable or other seeds designated by the
| 21 | | Department of Agriculture subject to the provisions of this | 22 | | Act.
| 23 | | (b) The provisions of Sections 4, 4.4, 4.5, 6, and 10, and | 24 | | of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (8), and (11) of Section | 25 | | 5, do not apply to unpatented, untreated seed that is free of |
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| 1 | | noxious and exotic weed seeds and that is distributed within | 2 | | this State by means of interpersonal noncommercial seed sharing | 3 | | activities, including, but not limited to, seed libraries and | 4 | | seed swaps. A seed library may adopt labeling or record-keeping | 5 | | standards to identify the date, species or common name, and | 6 | | source of the seed received by the seed library, and shall make | 7 | | this information available to the Department upon request in | 8 | | the course of an investigation of an alleged violation of the | 9 | | provisions in this Act. | 10 | | (Source: P.A. 85-717.)
| 11 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 | | becoming law.
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