Full Text of HB3583 100th General Assembly
HB3583ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Brad Halbrook Filed: 3/10/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3583
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3583 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 2.26 as follows:
| 6 | | (520 ILCS 5/2.26) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.26)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.26. Deer hunting permits. Any person attempting to | 8 | | take deer shall first obtain a "Deer
Hunting Permit" issued by | 9 | | the Department in accordance with its administrative rules.
| 10 | | Those rules must provide for the issuance of the following | 11 | | types of resident deer archery permits: (i) a combination | 12 | | permit, consisting of one either-sex permit and one | 13 | | antlerless-only permit, (ii) a single antlerless-only permit, | 14 | | and (iii) a single either-sex permit. The fee for a Deer | 15 | | Hunting Permit to take deer with either bow and arrow or gun
| 16 | | shall not exceed $25.00 for residents of the State. The |
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| 1 | | Department may by
administrative rule provide for non-resident | 2 | | deer hunting permits for which the
fee will not exceed $300 in | 3 | | 2005, $350 in 2006, and $400 in 2007 and thereafter except as | 4 | | provided below for non-resident landowners
and non-resident | 5 | | archery hunters. The Department may by
administrative rule | 6 | | provide for a non-resident archery deer permit consisting
of | 7 | | not more than 2 harvest tags at a total cost not to exceed $325 | 8 | | in 2005, $375 in 2006, and $425 in 2007 and thereafter.
| 9 | | The standards and specifications for use of guns and bow | 10 | | and arrow for
deer hunting shall be established by | 11 | | administrative rule.
| 12 | | No person may have in his possession any firearm not | 13 | | authorized by
administrative rule for a specific hunting season | 14 | | when taking deer.
| 15 | | Persons having a firearm deer hunting permit shall be | 16 | | permitted to
take deer only during the period from 1/2 hour | 17 | | before sunrise to
1/2 hour after sunset, and only during those | 18 | | days for which an open season is
established for the taking of | 19 | | deer by use of shotgun, handgun, or muzzle
loading
rifle.
| 20 | | Persons having an archery deer hunting permit shall be | 21 | | permitted to
take deer only during the period from 1/2 hour | 22 | | before sunrise to 1/2 hour
after sunset, and only during those | 23 | | days for which an open season is
established for the taking of | 24 | | deer by use of bow and arrow.
| 25 | | It shall be unlawful for any person to take deer by use of | 26 | | dogs,
horses, automobiles, aircraft or other vehicles, or by |
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| 1 | | the use
or aid of supplemental feed or supplemental feeding | 2 | | bait or baiting of any kind. It shall be legal to supplemental | 3 | | feed wild deer on private property in Illinois during the time | 4 | | period that does not include deer hunting season. "Supplemental | 5 | | feeding" shall be defined as providing grains, minerals, salt, | 6 | | or other manufactured feed products in such a manner that they | 7 | | can be readily consumed by wild deer. Supplemental feeding can | 8 | | start no sooner than 5 days after the close of deer hunting | 9 | | season and continue until 15 days prior to the start of the | 10 | | next hunting season. A person who willingly provides | 11 | | supplemental feed to deer during hunting season is subject to a | 12 | | minimum $500 fine and minimum 1 year loss of hunting | 13 | | privileges. For the purposes of this Section, "bait" means any | 14 | | material, whether liquid or solid, including food, salt, | 15 | | minerals, and other products, except pure water, that can be | 16 | | ingested, placed, or scattered in such a manner as to attract | 17 | | or lure white-tailed deer. "Baiting" means the placement or | 18 | | scattering of bait to attract deer. An area is considered as | 19 | | baited during the presence
of and for 10 consecutive days | 20 | | following the removal of bait. Nothing in this Section shall | 21 | | prohibit the use of a dog to track wounded deer. Any person | 22 | | using a dog for tracking wounded deer must maintain physical | 23 | | control of the dog at all times by means of a maximum 50 foot | 24 | | lead attached to the dog's collar or harness. Tracking wounded | 25 | | deer is permissible at night, but at no time outside of legal | 26 | | deer hunting hours or seasons shall any person handling or |
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| 1 | | accompanying a dog being used for tracking wounded deer be in | 2 | | possession of any firearm or archery device. Persons tracking | 3 | | wounded deer with a dog during the firearm deer seasons shall | 4 | | wear blaze orange as required. Dog handlers tracking wounded | 5 | | deer with a dog are exempt from hunting license and deer permit | 6 | | requirements so long as they are accompanied by the licensed | 7 | | deer hunter who wounded the deer.
| 8 | | It shall be unlawful to possess or transport any wild deer | 9 | | which has
been injured or killed in any manner upon a public | 10 | | highway or public
right-of-way of this State unless exempted by | 11 | | administrative rule.
| 12 | | Persons hunting deer must have gun unloaded and no bow and | 13 | | arrow
device shall be carried with the arrow in the nocked | 14 | | position during
hours when deer hunting is unlawful.
| 15 | | It shall be unlawful for any person, having taken the legal | 16 | | limit of
deer by gun, to further participate with gun in any | 17 | | deer hunting party.
| 18 | | It shall be unlawful for any person, having taken the legal | 19 | | limit
of deer by bow and arrow, to further participate with bow | 20 | | and arrow in any
deer hunting party.
| 21 | | The Department may prohibit upland game hunting during the | 22 | | gun deer
season by administrative rule.
| 23 | | The Department shall not limit the number of non-resident, | 24 | | either-sex archery deer hunting permits to less than 20,000.
| 25 | | Any person who violates any of the provisions of this | 26 | | Section,
including administrative rules, shall be guilty of a |
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| 1 | | Class B misdemeanor.
| 2 | | For the purposes of calculating acreage under this Section, | 3 | | the Department shall, after determining the total acreage of | 4 | | the applicable tract or tracts of land, round remaining | 5 | | fractional portions of an acre greater than or equal to half of | 6 | | an acre up to the next whole acre. | 7 | | For the purposes of taking white-tailed deer, nothing in | 8 | | this Section shall be construed to prevent the manipulation, | 9 | | including mowing or cutting, of standing crops as a normal | 10 | | agricultural or soil stabilization practice, food plots, or | 11 | | normal agricultural practices, including planting, harvesting, | 12 | | and maintenance such as cultivating or the use of products | 13 | | designed for scent only and not capable of ingestion, solid or | 14 | | liquid, placed or scattered, in such a manner as to attract or | 15 | | lure deer. Such manipulation for the purpose of taking | 16 | | white-tailed deer may be further modified by administrative | 17 | | rule. | 18 | | (Source: P.A. 98-180, eff. 8-5-13; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; | 19 | | 99-869, eff. 1-1-17 .)".
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