Full Text of HB2690 096th General Assembly
HB2690 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB2690
Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. David R. Leitch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 805/805-305 |
was 20 ILCS 805/63a23 |
515 ILCS 5/20-47 |
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520 ILCS 5/3.1 |
from Ch. 61, par. 3.1 |
520 ILCS 5/3.1-4 |
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Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Fish and Aquatic Life Code, and the Wildlife Code. Provides that veterans seeking certain fee and license waivers may apply for those waivers either at the Department's office in Springfield or through the Department's website (now, only at the Department's office in Springfield). In the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, inserts a provision requiring a service member who is applying for a waiver of certain camping fees to do so within 2 years after returning from active duty (now, similar provisions exist in the Fish and Aquatic Life Code as well as the Wildlife Code). In the Wildlife Code, provides that any person on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States who is now and who was at the time of entering the Armed Forces a resident of Illinois and who entered the Armed Forces from this State (now, and who is also presently on ordinary leave from the Armed Forces) may hunt without procuring a license. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning wildlife.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources | 5 |
| (Conservation) Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois | 6 |
| is amended by changing Section 805-305 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 805/805-305) (was 20 ILCS 805/63a23)
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| Sec. 805-305. Campsites and housing facilities. The
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| Department has the power to provide facilities for
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| tent and trailer camp sites and to provide suitable housing
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| facilities for student and juvenile overnight camping groups. | 12 |
| The Department
of Natural Resources may regulate, by | 13 |
| administrative
order, the fees to be charged for tent and | 14 |
| trailer camping units at individual
park areas based upon the | 15 |
| facilities available. However, for campsites with
access to | 16 |
| showers or electricity, any Illinois resident who is age 62 or | 17 |
| older
or has a Class 2 disability as defined in Section 4A of | 18 |
| the Illinois
Identification Card Act shall be charged only | 19 |
| one-half of the camping fee
charged to the general public | 20 |
| during the period Monday through Thursday of any
week and shall | 21 |
| be charged the same camping fee as the general public on all
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| other days. For campsites without access to showers or | 23 |
| electricity, no camping
fee authorized by this Section shall be |
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| charged to any resident of Illinois who
has a Class 2 | 2 |
| disability as defined in Section 4A of the Illinois
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| Identification Card Act. For campsites without access to | 4 |
| showers or
electricity, no camping fee authorized by this | 5 |
| Section shall be charged to any
resident of Illinois who is age | 6 |
| 62 or older for
the use of a camp site unit during the period | 7 |
| Monday through Thursday of any
week. No camping fee authorized | 8 |
| by this Section shall be charged to any
resident of Illinois | 9 |
| who is a disabled veteran or a former prisoner of
war, as | 10 |
| defined in Section 5 of the Department of Veterans Affairs Act.
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| No camping fee authorized by this Section shall be charged to | 12 |
| any
resident of Illinois after returning from service abroad or | 13 |
| mobilization by the President of the United States as an active | 14 |
| duty member of the United States Armed Forces, the Illinois | 15 |
| National Guard, or the Reserves of the United States Armed | 16 |
| Forces for the amount of time that the active duty member spent | 17 |
| in service abroad or mobilized if the person , within 2 years | 18 |
| after returning, applies for a pass either at the Department | 19 |
| office in Springfield or through the Department's website | 20 |
| within 2 years of returning and provides verification of | 21 |
| service or mobilization to the Department; any portion of a | 22 |
| year that the active duty member spent in service abroad or | 23 |
| mobilized shall count as a full year. Nonresidents shall be | 24 |
| charged the same fees as are authorized for the general
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| regardless of age. The Department shall provide by regulation | 26 |
| for
suitable proof of age, or either a valid driver's license |
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| or a "Golden Age
Passport" issued by the federal government | 2 |
| shall be acceptable as proof of
age. The Department shall | 3 |
| further provide by regulation that notice of
these
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| admission fees be posted in a conspicuous place and manner.
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| Reduced fees authorized in this Section shall not apply to | 6 |
| any charge for
utility service.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-313, eff. 7-25-05.)
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| Section 10. The Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by | 9 |
| changing Section 20-47 as follows: | 10 |
| (515 ILCS 5/20-47)
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| Sec. 20-47. Military members returning from mobilization | 12 |
| and service outside the United States. | 13 |
| (a) After returning from service abroad or mobilization by | 14 |
| the President of the United States as an active duty member of | 15 |
| the United States Armed Forces, the Illinois National Guard, or | 16 |
| the Reserves of the United States Armed Forces, an Illinois | 17 |
| resident may fish as permitted by this Code without paying any | 18 |
| fees required to obtain a fishing license for the time period | 19 |
| prescribed by subsection (b) of this Section if the Illinois | 20 |
| resident applies for a license within 2 years of returning from | 21 |
| service abroad or mobilization. The applicant shall provide | 22 |
| verification of service or mobilization to the Department | 23 |
| either at the Department's office in Springfield or through the | 24 |
| Department's website . |
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| (b) For each year that an applicant is an active duty | 2 |
| member pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section, the | 3 |
| applicant shall receive one free fishing license. For the | 4 |
| purposes of this determination, if the period of active duty is | 5 |
| a portion of a year (for example, one year and 3 months), the | 6 |
| applicant will be credited with a full year for the portion of | 7 |
| a year served. | 8 |
| (c) The Department shall establish what constitutes | 9 |
| suitable verification of service or mobilization under | 10 |
| subsection (a) of this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-313, eff. 7-25-05.) | 12 |
| Section 15. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing | 13 |
| Sections 3.1 and 3.1-4 as follows:
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| (520 ILCS 5/3.1) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1)
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| Sec. 3.1. License and stamps required.
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| (a) Before any person shall take or attempt to take any of | 17 |
| the species
protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season | 18 |
| is established under this
Act, he shall first have procured and | 19 |
| possess a valid hunting license, except as provided in Section | 20 |
| 3.1-5 of this Code.
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| Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take or
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| attempt to take any bird of the species defined as migratory | 23 |
| waterfowl by
Section 2.2, including coots, he shall first have | 24 |
| procured a State
Migratory Waterfowl Stamp.
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| Before any person 16 years of age or older takes, attempts | 2 |
| to take, or
pursues any species of wildlife protected by this | 3 |
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waterfowl, coots, and hand-reared birds | 4 |
| on licensed game breeding and hunting
preserve areas and state | 5 |
| controlled pheasant hunting areas, he or she shall
first obtain | 6 |
| a State Habitat Stamp. Disabled veterans and former prisoners | 7 |
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war shall not be required to obtain State Habitat Stamps. | 8 |
| Any person who
obtained a lifetime license before January 1, | 9 |
| 1993, shall not be required to
obtain State Habitat Stamps. | 10 |
| Income from the sale of State Furbearer Stamps and
State | 11 |
| Pheasant Stamps received after the effective date of this | 12 |
| amendatory Act
of 1992 shall be deposited into the State | 13 |
| Furbearer Fund and State Pheasant
Fund, respectively.
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| Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take, | 15 |
| attempt to
take, or sell the green hide of any mammal of the | 16 |
| species defined as
fur-bearing mammals by Section 2.2 for which | 17 |
| an open season is established
under this Act, he shall first | 18 |
| have procured a State Habitat Stamp.
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| (b) Before any person who is a non-resident of the State of | 20 |
| Illinois
shall take or attempt to take any of the species | 21 |
| protected by Section
2.2
for which an open season is | 22 |
| established under this Act, he shall,
unless specifically | 23 |
| exempted by law, first procure a non-resident
license as | 24 |
| provided by this Act for the taking of any wild game.
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| Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take | 26 |
| white-tailed deer,
he shall first have procured a Deer Hunting |
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| Permit as defined in Section
2.26 of this Code.
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| Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take wild | 3 |
| turkeys, he
shall have procured a Wild Turkey Hunting Permit as | 4 |
| defined in Section 2.11
of this Code.
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| (c) The owners residing on, or bona fide tenants of, farm | 6 |
| lands and their
children, parents, brothers, and sisters | 7 |
| actually permanently residing on
their lands shall have the | 8 |
| right to hunt any of the species protected by
Section 2.2 upon | 9 |
| their lands and waters without procuring hunting licenses;
but | 10 |
| the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with | 11 |
| devices
and by methods as are permitted by this Act. Any person | 12 |
| on active duty
with the Armed Forces of the United States who | 13 |
| is now and who was at the
time of entering the Armed Forces a | 14 |
| resident of Illinois and who entered
the Armed Forces from this | 15 |
| State, and who is presently on ordinary leave
from the Armed | 16 |
| Forces, and any resident of Illinois who is disabled may hunt
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| any of the species protected by Section 2.2 without procuring a | 18 |
| hunting
license, but the hunting shall be done only during such | 19 |
| periods of time and
with devices and by methods as are | 20 |
| permitted by this Act. For the purpose of
this Section a person | 21 |
| is disabled when that person has a Type 1 or Type 4,
Class 2 | 22 |
| disability as defined in Section 4A of the Illinois | 23 |
| Identification Card
Act. For purposes of this Section, an | 24 |
| Illinois Disabled Person Identification
Card issued pursuant | 25 |
| to the Illinois Identification Card Act indicating that
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| person named has a Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2 disability shall |
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| be adequate
documentation of the disability.
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| (d) A courtesy non-resident license, permit, or stamp for | 3 |
| taking game
may be issued at the
discretion of the Director, | 4 |
| without fee, to any person officially employed
in the game and | 5 |
| fish or conservation department of another state or of the
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| United States who is within the State to assist or consult or | 7 |
| cooperate
with the Director; or to the officials of other | 8 |
| states, the United States,
foreign countries, or officers or | 9 |
| representatives of conservation
organizations or publications | 10 |
| while in the State as guests of the Governor
or Director. The | 11 |
| Director may provide to nonresident participants and
official | 12 |
| gunners at field trials an exemption from licensure while
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| participating in a field trial.
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| (e) State Migratory Waterfowl Stamps shall be required for | 15 |
| those persons
qualifying under subsections (c) and (d) who | 16 |
| intend to hunt migratory
waterfowl, including coots, to the | 17 |
| extent that hunting licenses of the
various types are | 18 |
| authorized and required by this Section for those persons.
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| (f) Registration in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Migratory | 20 |
| Bird Harvest
Information Program shall be required for those | 21 |
| persons who are required to
have a hunting license before | 22 |
| taking
or attempting to take any bird of the species defined as | 23 |
| migratory game birds
by Section 2.2, except that this | 24 |
| subsection shall not apply to crows in this
State
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| hand-reared birds on licensed game breeding and hunting | 26 |
| preserve areas, for
which an open season is established by this |
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| Act. Persons registering with the
Program must carry proof of | 2 |
| registration with them while migratory bird
hunting.
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| The Department shall publish suitable prescribed | 4 |
| regulations pertaining to
registration by the migratory bird | 5 |
| hunter in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Migratory Bird | 6 |
| Harvest Information Program.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-1024, eff. 7-14-06.)
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| (520 ILCS 5/3.1-4) | 9 |
| Sec. 3.1-4. Military members returning from mobilization | 10 |
| and service outside the United States. | 11 |
| (a) After returning from service abroad or mobilization by | 12 |
| the President of the United States as an active duty member of | 13 |
| the United States Armed Forces, the Illinois National Guard, or | 14 |
| the Reserves of the United States Armed Forces, an Illinois | 15 |
| resident may hunt any of the species protected by Section 2.2 | 16 |
| of this Code without paying any fees required to obtain a | 17 |
| hunting license for the time period prescribed by subsection | 18 |
| (b) of this Section if the Illinois resident applies for a | 19 |
| license within 2 years of returning from service abroad or | 20 |
| mobilization. The applicant shall provide verification of | 21 |
| service or mobilization to the Department either at the | 22 |
| Department's office in Springfield or through the Department's | 23 |
| website . | 24 |
| (b) For each year that an applicant is an active duty | 25 |
| member pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section, the |
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| applicant shall receive one free hunting license, one free Deer | 2 |
| Hunting Permit as provided in Section 2.26 of this Code and | 3 |
| rules adopted pursuant to that Section, and one free State | 4 |
| Habitat Stamp. For the purposes of this determination, if the | 5 |
| period of active duty is a portion of a year (for example, one | 6 |
| year and 3 months), the applicant will be credited with a full | 7 |
| year for the portion of a year served. | 8 |
| (c) The Department shall establish what constitutes | 9 |
| suitable verification of service or mobilization under | 10 |
| subsection (a) of this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-313, eff. 7-25-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 |
| becoming law.
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