(410 ILCS 90/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 232)
Sec. 2.
Such agreement and program may provide for testing new starling
control methods and procedures and the employment of presently available
methods where applicable in cooperation with livestock producing interests
in the state. It may also include a study of the role of starlings, bird
pests, rodents and predatory animals in carrying transmissible
gastroenteritis (T.G.E.) and other diseases to swine and other animals.
The program may include the reduction of the population of wild animal
species which are known carriers of rabies. The cooperation of the
Department of Natural Resources, the Department of
Public Health, and of county,
state and local health services and veterinarians shall be solicited and
this work shall be done in those areas where wild life rabies constitutes
an acute threat and population reduction is deemed advisable by the
cooperating organizations. The program may also include work in cooperation
with local authorities and agencies to control rat and other rodent
populations in those areas where such an effort is deemed advisable.
Assistance and cooperation of the Department of Public Health, the
Department of Natural Resources, the Natural History
Survey, the College of
Veterinary Medicine of the University of Illinois, the College of
Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Service and of county, city and
other local health departments and agencies may be solicited and encouraged
to the extent such departments and agencies may be able to give assistance.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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