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90_HB1547

      510 ILCS 50/1             from Ch. 8, par. 168
      510 ILCS 50/3             from Ch. 8, par. 170
      510 ILCS 50/19            from Ch. 8, par. 186
      510 ILCS 50/22            from Ch. 8, par. 189
      510 ILCS 50/24            from Ch. 8, par. 191
      510 ILCS 100/3            from Ch. 8, par. 503
          Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act.  Provides  that
      the  Department  of  Agriculture may designate a disease as a
      "contagious  or  infectious  disease"  or  as  a  "reportable
      disease" by  rule.  Provides  that  a  veterinarian  who  has
      information  on  the existence of any reportable (rather than
      contagious or  infectious)  disease  among  animals  in  this
      State,  who fails to report it, shall be guilty of a business
      offense (rather than a Class A misdemeanor), with a  fine  of
      not  more  than  $1,000.   Changes  provisions directing that
      owners of swine who do  not  report   the  existence  of  hog
      cholera  or  any other contagious or infectious swine disease
      and who transport diseased swine shall be  liable  to  anyone
      suffering   damage  as  a  result,  to  identical  provisions
      applying to all owners  of  animals  and  any  contagious  or
      infectious   disease.   Amends  the  Illinois  Swine  Disease
      Control  and  Eradication  Act  to  define   "contagious   or
      infectious disease" as it is defined in the Illinois Diseased
      Animals Act.  Makes other changes.
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 1        AN ACT regarding diseased animals, amending named Acts.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is  amended
 5    by changing Sections 1, 3, 19, 22, and 24 as follows:
 6        (510 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 168)
 7        Sec. 1. For the purposes of this Act:
 8        "Department"  means  the Department of Agriculture of the
 9    State of Illinois.
10        "Director" means the Director of the Illinois  Department
11    of Agriculture, or his duly appointed representative.
12        "Contagious  or  infectious  disease"  means  a  specific
13    disease   designated  by  the  Department  as  contagious  or
14    infectious under rules pertaining to this Act.
15        "Reportable disease" means a specific disease  designated
16    by  the  Department  as  reportable under rules pertaining to
17    this Act.
18        "Infectious disease" means the  reaction  resulting  from
19    the    introduction    into    the   body   of   a   specific
20    disease-producing organism or its toxic product.
21        "Contagious disease" means a specific infectious  disease
22    which  is  readily  transmitted  from  host to host by direct
23    contact or by means of an intermediate host.
24        "Animals"  means  domestic  animals,  poultry,  and  wild
25    animals in captivity.
26    (Source: P.A. 81-196.)
27        (510 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 170)
28        Sec. 3. Upon its becoming known to  the  Department  that
29    any  animals  are  infected,  or suspected of being infected,
30    with any contagious or  infectious  disease,  the  Department
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 1    shall  have the authority to cause proper examination thereof
 2    to be made;  and  if  such  disease  is  found  to  be  of  a
 3    dangerously  contagious  or  dangerously  infectious  nature,
 4    shall  order  such  diseased  animals  and  such as have been
 5    exposed to such disease, and the premises in or on which they
 6    are, or  have  recently  occupied,  to  be  quarantined.  The
 7    Department may, in connection with any such quarantine, order
 8    that  no  animal which has been or is so diseased, or exposed
 9    to  such  disease,  may  be  removed  from  the  premises  so
10    quarantined and that no animal susceptible  to  such  disease
11    may be brought therein or thereon, except under such rules as
12    the Department may prescribe.
13    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3164.)
14        (510 ILCS 50/19) (from Ch. 8, par. 186)
15        Sec.  19.  Any railroad, truck, steamboat, transportation
16    or stockyard company  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of
17    Section 18, or any of the rules of the Department referred to
18    therein,  shall  be guilty of a business offense and shall be
19    fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars  ($1,000)
20    for each offense.
21    (Source: P.A. 77-2679.)
22        (510 ILCS 50/22) (from Ch. 8, par. 189)
23        Sec.  22.  Any  veterinarian  having  information  of the
24    existence of any reportable contagious or infectious  disease
25    among  animals  in  this  State, who fails to promptly report
26    such knowledge to  the  Department,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
27    business  offense and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
28    $1,000 for each offense Class A misdemeanor.
29    (Source: P.A. 77-2679.)
30        (510 ILCS 50/24) (from Ch. 8, par. 191)
31        Sec. 24. Any owner or person having charge of any  animal
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 1    swine  and  having  knowledge  of,  or  reasonable grounds to
 2    suspect the existence among them of,  the  disease  known  as
 3    "hog  cholera,"  or  of  any  other  contagious or infectious
 4    disease and who does not use reasonable means to prevent  the
 5    spread  of  such  disease;  or  who conveys upon or along any
 6    public highway or other public grounds or any private  lands,
 7    any diseased animal swine, or animal swine known to have died
 8    of,  or  been  slaughtered  on  account of, any contagious or
 9    infectious disease, shall be liable in damages to the  person
10    or persons who may have suffered loss on account thereof.
11    (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 1, p. 24.)
12        Section  10.   The  Illinois  Swine  Disease  Control and
13    Eradication Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
14        (510 ILCS 100/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 503)
15        Sec. 3.  It is the duty of the  owner  or  person  having
16    charge  of  any  swine  and having knowledge of or reasonable
17    grounds to suspect the existence  among  such  swine  of  any
18    contagious  or infectious disease, as defined in Section 1 of
19    the Illinois Diseased Animals  Act,  to  use  all  reasonable
20    means  to  prevent  the  spread  of  the  disease.  When such
21    knowledge comes to such person that any swine had died of, or
22    had been slaughtered on account of any such  disease,  it  is
23    such  person's  duty  to immediately dispose of such swine as
24    provided in "An Act in  relation  to  the  disposal  of  dead
25    animals",  approved  July  16,  1941,  as  now  or  hereafter
26    amended.
27    (Source: P.A. 86-231.)

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