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90_HB2721
520 ILCS 5/2.36a from Ch. 61, par. 2.36a
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that the fair market
value or replacement cost (now stated values) shall determine
the value of protected species to classify hunting and
trapping violations, but that the minimum value shall not be
less than the provision's stated values. Increases the
stated value for a bald eagle to $500 (now $200) and for
antlered whitetail deer to $500 (now all whitetail deer,
$145).
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1 AN ACT to amend the Wildlife Code by changing Section
2 2.36a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
6 Section 2.36a as follows:
7 (520 ILCS 5/2.36a) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.36a)
8 Sec. 2.36a. Value of protected species; violations.
9 (a) Any person who, for profit or commercial purposes,
10 knowingly captures or kills, possesses, offers for sale,
11 sells, offers to barter, barters, offers to purchase,
12 purchases, delivers for shipment, ships, exports, imports,
13 causes to be shipped, exported, or imported, delivers for
14 transportation, transports or causes to be transported,
15 carries or causes to be carried, or receives for shipment,
16 transportation, carriage, or export any animal or part of
17 animal of the species protected by this Act, contrary to the
18 provisions of this Act, and such animals, in whole or in
19 part, are valued in excess of a total of $300, as per specie
20 value specified in subsection (c) of this Section, commits a
21 Class 3 felony.
22 (b) Possession of animals, in whole or in part, captured
23 or killed in violation of this Act, valued in excess of $600,
24 as per specie value specified in subsection (c) of this
25 Section, shall be considered prima facie evidence of
26 possession for profit or commercial purposes.
27 (c) For purposes of this Section, the fair market value
28 or replacement cost shall determine the value of the
29 protected species; however, the minimum value of all species
30 protected by this Act shall not be less than the following
31 are as follows:
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1 (1) Bald eagle, $500 $200;
2 (2) Whitetail deer: without antlers as defined by
3 administrative rule, $145; with antlers as defined by
4 administrative rule, $500;
5 (2.5) and Wild turkey, $145;
6 (3) Fur-bearing mammals, $25;
7 (4) Game birds, (except the wild turkey), migratory
8 game birds, resident and migratory non-game birds (except
9 bald eagle and those listed in (5) below), game mammals
10 (except whitetail deer), and non-game mammals, $10;
11 (5) Eagles, owls, hawks, falcons, kites, harriers,
12 and ospreys, $125.
13 (Source: P.A. 87-435.)