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91_HB2885enr HB2885 Enrolled LRB9107327DHmgA 1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois 2 by changing Section 205-15. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is 6 amended by changing Section 205-15 as follows: 7 (20 ILCS 205/205-15) (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8) 8 Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities. 9 (a) The Department has the power to encourage and 10 promote, in every practicable manner, the interests of 11 agriculture, including horticulture, the livestock industry, 12 dairying, cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the 13 production of wool, and all other allied industries. In 14 furtherance of the duties set forth in this subsection (a), 15 the Department may establish trust funds and bank accounts in 16 adequately protected financial institutions to receive and 17 disburse monies in connection with the conduct of food shows, 18 food expositions, trade shows, and other promotional 19 activities and to sell at cost, to qualified applicants, 20 signs designating farms that have been owned for 100 years or 21 more or 150 years or more by lineal or collateral descendants 22 of the same family as "Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial 23 Farms", respectively. The Department shall provide 24 applications for the signs, which shall be submitted with the 25 required fee. "Centennial Farms" and "Sesquicentennial 26 Farms" signs shall not contain within their design the name, 27 picture, or other likeness of any elected public official or 28 any appointed public official. 29 (b) The Department has the power to promote improved 30 methods of conducting the several industries described in 31 subsection (a) with a view to increasing the production and HB2885 Enrolled -2- LRB9107327DHmgA 1 facilitating the distribution thereof at the least cost. 2 (Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.) 3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 4 becoming law.