Public Act 099-0357
 
HB3231 EnrolledLRB099 08092 MGM 28238 b


  
    AN ACT concerning animals.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
    Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended  by 
changing Section 3.01 as follows:
 



    (510 ILCS 70/3.01)  (from Ch. 8, par. 703.01)



    Sec. 3.01. Cruel treatment. 
    (a) No person or owner may beat, cruelly treat,
torment, 
starve, overwork or otherwise abuse any animal.

    (b) No owner may abandon any animal where it may become a 
public charge or
may suffer injury, hunger or exposure.

    (c) A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty 
of a Class A
misdemeanor.  A second or subsequent conviction for 
a violation of this Section
is a Class 4 felony. In addition to 
any other penalty provided by law, a person who is convicted of 
violating subsection (a) upon a companion animal in the 
presence of a child, as defined in Section 12-0.1 of the 
Criminal Code of 2012, shall be subject to a fine of $250 and 
ordered to perform community service for not less than 100 
hours.  In addition to any other penalty provided by law, upon

conviction for violating this Section, the court may order the 
convicted person
to undergo a psychological or psychiatric 
evaluation and to undergo any
treatment at the convicted 
person's expense that the court determines to be
appropriate 
after due consideration of the evidence.  If the convicted 
person
is a juvenile or a companion animal hoarder, the court 
must order the convicted
person to undergo a psychological or 
psychiatric evaluation and to undergo
treatment that the court 
determines to be appropriate after due consideration
of the 
evaluation.

(Source: P.A. 92-650, eff. 7-11-02.)