Public Act 0111 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB2998 Enrolled LRB100 05802 SLF 15825 b

Public Act 100-0111

AN ACT concerning animals.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

(510 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 169)

Sec. 2. Duty to investigate; rulemaking. It is the duty of the Department to investigate all cases or alleged cases coming to its knowledge of contamination or contagious and infectious diseases among animals within the State and to provide for the suppression, prevention, and extirpation of contamination or infectious and contagious diseases of such animals.

The Department may make and adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Act. No rule or regulation made, adopted or issued by the Department pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be effective unless such rule or regulation has been submitted to the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners for approval. The Department shall maintain on its website access to the Department's rules under this Act. All rules of the Department, and all amendments or revocations of existing rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall be adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the Department, and shall constitute a public record. Such rules shall be printed in pamphlet form and furnished, upon request, to the public free of cost.

(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/15/2017