Public Act 099-0823
 
HB4318 EnrolledLRB099 14578 MGM 38710 b


  
    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil 
Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended  by changing Section 
205-15 as follows:
 



    (20 ILCS 205/205-15)  (was 20 ILCS 205/40.7 and 205/40.8)



    Sec. 205-15. Promotional activities. 

    (a) The Department has the power to encourage and promote, 
in every
practicable manner,
the interests of agriculture, 
including horticulture, the livestock
industry, dairying, 
cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the
production 
of wool, and all other allied industries.   In furtherance of
the 
duties set forth in this Section subsection (a), the Department 
may
establish trust
funds and bank accounts in adequately 
protected financial institutions
to receive and disburse 
monies in connection with the conduct of food
shows, food 
expositions, trade shows, and other promotional activities and

to
sell
at cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating 
farms that
have been
owned for 100
years
or more
or 150 years 
or more
by lineal or collateral descendants of the same family 
as
"Centennial Farms" or "Sesquicentennial Farms", 
respectively.  The
Department shall provide applications for 
the signs, which shall
be submitted
with the
required fee.  
"Centennial Farms"
and "Sesquicentennial Farms"
signs shall 
not contain within their
design
the name,
picture, or other 
likeness of any elected public official or any appointed
public 
official.

    (b) The Department has the power to promote improved

methods of conducting the several
industries described in 
subsection (a) with a view to increasing the
production and 
facilitating the
distribution thereof at the least cost.

    (c)   The Department may sell at cost, to qualified 
applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been 
operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more 
as the same agribusiness. As used in this  subsection (c), 
"agribusiness" means a business or businesses under the same 
name or ownership that are collectively associated with the 
production, processing, and distribution of agricultural 
products. The Department shall provide applications for the 
signs, which shall be submitted with the required fee. 
(Source: P.A. 90-598, eff. 1-1-99; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-717, 
eff. 6-2-00.)

  


Effective Date:  1/1/2017