Chapter 510, ANIMALS

(510 ILCS 68/70-5) Sec. 70-5. Suspension of privileges and revocation of permits. A person who does not hold a Herptile Special Use permit or Limited Entry permit and who violates a provision of this Act, an administrative rule authorized under this Act, or a provision of the Uni…

(510 ILCS 68/75-5) Sec. 75-5. Record keeping requirements. A person who possesses a special use herptile must maintain records pertaining to the acquisition, possession, and disposition of the special use herptile as provided by administrative rule. These records shall be maintai…

(510 ILCS 68/80-5) Sec. 80-5. Injury to a member of public by special use herptiles. A person who possesses a special use herptile without complying with the requirements of this Act and the rules adopted under the authority of this Act and whose special use herptile causes bodil…

(510 ILCS 68/85-5) Sec. 85-5. Prohibited acts. Except as otherwise provided in this Act or by administrative rule, a person shall not own, possess, keep, import, transfer, harbor, bring into this State, breed, propagate, buy, sell, or offer to sell, or have in his or her custody …

(510 ILCS 68/87-10) Sec. 87-10. Possession of a disease carrying herptile. (a) Upon discovery that a herptile is harboring a disease, pathogen, or fungus specified in administrative rule, the owner or person in possession of the herptile shall notify the Department under administ…

(510 ILCS 68/87-5) Sec. 87-5. Herptile diseases. The Department may investigate, in conjunction with a licensed veterinarian, the transmission or potential transmission of any disease in a natural or captive population of an amphibian or reptile species. The Department may promul…

(510 ILCS 68/90-10) Sec. 90-10. Commercial purposes; offenses. (a) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, any person who for profit or commercial purposes knowingly captures, kills, possesses, offers for sale, sells, offers to barter, barters, offers to purchase, purchases, deliv…

(510 ILCS 68/90-5) Sec. 90-5. Penalties. (a) Unless otherwise stated in this Act, a violation of this Act is a Class A misdemeanor. (b) A person who violates Article 85 of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequ…

(510 ILCS 68/95-10) Sec. 95-10. Civil liability and immunity. The owner, keeper, or possessor of a herptile that escapes captivity or is released shall be liable for any and all damages and costs to any person or property arising out of or in connection with the escape or release…

(510 ILCS 68/95-5) Sec. 95-5. Assumption of risk. Each person who owns, possesses, or keeps a herptile expressly assumes the risk of and legal responsibility for injury, loss, or damage to the person or property that results from the ownership, possession, or keeping, of the herp…

(510 ILCS 68/100-10) Sec. 100-10. Search and seizure. Whenever any authorized employee of the Department, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other peace officer of the State has reason to believe that any person, owner, possessor, commercial institution, pet store, or reptile show vendo…

(510 ILCS 68/100-15) Sec. 100-15. Seizure and forfeiture. If any person is found to possess a special use herptile that is in violation of this Act, including any administrative rules, then the special use herptile and any equipment or items used contrary to this Act shall be sub…

(510 ILCS 68/100-5) Sec. 100-5. Prima facie evidence; confiscation. The possession of any herptile, special use herptile, or part of any herptile or special use herptile protected under this Act is prima facie evidence that the herptile or special use herptile or any part of is s…

(510 ILCS 68/105-10) Sec. 105-10. Conservation of herptiles. The Department shall take all measures necessary for the conservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of herptiles. The Department shall also bring or cause to be brought actions and proceedings, in the nam…

(510 ILCS 68/105-100) Sec. 105-100. Home rule. A municipality or county may adopt an ordinance governing amphibian and reptile species that is more restrictive than this Act. (Source: P.A. 98-752, eff. 1-1-15.)

(510 ILCS 68/105-15) Sec. 105-15. Peace officers. All employees of the Department authorized by the Director shall have the power of, and shall be, peace officers in the enforcement of this Act, including administrative rules, and may carry weapons as may be necessary in the perf…

(510 ILCS 68/105-20) Sec. 105-20. Arrests; warrants. All authorized employees of the Department and all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and other police officers shall arrest any person detected in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, including administrative rules. Any dul…

(510 ILCS 68/105-25) Sec. 105-25. Prosecutions; State's Attorneys. All prosecutions shall be brought in the name and by the authority of the People of the State of Illinois before the circuit court for the county where the offense was committed. All State's Attorneys shall enforc…

(510 ILCS 68/105-30) Sec. 105-30. Statute of limitations. All prosecutions under this Act shall be commenced within 3 years after the commission of the offense if it is a felony, or within one year and 6 months after its commission if it is a misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 102-315, e…

(510 ILCS 68/105-35) Sec. 105-35. Collection of fines. All fines provided for by this Act shall be collected and remitted to the Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund, within 30 days after the collection of the fine, by the clerk of the circuit court collecting the fines who shall …

(510 ILCS 68/105-40) Sec. 105-40. Power of entry and examination; access to lands and waters. Authorized employees of the Department are empowered, under law, to enter all lands and waters to enforce the provisions of this Act. Authorized employees are further empowered to examin…

(510 ILCS 68/105-45) Sec. 105-45. Obstructing an officer. It shall be unlawful for any person to resist or obstruct any officer or employee of the Department in the discharge of his or her duties under this Act. Any person who violates this provision is guilty of a Class A misdem…

(510 ILCS 68/105-5) Sec. 105-5. Administrative rules. The Department is authorized to adopt administrative rules for carrying out, administering, and enforcing the provisions of this Act. The administrative rules shall be adopted in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Pro…

(510 ILCS 68/105-50) Sec. 105-50. Posing as an officer or employee. It shall be unlawful for any person to represent himself or herself falsely to be an officer or employee of the Department or to assume to act as an officer or employee of the Department without having been duly …

(510 ILCS 68/105-55) Sec. 105-55. Illegal collecting devices; public nuisance. Every collecting device, including seines, nets, traps, pillowcases, bags, snake hooks or tongs, or any electrical device or any other devices including vehicles or conveyance, watercraft, or aircraft …

(510 ILCS 68/105-60) Sec. 105-60. Violations; separate offenses. Each act of pursuing, taking, shipping, offered or received for shipping, offering or receiving for shipment, transporting, buying, selling or bartering, or having in one's possession any protected herptile or any p…

(510 ILCS 68/105-65) Sec. 105-65. Accessory to violation; accountability. (a) Any person who aids in or contributes in any way to a violation of this Act, including administrative rules, is individually liable, as a separate offense under this Act, for the penalties imposed again…

(510 ILCS 68/105-70) Sec. 105-70. Permit fraudulently obtained. No person shall at any time: (1) falsify, alter, or change in any manner, or provide deceptive or false information required for any permit issued under the provisions of this Act; (2) falsify any record required by …

(510 ILCS 68/105-75) Sec. 105-75. Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund; disposition of money received. All fees, fines, income of whatever kind or nature derived from herptile activities regulated by this Act on lands, waters, or both under the jurisdiction or control of the Depar…

(510 ILCS 68/105-80) Sec. 105-80. Ownership and title of wild indigenous reptiles and amphibians. The ownership of and title to all wild indigenous herptile life within the boundaries of the State are hereby declared to be in the State and no wild indigenous herptile life shall b…

(510 ILCS 68/105-85) Sec. 105-85. Application. This Act shall apply to reptile and amphibian life or any part of reptile and amphibian life (i) in or from any of the waters or lands wholly within the boundaries of the State or over which the State has concurrent jurisdiction with…

(510 ILCS 68/105-90) Sec. 105-90. Taking on private property. It is unlawful for any person to take or attempt to take any species of reptile or amphibian, or parts thereof, within or upon the land of another, or upon waters flowing over or standing on the land of another, withou…

(510 ILCS 68/105-95) Sec. 105-95. Financial value of herptiles. (a) For purposes of this Act, replacement cost shall be used to determine the financial value of the herptile species protected by this Act, but in no case shall the minimum value of any species protected under this …

(510 ILCS 68/110-5) Sec. 110-5. Exemptions. When acting in their official capacity, the following entities and their agents are exempt from Sections 75-5 and 85-5 of this Act: (1) public zoos or aquaria accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums or the Zoological Associa…

(510 ILCS 68/900-10) Sec. 900-10. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-752, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)

(510 ILCS 68/900-15) Sec. 900-15. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-752, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)

(510 ILCS 68/900-5) Sec. 900-5. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-752, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)

(510 ILCS 60/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 23y) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Domesticated Wild Animals Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(510 ILCS 85/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 130.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Poultry Inspection Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(510 ILCS 10/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 105.10) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Animal Disease Laboratories Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(510 ILCS 15/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 202.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Animal Gastroenteritis Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(510 ILCS 75/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 229.50) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(510 ILCS 67/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois Equine Research and Promotion Act. (Source: P.A. 93-135, eff. 7-10-03.)

(510 ILCS 45/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 901) Sec. 1. This Act may be cited as the Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act of 1993. (Source: P.A. 88-136.)

(510 ILCS 92/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois Public Health and Safety Animal Population Control Act. (Source: P.A. 94-639, eff. 8-22-05.)

(510 ILCS 65/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 951) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act". (Source: P.A. 86-223.)

(510 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 24) Sec. 1. All birds and animals ferae naturae or naturally wild, including fur bearing animals not native to this State, when raised or in domestication, or kept in enclosures and reduced to possession, are hereby declared to be objects of owne…

(510 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 105.11) Sec. 1. Laboratory services. (a) The Department of Agriculture is authorized to establish such additional number of animal disease laboratories, not exceeding five, as may be necessary to serve the livestock and poultry industry of the St…

(510 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 134) Sec. 1. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 2. (Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15.)

(510 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 168) Sec. 1. For the purposes of this Act: "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois. "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, or his duly appointed representative. "Contagious or in…