TITLE 17: CONSERVATION CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER b: FISH AND WILDLIFE PART 570 MUSKRAT, MINK, RACCOON, OPOSSUM, STRIPED SKUNK, WEASEL, RED FOX, GRAY FOX, COYOTE, BADGER, RIVER OTTER, BEAVER, BOBCAT AND WOODCHUCK (GROUNDHOG) TRAPPING The General Assembly's Illinois Administrative Code database includes only those rulemakings that have been permanently adopted. This menu will point out the Sections on which an emergency rule (valid for a maximum of 150 days, usually until replaced by a permanent rulemaking) exists. The emergency rulemaking is linked through the notation that follows the Section heading in the menu. View Entire Part Section 570.10 Statewide Zones Section 570.15 Closed Zone – Bobcat Trapping Section 570.20 Statewide Season Dates Section 570.30 Statewide Hours, Daily Limit and Possession Limit Section 570.31 Permit and Tagging Requirements Section 570.32 Limits on Total Harvest - Bobcat Section 570.35 Use of Rifles, Pistols and Airguns by Trappers During Deer Gun Season Section 570.40 Trapping Regulations on Department-Owned, -Leased or -Managed Sites

AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by Sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.10, 2.1, 2.2, 2.30, 2.30b, 2.33, 2.33a and 3.5 of the Wildlife Code [520 ILCS 5].

SOURCE: Adopted at 5 Ill. Reg. 9767, effective September 17, 1981; codified at 5 Ill. Reg. 10637; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 10709, effective August 20, 1982; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 10778, effective August 24, 1983; amended at 8 Ill. Reg. 21589, effective October 23, 1984; amended at 9 Ill. Reg. 15864, effective October 7, 1985; amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 16644, effective September 24, 1986; amended at 12 Ill. Reg. 12034, effective July 7, 1988; emergency amendments at 12 Ill. Reg. 16261, effective September 23, 1988, for a maximum of 150 days; emergency expired February 20, 1989; amended at 13 Ill. Reg. 10589, effective June 15, 1989; amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 14775, effective September 4, 1990; amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 19854, effective December 3, 1990; amended at 15 Ill. Reg. 11586, effective August 2, 1991; amended at 16 Ill. Reg. 11069, effective June 30, 1992; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 10785, effective July 1, 1993; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 18796, effective October 19, 1993; amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 10077, effective June 21, 1994; amended at 19 Ill. Reg. 12640, effective August 29, 1995; amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 12351, effective August 30, 1996; amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 9070, effective June 26, 1997; amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 14809, effective August 3, 1998; amended at 23 Ill. Reg. 9055, effective July 28, 1999; amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 8929, effective June 19, 2000; amended at 25 Ill. Reg. 9887, effective July 17, 2001; amended at 26 Ill. Reg. 13809, effective September 5, 2002; amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 749, effective January 6, 2003; amended at 28 Ill. Reg. 11883, effective July 27, 2004; amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 9643, effective June 27, 2005; amended at 30 Ill. Reg. 12143, effective June 28, 2006; amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 13117, effective August 30, 2007; amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 10104, effective June 30, 2008; amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 9691, effective June 26, 2009; amended at 34 Ill. Reg. 12820, effective August 20, 2010; amended at 35 Ill. Reg. 13149, effective July 26, 2011; amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 14408, effective September 5, 2012; amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 20659, effective December 12, 2013; amended at 39 Ill. Reg. 11373, effective August 3, 2015; amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 8568, effective June 13, 2016; amended at 41 Ill. Reg. 8558, effective June 28, 2017; amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 2838, effective January 24, 2018; amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 13100, effective June 22, 2018; amended at 43 Ill. Reg. 9448, effective August 23, 2019; amended at 45 Ill. Reg. 12637, effective September 24, 2021; amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 18576, effective November 2, 2022; amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 3885, effective March 1, 2024; amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 15544, effective October 17, 2024.