Public Act 094-1024
 		





HB5407 Enrolled
LRB094 17166 RSP 52454 b






    AN ACT concerning wildlife.

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

 
    Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended  by changing Section 
3.1 and  by adding Section 3.1-5 as follows:

 



    (520 ILCS 5/3.1)  (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1)



    Sec. 3.1. License and stamps required. 

    (a) Before any person shall take or attempt to take any of 
the species
protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season 
is established under this
Act, he shall first have procured and 
possess a valid hunting license, except as provided in Section 
3.1-5 of this Code.

    Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take or

attempt to take any bird of the species defined as migratory 
waterfowl by
Section 2.2, including coots, he shall first have 
procured a State
Migratory Waterfowl Stamp.

    Before any person 16 years of age or older takes, attempts 
to take, or
pursues any species of wildlife protected by this 
Code, except migratory
waterfowl, coots, and hand-reared birds 
on licensed game breeding and hunting
preserve areas and state 
controlled pheasant hunting areas, he or she shall
first obtain 
a State Habitat Stamp. Disabled veterans and former prisoners 
of
war shall not be required to obtain State Habitat Stamps. 
Any person who
obtained a lifetime license before January 1, 
1993, shall not be required to
obtain State Habitat Stamps. 
Income from the sale of State Furbearer Stamps and
State 
Pheasant Stamps received after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act
of 1992 shall be deposited into the State 
Furbearer Fund and State Pheasant
Fund, respectively.

    Before any person 16 years of age or older shall take, 
attempt to
take, or sell the green hide of any mammal of the 
species defined as
fur-bearing mammals by Section 2.2 for which 
an open season is established
under this Act, he shall first 
have procured a State Habitat Stamp.

    (b) Before any person who is a non-resident of the State of 
Illinois
shall take or attempt to take any of the species 
protected by Section
2.2
for which an open season is 
established under this Act, he shall,
unless specifically 
exempted by law, first procure a non-resident
license as 
provided by this Act for the taking of any wild game.

    Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take 
white-tailed deer,
he shall first have procured a Deer Hunting 
Permit as defined in Section
2.26 of this Code.

    Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take wild 
turkeys, he
shall have procured a Wild Turkey Hunting Permit as 
defined in Section 2.11
of this Code.

    (c) The owners residing on, or bona fide tenants of, farm 
lands and their
children, parents, brothers, and sisters 
actually permanently residing on
their lands shall have the 
right to hunt any of the species protected by
Section 2.2 upon 
their lands and waters without procuring hunting licenses;
but 
the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with 
devices
and by methods as are permitted by this Act.  Any person 
on active duty
with the Armed Forces of the United States who 
is now and who was at the
time of entering the Armed Forces a 
resident of Illinois and who entered
the Armed Forces from this 
State, and who is presently on ordinary leave
from the Armed 
Forces, and any resident of Illinois who is disabled may hunt

any of the species protected by Section 2.2 without procuring a 
hunting
license, but the hunting shall be done only during such 
periods of time and
with devices and by methods as are 
permitted by this Act.  For the purpose of
this Section a person 
is disabled when that person has a Type 1 or Type 4,
Class 2 
disability as defined in Section 4A of the Illinois 
Identification Card
Act.  For purposes of this Section, an 
Illinois Disabled Person Identification
Card issued pursuant 
to the Illinois Identification Card Act indicating that
the 
person named has a Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2 disability shall 
be adequate
documentation of the disability.

    (d) A courtesy non-resident license, permit, or stamp for 
taking game
may be issued at the
discretion of the Director, 
without fee, to any person officially employed
in the game and 
fish or conservation department of another state or of the

United States who is within the State to assist or consult or 
cooperate
with the Director; or to the officials of other 
states, the United States,
foreign countries, or officers or 
representatives of conservation
organizations or publications 
while in the State as guests of the Governor
or Director.  The 
Director may provide to nonresident participants and
official 
gunners at field trials an exemption from licensure while

participating in a field trial.

    (e) State Migratory Waterfowl Stamps shall be required for 
those persons
qualifying under subsections (c) and (d) who 
intend to hunt migratory
waterfowl, including coots, to the 
extent that hunting licenses of the
various types are 
authorized and required by this Section for those persons.

    (f) Registration in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Migratory 
Bird Harvest
Information Program shall be required for those 
persons who are required to
have a hunting license before 
taking
or attempting to take any bird of the species defined as 
migratory game birds
by Section 2.2, except that this 
subsection shall not apply to crows in this
State
or 
hand-reared birds on licensed game breeding and hunting 
preserve areas, for
which an open season is established by this 
Act.  Persons registering with the
Program must carry proof of 
registration with them while migratory bird
hunting.

    The Department shall publish suitable prescribed 
regulations pertaining to
registration by the migratory bird 
hunter in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Migratory Bird 
Harvest Information Program.

(Source: P.A. 92-177, eff. 7-27-01.)

 
    (520 ILCS 5/3.1-5  new)
    Sec. 3.1-5. Apprentice Hunter License Program.
    (a) Beginning 120 days after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Department 
shall establish an Apprentice Hunter  License Program. The 
purpose of this Program shall be to extend limited hunting 
privileges, in lieu of obtaining a valid hunting license, to 
persons interested in learning about hunting sports.
    (b)  Any resident who is at least 10 years old  may  apply to 
the Department for an Apprentice Hunter License. The Apprentice 
Hunter License shall be a one-time, non-renewable license that 
shall expire on the March 31 following the date of issuance.
    (c) For persons aged 10 through 17, the Apprentice Hunter 
License shall entitle the licensee to hunt while supervised by 
a validly licensed resident parent, guardian, or grandparent. 
For persons 18 or older, the Apprentice Hunter License shall 
entitle the licensee to hunt while supervised by a validly 
licensed resident hunter. Possession of an Apprentice Hunter 
License shall  serve in lieu of a valid hunting license, but 
does not exempt the licensee from compliance with the 
requirements of this Code and any rules and regulations adopted 
pursuant to this Code.

    (d) In order to be approved for the Apprentice Hunter 
License, the applicant must be a resident of Illinois, request 
an Apprentice Hunter License on a form designated and made 
available by the Department, and submit a $7 fee, which shall 
be separate from and additional to any other stamp, permit, 
tag, or license fee that may be required for hunting  under this 
Code.   The Department shall adopt suitable administrative rules 
that are reasonable and necessary for the administration of the 
program, but shall not require any certificate of competency or 
other hunting education as a condition of the Apprentice Hunter 
License.

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