Public Act 0179 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB0560 Enrolled LRB095 09006 CMK 29197 b

Public Act 095-0179

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 Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 13, 20, 21, 22, and 24 as follows:

(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 infectious disease" means a specific disease designated by the Department as contagious or infectious under rules pertaining to this Act.

"Contaminated" or "contamination" means for an animal to come into contact with a chemical or radiological substance at a level which may be considered to be harmful to humans or other animals if they come into contact with the contaminated animal or consume parts of the contaminated animal.

"Reportable disease" means a specific disease designated by the Department as reportable under rules pertaining to this Act.

"Animals" means domestic animals, poultry, and wild animals in captivity.

"Exposed to" means for an animal to come in contact with another animal or an environment that is capable of transmitting a contagious, infectious, or reportable disease. An animal will no longer be considered as "exposed to" when it is beyond the standard incubation time for the disease and the animal has been tested negative for the specific disease or there is no evidence that the animal is contagious, except for animals exposed to Johne's disease. Animals originating from a herd where Johne's disease has been diagnosed will be considered no longer "exposed to" with a negative test. The negative test must have been conducted within 30 days prior to the sale or movement.

"Swap meet" means an organized event where animals including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, or other animals customarily obtained as pets, are sold, traded, or exchange hands.

(Source: P.A. 93-980, eff. 8-20-04.)

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

Sec. 2. 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. 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. 77-108.)

(510 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 170)

Sec. 3. Upon its becoming known to the Department that any animals are infected, or suspected of being infected, with any contagious or infectious disease, or contaminated with any chemical or radiological substance, the Department shall have the authority to quarantine and to cause proper examination thereof to be made. If ; and if such disease is found to be of a dangerously contagious or dangerously infectious nature, or the contamination level is such that may be harmful to humans or other animals, the Department shall order such diseased or contaminated animals and such as have been exposed to such disease or contamination, and the premises in or on which they are, or have recently occupied, to be quarantined. The Department shall also have the authority to issue area-wide quarantines on animals and premises in order to control the spread of the dangerously contagious or infectious disease and to reduce the spread of contamination. The Department may, in connection with any such quarantine, order that no animal which has been or is so diseased, contaminated, or exposed to such disease or contamination, may be removed from the premises so quarantined and that no animal susceptible to such disease or contamination may be brought therein or thereon, except under such rules as the Department may prescribe.

(Source: P.A. 90-385, eff. 8-15-97.)

(510 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 8, par. 171)

Sec. 4. The Department may order the slaughter of any or all of such diseased, contaminated, or exposed animals.

The Department may disinfect, and, if they cannot be properly disinfected, may destroy, all barns, stables, outbuildings, premises and personal property contaminated or infected with any such contaminant or contagious or infectious disease as in its judgment is necessary to prevent the spread of any such contaminant or disease; and may order the disinfection of all cars, boats or other vehicles used in transporting animals affected with any such contaminant or disease, or that have been exposed to the contaminant, contagion, or infection thereof, and the disinfection of all yards, pens and chutes that may have been used in handling such contaminated, diseased, or exposed animals.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3164.)

(510 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 8, par. 173)

Sec. 6. Whenever quarantine is established in accordance with the provisions of this Act, notice shall be given by delivery in person or by mailing by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to the owner or occupant of any premises so quarantined. Such notice shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, with an explanation of the contents thereof. Such quarantine shall be sufficiently proved in any court by the production of a true copy of such notice of quarantine together with an affidavit, sworn to by the officer or employee of the Department who delivered or mailed such notice, containing a statement that the original thereof was delivered or mailed in the manner herein prescribed.

Every quarantine so established shall remain in effect until removed by order of the Department. Any person aggrieved by any quarantine may appeal to the Department which shall thereupon sustain, modify or annul the quarantine as it may deem proper. Quarantines will be removed when epidemiological evidence indicates that the disease or contamination threat to humans or other animals no longer exists.

(Source: Laws 1967, p. 905.)

(510 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 8, par. 176)

Sec. 9. The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations to prevent the spread of any contamination or contagious or infectious disease within this State. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request the Governor to issue a proclamation quarantining an affected municipality or geographical district whereby all animals of the kind diseased or contaminated would not be permitted to be moved from one premises to another within the municipality or geographical district, or over any public highway, or any unfenced lot or piece of ground, or from being brought into, or taken from the infected or contaminated municipality or geographical district, except by a special permit, signed by the Director. Any such proclamation shall, from the time of its publication, bind all persons. Within one week after the publication of any such proclamation, every person who owns, or who is in charge of animals of the kind diseased or contaminated within the municipality or geographical district, shall report to the Department the number and description of such animals, their location, and the name and address of the owner or person in charge, and during the continuance of the quarantine to report to the Department all cases of sickness, deaths or births among such animals.

(Source: P.A. 81-196.)

(510 ILCS 50/10) (from Ch. 8, par. 177)

Sec. 10. The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations to prevent the entry into Illinois of any animals which may be contaminated or infected with, or which may have been exposed to, any contaminant or contagious or infectious disease. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request the Governor to issue a proclamation whereby any animals contaminated or diseased or those exposed to disease and any carcasses or portions of carcasses, feed, seed, bedding, equipment or other material capable of conveying contamination or infection will be prohibited from entering Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 81-196.)

(510 ILCS 50/13) (from Ch. 8, par. 180)

Sec. 13. The Department shall cooperate with any commissioner or other officer appointed by the United States authorities, in connection with carrying out any provision of any United States Statute providing for the suppression and prevention of contamination or contagious and infectious diseases among animals, in suppression and preventing the spread of contamination or contagious and infectious diseases among animals in this State.

The inspectors of the Animal Health Division of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Illinois Department of Agriculture have the right of inspection, quarantine and condemnation of animals affected with any contamination or contagious or infectious disease, or suspected to be so affected, or that have been exposed to any such contamination or disease, and for these purposes are authorized to enter upon any ground or premises. Such inspectors may call on sheriffs and peace officers to assist them in the discharge of their duties in carrying out the provisions of any such statute, referred to in the preceding paragraph, and the sheriffs and peace officers shall assist such inspectors when so requested. Such inspectors shall have the same powers and protection as peace officers while engaged in the discharge of their duties.

(Source: P.A. 91-457, eff. 1-1-00.)

(510 ILCS 50/20) (from Ch. 8, par. 187)

Sec. 20. Any person who knowingly transports, receives or conveys into this State any animals, carcasses or portions of carcasses, feed, seed, bedding, equipment, or other material capable of conveying contamination or infection as defined and prohibited in a proclamation issued by the Governor under the provisions of Section 10 of this Act is guilty of a business offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, for each offense, and shall be liable for all damages or loss that may be sustained by any person by reason of such importation of such prohibited animals, or prohibited materials, which penalty may be recovered in the circuit court in any county in this State into or through which such animals or materials are brought.

(Source: P.A. 81-196.)

(510 ILCS 50/21) (from Ch. 8, par. 188)

Sec. 21. Any person who, knowing that any contamination or contagious or infectious disease exists among his animals, conceals such fact, or knowing of the existence of such disease, sells any animal or animals so contaminated or diseased, or any exposed animal, or knowing the same, removes any such contaminated, diseased, or exposed animal from his premises to the premises of another, or along any public highway, or knowing of the existence of such contamination, disease, or exposure thereto, transports, drives, leads or ships any animal so contaminated, diseased, or exposed, by any motor vehicle, car or steamboat, to any place in or out of this State; and any person who brings any such contaminated or diseased, or knowingly, brings any such contaminated or exposed animals into this State from another state; and any person who knowingly buys, receives, sells, conveys, or engages in the traffic of such contaminated, diseased, or exposed stock, and any person who violates any quarantine regulation established under the provisions of this or any other Act, for each, either, any or all acts above mentioned in this Section, is guilty of a petty offense and shall forfeit all right to any compensation for any animal or property destroyed under the provisions of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 91-457, eff. 1-1-00.)

(510 ILCS 50/22) (from Ch. 8, par. 189)

Sec. 22. Any veterinarian having information of the existence of any contamination or reportable disease among animals in this State, who fails to promptly report such knowledge to the Department, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000 for each offense.

(Source: P.A. 90-385, eff. 8-15-97.)

(510 ILCS 50/24) (from Ch. 8, par. 191)

Sec. 24. Any owner or person having charge of any animal and having knowledge of, or reasonable grounds to suspect the existence among them of any contamination or contagious or infectious disease and who does not use reasonable means to prevent the spread of such contamination or disease or violates any quarantine; or who conveys upon or along any public highway or other public grounds or any private lands, any contaminated or diseased animal, or animal known to have died of, or been slaughtered on account of, any contamination or contagious or infectious disease, except in the case of transportation for medical treatment or diagnosis, shall be liable in damages to the person or persons who may have suffered loss on account thereof.

(Source: P.A. 90-385, eff. 8-15-97; 91-457, eff. 1-1-00.)

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