240 ILCS 35/ Illinois Refrigerated Warehouses Act.

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240 ILCS 35/1

(240 ILCS 35/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 79.1)

Sec. 1.

For the purpose of this Act:

(a) "Artificially cooled refrigeration" hereinafter referred to as
"refrigeration" means the storage or keeping of articles of food at or
below a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit in an artificially cooled
refrigerated warehouse.

(b) "Artificially cooled warehouse" hereinafter referred to as
"Refrigerated warehouse" means any place artificially or mechanically
cooled to or below a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit in which articles
of food are placed and held for 30 days or more before distribution to
wholesalers, retailers or jobbers, other than a locker plant or branch
locker plant as defined in "An Act in relation to meat and poultry
inspection and making an appropriation therefor", approved July 22, 1959,
as now or hereafter amended.

(c) "Article of food" means any article used for food or drink or
condiment by man, or other animals, whether simple, mixed or compound, or
any article used or intended for use as an ingredient in the composition or
preparation thereof, except unprocessed fruits or vegetables.

(d) An article of food shall be deemed to be "received in refrigeration"
when it is delivered to and comes into the possession or custody of the
licensee of a refrigerated warehouse.

(e) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of
Illinois.

(f) "Director" means the Director of the Department.

(Source: P.A. 86-231.)

240 ILCS 35/2

(240 ILCS 35/2) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 79.2)

Sec. 2.

No person, firm or corporation shall maintain or operate a
refrigerated warehouse without a license to do so issued by the
Department. Any person, firm or corporation desiring such a license
shall make written application to the Department for that purpose,
stating the location of the refrigerated warehouse. The Director or his
agents thereupon shall make an examination of the refrigerated warehouse
and, if it is in a proper sanitary condition and otherwise properly
equipped for its intended use, he shall issue a license authorizing the
applicant to operate it as a refrigerated warehouse for one year. The licensing cycle shall be the same as the State fiscal year and a
license shall be issued upon payment by the applicant of a license fee
of $50 per annum to the Department.

Any license issued under the provisions of the Act herein repealed
that is valid immediately prior to the time this Act takes effect shall
be considered as a license issued under the provisions of this Act and
shall continue in effect until its expiration date unless sooner
revoked under the provisions of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 98-86, eff. 7-15-13.)

240 ILCS 35/3

(240 ILCS 35/3) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 79.3)

Sec. 3.

In case any refrigerated warehouse, or any part thereof, is at any
time deemed by the Department, to be in an unsanitary condition, or not
properly equipped for its intended use, the Department shall notify the
licensee of such condition and upon the failure of the licensee to put such
refrigerated warehouse in a sanitary condition or to properly equip the
same for its intended use, within a time to be designated by the Director,
the license shall be revoked.