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90_HB3363eng 20 ILCS 205/40.7 from Ch. 127, par. 40.7 Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois concerning the Department of Agriculture. Provides that the Department's designation of Centennial Farms includes those farms owned for 100 years or more by lineal or collateral (now lineal) descendants of the same family. LRB9009264PTsb HB3363 Engrossed LRB9009264PTsb 1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois 2 by changing Section 40.7. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is 6 amended by changing Section 40.7 as follows: 7 (20 ILCS 205/40.7) (from Ch. 127, par. 40.7) 8 Sec. 40.7. Promotional activities. To encourage and 9 promote, in every practicable manner, the interests of 10 agriculture, including horticulture, the livestock industry, 11 dairying, cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, the 12 production of wool, and all other allied industries. In 13 furtherance of the duties set forth in this Section, the 14 Department may establish trust funds and bank accounts in 15 adequately protected financial institutions to receive and 16 disburse monies in connection with the conduct of food shows, 17 food expositions, trade shows, and other promotional 18 activities, and to sell at cost, to qualified applicants, 19 signs designating farms, which have been owned for 100 years 20 or more by lineal or collateral descendants of the same 21 family, as "Centennial Farms". The Department shall provide 22 applications for such signs, which shall be submitted with 23 the required fee. "Centennial Farms" signs shall not contain 24 within their design, the name, picture or other likeness of 25 any elected public official or any appointed public official. 26 (Source: P.A. 80-625.)