Section 1590.120  Special Provisions

a)         Moulted and salvaged feathers from birds held in captivity may be retained and exchanged by their permittees for imping purposes only.

b)         Any person convicted of illegal possession of raptors shall have his (or her) permit revoked and his (or her) raptors confiscated by the Department.  The Department shall dispose of the confiscated raptor by transferring the raptor to another permittee, releasing to the wild, or destroying the raptor if it is unsuitable to be transferred or released.

c)         Convictions of any Section of this Part shall result in a period of suspension or revocation of the permittee's falconry privileges for up to 5 years by the Department, pursuant to 17 Ill. Adm. Code 2530.

d)         Individual raptors in possession prior to February 1, 1975 (excluding species subject to the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act) are exempt from the possession requirements of Section 1590.60 of this Part.

e)         A permittee who possesses a lawfully acquired raptor on which a marker is attached and is listed as endangered by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (17 Ill. Adm. Code 1010) and not by the Fish and Wildlife Service (50 CFR 17, effective September 30, 1985), and such raptor(s) were acquired prior to the enactment of these regulations or prior to listing of such bird to the Endangered Species list of Illinois or the United States, legally acquired out of state (see Section 1590.90(b)), or is the progeny of two legally held birds (see Section 1590.80 (e) and Section 1590.100 (e)), shall be allowed to possess such raptor(s) as part of the permittee's falconry permit class.

f)          Nothing in this Part shall prohibit public presentations of raptors held on a falconry permit.

g)         Permittees in possession of an Illinois Game Breeders Permit may train raptors by using or killing pen reared game at any time.

(Source:  Amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 14700, effective September 19, 1994)