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SB2472 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2472

 

Introduced 1/19/2020, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
510 ILCS 70/2.01i new
510 ILCS 70/4  from Ch. 8, par. 704

    Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Prohibits a carnival from offering, awarding, or giving away any live animal in a game, contest, or tournament involving skill or chance. Provides that the carnival may offer a coupon, certificate, or voucher to obtain the live animal from a licensed pet store as the prize. Defines "carnival".


LRB101 17134 CMG 66535 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB2472LRB101 17134 CMG 66535 b

1    AN ACT concerning animals.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by
5changing Section 4 and adding Section 2.01i as follows:
 
6    (510 ILCS 70/2.01i new)
7    Sec. 2.01i. Carnival. "Carnival" has the meaning ascribed
8to that term in the Carnival Regulation Act.
 
9    (510 ILCS 70/4)  (from Ch. 8, par. 704)
10    Sec. 4. Prohibited acts. No person may sell, offer for
11sale, barter, or give away as a pet or a novelty any rabbit or
12any baby chick, duckling or other fowl which has been dyed,
13colored, or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color
14thereto. Baby chicks or ducklings shall not be sold, offered
15for sale, bartered, or given away as pets or novelties.
16Rabbits, ducklings or baby chicks shall not be awarded as
17prizes.
18    No person may allow for the adoption, transfer, sale, offer
19for sale, barter, or give away any animal forfeited or
20relinquished under Section 3.04 or 3.05 of this Act to the
21person who forfeited the animal or a person residing in that
22person's household.

 

 

SB2472- 2 -LRB101 17134 CMG 66535 b

1    No carnival may offer, award, or give away any live animal
2as a prize in a game, contest, or tournament involving skill or
3chance. A carnival may offer a coupon, certificate, or voucher
4to obtain the live animal from a licensed pet store as the
5prize.
6    A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty of a
7Class B misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a
8Class 4 felony, with every day that a violation continues
9constituting a separate offense.
10(Source: P.A. 100-504, eff. 6-1-18.)