093_HB1449

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning mosquito abatement.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Mosquito  Abatement  District  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 8 as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 1005/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81)
 7        Sec. 8. The board of trustees of any  mosquito  abatement
 8    district  shall,  in  its work, advise and cooperate with the
 9    Department of Public Health of the State, and  the  board  of
10    trustees of such district shall submit to such Department, on
11    or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work done
12    and  results  obtained  by  the district during the preceding
13    year.
14        The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district,
15    or  its  designee,  shall  conduct  routine  surveillance  of
16    mosquitoes to detect the presence of mosquito-borne  diseases
17    of  public  health  significance.  The  surveillance shall be
18    conducted in accordance with mosquito abatement  and  control
19    guidelines  as  set  forth  by  the  U.S. Centers for Disease
20    Control and Prevention. Areas  reporting  disease  in  humans
21    shall  be  included  in the surveillance activities. Mosquito
22    abatement districts  shall  report  to  the  local  certified
23    public health department the results of any positive mosquito
24    samples  infected  with  any arboviral infections, including,
25    but not limited to: West Nile Virus, St. Louis  Encephalitis,
26    and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Reports shall be made to the
27    local   certified  public  health  department's  director  of
28    environmental health, or a designee of the department, within
29    24 hours after receiving a positive report. The report  shall
30    include  the  type  of  infection,  the  number of mosquitoes
31    collected in the trapping device, the type of trapping device
 
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 1    used, and the type of laboratory testing used to confirm  the
 2    infection.  Any  trustee of a mosquito abatement district, or
 3    designee of the board of trustees  of  a  mosquito  abatement
 4    district,  that fails to comply with the requirements of this
 5    Act is guilty of a Class A Misdemeanor.
 6    (Source: Laws 1927, p. 694.)