SB3154 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB3154

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Ira I. Silverstein

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 205/205-40.43 new

Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Authorizes the Department to establish and implement a program to purchase agriculture conservation easements to protect agricultural land from development for other uses. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning the Department of Agriculture.

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

Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 205-40.43 as follows:

(20 ILCS 205/205-40.43 new)

Sec. 205-40.43. Purchase of agricultural conservation easements. The Department of Agriculture may establish and implement a program for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, including the purchase of development rights from willing landowners, for the protection of agricultural land from unnecessary conversion to other uses.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.