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CONSERVATION
(525 ILCS 47/) Wild Plant Conservation Act.

525 ILCS 47/0.01

    (525 ILCS 47/0.01) (was 720 ILCS 400/0.01)
    Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Wild Plant Conservation Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

525 ILCS 47/1

    (525 ILCS 47/1) (was 720 ILCS 400/1)
    Sec. 1. Any person, firm or corporation who knowingly buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale any blood root (Sanguinaria canadensis), lady slipper (Cyprepedium parviflorum and Cyprepedium hirsutum), columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), trillium (Trillium grandiflorum and Trillium sessile), lotus (Nelumbo lutes), or gentian (Gentiana crinita and Gentiana andrewsii), or any part thereof, dug, pulled up or gathered from any public or private land, unless in the case of private land the owner or person lawfully occupying such land gives his consent in writing thereto, is guilty of a petty offense.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

525 ILCS 47/2

    (525 ILCS 47/2) (was 720 ILCS 400/2)
    Sec. 2. All prosecutions under this Act shall be commenced within six months from the time such offense was committed and not afterwards.
(Source: Laws 1923, p. 5.)