Public Act 0646 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2272 Enrolled LRB096 04806 JDS 14870 b

Public Act 096-0646

AN ACT concerning animals.

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

Section 5. The Carrier, Racing, Hobby, and Show Pigeon Act of 1993 is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:

(510 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 907)

Sec. 7. A municipality located in a county having with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants or a county shall not enact an ordinance to prohibit which prohibits the orderly keeping of carrier pigeons, racing, hobby, or show pigeons, except that (i) any municipality located in within a county having 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may enact an ordinance to prohibit or regulate the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons and (ii) any municipality located in a county having fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants may enact an ordinance to regulate, but not prohibit, the orderly keeping of carrier, racing, hobby, or show pigeons.

(Source: P.A. 88-136; 89-651, eff. 8-14-96.)

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