093_SB0579
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1 AN ACT concerning animals.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Domesticated Wild Animals Act is amended
5 by changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (510 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 24)
7 Sec. 1. Ownership when raised, domesticated, or enclosed.
8 All birds and animals ferae naturae or naturally wild,
9 including fur bearing animals not native to this State, when
10 raised or in domestication, or kept in enclosures and reduced
11 to possession, are hereby declared to be objects of ownership
12 and absolute title, the same as cattle and other property,
13 and shall receive the same protection of law, and in the same
14 way and to the same extent shall be the subject of trespass
15 or theft, as other personal property.
16 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 2059.)