Full Text of SB0681 99th General Assembly
SB0681sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Daniel Biss Filed: 3/5/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 681
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 681 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Exotic Weed Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 3 and 4 as follows:
| 6 | | (525 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 933)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. Designated Exotic Weeds. Japanese honeysuckle | 8 | | (Lonicera
japonica), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), purple | 9 | | loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria),
common buckthorn (Rhamnus | 10 | | cathartica), glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula),
saw-toothed | 11 | | buckthorn (Rhamnus arguta), dahurian buckthorn (Rhamnus | 12 | | davurica),
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica), Chinese | 13 | | buckthorn (Rhamnus
utilis), and kudzu
(Pueraria lobata) , | 14 | | exotic bush honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii, Lonicera tatarica, | 15 | | Lonicera morrowii, and Lonicera fragrantissima), exotic olives | 16 | | (Elaeagnus umbellata, Elaeagnus pungens, Elaeagnus |
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| 1 | | angustifolia), salt cedar (all members of the Tamarix genus), | 2 | | poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), giant hogweed (Heracleum | 3 | | mantegazzianum), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), | 4 | | and lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), teasel (all members of | 5 | | the Dipsacus genus), and Japanese, giant, and Bohemian knotweed | 6 | | (Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum; Fallopia | 7 | | sachalinensis; and Fallopia x bohemica, resp.) are hereby | 8 | | designated
exotic weeds. Upon petition the
Director of Natural | 9 | | Resources, by rule,
shall exempt varieties of any species | 10 | | listed in this Act that can be
demonstrated by published or | 11 | | current research not to be an exotic weed as
defined in Section | 12 | | 2.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 93-128, eff. 7-10-03.)
| 14 | | (525 ILCS 10/4) (from Ch. 5, par. 934)
| 15 | | Sec. 4. Control of Exotic Weeds. | 16 | | (a) It shall be unlawful for any
person, corporation, | 17 | | political subdivision, agency or department of the
State to | 18 | | buy, sell, offer for sale, distribute or plant seeds, plants or
| 19 | | plant parts of exotic weeds without a permit issued by the | 20 | | Department of
Natural Resources. Such permits shall be issued | 21 | | only : | 22 | | (1) for
experiments into
controlling and eradicating | 23 | | exotic weeds ; or | 24 | | (2) for research to demonstrate
that a variety of a | 25 | | species listed in this Act is not an exotic weed as
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| 1 | | in Section 2 ; or .
| 2 | | (3) for the use of exotic olive (Elaeagnus umbellata, | 3 | | Elaeagnus pungens, Elaeagnus angustifolia) berries in the | 4 | | manufacture of value added products, not to include the | 5 | | resale of whole berries or seeds. The exotic berry permit | 6 | | holder must register annually with the Department of | 7 | | Natural Resources and be able to demonstrate to the | 8 | | Department that seeds remaining post-manufacture are | 9 | | sterile or otherwise unviable. | 10 | | (b) The commercial propagation of exotic weeds for sale | 11 | | outside
Illinois, certified under the Insect Pest and Plant | 12 | | Disease Act, is
exempted from the provisions of this Section.
| 13 | | (c) The Department of Natural Resources may adopt rules for | 14 | | the administration of this Section. | 15 | | (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)".
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