Full Text of SB2910 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning agriculture.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Noxious Weed Law is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 2, 4, and 14 as follows:
| 6 | | (505 ILCS 100/2) (from Ch. 5, par. 952)
| 7 | | Sec. 2. As used in this Act: (1) "Person" means any | 8 | | individual, partnership,
firm, corporation, company, society, | 9 | | association, the State or any
department, agency, or | 10 | | subdivision thereof, or any other entity.
| 11 | | (2) "Control", "controlled" or "controlling" includes | 12 | | being in
charge of or being in possession, whether as owner, | 13 | | lessee, renter, or
tenant, under statutory authority, or | 14 | | otherwise.
| 15 | | (3) "Director" means the Director of the Department of | 16 | | Agriculture
of the State of Illinois, or his or her duly | 17 | | appointed representative.
| 18 | | (4) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the | 19 | | State of
Illinois.
| 20 | | (5) "Noxious weed" means any plant which is determined by | 21 | | the
Director, the Dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer | 22 | | and Environmental Sciences Agriculture of the University of
| 23 | | Illinois and the Director of the Agricultural Experiment |
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| 1 | | Station at the
University of Illinois, to be injurious to | 2 | | public health, crops,
livestock, land or other property.
| 3 | | (6) "Control Authority" means the governing body of each | 4 | | county, and
shall represent all rural areas and cities, | 5 | | villages and townships
within the county boundaries.
| 6 | | (7) "Applicable fund" means the fund current at the time | 7 | | the work is
performed or the money is received.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 77-1037.)
| 9 | | (505 ILCS 100/4) (from Ch. 5, par. 954)
| 10 | | Sec. 4.
The duty of enforcing this Act and carrying out its | 11 | | provisions is
vested in the Director, and the authorities | 12 | | designated in this Act
acting under the supervision and | 13 | | direction of the Director. If a Control Authority fails to | 14 | | carry out its duties and responsibilities under this Act or | 15 | | fails to follow the Department's rules, the Director shall | 16 | | enforce this Act or rules by sending a Notice of Noncompliance | 17 | | to the Control Authority. The
Director, the Dean of the College | 18 | | of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences | 19 | | Agriculture of the University of
Illinois and the Director of | 20 | | the Agricultural Experiment Station at the
University of | 21 | | Illinois, shall determine what weeds are noxious for the
| 22 | | purposes of this Act, and shall compile and keep current a list | 23 | | of such
noxious weeds, which list shall be published and | 24 | | incorporated in the
rules and regulations of the Department. | 25 | | The Director shall, from time
to time, adopt and publish |
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| 1 | | methods as official for control and
eradication of noxious | 2 | | weeds and make and publish such rules and
regulations as in his | 3 | | judgment are necessary to carry out the provisions
of this Act.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 77-1037.)
| 5 | | (505 ILCS 100/14) (from Ch. 5, par. 964)
| 6 | | Sec. 14.
To prevent the dissemination of noxious weeds | 7 | | through any article,
including machinery, equipment, plants, | 8 | | materials and other things, the
Director, in consultation with | 9 | | the Dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and | 10 | | Environmental Sciences Agriculture of
the University of | 11 | | Illinois and the Director of the Agricultural
Experiment | 12 | | Station at the University of Illinois, shall, from time to
| 13 | | time, publish a list of noxious weeds which may be disseminated | 14 | | through
articles and a list of articles capable of | 15 | | disseminating such weeds, and
designate treatment of such | 16 | | articles as, in his opinion, would prevent
such dissemination. | 17 | | Until such article is treated in accordance with the
applicable | 18 | | regulations, it shall not be moved from such premises except
| 19 | | under and in accordance with the written permission of the | 20 | | Control
Authority having jurisdiction of the area in which such | 21 | | article is
located, and the Control Authority may hold or | 22 | | prevent its movement from
such premises. The movement of any | 23 | | such article which has not been so
decontaminated, except in | 24 | | accordance with such written permission, may
be stopped by the | 25 | | Control Authority having jurisdiction over the place
in which |
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| 1 | | such movement is taking place and further movement and
| 2 | | disposition shall only be in accordance with such Control | 3 | | Authority's
direction.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 77-1037.)
| 5 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 | | becoming law.
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