Full Text of SB3103 102nd General Assembly
SB3103 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB3103 Introduced 1/11/2022, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 20 ILCS 835/6 | from Ch. 105, par. 468b |
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Amends the State Parks Act. Specifies that certain actions that violations of the Act are violations if they are done without approval by the Department of Natural Resources. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The State Parks Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 6 as follows:
| 6 | | (20 ILCS 835/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 468b)
| 7 | | Sec. 6.
It is a violation of this Section for any person
to | 8 | | do any of the following without approval by the Department of | 9 | | Natural Resources :
| 10 | | (1) cut, break, injure, destroy, take or remove any | 11 | | tree, shrub, timber,
plant, or natural object in any park | 12 | | or parkway, except that the Department
of
Natural | 13 | | Resources may, by administrative rule, authorize
edible | 14 | | fungi, nut, and berry collection in those areas of | 15 | | Department owned,
leased, or
managed lands where the | 16 | | collecting would not be in conflict or incompatible
with | 17 | | (i)
Department of Natural Resources natural resource | 18 | | management or recreational
programs
for that area and (ii) | 19 | | the Natural Areas Preservation Act;
| 20 | | (2) kill, cause to be killed, or pursue with intent to | 21 | | kill any bird or
animal in a park or parkway, provided that | 22 | | the Department of Natural
Resources may by administrative | 23 | | order authorize hunting in
those areas of state parks |
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| 1 | | where such hunting would not be in conflict or
| 2 | | incompatible with Department of Natural Resources
| 3 | | recreational programs for that area;
| 4 | | (3) take any fish from the waters of any park or | 5 | | parkway, contrary to the
rules and regulations of the | 6 | | Department of Natural Resources;
| 7 | | (4) wilfully mutilate, injure, deface, or destroy any | 8 | | guide post,
notice, tablet, fence, enclosure or work for | 9 | | the protection or
ornamentation of any park or parkway;
| 10 | | (5) light any fire upon any park or parkway, except in
| 11 | | an authorized place or places or wilfully or carelessly | 12 | | permit any fire
which he has lighted or caused to be | 13 | | lighted, or which shall be under his
charge, to spread or | 14 | | extend to or burn any shrubbery, trees, timber,
ornaments, | 15 | | or improvements upon any State park, nature preserve or
| 16 | | parkways, or leave any camp fires which he shall have | 17 | | lighted or caused to
be lighted, or which shall have been | 18 | | left in his charge, unattended by a
competent person;
| 19 | | (6) place within any park or parkway or affix to any
| 20 | | object therein contained, any work, character, or device | 21 | | designed to
advertise any business, profession, article, | 22 | | thing, exhibition, matter or
event;
| 23 | | (7) violate any rule or regulation adopted and | 24 | | published by the Department
of Natural Resources pursuant | 25 | | to the provisions of this
Act.
| 26 | | A person who violates this Section shall, for each |
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| 1 | | offense, be guilty of
a Class B misdemeanor.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 93-341, eff. 7-24-03.)
| 3 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 | | becoming law.
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