(505 ILCS 100/8) (from Ch. 5, par. 958)
Sec. 8.
Each Control Authority may employ one or more Weed Control
Superintendents who shall be certified by the Director to be qualified
to detect and treat noxious weeds. The same person may be a Weed Control
Superintendent for more than one Control Authority. Such employment may
be for such tenure, and at such rates of compensation and reimbursement
for travel expenses, as the Control Authority may prescribe. Each Weed
Control Superintendent may be bonded for such sum as the Control
Authority may prescribe.
Each Control Authority shall examine all land under its jurisdiction
for the purpose of determining whether the provisions of this Act and
the regulations of the Director have been complied with; compile such
data on infested areas and areas eradicated and such other reports as
the Director or Control Authority may require; consult and advise upon
matters pertaining to the best and most practical methods of noxious
weed control and eradication, and render assistance and direction for
the most effective control and eradication; investigate or aid in the
investigation and prosecution of any violation of this Act. Control
Authorities may cooperate and assist one another to the extent
practicable in the carrying out of a coordinated control and eradication
program within their counties.
(Source: P.A. 77-1037.)
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