(510 ILCS 90/5) (from Ch. 8, par. 805)
Sec. 5.
The Department is authorized to establish a program aimed at
controlling the spread of pseudorabies. This authority includes, but is
not limited to, requiring negative tests of swine, the right to quarantine
swine infected with or exposed to pseudorabies, to establish guidelines and
specified herd plans for monitoring the disease in Illinois herds, to
require that a minimum of 30 days elapse before the owner may repopulate the
premises after swine have been depopulated, and to conduct market swine
testing programs.
The Director may issue regulations, consistent
with the provisions of this Act, for the administration and
enforcement of this Act.
Such regulations shall be approved by the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners.
The Department in performing the duties vested in it under this Act is
empowered to enter, during usual working hours, any premises, barns,
stables, sheds, slaughter establishments, or other places where swine
are kept or slaughtered, for the purpose of
administering the provisions of this Act; provided, sanitized footwear
furnished by the Department is used as well as any other reasonable disease
prevention procedures or equipment as may be furnished by the owner or
operator of the premise.
(Source: P.A. 87-157.)
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