Illinois · statute · 510 ILCS 50 · 25 active provisions
For the purposes of this Act: "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois. "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, or his duly appointed representative. "Contagious or infectious disease" means a specific disease designated by the Department as contagious o…
Duty to investigate; rulemaking. It is the duty of the Department to investigate all cases or alleged cases coming to its knowledge of contamination or contagious and infectious diseases among animals within the State and to provide for the suppression, prevention, and extirpation of contamination or infectious and con…
Upon its becoming known to the Department that any animals are infected, or suspected of being infected, with any contagious or infectious disease, or contaminated with any chemical or radiological substance, the Department shall have the authority to quarantine and to cause proper examination thereof to be made. If su…
The Department may order the slaughter of any or all of such diseased, contaminated, or exposed animals. The Department may disinfect, and, if they cannot be properly disinfected, may destroy, all barns, stables, outbuildings, premises and personal property contaminated or infected with any such contaminant or contagio…
When the Department determines that any animal is affected with, or has been exposed to, any contagious or infectious disease, it may agree with the owner upon the value of the animal or of any property that it may be found necessary to destroy, and in case such an agreement cannot be made, the animals or property shal…
Whenever quarantine is established in accordance with the provisions of this Act, notice shall be given by delivery in person or by mailing by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to the owner or occupant of any premises so quarantined. Such notice shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly pri…
All final administrative decisions of the Department hereunder shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the C…
The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations to prevent the spread of any contamination or contagious or infectious disease within this State. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request the Governor to issue a proclamation quarantining an affected municipality or geographical dis…
The Department may promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations to prevent the entry into Illinois of any animals which may be contaminated or infected with, or which may have been exposed to, any contaminant or contagious or infectious disease. If the condition so warrants, the Director may request the Govern…
All claims against the State arising from the slaughter of animals as herein provided for, shall be made to the Department under such rules, not inconsistent with this Act, as the Department may prescribe. The Department shall, after inspection, hearing and inquiry by appraisers, in each case determine the amount which…
The Director and any employee of the Department, in the performance of his duties under this act, has power to call on sheriffs and their deputies, and police officers, mayors of cities, city and town marshals and policemen, to assist him in carrying out its provisions; and it is the duty of all such officers to assist…
The Department shall cooperate with any commissioner or other officer appointed by the United States authorities, in connection with carrying out any provision of any United States Statute providing for the suppression and prevention of contamination or contagious and infectious diseases among animals, in suppression a…
The annual report of the Department to the Governor shall include an itemized statement of all moneys expended by it under this Act, including a statement of all damages recommended by it to be paid for animals slaughtered, and the amounts paid therefor. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 1, p. 24.)
Bulls, cows, heifers and other livestock accepted by individuals, trucks and other transportation companies for delivery into the State of Illinois, if unloaded en route for feed or water, shall be confined in pens under lock and key by the transportation company or individual accepting such shipment for delivery. (Sou…
The obligations assumed by the transportation company at the original point of shipment shall extend to all connecting lines. No additions to the original consignments or substitutions en route shall be permitted by any transportation company. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 1, p. 24.)
When any cattle, swine, sheep or other domestic animals herein specified are consigned for delivery within the confines of the State of Illinois, they shall not be diverted en route or delivered to the owner or consignee at any other point within the State of Illinois, except that named in the original billing. (Source…
All railroad, truck, steamboat and other transportation companies that shall receive and ship cattle from any territory scheduled on account of Texas or splenic fever, shall immediately after such cattle are unloaded, and before the cars are used for any other purpose, cleanse and disinfect such cars, or quarters in wh…
Any railroad, truck, transportation or stockyard company violating any of the provisions of Section 18, or any of the rules of the Department referred to therein, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense. (Source: P.A. 90-385, eff.…
Any person who knowingly transports, receives or conveys into this State any animals, carcasses or portions of carcasses, feed, seed, bedding, equipment, or other material capable of conveying contamination or infection as defined and prohibited in a proclamation issued by the Governor under the provisions of Section 1…
Any person who, knowing that any contamination or contagious or infectious disease exists among his animals, conceals such fact, or knowing of the existence of such disease, sells any animal or animals so contaminated or diseased, or any exposed animal, or knowing the same, removes any such contaminated, diseased, or e…
Any veterinarian having information of the existence of any contamination or reportable disease among animals in this State, who fails to promptly report such knowledge to the Department, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000 for each offense. (Source: P.A. 95-179, eff…
Any person violating any provision of this Act or any rule issued by the Department under the provisions of this Act, other than the provisions and rules for the violation of which other penalties are prescribed in this Act, is guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000. (Sou…
Any owner or person having charge of any animal and having knowledge of, or reasonable grounds to suspect the existence among them of any contamination or contagious or infectious disease and who does not use reasonable means to prevent the spread of such contamination or disease or violates any quarantine; or who conv…
Swap meets. Any organizer of a swap meet held within the State must provide the Department with information regarding the swap meet at least 30 days prior to the date on which the swap meet will be held. For each swap meet that he or she organizes, an organizer must maintain records for at least one year after the date…
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Diseased Animals Act". (Source: P.A. 81-196.)