Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB2272 Compare Versions

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1	1	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2272 Introduced , by Rep. Travis Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 520 ILCS 5/2.37 from Ch. 61, par. 2.37 Amends the Wildlife Code. Repeals provisions authorizing, under certain conditions, drainage districts to control beaver populations. Provides that a drainage district, road district or similar body, landowner, tenant, or the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant is exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit to control nuisance raccoons, opossums, muskrats, skunks, coyotes, or beavers if all applicable provisions for licenses are complied with and any trap types and sizes used are in compliance with the Act, including marking or identification. Provides that landowners, tenants, or their designees may remove cottontail rabbits or grey or fox squirrels from their property, but only by means of a live trap, if the cottontail rabbits and grey or fox squirrels are released alive and unharmed in suitable habitat that is not within any city or town and not within any park. Provides that the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant must have a signed and dated written authorization from the drainage district, landowner, or tenant in possession at all times when conducting animal control activities. Provides that the exemption from obtaining a permit is valid only upon property owned, leased, or controlled by the drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant. Effective immediately. LRB103 06066 RJT 51096 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2272 Introduced , by Rep. Travis Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 520 ILCS 5/2.37 from Ch. 61, par. 2.37 520 ILCS 5/2.37 from Ch. 61, par. 2.37 Amends the Wildlife Code. Repeals provisions authorizing, under certain conditions, drainage districts to control beaver populations. Provides that a drainage district, road district or similar body, landowner, tenant, or the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant is exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit to control nuisance raccoons, opossums, muskrats, skunks, coyotes, or beavers if all applicable provisions for licenses are complied with and any trap types and sizes used are in compliance with the Act, including marking or identification. Provides that landowners, tenants, or their designees may remove cottontail rabbits or grey or fox squirrels from their property, but only by means of a live trap, if the cottontail rabbits and grey or fox squirrels are released alive and unharmed in suitable habitat that is not within any city or town and not within any park. Provides that the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant must have a signed and dated written authorization from the drainage district, landowner, or tenant in possession at all times when conducting animal control activities. Provides that the exemption from obtaining a permit is valid only upon property owned, leased, or controlled by the drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant. Effective immediately. LRB103 06066 RJT 51096 b LRB103 06066 RJT 51096 b A BILL FOR
2	2	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2272 Introduced , by Rep. Travis Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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5	5	Amends the Wildlife Code. Repeals provisions authorizing, under certain conditions, drainage districts to control beaver populations. Provides that a drainage district, road district or similar body, landowner, tenant, or the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant is exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit to control nuisance raccoons, opossums, muskrats, skunks, coyotes, or beavers if all applicable provisions for licenses are complied with and any trap types and sizes used are in compliance with the Act, including marking or identification. Provides that landowners, tenants, or their designees may remove cottontail rabbits or grey or fox squirrels from their property, but only by means of a live trap, if the cottontail rabbits and grey or fox squirrels are released alive and unharmed in suitable habitat that is not within any city or town and not within any park. Provides that the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant must have a signed and dated written authorization from the drainage district, landowner, or tenant in possession at all times when conducting animal control activities. Provides that the exemption from obtaining a permit is valid only upon property owned, leased, or controlled by the drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant. Effective immediately.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning wildlife.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
15	15	5 Section 2.37 as follows:
16	16	6 (520 ILCS 5/2.37) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.37)
17	17	7 Sec. 2.37. Authority to kill wildlife responsible for
18	18	8 damage. Subject to federal regulations and Section 3 of the
19	19	9 Illinois Endangered Species Act, the Department may authorize
20	20	10 owners and tenants of lands or their agents to remove or
21	21	11 destroy any wild bird or wild mammal when the wild bird or wild
22	22	12 mammal is known to be destroying property or causing a risk to
23	23	13 human health or safety upon his or her land.
24	24	14 Upon receipt by the Department of information from the
25	25	15 owner, tenant, or sharecropper that any one or more species of
26	26	16 wildlife is damaging dams, levees, ditches, cattle pastures,
27	27	17 or other property on the land on which he resides or controls,
28	28	18 together with a statement regarding location of the property
29	29	19 damages, the nature and extent of the damage, and the
30	30	20 particular species of wildlife committing the damage, the
31	31	21 Department shall make an investigation.
32	32	22 If, after investigation, the Department finds that damage
33	33	23 does exist and can be abated only by removing or destroying
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40	40	Amends the Wildlife Code. Repeals provisions authorizing, under certain conditions, drainage districts to control beaver populations. Provides that a drainage district, road district or similar body, landowner, tenant, or the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant is exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit to control nuisance raccoons, opossums, muskrats, skunks, coyotes, or beavers if all applicable provisions for licenses are complied with and any trap types and sizes used are in compliance with the Act, including marking or identification. Provides that landowners, tenants, or their designees may remove cottontail rabbits or grey or fox squirrels from their property, but only by means of a live trap, if the cottontail rabbits and grey or fox squirrels are released alive and unharmed in suitable habitat that is not within any city or town and not within any park. Provides that the designee of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant must have a signed and dated written authorization from the drainage district, landowner, or tenant in possession at all times when conducting animal control activities. Provides that the exemption from obtaining a permit is valid only upon property owned, leased, or controlled by the drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant. Effective immediately.
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68	68	1 that wildlife, a permit shall be issued by the Department to
69	69	2 remove or destroy the species responsible for causing the
70	70	3 damage.
71	71	4 A permit to control the damage shall be for a period of up
72	72	5 to 90 days, shall specify the means and methods by which and
73	73	6 the person or persons by whom the wildlife may be removed or
74	74	7 destroyed, and shall set forth the disposition procedure to be
75	75	8 made of all wildlife taken and other restrictions the Director
76	76	9 considers necessary and appropriate in the circumstances of
77	77	10 the particular case. Whenever possible, the specimens
78	78	11 destroyed shall be given to a bona-fide public or State
79	79	12 scientific, educational, or zoological institution.
80	80	13 The permittee shall advise the Department in writing,
81	81	14 within 10 days after the expiration date of the permit, of the
82	82	15 number of individual species of wildlife taken, disposition
83	83	16 made of them, and any other information which the Department
84	84	17 may consider necessary.
85	85	18 Subject to federal regulations and Section 3 of the
86	86	19 Illinois Endangered Species Act, the Department may grant to
87	87	20 an individual, corporation, association or a governmental body
88	88	21 the authority to control species protected by this Code
89	89	22 pursuant to the issuance of a Nuisance Wildlife Control
90	90	23 Permit. The Department shall set forth applicable regulations
91	91	24 in an Administrative Order and may require periodic reports
92	92	25 listing species taken, numbers of each species taken, dates
93	93	26 when taken, and other pertinent information.
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104	104	1 Drainage Districts shall have the authority to control
105	105	2 beaver provided that they must notify the Department in
106	106	3 writing that a problem exists and of their intention to trap
107	107	4 the animals at least 7 days before the trapping begins. The
108	108	5 District must identify traps used in beaver control outside
109	109	6 the dates of the furbearer trapping season with metal tags
110	110	7 with the district's name legibly inscribed upon them. During
111	111	8 the furtrapping season, traps must be identified as prescribed
112	112	9 by law. Conibear traps at least size 330 shall be used except
113	113	10 during the statewide furbearer trapping season. During that
114	114	11 time trappers may use any device that is legal according to the
115	115	12 Wildlife Code. Except during the statewide furbearer trapping
116	116	13 season, beaver traps must be set in water at least 10 inches
117	117	14 deep. Except during the statewide furbearer trapping season,
118	118	15 traps must be set within 10 feet of an inhabited bank burrow or
119	119	16 house and within 10 feet of a dam maintained by a beaver. No
120	120	17 beaver or other furbearer taken outside of the dates for the
121	121	18 furbearer trapping season may be sold. All animals must be
122	122	19 given to the nearest conservation officer or other Department
123	123	20 of Natural Resources representative within 48 hours after they
124	124	21 are caught. Furbearers taken during the fur trapping season
125	125	22 may be sold provided that they are taken by persons who have
126	126	23 valid trapping licenses in their possession and are lawfully
127	127	24 taken. The District must submit an annual report showing the
128	128	25 species and numbers of animals caught. The report must
129	129	26 indicate all species which were taken.
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140	140	1 The location of traps or snares authorized under this
141	141	2 Section, either by the Department or any other governmental
142	142	3 body with the authority to control species protected by this
143	143	4 Code, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of
144	144	5 Information Act.
145	145	6 A drainage district, road district or similar body,
146	146	7 landowner, tenant, or the designee of a drainage district,
147	147	8 road district, landowner, or tenant shall be exempt from the
148	148	9 requirement to obtain a permit to control nuisance raccoons,
149	149	10 opossums, muskrats, skunks, coyotes, or beavers if all
150	150	11 applicable provisions for licenses are complied with and any
151	151	12 trap types and sizes used are in compliance with this Act,
152	152	13 including marking or identification. Landowners, tenants, or
153	153	14 their designees may remove cottontail rabbits or grey or fox
154	154	15 squirrels from their property, but only by means of a live
155	155	16 trap, if the cottontail rabbits and grey or fox squirrels are
156	156	17 released alive and unharmed in suitable habitat that is not
157	157	18 within any city or town and not within any park. The designee
158	158	19 of a drainage district, road district, landowner, or tenant
159	159	20 must have a signed and dated written authorization from the
160	160	21 drainage district, landowner, or tenant in possession at all
161	161	22 times when conducting activities under this Section. This
162	162	23 exemption from obtaining a permit shall be valid only upon
163	163	24 property owned, leased, or controlled by the drainage
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177	177	2 becoming law.
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