103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4446 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 720 ILCS 5/48-10 Amends provisions of the Criminal Code of 2012 making it an offense to keep a dangerous animal, with specified exceptions. In the definition of "dangerous animal", includes a serval, caracal, kangaroo, and wallaby and any hybrid, intergrade, or cross of a listed dangerous animal. LRB103 37239 RLC 67359 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4446 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 720 ILCS 5/48-10 720 ILCS 5/48-10 Amends provisions of the Criminal Code of 2012 making it an offense to keep a dangerous animal, with specified exceptions. In the definition of "dangerous animal", includes a serval, caracal, kangaroo, and wallaby and any hybrid, intergrade, or cross of a listed dangerous animal. LRB103 37239 RLC 67359 b LRB103 37239 RLC 67359 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4446 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/48-10 720 ILCS 5/48-10
720 ILCS 5/48-10
Amends provisions of the Criminal Code of 2012 making it an offense to keep a dangerous animal, with specified exceptions. In the definition of "dangerous animal", includes a serval, caracal, kangaroo, and wallaby and any hybrid, intergrade, or cross of a listed dangerous animal.
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1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5 changing Section 48-10 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/48-10)
7 Sec. 48-10. Dangerous animals.
8 (a) Definitions. As used in this Section, unless the
9 context otherwise requires:
10 "Dangerous animal" means a lion, tiger, leopard,
11 ocelot, jaguar, cheetah, margay, mountain lion, lynx,
12 bobcat, jaguarundi, serval, bear, hyena, wolf, or coyote,
13 caracal, kangaroo, or wallaby or any hybrid, intergrade,
14 or cross thereof. Dangerous animal does not mean any
15 herptiles included in the Herptiles-Herps Act.
16 "Owner" means any person who (1) has a right of
17 property in a dangerous animal or primate, (2) keeps or
18 harbors a dangerous animal or primate, (3) has a dangerous
19 animal or primate in his or her care, or (4) acts as
20 custodian of a dangerous animal or primate.
21 "Person" means any individual, firm, association,
22 partnership, corporation, or other legal entity, any
23 public or private institution, the State, or any municipal
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4446 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/48-10 720 ILCS 5/48-10
720 ILCS 5/48-10
Amends provisions of the Criminal Code of 2012 making it an offense to keep a dangerous animal, with specified exceptions. In the definition of "dangerous animal", includes a serval, caracal, kangaroo, and wallaby and any hybrid, intergrade, or cross of a listed dangerous animal.
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1 corporation or political subdivision of the State.
2 "Primate" means a nonhuman member of the order
3 primate, including but not limited to chimpanzee, gorilla,
4 orangutan, bonobo, gibbon, monkey, lemur, loris, aye-aye,
5 and tarsier.
6 (b) Dangerous animal or primate offense. No person shall
7 have a right of property in, keep, harbor, care for, act as
8 custodian of or maintain in his or her possession any
9 dangerous animal or primate except at a properly maintained
10 zoological park, federally licensed exhibit, circus, college
11 or university, scientific institution, research laboratory,
12 veterinary hospital, hound running area, or animal refuge in
13 an escape-proof enclosure.
14 (c) Exemptions.
15 (1) This Section does not prohibit a person who had
16 lawful possession of a primate before January 1, 2011,
17 from continuing to possess that primate if the person
18 registers the animal by providing written notification to
19 the local animal control administrator on or before April
20 1, 2011. The notification shall include:
21 (A) the person's name, address, and telephone
22 number; and
23 (B) the type of primate, the age, a photograph, a
24 description of any tattoo, microchip, or other
25 identifying information, and a list of current
26 inoculations.
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1 (2) This Section does not prohibit a person who has a
2 permanent disability with a severe mobility impairment
3 from possessing a single capuchin monkey to assist the
4 person in performing daily tasks if:
5 (A) the capuchin monkey was obtained from and
6 trained at a licensed nonprofit organization described
7 in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
8 1986, the nonprofit tax status of which was obtained
9 on the basis of a mission to improve the quality of
10 life of severely mobility-impaired individuals; and
11 (B) the person complies with the notification
12 requirements as described in paragraph (1) of this
13 subsection (c).
14 (d) A person who registers a primate shall notify the
15 local animal control administrator within 30 days of a change
16 of address. If the person moves to another locality within the
17 State, the person shall register the primate with the new
18 local animal control administrator within 30 days of moving by
19 providing written notification as provided in paragraph (1) of
20 subsection (c) and shall include proof of the prior
21 registration.
22 (e) A person who registers a primate shall notify the
23 local animal control administrator immediately if the primate
24 dies, escapes, or bites, scratches, or injures a person.
25 (f) It is no defense to a violation of subsection (b) that
26 the person violating subsection (b) has attempted to
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