Public Act 103-0932
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended
by changing Sections 7, 8, and 10 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1005/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 80)
Sec. 7. The board of trustees of such district shall have
power to take all necessary or proper steps for the
surveillance and monitoring of ticks and the surveillance,
monitoring, and extermination of mosquitoes and rats , flies or
other insects within the district, and, subject to the
paramount control of the municipal or other public
authorities, to abate as nuisances all stagnant pools of water
and other breeding places for mosquitoes and rats , flies or
other insects within the district; to purchase such supplies
and materials and to employ such labor and assistants as may be
necessary or proper in furtherance of the objects of this Act,
and if necessary or proper, in the furtherance of the same, to
build, construct and thereafter to repair and maintain
necessary levees, cuts, canals or channels upon any land
within the district, and to acquire by purchase, condemnation
or other lawful means, in the name of the district, any
necessary lands, rights of way, easements, property or
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material requisite or necessary for any such purpose; to make
contracts to indemnify or compensate any owner of land or
other property for any injury or damage necessarily caused by
the exercise of the powers of this Act conferred or arising out
of the use, taking or damage of such property for any such
purposes, and generally to do any and all things necessary or
incident to the powers hereby granted and to carry out the
objects specified herein.
(Source: Laws 1927, p. 694.)
(70 ILCS 1005/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81)
Sec. 8. The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement
district shall, in its work, advise and cooperate with the
Department of Public Health of the State, and the board of
trustees of such district shall submit to such Department, on
or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work done
and results obtained by the district during the preceding
year.
The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district,
or its designee, for the limited purposes of cooperation with
the Department, shall conduct routine surveillance of
Department-identified vectors mosquitoes to detect the
presence of vector-borne mosquito-borne diseases of public
health significance. The surveillance required by the
Department under this Section does not grant a mosquito
abatement district any greater independent authority to
monitor and exterminate than those powers granted in Section
7, and a mosquito abatement district, or its designee, shall
notify a forest preserve district or conservation district
prior to or within 48 hours after accessing the respective
forest preserve district's or conservation district's land for
surveillance required by the Department. This notification
requirement does not apply to mosquitoes, rats, or tick
surveillance performed by the mosquito abatement district or
its designee. The surveillance shall be conducted in
accordance with mosquito abatement and control guidelines as
set forth by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Areas reporting disease in humans shall be
included in the surveillance activities. Mosquito abatement
districts shall report to the local certified public health
department and the Department the results of any positive
mosquito, tick, or vector samples infected with any arboviral
or bacterial infections, including, but not limited to: West
Nile Virus, St. Louis Encephalitis, and Eastern Equine
Encephalitis, Borrelia burgdorferi, rickettsia species,
ehrlichia species, and other vector-borne diseases. Reports
shall be made to the local certified public health
department's director of environmental health, or a designee
of the department, within 24 hours after receiving a positive
report. The report shall include the type of infection, the
number of vectors mosquitoes collected in the trapping device,
the type of trapping device used, and the type of laboratory
testing used to confirm the infection. Any trustee of a
mosquito abatement district, or designee of the board of
trustees of a mosquito abatement district, that fails to
comply with the requirements of this Act is guilty of a Class A
Misdemeanor.
As used in this Section:
"Department" means the Department of Public Health.
"Vector" means any of the following that have been
identified by the Department as necessary to be surveilled by
a mosquito abatement district for the purposes of supporting
the Department's mandate to investigate the causes of
dangerously contagious or infectious diseases: arthropods,
rodents, including rats and mice, birds, or other animals
capable of carrying disease-producing organisms to a human or
animal host. "Vector" does not include animals that transmit
disease to humans only when used as human food.
(Source: P.A. 93-734, eff. 7-14-04.)