2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 410 - PUBLIC HEALTH › 410 ILCS 90/ - Pest and Predatory Animal Control Act.

(410 ILCS 90/0.01) (from Ch. 8, par. 230)
Sec. 0.01. 
		Short title. 
		This Act may be cited as the
Pest and Predatory Animal Control Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(410 ILCS 90/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 231)
Sec. 1. 
		
		The Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois is
authorized to enter into an agreement with the Bureau of Sport Fisheries
and Wildlife, United States Department of the Interior, covering
cooperation with funds, facilities and personnel in conducting a program
which will prevent or minimize the economic depredations of wild and feral
animals and commensal rodents, starlings and bird pests, abate their
nuisances and reduce the transmission of disease to persons, domestic
animals and wild life.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3394.)
(410 ILCS 90/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 232)
Sec. 2. 
		
		Such agreement and program may provide for testing new starling
control methods and procedures and the employment of presently available
methods where applicable in cooperation with livestock producing interests
in the state.  It may also include a study of the role of starlings, bird
pests, rodents and predatory animals in carrying transmissible
gastroenteritis (T.G.E.) and other diseases to swine and other animals.
The program may include the reduction of the population of wild animal
species which are known carriers of rabies.  The cooperation of the
Department of Natural Resources, the Department of
Public Health, and of county,
state and local health services and veterinarians shall be solicited and
this work shall be done in those areas where wild life rabies constitutes
an acute threat and population reduction is deemed advisable by the
cooperating organizations.  The program may also include work in cooperation
with local authorities and agencies to control rat and other rodent
populations in those areas where such an effort is deemed advisable.
Assistance and cooperation of the Department of Public Health, the
Department of Natural Resources, the Natural History
Survey, the College of
Veterinary Medicine of the University of Illinois, the College of
Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Service and of county, city and
other local health departments and agencies may be solicited and encouraged
to the extent such departments and agencies may be able to give assistance.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
(410 ILCS 90/3) (from Ch. 8, par. 233)
Sec. 3. 
		
		The Department of Agriculture may enter into local field agreements
with local governmental agencies, corporations, associations or individuals
when deemed necessary for the control of starlings, bird pests or injurious
or predatory animals or rodents in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
The Department may accept contributions or cost-sharing payments from
agencies, corporations, associations or individuals who are parties to such
field agreements and provide for the expenditure thereof in carrying out
the provisions of this Act.
In case work is done on privately owned premises, the cost of any bait
or materials used for starling, rat or rodent control shall be borne by the
owner or tenant of the premises on which the work is done.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3394.)
(410 ILCS 90/4) (from Ch. 8, par. 234)
Sec. 4. 
		
		The agreement provided for in Section 1 hereof and the
continuation of such agreement shall be contingent upon the availability of
funds appropriated by the Congress of the United States and the General
Assembly of the State of Illinois.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3394.)