410 ILCS 90/ Pest and Predatory Animal Control Act. - Illinois Statutes

(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.)