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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 5/25/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3399
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3399 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 2.30 as follows:
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| 6 | | (520 ILCS 5/2.30) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.30)
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| 7 | | Sec. 2.30. Except as provided in this Section, it It shall |
| 8 | | be unlawful for any person to trap or to hunt
with gun, dog, |
| 9 | | dog and gun, or bow and arrow, gray fox, red fox,
raccoon, |
| 10 | | weasel, mink, muskrat, badger, bobcat, and opossum except |
| 11 | | during
the open season which will be set annually by the |
| 12 | | Director between 12:01
a.m., November 1 to 12:00 midnight, |
| 13 | | February 15, both inclusive.
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| 14 | | It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or trap bobcat |
| 15 | | in this State on and after the effective date of this |
| 16 | | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly in the counties of |
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| 1 | | Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, |
| 2 | | Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, |
| 3 | | LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McHenry, McLean, |
| 4 | | Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, Vermilion, |
| 5 | | Will, Winnebago, and Woodford and north of U.S. Route 36 in |
| 6 | | Edgar and Douglas and north of U.S. Route 36 to the junction |
| 7 | | with Illinois Route 121 and north or east of Illinois Route 121 |
| 8 | | in Macon. For the season beginning in 2017, a total number of |
| 9 | | 350 bobcats may be hunted or trapped lawfully, or the |
| 10 | | conclusion of the season occurs, whichever is earlier. For the |
| 11 | | season beginning in 2018, a total number of 375 bobcats may be |
| 12 | | hunted or trapped lawfully, or the conclusion of the season |
| 13 | | occurs, whichever is earlier. The changes added to this Section |
| 14 | | by this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, except |
| 15 | | for this sentence, are inoperative on and after June 30, 2019. |
| 16 | | It is unlawful to pursue any fur-bearing mammal with a dog |
| 17 | | or dogs
between the hours of sunset and sunrise during the 10 |
| 18 | | day period
preceding the opening date of the raccoon hunting |
| 19 | | season and the 10 day
period following the closing date of the |
| 20 | | raccoon hunting season except
that the Department may issue |
| 21 | | field trial permits in accordance with Section
2.34 of this |
| 22 | | Act. A non-resident from a state with more restrictive
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| 23 | | fur-bearer pursuit regulations for any particular species than |
| 24 | | provided for
that species in this Act may not pursue that |
| 25 | | species in Illinois except
during the period of time that |
| 26 | | Illinois residents are allowed to pursue
that species in the |
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| 1 | | non-resident's state of residence. Hound running areas |
| 2 | | approved by the Department shall be exempt from the
provisions |
| 3 | | of this Section.
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| 4 | | It shall be unlawful to take beaver, river otter, weasel, |
| 5 | | mink, or muskrat except during
the open season set annually by |
| 6 | | the Director, and then, only with traps, except that a firearm, |
| 7 | | pistol, or airgun of a caliber not larger than a .22 long rifle |
| 8 | | may be used to remove the animal from the trap.
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| 9 | | It shall be unlawful for any person to trap beaver or river |
| 10 | | otter with traps except during
the open season which will be |
| 11 | | set annually by the Director between 12:01
a.m., November 1st |
| 12 | | and 12:00 midnight, March 31, both inclusive.
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| 13 | | Coyote may be taken by trapping methods only during the |
| 14 | | period from
September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by |
| 15 | | hunting methods at any time.
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| 16 | | Striped skunk may be taken by trapping methods only during |
| 17 | | the period
from September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by |
| 18 | | hunting methods at
any time.
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| 19 | | Muskrat may be taken by trapping methods during an open |
| 20 | | season set annually by the Director. |
| 21 | | For the purpose of taking fur-bearing mammals, the State |
| 22 | | may be
divided into management zones by administrative rule.
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| 23 | | It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the |
| 24 | | season limit or possession limit of fur-bearing mammals that |
| 25 | | shall be set annually by the Director. The season limit for |
| 26 | | river otter shall not exceed 5 river otters per person per |
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| 1 | | season. The season limit for bobcat shall not exceed one bobcat |
| 2 | | per permit. Possession limits shall not apply to fur buyers, |
| 3 | | tanners, manufacturers, and taxidermists, as defined by this |
| 4 | | Act, who possess fur-bearing mammals in accordance with laws |
| 5 | | governing such activities. |
| 6 | | Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the taking or |
| 7 | | possessing of fur-bearing mammals found dead or |
| 8 | | unintentionally killed by a vehicle along a roadway during the |
| 9 | | open season provided the person who possesses such fur-bearing |
| 10 | | mammals has all appropriate licenses, stamps, or permits; the |
| 11 | | season for which the species possessed is open; and that such |
| 12 | | possession and disposal of such fur-bearing mammals is |
| 13 | | otherwise subject to the provisions of this Section. |
| 14 | | The provisions of this Section are subject to modification |
| 15 | | by administrative rule. |
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-924, eff. 8-15-14; |
| 17 | | 99-33, eff. 1-1-16.)
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| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
| 19 | | 2017.".
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