Illinois Compiled Statutes 410 Public Health: Article -

• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 1
  This Act may be cited as the Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 2
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the General Assembly to provide for the inspection of eggs and egg products, place restrictions...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3
  Definitions. For the purpose of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms specified in Sections 3.1 through 3.36 have the meanings assigned...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.1
  "Adulterated" means any egg or egg product under one or more of the following circumstances: (a) If it bears or contains any poisonous or...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.2
  "Broker" means any person who arranges the transfer or ownership of eggs or egg products from one person to another and who may or...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.3
  "Candling" means the careful examination, in an adequately dark room or place, of the whole egg by means of a strong light, the apparatus...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.4
  "Check" means an egg that has a broken shell or crack in the shell but has its membranes intact and contents not leaking. (Source:...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.5
  "Clean and sound shell egg" means any egg whose shell is free of adhering dirt or foreign material and is not cracked or broken....
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.6
  "Consumer" means any person who acquires eggs for consumption by members of his own household, nonpaying guests and employees, and not for resale. (Source:...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.7
  "Consumer-size container" means any case, carton, sleeve, or other container approved by the Department which is used to market eggs to consumers. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.8
  "Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.9
  "Director" means the Director of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.10
  "Dirty egg" means an egg that has a shell that is unbroken and has adhering dirt or foreign material, or prominent stains on the...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.11
  "Distributor" means any person who sells eggs to retailers or institutional consumers and shall include any person distributing eggs to his or to its...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.12
  "Egg products" means any liquid, frozen, or dried eggs, with or without added ingredients, excepting products which contain eggs only in a relatively small...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.13
  "Eggs" means the shell eggs of the domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.14
  "Facilities" means any room or place, compartment, refrigerator, or vehicle used in handling eggs in any manner. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.15
  "Graded egg" means an egg which is classified in accordance with the standards established by the Department, taking into consideration the size or weight,...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.16
  "Handler" means any person including a producer-dealer engaged in the business of distributing or processing eggs or egg products and may include the receiving,...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.16a
  "Hazardous-disease-infected flock" means a flock of chickens that has been found to be infected with salmonella or another poultry disease that may be injurious...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.17
  "Inedible egg" means any egg of the following description: black rot, yellow rot, white rot, mixed rot (addled egg), sour egg, egg with a...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.18
  "Inspector" means any employee or official authorized to inspect eggs or egg products and to enforce other regulatory measures necessary to effectively carry out...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.19
  "Institutional consumer" means any restaurant, hotel, boarding house, hospital, nursing home, government institution, or any other business facility or place in which eggs are...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.20
  "Leaker" means an egg that has a crack or break in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg contents are...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.21
  "Loss" means an egg that is unfit for human food because it is smashed or broken so that its contents are leaking; or overheated,...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.22
  "Master container" means any type of box or case made of plastic, wire, cardboard, or other suitable material, used to distribute consumer-size containers to...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.23
  "Nest run eggs" means eggs which are packed as they come from the production facilities without having been washed, sized, or candled for quality,...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.24
  "Official plant" means any establishment at which inspection of the processing of egg products is maintained by the Department under the authority of this...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.25
  "Packer" means any person who grades, sizes, candles, and packs eggs for purpose of resale. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.26
  "Person" means and includes any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, producer, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, or any other entity and any member officer, employee, or...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.27
  "Processing" means manufacturing egg products, including breaking eggs or filtering, mixing, blending, pasteurizing, stabilizing, cooling, freezing, drying, or packaging egg products. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.28
  "Producer" means a person who feeds and houses any number of chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, or guineas and obtains eggs therefrom, but shall not...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.29
  "Producer-dealer" means a producer who candles and grades eggs of his own production or additional eggs other than his own production to sell on...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.30
  "Restricted egg" means any check, dirty egg, incubator reject, inedible, leaker, or loss. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.31
  "Retailer" means a person who buys candled and graded eggs or egg products from a licensed manufacturer, licensed handler, or licensed distributor for resale...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.32
  "Sell" means offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale, barter, trade, distribute, market, or traffic in eggs in any manner....
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.33
  "Shell treated egg" means that the shell has been treated with oil or other approved preservative preparation. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.34
  "State" means the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.35
  "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat.1040), as amended. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 3.36
  "Egg Products Inspection Act" means the federal Act approved December 29, 1970 (84 Stat. 1621), as amended. (Source: P.A. 79-678.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 4
  Sale of unfit eggs or egg products. No person shall sell or offer for sale eggs or egg products for human consumption that are...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 5
  The Department, after investigation and public hearing, shall establish standards for grading and classification of shell eggs according to the size or weight, quality...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 6
  Candling; labeling; sales by producers; retail sales; temperature requirements. All eggs sold at retail or purchased by institutional consumers must be candled for quality and...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 7
  No person, other than those who sell only eggs produced by their own flocks, shall sell, offer for sale or advertise for sale as...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 8
  Any person or business who buys, sells, trades, or traffics in eggs in this State and is a broker, distributor, handler, packer, producer, or...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 9
  Licenses; fees. The Department shall issue a license to any person upon receipt and approval of a proper application and the required nonrefundable fee. The...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 10
  Inspection fee. The Director shall set, by regulation, a per case inspection fee which shall cover the administrative and inspection costs of the program required...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 11.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 80-522. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 11.2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 80-522. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 11.3
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-1415. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 11.4
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-678. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 11.5
  Investigation; notice; hearing. The Department may, upon its own motion or upon the complaint in writing of any person setting forth facts which if...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 12
  Each producer-dealer, packer, handler or distributor who sells candled and graded eggs to any retailer, institutional consumer, bakery, or concern which purchases eggs for...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 13
  The Director shall make rules and regulations necessary for the effective administration of this Act. These rules and regulations shall conform as near as...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 14.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-678. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 14.2
  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Department through its authorized inspectors or...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 14.3
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-678. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 15
  Samples; packing methods. The Department shall prescribe methods in conformity with the United States Department of Agriculture specifications for selecting samples of lots, cases...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 16
  Effective November 1, 1975, no person shall engage in the business of removing eggs from their shells, in the manufacture of or preparation of frozen,...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 16.5
  Violations; administrative monetary penalties. The Director is authorized to hold administrative hearings to determine violations of this Act or the Department's rules and regulations adopted...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 16.6
  Violations; penalties. Any person knowingly violating this Act or any rule or order of the Department issued pursuant to this Act shall be guilty of...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 16.7
  Suspension and revocation of license. (a) The Director may suspend a license if the Department has reason to believe that any one or more of...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 16.9
  Termination of application; forfeiture of license fee. Failure of any applicant to meet all of the requirements for compliance within 60 days after receipt of...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 17
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 79-678. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 17.5
  Subpoenas. The Director may issue subpoenas, may bring before the Department any person, and may take testimony either at an administrative hearing or by...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 18
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-1362. Repealed by P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 18.5
  Administrative procedure. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and the Department's rules concerning administrative hearings apply to this Act. (Source: P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 19
  All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review under Article III of the Code of Civil Procedure and rules adopted...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 20
  Deposit of fees and civil penalties. All license fees and penalties collected under this Act shall be paid into the Agricultural Master Fund. (Source:...
• Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act. - 410 ILCS 615, Section 21
  The invalidity of any Section or parts of any Section of this Act or any rule or regulation pursuant thereto shall not affect the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015