Illinois Compiled Statutes 510 Animals: Article -

• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Humane Care for Animals Act". (Source: P.A. 78-905.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2
  As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms specified in Sections 2.01 through 2.07 have the meanings ascribed to them...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01
  "Animal" means every living creature, domestic or wild, but does not include man. (Source: P.A. 78-905.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01a
  Companion animal. "Companion animal" means an animal that is commonly considered to be, or is considered by the owner to be, a pet. "Companion...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01b
  Exigent circumstances. "Exigent circumstances" means a licensed veterinarian cannot be secured without undue delay and, in the opinion of the animal control warden, animal...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01c
  Service animal. "Service animal" means an animal trained in obedience and task skills to meet the needs of a disabled person. (Source: P.A. 92-454,...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01d
  Search and rescue dog. "Search and rescue dog" means any dog that is trained or is certified to locate persons lost on land or...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01e
  Animal Control Administrator. "Animal Control Administrator" means a veterinarian licensed by the State of Illinois and appointed pursuant to the Animal Control Act, or...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01f
  Animal control facility. "Animal control facility" means any facility operated by or under contract for the State, county, or any municipal corporation or political...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01g
  Animal Control Warden. "Animal Control Warden" means any person appointed by the Administrator and approved by the Board to perform duties as assigned by...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.01h
  Animal shelter. "Animal shelter" means a facility operated, owned, or maintained by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, or other non-profit organization...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.02
  "Department" means the Department of Agriculture. (Source: P.A. 78-905.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.03
  "Department investigator" or "approved humane investigator" means a person employed by or approved by the Department to determine whether there has been a violation...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.04
  "Director" means the Director of Agriculture, or his duly appointed representative. (Source: P.A. 78-905.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.05
  "Humane society" means any chartered, not for profit organization authorized to do business in this State and organized for the purpose of preventing cruelty...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.05a
  "Livestock management facility" means any on-farm animal feeding operation, on-farm livestock shelter, or on-farm milking and accompanying milk handling area. (Source: P.A. 83-140.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.06
  "Owner" means any person who (a) has a right of property in an animal, (b) keeps or harbors an animal, (c) has an animal...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.07
  Person. "Person" means any individual, minor, firm, corporation, partnership, other business unit, society, association, or other legal entity, any public or private institution, the...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.08
  Police animal. "Police animal" means any animal owned or used by a law enforcement department or agency in the course of the department or...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.09
  Humanely euthanized. "Humanely euthanized" means the painless administration of a lethal dose of an agent or method of euthanasia as prescribed in the Report...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 2.10
  Companion animal hoarder. "Companion animal hoarder" means a person who (i) possesses a large number of companion animals; (ii) fails to or is unable...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3
  Owner's duties. (a) Each owner shall provide for each of his or her animals: (1) a sufficient quantity of good quality, wholesome food and water;...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.01
  Cruel treatment. No person or owner may beat, cruelly treat, torment, starve, overwork or otherwise abuse any animal. No owner may abandon any animal...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.02
  Aggravated cruelty. (a) No person may intentionally commit an act that causes a companion animal to suffer serious injury or death. Aggravated cruelty does not...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.03
  Animal torture. (a) A person commits animal torture when that person without legal justification knowingly or intentionally tortures an animal. For purposes of this...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.03-1
  Depiction of animal cruelty. (a) "Depiction of animal cruelty" means any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.04
  Arrests and seizures; penalties. (a) Any law enforcement officer making an arrest for an offense involving one or more companion animals under Section 3.01, 3.02,...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.05
  Security for companion animals and animals used for fighting purposes. (a) In the case of companion animals as defined in Section 2.01a or animals used...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.06
  Disposition of seized companion animals and animals used for fighting purposes. (a) Upon the conviction of the person charged, all animals seized, if not...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.07
  Veterinarian reports; humane euthanasia. Any veterinarian in this State who observes or is presented with an animal or animals for the treatment of aggravated...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 3.09
  Carbon monoxide euthanasia by a licensed veterinarian. A licensed veterinarian may euthanize a companion animal in a commercially manufactured chamber by use of compressed carbon...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 4
  Prohibited acts. No person may sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as a pet or a novelty any rabbit or any baby...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 4.01
  Animals in entertainment. This Section does not apply when the only animals involved are dogs. (Section 48-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012, rather than...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 4.02
  Arrests; reports. (a) Any law enforcement officer making an arrest for an offense involving one or more animals under Section 4.01 of this Act or...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 4.03
  Teasing, striking or tampering with police animals, service animals, accelerant detection dogs, or search and rescue dogs prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 4.04
  Injuring or killing police animals, service animals, accelerant detection dogs, or search and rescue dogs prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 5
  Lame or disabled horses. No person shall sell, offer to sell, lead, ride, transport, or drive on any public way any equidae which, because of...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 5.01
  Horse poling or tripping. (a) As used in this Section: "Pole" means to use a method of training a horse that consists of (i)...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 6
  Poisoning prohibited. No person may knowingly poison or cause to be poisoned any dog or other domestic animal. The only exception will be by...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 7
  Confinement or detention during transportation. No owner, railroad or other common carrier may, when transporting any animal, allow that animal to be confined in...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 7.1
  Confinement in motor vehicle. No owner or person shall confine any animal in a motor vehicle in such a manner that places it in...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 7.5
  Downed animals. (a) For the purpose of this Section a downed animal is one incapable of walking without assistance. (b) No downed animal shall be...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 7.15
  Guide, hearing, and support dogs. (a) A person may not willfully and maliciously annoy, taunt, tease, harass, torment, beat, or strike a guide, hearing,...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 8
  Rulemaking. The Department shall administer this Act and shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act. Such...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 9
  Humane investigators; qualifications. The Department shall, by rule or regulation, establish reasonable qualifications for approved humane investigators and shall maintain a current listing of...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 10
  Investigation of complaints. (a) Upon receiving a complaint of a suspected violation of this Act, a Department investigator, any law enforcement official, or an...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 11
  (a) If an investigation under Section 10 discloses that a violation of this Act has been committed, the approved humane investigator shall furnish the...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 12
  Impounding animals; notice of impoundment. (a) When an approved humane investigator, a Department investigator or a veterinarian finds that a violation of this Act...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 13
  Nothing in this Act affects normal, good husbandry practices utilized by any person in the production of food, companion or work animals, or in...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 14
  Any person affected by a final administrative decision of the Department may have such decision reviewed judicially by the circuit court of the county...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 15
  If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, by a court...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07. Repealed by P.A. 95-560, eff. 8-30-07.)
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16.1
  Defenses. It is not a defense to violations of this Act for the person committing the violation to assert that he or she had...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16.2
  Corporations. Corporations may be charged with violations of this Act for the acts of their employees or agents who violate this Act in the...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16.3
  Civil actions. Any person who has a right of ownership in an animal that is subjected to an act of aggravated cruelty under Section 3.02...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16.4
  Illinois Animal Abuse Fund. The Illinois Animal Abuse Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Moneys in the Fund may...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 16.5
  Emergency care to an animal; immunity from civil liability. Any person, including without limitation any person licensed under the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 17
  Penalties. (a) Any person convicted of any act of abuse or neglect or of violating any other provision of this Act, for which a penalty...
• Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. - 510 ILCS 70, Section 18
  Cross-reporting. (a) An animal control officer, Department investigator, or approved humane investigator who has reasonable cause to suspect or believe that a child is being...

Last modified: February 18, 2015