Illinois Compiled Statutes 520 Wildlife: Article -

• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Wildlife Code". (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2
  This Act shall be administered by and under the direction of the Department of Natural Resources. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2a
  "Administrative rule" means an administrative rule of the Department issued under Section 1.3 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 85-152.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2b
  "Authorized Employee" means all sworn members of the Law Enforcement Division and those persons specifically granted law enforcement authorization by the Director. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2b-1
  Case. "Case" means any case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or container acceptable under Article 24 of the Criminal Code of 2012. (Source: P.A. 97-1027,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2c
  "Contraband" means all wild birds or any part thereof, (their nests or eggs), wild mammals or any part thereof, taken, bought, sold or bartered,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2c-1
  Daily Limit. Daily Limit means the maximum number or amount of species which can be lawfully taken by one person in one calendar day....
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2d
  "Department" means the Department of Natural Resources. (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2e
  "Director" means the Director of Natural Resources. (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2f
  "Freshly killed" means any carcass, remains or parts of the body of any dead mammal or bird that has not been prepared for immediate...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2g
  "Fur-bearing mammals" means the following specific species, mink, muskrat, raccoon, striped skunk, weasel, bobcat, opossum, beaver, river otter, badger, red fox, gray fox, and...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2h
  "Game mammals" means the following specific species: cottontail, swamp, and jack rabbit, white-tailed deer, fox squirrel, gray squirrel and ground hog. (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2i
  "Green hide" means any hide or pelt which has not been tanned. (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2j
  "Gun" means shotgun, rifle, handgun, or air gun. (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2j-1
  "Bow and arrow" means a longbow, recurve bow, compound bow, or crossbow. (Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2k
  "Hunt" means the act of a person possessing a weapon or being accompanied by a dog or a bird of prey for the purpose...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2l
  "Person" includes the plural "persons", "females" as well as "males" and shall extend and be applied to clubs, associations, corporations, firms and partnerships as...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2m
  "Resident" means a person who in good faith makes application for any license or permit and verifies by statement that he or she has maintained...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2m-1
  Possession Limit. Possession Limit means the maximum number or amount of species which can be lawfully held or possessed by one person at any...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2n
  "Sale" means to sell, barter or otherwise offer goods to another for consideration. The term sale shall include serving the same as a part...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2o
  "Take" means hunt, shoot, pursue, lure, kill, destroy, capture, gig or spear, trap or ensnare, harass, or to attempt to do so. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2p
  "Transport" or "ship" means to convey by means of parcel post, express, freight baggage or shipment by common carrier of any description; or by...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2q
  "Trap" means to capture, or attempt to capture, by setting or placing a leg hold trap, cushion-hold trap, bodygripping trap, cage or box trap,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2r
  "Vehicle" means any device capable of transporting a person on land, on ice, on water, in water, or in the air. (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2s
  "Wild" means not ordinarily domesticated, and ordinarily living unconfined in a state of nature without the care of man. (Source: P.A. 97-431, eff. 8-16-11.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2t
  "Wildlife" means any bird or mammal that are by nature wild by way of distinction from those that are naturally tame and are ordinarily living...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2u
  "Individual" means a natural person. (Source: P.A. 84-150.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2v
  "Water set" means any trap or similar device which is placed or set in contact with flowing or impounded water. (Source: P.A. 85-152.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2w
  "Land set" means any trap or similar device which is not placed or set in contact with flowing or impounded water. (Source: P.A. 85-152.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2x
  Taxidermy. "Taxidermy" means the art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of fish, birds, or mammals to make them appear lifelike. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2y
  "Hound running" means pursuing any fox, coyote, raccoon, or rabbit with a hound. (Source: P.A. 95-196, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.2z
  "Authorized species" means any fox, coyote, raccoon, or rabbit associated with a hound running area. (Source: P.A. 95-196, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.3
  The Department shall have the authority to manage wildlife and regulate the taking of wildlife for the purposes of providing public recreation and controlling wildlife...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.4
  The Department is authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying out, administering and enforcing the provisions of this Act. These rules and regulations...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.5
  The Department is authorized to cooperate with the Environmental Protection Agency of the State of Illinois in making pollution investigations and making reports thereof....
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.6
  The Department, and persons authorized by it, may take, purchase or propagate, any mammals or birds, or eggs of such birds for propagation and...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.7
  The Department is authorized to produce such mammals, birds or their eggs, and to distribute them to anyone having suitable land or means for...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.8
  The Department may establish and maintain refuges or public hunting areas upon any lands or waters owned by the Federal government by mutual consent...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.9
  The Department shall have the power and authority to select and purchase or lease, receive by donation or acquire, in accordance with the laws...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.9-1
  The following described areas are designated as State game farms: Wilmington State Game Farm in Will County; Glen D. Palmer State Game Farm in...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.9-2
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any power granted under this Code to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.10
  The Department shall take all measures necessary for the conservation, distribution, introduction and restoration of birds and mammals. The Department also shall bring or...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.11
  The Department may establish Conservation Training Schools and employ technicians and such other help as may be necessary for the purpose of teaching conservation...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.12
  The Department shall use the most modern conservation methods to manage wildlife on State controlled lands or waters for propagation or breeding wildlife. The...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.13
  The Department is authorized to issue a "Public Hunting Grounds for Waterfowl" daily usage stamp at a fee not to exceed $10 for duck hunting...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.14
  All authorized employees of the Department shall have the power of, and shall be peace officers in the enforcement of the provisions of this...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.15
  All authorized employees of the Department, duly accredited officers of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and other...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.16
  All State's Attorneys shall enforce the provisions of this Act, including administrative rules, in their respective counties, and shall prosecute all persons charged with...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.17
  All prosecutions provided for by this Act shall be brought before the Circuit Court for the county within which the offense was committed. All...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.18
  All fines provided for by this Act which are imposed and collected shall be remitted to the Department, within 30 days after the collection...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.19
  All authorized employees of the Department are empowered, pursuant to law, to enter all lands and waters to enforce the provisions of this Act....
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.20
  The possession of any wild bird or wild mammal protected under this Act, is prima facie evidence that the same is subject to all...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.21
  Whenever any authorized employee of the Department, sheriff, deputy sheriff or other peace officer of the State shall have reason to believe that any...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.22
  It shall be unlawful for any person to resist or obstruct any authorized employee of the Department or other peace officer in the discharge...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.23
  It shall be unlawful for any person to represent himself falsely to be an authorized employee of the Department, or to assume to act...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.24
  Contraband wild birds or any part thereof (their nests or eggs), or wild mammals or any part thereof, or fur-bearing mammals or any part...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.25
  Every hunting or trapping device, vehicle or conveyance, when used or operated illegally, or attempted to be used or operated illegally by any person...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.26
  Each wild bird or wild mammal, or any part thereof (including the nests or eggs of wild birds), taken, shipped, offered or received for...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.27
  Any person who aids or contributes in any manner to a violation of this Act, including administrative rules, is individually liable, as a separate...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.28
  Fees and fines; deposit in funds. All fees, fines, including bond forfeitures, income of whatsoever kind or nature derived from hunting and fishing activities on...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.28a
  The Wildlife and Fish Fund shall also be used for the purposes set forth in Section 1-235 of the Fish and Aquatic Life Code....
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.29
  Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Fund. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Fund. All fees collected from the sale...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.30
  The Department has the authority to sell Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps. The Department may consign, issue or otherwise make available such...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.31
  Pheasant Fund. There is created in the State Treasury the State Pheasant Fund. All interest earned on monies in this Fund shall remain in...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 1.32
  Distribution of funds; State Furbearer Committee. (a) There is created within the State Treasury the State Furbearer Fund. All interest earned on monies in...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.1
  The ownership of and title to all wild birds and wild mammals within the jurisdiction of the State are hereby declared to be in...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.2
  This Act shall apply only to the wild birds and parts of wild birds (including, but not limited to, their nests and eggs), and wild...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.2a
  Invasive and exotic wild animals. The Department may prohibit or limit the importation, possession, release into the wild, take, commercialization of take, sale, and propagation...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.2b
  Imminent threat; nuisance permits. (a) It shall not be illegal for an owner or tenant of land, or their designated agent, to immediately take on...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.3
  Release of Wildlife - Permission. It shall be unlawful to release from captivity any live bird or mammal, either indigenous or non-indigenous in this State...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.4
  The term birds of prey shall include all species of owls, falcons, hawks, kites, harriers, ospreys and eagles. It shall be unlawful for any person,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.5
  Crossbow conditions. A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the following conditions are met: (1) the user is a person age...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.6
  Pheasant season; limits. It shall be unlawful for any person to take cock pheasants except with shotgun or bow and arrow during the open...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.7
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take quail except with shotgun, or bow and arrow, and only during the open season which...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.8
  It is unlawful for any person to take ruffed, sharp-tailed, and pinnated grouse (prairie chicken) in this State at any time. (Source: P.A. 81-382.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.9
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take or possess wild turkey unless they are taken or possessed in compliance with Sections 2.10...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.10
  The Department may, on an annual basis, establish a spring wild turkey open season within the period beginning on March 1 and running through...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.11
  Before any person may lawfully hunt wild turkey, he shall first obtain a "Wild Turkey Hunting Permit" in accordance with the prescribed regulations set forth...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.13
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take Hungarian partridge except with shotgun, or bow and arrow, during the open season which will...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.15
  It shall be unlawful for any person to possess at any time any net or trap for the purpose of netting or trapping any...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.16
  It shall be unlawful to sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, buy or barter, or offer to buy or barter any...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.18
  It shall be unlawful to take, possess, transport or use migratory game birds except during such periods of time, and only in such manner...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.18-1
  (a) It shall be lawful for any person who holds the licenses, permits and stamps required by this Act for the taking of migratory...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.19
  It shall be unlawful to use a floating blind for the taking of migratory waterfowl, as permitted by this Act, unless such blind is...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.20
  It shall be unlawful to take waterfowl or any species of wildlife in any area managed by the Department unless those species are taken...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.23
  It is unlawful for any person to take any species of waterfowl protected by this Act on the Horseshoe Lake Waterfowl Refuge, and those...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.24
  It shall be unlawful to take or possess deer in this State, except in compliance with the provisions of Sections 2.25, 2.26, and 3.23...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.25
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take deer except (i) with a shotgun, handgun, or muzzleloading rifle or (ii) as provided by administrative...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.26
  Deer hunting permits. In this Section, "bona fide equity shareholder" means an individual who (1) purchased, for market price, publicly sold stock shares in a...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.27
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take cottontail, jack, and swamp rabbits except with a gun or bow and arrow during the open...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.28
  It shall be unlawful for any person to take fox squirrels and gray squirrels except with a gun or bow and arrow during the...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.29
  It shall be unlawful to sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, buy or barter, or offer to buy or barter, any...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.30
  It shall be unlawful for any person to trap or to hunt with gun, dog, dog and gun, or bow and arrow, gray fox, red...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.30b
  River otter pelts. The pelts of river otters shall be tagged in accordance with federal regulation 50 CFR 23.69(e). The Department may require harvest registration...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.31
  Except as provided in Section 2.30, it shall be unlawful for any person to take or attempt to take wild birds or wild mammals along,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.32
  It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to molest, destroy or attempt to destroy any feed bed, nest, den, house or...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.33
  Prohibitions. (a) It is unlawful to carry or possess any gun in any State refuge unless otherwise permitted by administrative rule. (b) It is unlawful...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.33-1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no person shall place, carry, possess or transport a shotgun on a boat of any type in...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.33a
  Trapping. (a) It is unlawful to fail to visit and remove all animals from traps staked out, set, used, tended, placed or maintained at least...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.33b
  Computer-assisted remote hunting; prohibition. A person shall not operate, provide, sell, use, or offer to operate, provide, sell, or use any computer software or service...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.34
  Dog Trials. (a) Dogs of any breed may be trained the year round in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (b) During the...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.35
  (a) Migratory game birds, or any part or parts thereof, may be possessed only in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Government. (b)...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.36
  It shall be unlawful to buy, sell or barter, or offer to buy, sell or barter, and for a commercial institution, other than a regularly...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.36a
  Value of protected species; violations. (a) Any person who, for profit or commercial purposes, knowingly captures or kills, possesses, offers for sale, sells, offers...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.37
  Authority to kill wildlife responsible for damage. Subject to federal regulations and Section 3 of the Illinois Endangered Species Act, the Department may authorize owners...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.38
  No person shall at any time: (1) falsify, alter or change in any manner, or provide deceptive or false information required for, any license, permit...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 2.39
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 95-529, eff. 8-28-07. Repealed internally, eff. 1-1-14.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1
  License and stamps required. (a) Before any person shall take or attempt to take any of the species protected by Section 2.2 for which an...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-1
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-91.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-2
  Veterans who, according to the determination of the Veterans' Administration as certified by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, are at least 10% disabled with...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-3
  Deer, waterfowl, and wild turkey outfitter permit; application and fees. Before any person provides or offers to provide, for compensation, outfitting services for deer, waterfowl,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-4
  Military members returning from mobilization and service outside the United States. (a) After returning from service abroad or mobilization by the President of the United...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-5
  Apprentice Hunter License Program. (a) Beginning 120 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Department shall establish...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-7
  Terminally ill hunter licensing program. In order to facilitate hunting and fishing opportunities for a terminally ill person, the Director may issue any license, tag,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-9
  Youth Hunting License. Any resident youth age 16 and under may apply to the Department for a Youth Hunting License, which extends limited hunting privileges....
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.2
  Hunting license; application; instruction. Before the Department or any county, city, village, township, incorporated town clerk or his duly designated agent or any other person...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.2a
  Every person holding any license, permit or stamp issued under the provisions hereof shall have it in his possession for immediate presentation for inspection...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.3
  Trapping license required. Before any person shall trap any of the mammals protected by this Act, for which an open trapping season has been established,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.4
  Before a trapping license shall be issued to any person, such person shall make application to the Department or any county, city, village, township...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.4a
  Every person holding any license, stamp or permit issued under the provisions hereof shall have the same in his possession for immediate presentation for...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.5
  Penalties; probation. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of Section 2.36a, including administrative rules, shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.6
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-174. Repealed by P.A. 98-914, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.7
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-435, eff. 1-1-98. Repealed by P.A. 98-914, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Wildlife: Article -
  (Source: P.A. 97-132, eff. 1-1-12. Repealed by P.A. 98-914, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.8
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 97-132, eff. 1-1-12. Repealed by P.A. 98-914, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.11
  Any individual who is a resident of the State of Illinois, who, within the State of Illinois, receives, collects or buys, or who acts...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.12
  Any individual who is a resident of the State of Illinois who, within the State of Illinois, receives, collects, or buys, or acts as...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.14
  Any person receiving, collecting or buying green hides of fur-bearing or game mammals from a licensed resident retail, resident wholesale or non-resident fur buyer,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.15
  Any manufacturer, converter, or consumer who purchases or receives green hides of fur-bearing or game mammals for the purpose of dressing and fabricating them...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.16
  Any individual, who for other individuals, engages in the business of dressing, dyeing or tanning the green hides of fur-bearing or game mammals, protected...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.16a
  Non-resident auction participation permit; fee. Any individual who is not a resident of the State of Illinois and does not possess a non-resident fur buyer...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.18
  Any individual not a resident of the State of Illinois, who, within the State of Illinois, receives, collects or buys, or who acts as...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.19
  Each resident retail fur buyer, resident wholesale fur buyer, nonresident fur buyer, non-resident auction participant, fur bearing mammal breeder or fur tanner shall have his...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.20
  All fur buyers and non-resident auction participants, shall, upon purchasing any green hide of any fur-bearing mammal, protected by this Act, issue a numbered receipt...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.21
  (a) Every person before engaging in the business of taxidermy shall obtain a license for such purpose from the Department. Application for such license...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.22
  Issuance of scientific and special purpose permits. Scientific permits may be granted by the Department to any properly accredited person at least 18 years of...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.23
  Before any person shall hold, possess or engage in the raising of game mammals, game birds or migratory game birds protected by this Act, he...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.24
  Before any person, except permittees under Section 3.23 of this Act, shall engage in buying, selling or processing wild game for the purpose of...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.25
  Any individual who, within the State of Illinois, holds, possesses or engages in the breeding or raising of live fur-bearing mammals, protected by this Act,...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.26
  Hound running area permits; requirements. (a) Any person owning, holding, or controlling by lease, for a term of at least 5 years, any contiguous tract...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.27
  Any person owning, holding or controlling, by lease, which possession must be for a term of 5 or more years, any contiguous tract of...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.28
  The licensee of any licensed game breeding and hunting preserve area may take, or authorize to be taken, on licensed areas and within the...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.29
  For the purpose of this Act, game birds shall be released upon licensed game breeding and hunting preserve areas in a manner satisfactory to...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.30
  Game birds may be taken upon a Class A game breeding and hunting preserve area only during the period from September 1st to April...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.31
  The Department may designate any operator of a license game breeding and hunting preserve area or any of his or its agents or employees...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.33
  The Department may either refuse to issue or refuse to renew or may suspend or may revoke any game breeding and hunting preserve area license...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.34
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96. Repealed by P.A. 97-431, eff. 8-16-11.)
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.35
  Any licensee, or any other person, who willfully and intentionally transfers or permits the transfer of the tags issued to the operator of one licensed...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.36
  Revocation and suspension. (a) Whenever a license or permit is issued to any person under this Act, and the holder thereof is found guilty of...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.37
  The Department of Natural Resources has the authority to designate agents to sell licenses, stamps and permits on behalf of the Department. Any person...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.38
  Within 30 days after the expiration of the time in which any class of license is usable, payment for licenses sold shall be made...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.39
  Residents of the State of Illinois may obtain a Sportsmen's Combination License which shall entitle the holder to the same non-commercial fishing privileges as residents...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 3.40
  Accidents; Reports - Transmittal of information. Accidents involving serious personal injury resulting from any action of a person who is directly involved in a...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 4.1
  Whenever the word "transport" or "ship" is used in this Act, it shall include parcel post, United States Postal Service, express, freight, baggage or...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 4.2
  It shall be unlawful for a non-resident of the State to transport from the State any wild mammals and wild birds protected by the...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 4.3
  It shall be unlawful for transportation companies or common carriers knowingly to transport into this State from without the State, any wild bird or...
• Illinois Wildlife Code. - 520 ILCS 5, Section 4.4
  Should any court hold any section, subdivision, clause, phrase, or provision of this Act to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason whatsoever such...