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regulations for carrying out, administering and enforcing the |
provisions of this Act. These rules and regulations shall be |
called and hereinafter referred to as administrative rules. |
Each rule shall be promulgated in accordance with the |
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. |
A copy of any such rule, under the seal of the Department |
and certified by the Director thereof shall be received in |
evidence in all courts of this State with the same effect as |
the original. |
Such rules, after becoming effective, shall be enforced in |
the same manner as are any other provisions of this Act and |
violators thereof are subject to the penalties set out in |
Section 3.5 of this Act. |
The Department may adopt emergency rules in accordance |
with Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure |
Act. The adoption of emergency rules authorized by Sections |
5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and this |
paragraph is deemed to be necessary for the public interest, |
safety, and welfare. |
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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(520 ILCS 5/2.30) (from Ch. 61, par. 2.30) |
Sec. 2.30. Except as provided in this Section, it shall be |
unlawful for any person to trap or to hunt with a gun, dog, dog |
and gun, or bow and arrow, gray fox, red fox, raccoon, weasel, |
mink, muskrat, badger, bobcat, and opossum except during the |
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open season which will be set annually by the Director between |
12:01 a.m., November 1 to 12:00 midnight, February 15, both |
inclusive. |
Except as provided in this Section, it shall be unlawful |
for any person to trap or to hunt gray fox with a gun, dog, dog |
and gun, or bow and arrow, except during an open season, which |
may be set annually by the Director between 12:01 a.m., |
November 1 to 12:00 midnight, February 15, both inclusive. |
When the biological balance of the gray fox is affected for any |
reason, the Director may, by administrative rule, set the |
dates of, lengthen, shorten, or close the season during which |
gray fox may be taken. The Director may also set, lessen, or |
increase the daily bag limit or possession limit of gray fox by |
administrative rule. |
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or trap bobcat |
in this State on and after the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly in the counties |
of Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, |
Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, |
Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McHenry, |
McLean, Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, |
Vermilion, Will, Winnebago, and Woodford and north of U.S. |
Route 36 in Edgar and Douglas and north of U.S. Route 36 to the |
junction with Illinois Route 121 and north or east of Illinois |
Route 121 in Macon. For the season beginning in 2017, a total |
number of 350 bobcats may be hunted or trapped lawfully, or the |
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conclusion of the season occurs, whichever is earlier. For the |
season beginning in 2018, a total number of 375 bobcats may be |
hunted or trapped lawfully, or the conclusion of the season |
occurs, whichever is earlier. The changes added to this |
Section by this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, |
except for this sentence, are inoperative on and after June |
30, 2019. |
It is unlawful to pursue any fur-bearing mammal with a dog |
or dogs between the hours of sunset and sunrise during the 10 |
day period preceding the opening date of the raccoon hunting |
season and the 10 day period following the closing date of the |
raccoon hunting season except that the Department may issue |
field trial permits in accordance with Section 2.34 of this |
Act. A non-resident from a state with more restrictive |
fur-bearer pursuit regulations for any particular species than |
provided for that species in this Act may not pursue that |
species in Illinois except during the period of time that |
Illinois residents are allowed to pursue that species in the |
non-resident's state of residence. Hound running areas |
approved by the Department shall be exempt from the provisions |
of this Section. |
It shall be unlawful to take beaver, river otter, weasel, |
mink, or muskrat except during the open season set annually by |
the Director, and then, only with traps, except that a |
firearm, pistol, or air rifle of a caliber not larger than a |
.22 long rifle may be used to remove the animal from the trap. |
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It shall be unlawful for any person to trap beaver or river |
otter with traps except during the open season which will be |
set annually by the Director between 12:01 a.m., November 1st |
and 12:00 midnight, March 31, both inclusive. |
Coyote may be taken by trapping methods only during the |
period from September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by |
hunting methods at any time. |
Striped skunk may be taken by trapping methods only during |
the period from September 1 to March 1, both inclusive, and by |
hunting methods at any time. |
Muskrat may be taken by trapping methods during an open |
season set annually by the Director. |
For the purpose of taking fur-bearing mammals, the State |
may be divided into management zones by administrative rule. |
It shall be unlawful to take or possess more than the |
season limit or possession limit of fur-bearing mammals that |
shall be set annually by the Director. The season limit for |
bobcat shall not exceed one bobcat per permit. Possession |
limits shall not apply to fur buyers, tanners, manufacturers, |
and taxidermists, as defined by this Act, who possess |
fur-bearing mammals in accordance with laws governing such |
activities. |
Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the taking or |
possessing of fur-bearing mammals found dead or |
unintentionally killed by a vehicle along a roadway during the |
open season provided the person who possesses such fur-bearing |