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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Animal Welfare Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 7 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 605/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 307)
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| 7 | Sec. 7.
(a) Applications for renewal licenses shall be made | ||||||
| 8 | to the
Department, shall be in writing on forms prescribed by | ||||||
| 9 | the
Department, shall contain such information as will enable | ||||||
| 10 | the Department
to determine if the applicant is qualified to | ||||||
| 11 | continue to hold a license
and shall be accompanied by the | ||||||
| 12 | required fee, which shall not be
returnable. | ||||||
| 13 | (b) As part of its annual renewal application, an animal | ||||||
| 14 | shelter or animal control facility shall report beginning | ||||||
| 15 | inventory and intake and outcome statistics from the previous | ||||||
| 16 | calendar year. The report of intake and outcome statistics | ||||||
| 17 | shall include the following:
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| 18 | (1) The total number of dogs, cats, and other animals, | ||||||
| 19 | divided into species, taken in by the animal shelter or | ||||||
| 20 | animal control facility, in the following categories: | ||||||
| 21 | (a) surrendered by owner; | ||||||
| 22 | (b) stray; | ||||||
| 23 | (c) impounded other than stray; | ||||||
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| 1 | (d) confiscated under the Humane Care for Animals | ||||||
| 2 | Act; | ||||||
| 3 | (e) transferred from other licensees within | ||||||
| 4 | Illinois; | ||||||
| 5 | (f) transferred into or imported from outside | ||||||
| 6 | Illinois; | ||||||
| 7 | (g) transferred into or imported from outside the | ||||||
| 8 | United States; | ||||||
| 9 | (h) born in the shelter or animal control facility. | ||||||
| 10 | (2) The total number of dogs, cats, or other animals, | ||||||
| 11 | divided by species, that leave its facilities, in the | ||||||
| 12 | following categories: | ||||||
| 13 | (a) returned to owners; | ||||||
| 14 | (b) placed or sold; | ||||||
| 15 | (c) euthanized; | ||||||
| 16 | (d) euthanized at the owner's request; | ||||||
| 17 | (e) died in custody; | ||||||
| 18 | (f) transferred to another licensed animal shelter | ||||||
| 19 | or animal control facility within the State; | ||||||
| 20 | (g) transferred to an out-of-state non-profit | ||||||
| 21 | animal shelter or facility; | ||||||
| 22 | (h) missing, stolen, or escaped; | ||||||
| 23 | (i) released in field or put into a program under | ||||||
| 24 | which animals are trapped, neutered, and released; and | ||||||
| 25 | (3) The ending inventory or shelter count per species | ||||||
| 26 | at the end of the last day of the year. | ||||||
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 81-198.)
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| 2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
| 3 | 1, 2019.
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