Sen. Neil Anderson
Filed: 3/3/2017
 
 


 




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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1467 




2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1467 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:


4 "Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing 
5Section 2.5 as follows:

6 (520 ILCS 5/2.5)
7 Sec. 2.5. Crossbow use conditions.
8 Any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during the 
9appropriate archery season. 
10 A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the following 
11conditions are met:
12  (1) the user is a person age 62 and older;
13  (2) the user is a person with a disability to whom the 
14 Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided 
15 by administrative rule; or
16  (3) the date of using the crossbow is during the period 
 
 
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1 of the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday 
2 through the last day of the archery deer hunting season 
3 (both inclusive) set annually by the Director. 
4 As used in this Section, "person with a disability" means a 
5person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, 
6congenital or acquired, which renders the person so severely 
7disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve bow, or 
8compound bow. Permits must be issued only after the receipt of 
9a physician's statement confirming the applicant is a person 
10with a disability as defined above.

11(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)


12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
13becoming law.".