authorized to enter and inspect places where apples are produced, packed, stored, shipped, delivered for shipment, sold or offered for sale, and apples and apple containers in such places. § 6. No person shall pack for sale, ship for sale, offer or consign for sale or sell, in closed packages, apples grown in this State which are not graded, packed and marked or branded in accordance with the provisions of this Act. No person shall pack for sale, ship for sale, offer or consign for sale or sell any apples in closed packages unless the face or shown surface fairly represents the size and quality of the apples in the package, color excepted. This provision applies to all grades specified in this Act. No person shall refuse admittance to premises or otherwise obstruct the Department of Agriculture, its inspectors, agents and employes in the proper performance of the duties vested in that department by this Act. The violation of any of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for the first offense and by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for any subsequent offense. The said Department of Agriculture shall certify all violations of this Act to the State's attorney of the county in which the violators reside; and it shall be the duty of such attorney to proceed against the person or persons violating the same, for the collection of the fines provided in this Act. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the prosecution is brought. § 7. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to apples packed and branded in accordance with the laws of the United States relating to apple grading, approved August 3, 1912, or any subsequent amendment of such Act. § 8. This Act shall take effect the first day of September, 1921. APPROVED June 27, 1921. ANIMALS AND BIRDS. LICENSING OF DOGS. Amends sections 1 and 2, Act of § 2. Emergency. § 1. § 1. Owner or keeper to take (SENATE BILL No. 90. § 2. License fee, payment tags-money kept in separate fund known as county dog license fund. APPROVED APRIL 27, 1921.) AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing for the licensing of dogs and for the payment of damages done by dogs to sheep out of the proceeds of the license fees," approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1 and 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing for the licensing of dogs and for the payment of damages done by dogs to sheep out of the proceeds of the license fees," approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as amended, are amended to read as follows: owner § 1. It shall be the duty of each person being the or keeper of a dog or dogs, or who keeps a dog or dogs, upon his or her premises, to take out a license for each dog so owned by him or her, and to pay the license fee provided for in section 2 of this Act, and it shall be the duty of each county and township assessor in this State, when making the assessment, annually, to make a list of the names of all persons who own or keep a dog or dogs, and set opposite the name of such owner or keeper the number of dogs he or she has in his or her possession or that is or are kept on his or her premises, stating whether male or sterilized or unsterilized female, which list shall contain the names of all the owners or keepers of a dog or dogs who have paid the license fees provided for in section 2 of this Act, and it shall also contain the names of all owners or keepers of a dog or dogs who have not paid such license fees, and which said list shall be returned by such assessor to the county clerk of the county in which said list is taken, as soon as the assessment is completed. § 2. The assessor shall, at the time such dogs are listed for assessment, collect from each owner or keeper of a dog or dogs a license fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each male or sterlized female dog, and three dollars ($3.00) for each unsterlized female dog. Upon the payment of this license fee, the assessor shall deliver to the owner or keeper, for each dog, a license and a metallic tag. The license shall be dated and numbered and shall bear the name of the county issuing it, the name and address of the owner of the dog licensed, and a description of the dog, indicating its breed, sex, age, color and markings. The assessor shall file a duplicate copy of each license with the county clerk. The metallic tag shall bear the name of the county issuing it, a serial number corresponding with the number on the license, and the calendar year for which it is issued. Every owner or keeper of a dog shall keep a substantial collar around the dog's neck and shall keep the metallic tag firmly attached thereto. It shall be the duty of the county clerk. of each county to provide the license forms and metallic tags herein mentioned and to keep a record of the license forms and metallic tags delivered to each assessor, and the number thereof returned at the time of returning the list by such assessor. Any person becoming the owner of a dog after the assessment has been returned by the assessor, and any owner of a dog for which any reason the assessor has failed to collect a license fee, may at any time apply to the county clerk, and upon payment of the required fee procure a license and a metallic tag. The county clerk shall charge as a license fee upon the collector's book against the name of each person reported and returned as the own er or keeper of a dog or dogs, and who has not paid the license fee provided for in this Act, the sum of one dollar for each male or sterilized female dog, and three dollars for each unsterilized female dog, owned or kept by such persons, which fee shall be collected at the same time, and in the same manner, as taxes upon personal property. All license fees collected in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be turned into the county treasury, and shall be kept in a separate fund, to be known as the county dog license fund. § 2. Because of an emergency, this Act shall take effect upon its AN ACT to amend section 2 of "An Act to protect the owner of any licensed stallion or jack kept for public service and to subject the mare or jennet or progeny of such animal, or both, to a lien for the service fee of such stallion or jack," approved June 21, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 2 of "An Act to protect the owner of any licensed stallion or jack kept for public service and to subject the mare or jennet or progeny of such animal, or both, to a lien for the service fee of such stallion or jack," approved June 21, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, as amended, is amended to read as follows: § 2. Any owner of a licensed stallion or jack desiring to secure the benefits of this Act, shall within eighteen (18) months after any mare or jennet has been served by his stallion or jack, file with the recorder of deeds in the county in which such mare or jennet is, a claim for lien in writing and under oath, setting forth therein his intention to claim a lien upon such mare or jennet or progeny thereof, or both, for the service fee of his stallion or jack. Such claim for lien shall state the name and residence of the person claiming a lien, the name of the owner or reputed owner of the mare or jennet or progeny thereof, or both, sought to be charged with the lien, and a description of such animal or animals sufficient for identification upon which the lien is claimed, and the amount due the claimant for the service fee of his stallion or jack. The claim for lien filed with the recorder of deeds shall expire and become void and of no effect if suit is not brought to foreclose the same within thirty months after the date of such service by such stallion or jack. APPROVED June 24, 1921. REGULATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE OF STALLIONS AND JACKS. § 1. Amends section 8, Act of 1917. § 8. When license expires-re newal-permanent State (HOUSE BILL No. 557. APPROVED JUNE 30, 1921.) AN ACT to amend section 8 of An Act "To regulate the public service of stallions and jacks in Illinois". Approved June 21, 1917, in force July 1, 1917. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 8 of Article I of an act "To regulate the public service of stallions and jacks in Illinois", approved June 21, 1917, in force July 1, 1917 as amended be amended to read as follows: § 8. Each license issued by the Department of Agriculture shall expire on December 31 of the year in which it is issued, but each license may be renewed each year, provided the owner of said stallion or jack make application for renewal before March 1, following the date of expiration, and forward with such application for renewal a fee of one ($1.00) dollar for each renewal, and submit satisfactory evidence establishing the identity of the animal for which renewal of license is requested. Each renewal shall expire on December 31 of the year for which it is renewed. Failure to apply for license renewal, as herein provided, before March 1 following the date of expiration, shall for-, feit the right of renewal and when such right has been forfeited, the owner of such stallion shall procure a new license as provided in section 2. Any stallion or jack six years old or over, having successfully passed examination for soundness as provided in this law for two (2) consecutive years, shall be entitled to a permanent certificate. The last examination must have been made by a veterinarian approved by the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois. Said examination to have been made within the year in which permanent certificate is granted: Provided, however, that in case said animal shall become infected with any infectious, contagious or communicable disease, the Department of Agriculture shall have the right at any time to revoke and cancel said certificate. APPROVED June 30, 1921. AN ACT to provide for the acquisition and improvement of certain property in the city of Springfield, immediately adjoining the Lincoln Homestead. WHEREAS, The property located on Eighth Street, in the city of Springfield, Illinois, known as the "Lincoln Homestead" is in close proximity to a small frame building which greatly detracts from the appearance of Illinois' most priceless possession; and WHEREAS, The proximity of this structure constitutes a very grave fire hazard to the building in which Abraham Lincoln lived and which is, in fact, the only property he ever owned; and WHEREAS, The destruction of the Lincoln Homestead would be an irreparable loss to this State and to the world; and WHEREAS, It is a paramount duty of the State to conserve and protect by every means, this property so rich with memories of the man Illinois is proud to claim as her own; now therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: The Department of Public Works and Buildings is authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, gift or by condemnation in accordance with the laws of this State relating to the exercise of eminent domain, the property fronting on Eighth Street, immediately adjoining the Lincoln Home, which property is more specifically described as follows: Lot Six (6) and the North thirty (30) feet of Lot Seven (7), in Block Ten (10) of E. Iles' Addition to the city of Springfield, situated in the county of Sangamon, State of Illinois. § 2. Upon the acquisition of the property described in section 1, the Department of Public Works and Buildings shall wreck or remove the building located on said property and shall in its discretion use or dispose of this building or the material. § 3. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shall thereupon proceed to improve and beautify the lot in a fitting manner by the planting of trees, shrubs, grass or otherwise as may seem necessary. § 4. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Works and Buildings the sum of fifteen thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of acquiring the property specified in this Act and for removing the building located thereon and for beautifying and otherwise improving the property. § 5. This appropriation is subject to the provisions of "An Act in relation to State finance," approved June 10, 1919, in force July 1, 1919. APPROVED June 24, 1921. |