1901 Ill. Laws 213
| dc.coverage.spatial | Illinois | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:04:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:35:12Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:30:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1901 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Protection of Game, § 1: Prohibited shoot, kill, destroy, or shoot at any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl with a swivel gun. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section one (1) and section twenty-six (26) of an act entitled, "An act to provide additional remedies for the protection of game, wild fowl and birds, and to amend, revise and consolidate the amended game law," approved June 1, 1889, and in force July 1, 1889, and the game warden act, approved June 27, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, and the act to prohibit persons from hunting within the enclosures of others without leave, as amended by act [approved] June 17, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, as amended by act approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be amended to read as follows: § 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful to hunt, kill, net, entrap, ensnare or destroy, or to attempt to hunt, kill, net, entrap, ensnare or to destroy, or to have in possession, any wild buck, doe, or fawn or wild turkey between the fifteenth day of January and the first day of September of each and every year, or any pinnated or ruffled grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant or partridge between October first and August thirty-first of each succeeding year, or any mourning dove between the first day of December and the first day of August of each succeeding year, any gray, red, fox, or black squirrel, between the first day of December and the first day of July of each succeeding year, or any jack snipe, wilson snipe, sand snipe or any kind of snipe, or any golden plover, upland plover, or any other kind of plover, between the twenty-fifth day of April and the first day of September of each succeeding year, and it shall be unlawful to kill, hunt, destroy, ensnare or entrap, or attempt to kill, hunt, destroy, ensnare or entrap, or otherwise destroy, any wild goose, duck, brant or other water fowl, at any time between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of September of any year; and it shall be unlawful to hunt, kill, trap, ensnare, or attempt to hunt, kill, trap, ensnare, or to otherwise destroy, any wild goose, brant, duck or rail, or other water fowl between the sunset of any day and the sunrise of the next succeeding day, at any period of the year; and it shall further be unlawful at any time to hunt, kill, entrap, ensnare, or attempt to hunt, kill, entrap or ensnare, or otherwise destroy, any wild goose, brant, duck, or other water fowl, from any fixed or artificial ambush beyond a natural covering of reeds, canes, flags, wild rice, or other vegetation above the water of any lake, river, bay, inlet or other water course wholly within this State, or with aid or use of any device commonly called sneak boat, sink box, or other device used for the purposes of concealment in the open waters of this State. And it shall be further unlawful to shoot, kill, or destroy, or shoot at, any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl, with a swivel gun, or from any sail boat, electric launch, or steamboat, at any time, in any part of the water of any lake, river or bay, or inlet, or other water course wholly within this State: Provided, that the animals, fowls and birds mentioned in section 10 of this act shall not be killed for a period of five years from and after the taking effect of this act. Any person or persons so offending shall for each and every offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifteen dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and costs of suit, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid: Provided, that such imprisonment shall not exceed 10 days, and the killing of each bird and animal herein specified shall be deemed a separate offense. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited shoot, kill, destroy, or shoot at any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl with a swivel gun. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3753 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Laws_of_the_State_of_Illinois/SolCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA212&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | HUNTING REGULATION | |
| dc.title | 1901 Ill. Laws 213 |