Act
Livestock Auction Market Law
- 225 ILCS 640/1— Definitions
- 225 ILCS 640/1.1— This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Livestock Auction Market Law
- 225 ILCS 640/2— No person shall hold, operate, conduct, or carry on a livestock auction market in this State without first securing a license therefor from the Department
- 225 ILCS 640/3— Each applicant for a license to operate and conduct a livestock auction market shall file a bond with the Department
- 225 ILCS 640/4— The fee for a license to operate a livestock auction market shall be $200 for the term of one calendar year or for such part thereof as remains at the time of the issuance thereof
- 225 ILCS 640/4.5— Every licensed auction market shall establish and maintain a separate bank account designated as "Custodial Account for Shippers' Proceeds", or of some similar identifying designation, to disclose that the depository is acting as a fiduciary and that the funds in the account are trust funds
- 225 ILCS 640/5
- 225 ILCS 640/6— Grounds for refusal to issue or renew license and for license suspension and revocation
- 225 ILCS 640/6.1— Suspension
- 225 ILCS 640/6.2
- 225 ILCS 640/7
- 225 ILCS 640/7a— The weight of all livestock sold at auction according to weight by a livestock auction market or marketing center shall be determined by weighing at the time such livestock is sold or ownership is transferred
- 225 ILCS 640/8
- 225 ILCS 640/8a
- 225 ILCS 640/8b— All scales used by a livestock auction market or marketing center to weigh livestock shall be so located as to be easily accessible for testing and inspection by the Department
- 225 ILCS 640/8c— Each marketing center shall submit weekly reports to the Department of all livestock received from interstate shipments
- 225 ILCS 640/8d— Other Acts
- 225 ILCS 640/9— The operator of a livestock auction market shall post in a conspicuous place a schedule of the fees or commission rates charged for livestock sold or handled through such market and a schedule of the fees or charges, if any, for the inspection of livestock consigned to or sold through such market
- 225 ILCS 640/10a— Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the movement of livestock into stockyards registered under the Packers and Stockyards Act, a State-Federal approved slaughtering establishment or a marketing center
- 225 ILCS 640/11— The Department may make reasonable rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act
- 225 ILCS 640/11.5— Administrative hearings and penalties
- 225 ILCS 640/12— (Repealed)
- 225 ILCS 640/15— Investigation and hearing
- 225 ILCS 640/20— Hearing rules
- 225 ILCS 640/25— Judicial review