Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 131]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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stitutes interested in animal experimentation, has prepared a Bill for an Act to authorize municipalities to dispose of stray animals to institutions for the furtherance of medical and scientific knowledge concerning human beings and animals. This committee requests that the Bill be approved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. A BILL For an Act relating to and regulating the disposal of stray or homeless animals, not described in or subject to the provisions of an Act approved March 23, 1874, as amended, entitled "An Act to revise the law in regard to estrays and other lost property," or of an Act approved June 21, 1895, in force July I, 1895, as amended, entitled "An Act in relation to domestic animals running at large within the State of Illinois"; and creating a commission to administer this Act. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: SECTION I. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act, poundkeeper means any board, commission, body, or officer who under the laws of this State, or the ordinances or resolutions of any city, village or town in this State in which an Institution as defined below is situated, may be charged_ with the duty of keeping in custody until reclaimed by the owner, or otherwise disposed of or destroyed in accordance with governing statutes, ordinances or resolutions, any stray or homeless cats, dogs or other animals; municipality means any city, village or unincorporated town or governmental sub-division empowered by law to enact ordinances or adopt resolutions concerning the taking up, care, or destruction of stray animals subject to this Act; institution means any university, post graduate school, public health or hospital research laboratory, or school of medicine within the State of Illinois, incorporated not for profit, which qualify hereunder as distributees of animals, and pursuant to the rules promulgated by the Commission created by this Act. SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall be applicable only to animals not described in or subject to the provisions of an Act approved March 23, 1874, as amended, entitled "An Act to revise the law in regard to estrays and other lost property," or in an Act approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended, entitled "An Act in relation to domestic animals running at large within the State of Illinois." SEC. 3. Any poundkeeper shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, deliver homeless or stray animals, which have not been claimed or redeemed in conformity with applicable and governing statutes, ordinances or resolutions, to any institution in which there are adequate facilities for the humane housing, feeding, and care of such animals and where such animals will be humanely treated, to be used by such institutions for the furtherance of knowledge concerning the nature, causes and treatment of the diseases of human beings and animals, and for the furtherance of medical and scientific knowledge concerning any aspect of the well being of men and animals. Such animals shall be dealt with and destroyed humanely in conformity with law and the rules and regulations prescribed in this Act. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the poundkeeper upon the requisition of a duly authorized officer or agent of any qualified institution, to deliver to any such institution, without cost to the municipality, stray and homeless animals which have been impounded in his custody for the length of time prescribed by the ordinances or resolutions of the municipality before such animals shall be destroyed, subject to the rules, conditions, and regulations in section 6 hereof. SEC 5. A commission, to be known as the Commission for the Promotion of Medical and Veterinary Research, is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to formulate rules and regulations for the allotting of animals impounded and subject to distribution among qualified institutions in this State. The commission shall consist of the Director of the Department of Public Health of the State of Illinois, who shall serve as chairman, the executive heads of those