Illinois Code § 3

Illinois Code § 3. Reproduced from the official Illinois Compiled Statutes, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.

§ 3.

Each person engaged in business as a slaughterer, processor, breeder and raiser, or wholesale distributor shall pay an annual license of $50 for each location, except a breeder and raiser of fur bearing animals who slaughters for his own use shall pay an annual license fee of $10 for each location. However any city, village, incorporated town, park district or other municipal corporation which maintains a zoo shall be granted a license as a slaughterer, processor or breeder and raiser without payment of any annual license fee upon compliance with the requirements of this Act, but such a licensee shall not use horse meat except as food for its zoo animals. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 192.)

Source: official Illinois text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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  • Citation: Illinois Compiled Statutes § 3
  • Jurisdiction: Illinois
  • Code: Illinois Compiled Statutes
  • Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)

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