Illinois Code § 8

§ 8.

The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district shall, in its work, advise and cooperate with the Department, and the board of trustees of such district shall submit to such Department, on or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work done and results obtained by the district during the preceding year. The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district, or its designee, for the limited purposes of cooperation with the Department, shall conduct routine surveillance of Department-identified vectors to detect the presence of vector-borne diseases of public health significance. The surveillance required by the Department under this Section does not grant a mosquito abatement district any greater independent authority to monitor and exterminate than those powers granted in Section 7, and a mosquito abatement district, or its designee, shall notify a forest preserve district or conservation district prior to or within 48 hours after accessing the respective forest preserve district's or conservation district's land for surveillance required by the Department. This notification requirement does not apply to mosquitoes, rats, or tick surveillance performed by the mosquito abatement district or its designee. The surveillance shall be conducted in accordance with mosquito abatement and control guidelines as set forth by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Areas reporting disease in humans shall be included in the surveillance activities. Mosquito abatement districts shall report to the local certified public health department and the Department the results of any positive mosquito, tick, or vector samples infected with any arboviral or bacterial infections, including, but not limited to: West Nile Virus, St. Louis Encephalitis, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Borrelia burgdorferi, rickettsia species, ehrlichia species, and other vector-borne diseases. Reports shall be made to the local certified public health department's director of environmental health, or a designee of the department, within 24 hours after receiving a positive report. The report shall include the type of infection, the number of vectors collected in the trapping device, the type of trapping device used, and the type of laboratory testing used to confirm the infection. Any trustee of a mosquito abatement district, or designee of the board of trustees of a mosquito abatement district, that fails to comply with the requirements of this Act is guilty of a Class A Misdemeanor. As used in this Section: "Department" means the Department of Public Health. "Vector" means any of the following that have been identified by the Department as necessary to be surveilled by a mosquito abatement district for the purposes of supporting the Department's mandate to investigate the causes of dangerously contagious or infectious diseases: arthropods, rodents, including rats and mice, birds, or other animals capable of carrying disease-producing organisms to a human or animal host. "Vector" does not include animals that transmit disease to humans only when used as human food. (Source: P.A. 103-932, eff. 1-1-25.)