505 ILCS 25/ Beef Market Development Act.
(505 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 5, par. 1401)
Sec. 1. Legislative intent. The legislature intends by this Act: to promote the growth of the cattle industry in Illinois, to assure the State and American public an adequate and wholesome food supply and to provide for the general economic welfare of both producers and consumers of beef and the State of Illinois; and to provide the beef cattle production and feeding industry of this State with authority to establish a self‑financed, self‑governed program to help develop, maintain and expand the State, national and foreign markets for beef and beef products produced, processed or manufactured in this State.
(Source: P.A. 90‑655, eff. 7‑30‑98.) |
(505 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 5, par. 1402)
Sec. 2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Beef" and "Beef products" means the meat intended for human consumption from any bovine animal, regardless of age, including veal.
(b) "Cattle" means such animals as may be so designated by federal law, including such marketing, promotion and research orders as may from time to time be in effect. Unless such federal law provides to the contrary, "cattle" means all bovine animals, regardless of age, including calves, except that cattle provided for dairy purposes shall be excluded during their useful life as dairy animals. A cow and nursing calf sold together shall be considered one unit.
(c) "Council" means the operating committee established under this Act to administer and govern the program.
(d) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, trust or other business unit or organization.
(e) "Market Agent", "Market Agency", "Collection Agent" or "Collection Agency" means any person who sells, offers for sale, markets, distributes, trades or processes cattle which has been purchased or acquired from a producer, or which is marketed on behalf of a producer, and further includes meatpacking firms and their agents which purchase or consign to purchase cattle.
(f) "Director" means a member of the Illinois Beef Council.
(g) "Board" means the elected members of the Illinois Beef Council.
(h) "Producer" means a person that has owned or sold cattle in the previous calendar year or presently owns cattle.
(Source: P.A. 84‑1273; 84‑1276.) |
(505 ILCS 25/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 1403)
Sec. 3. Name and purposes.
(a) The name of the program created and organized by this Act shall be the Illinois Beef Council.
(b) The purposes and objectives of the program shall include:
(1) To promote the sale and use of beef and beef |
| products and to support national beef promotion, research, education, and other consumer marketing activities at a funding level to be determined by the Council and to otherwise support consumer market development and promotion efforts on a national or international scale; | |
(2) To develop new uses and markets for beef and |
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(3) To develop and improve methods of distributing |
| beef and beef products to the consumer; | |
(4) To develop methods of improving the quality of |
| beef and beef products for the consumer benefit; | |
(5) To inform and educate the public of the |
| nutritive and economic values of beef and beef products; | |
(6) To function in a liaison capacity within the |
| beef and other food industries of the State and elsewhere in matters that would increase efficiencies which ultimately benefit both consumer and industry. | |
(Source: P.A. 88‑571, eff. 8‑11‑94.) |
(505 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 5, par. 1404)
Sec. 4. Governing board. With a favorable vote of beef producers in the State of Illinois to support an assessment/deduction of up to 50
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