Illinois § 2

§ 2.

Such agreement and program may provide for testing new starling control methods and procedures and the employment of presently available methods where applicable in cooperation with livestock producing interests in the state. It may also include a study of the role of starlings, bird pests, rodents and predatory animals in carrying transmissible gastroenteritis (T.G.E.) and other diseases to swine and other animals. The program may include the reduction of the population of wild animal species which are known carriers of rabies. The cooperation of the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Public Health, and of county, state and local health services and veterinarians shall be solicited and this work shall be done in those areas where wild life rabies constitutes an acute threat and population reduction is deemed advisable by the cooperating organizations. The program may also include work in cooperation with local authorities and agencies to control rat and other rodent populations in those areas where such an effort is deemed advisable. Assistance and cooperation of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Natural Resources, the Natural History Survey, the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Illinois, the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Service and of county, city and other local health departments and agencies may be solicited and encouraged to the extent such departments and agencies may be able to give assistance. (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)