2016 Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 610 - RAILROADS
610 ILCS 85/ - Railroad Sanitation Act.

(610 ILCS 85/0.01) (from Ch. 114, par. 100.9)
Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Railroad Sanitation Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)


(610 ILCS 85/1) (from Ch. 114, par. 100a)
Sec. 1. No owner or operator of a railroad shall permit any railroad car to be dispatched for the transportation of or occupation by passengers unless such cars is in a clean and sanitary condition and is free from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin.
(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)


(610 ILCS 85/2) (from Ch. 114, par. 100b)
Sec. 2. Owners and operators of railroads shall require railroad cars used for the transportation of or occupation by passengers to be regularly cleaned and inspected and to be fumigated or otherwise treated to free them from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin.
(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)


(610 ILCS 85/3) (from Ch. 114, par. 100c)
Sec. 3.
Whoever violates this Act shall be guilty of a petty offense. The use of any car for the transportation of or occupation by passengers when the car is not in a clean and sanitary condition or is not free from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin is a separate offense for each day such car is so used.
(Source: P.A. 77-2199.)


(610 ILCS 85/4) (from Ch. 114, par. 100d)
Sec. 4. The Illinois Commerce Commission shall enforce this Act and may make such inspections as it deems necessary therefor.
(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)


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