§ 95-5 — Assumption of risk

Illinois § 95-5

• Jurisdiction: Illinois
• Topic: AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION
• Ch. 510: ANIMALS
• Act 510 ILCS 68/: Herptiles-Herps Act
• Art.: Article 95 - Civil Liability and Immunity

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Each person who owns, possesses, or keeps a herptile expressly assumes the risk of and legal responsibility for injury, loss, or damage to the person or property that results from the ownership, possession, or keeping, of the herptile. Each owner, keeper, or possessor of a herptile shall be solely liable to manage, care for, and control a particular herptile species, and it shall be the duty of each owner, keeper, or possessor, to maintain reasonable control of the particular herptile at all times, and to refrain from acting in a manner that may cause or contribute to the injury of person, whether in public or on private property.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 102-315, eff. 1-1-22 .)