Aerial Exhibitors Safety Act (820 ILCS 270/)

Chapter 820 — Employment

Health and Safety

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aerial Exhibitors Safety Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

No person shall participate in a public performance or exhibition, or in a private exercise preparatory thereto, on a trapeze, tightrope, wire, rings, ropes, poles, or other aerial apparatus which requires skill, timing or balance and which creates a substantial risk to himself or others of serious injury by a fall from a height in excess of 20 feet, unless a safety net or other safety device of similar purpose and construction is placed between such person and the ground in such manner as to arrest or cushion his fall and minimize the risk of such injury.

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3453.)

Sec. 2.

No owner, agent, lessee or other person in control of operations of a circus, carnival, fair or other public place of assembly or amusement shall authorize or permit participation in an aerial performance, exhibition or private exercise in violation of Section 1 of this Act.

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3453.)

Sec. 3. Sentence

Violation of this Act is a Class A Misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2651.)