Chapter 225 — PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS, AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

(225 ILCS 460/13) (from Ch. 23, par. 5113) Sec. 13. The Attorney General may enter into reciprocal agreements with a like authority of any other State or States for the purpose of exchanging information made available to the Attorney General or to such other like authority. (Sour…

(225 ILCS 460/14) (from Ch. 23, par. 5114) Sec. 14. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any persons, body or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons, bodies or circumstances …

(225 ILCS 460/15) (from Ch. 23, par. 5115) Sec. 15. (a) Trustees of charitable trusts, organizations and corporations have a duty to supervise fund raising activities to ensure that contributions are adequately protected and devoted to the proper purpose and that statements or re…

(225 ILCS 460/16) (from Ch. 23, par. 5116) Sec. 16. (a) Any person who intentionally in breach of fiduciary duty misuses charitable assets is subject to punitive damages in an appropriate amount upon a trial on the issue. (b) Upon an application to a court of competent jurisdicti…

(225 ILCS 460/16.5) Sec. 16.5. Terrorist acts. (a) Any person or organization subject to registration under this Act, who knowingly acts to further, directly or indirectly, or knowingly uses charitable assets to conduct or further, directly or indirectly, an act or actions as set…

(225 ILCS 460/17) (from Ch. 23, par. 5117) Sec. 17. In any solicitation to the public for a charitable organization by a professional fund raiser or professional solicitor: (a) The public member shall be promptly informed by statement in verbal communications and by clear and una…

(225 ILCS 460/18) (from Ch. 23, par. 5118) Sec. 18. In any solicitation of contributions for a charitable organization it shall be deemed a misrepresentation of fact if any person: (a) Who is a professional fund raiser or professional solicitor fails in any solicitations to state…

(225 ILCS 460/19) (from Ch. 23, par. 5119) Sec. 19. Any trustee or person who without lawful authority intentionally disburses or causes the use of charitable trust funds over which he is a fiduciary to be used for his personal benefit or for his own personal use in an amount in …

(225 ILCS 460/2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5102) Sec. 2. Registration; rules; penalties. (a) Every charitable organization, except as otherwise provided in Section 3 of this Act, which solicits or intends to solicit contributions from persons in this State or which is located in this St…

(225 ILCS 460/20) (from Ch. 23, par. 5120) Sec. 20. All copies of registration materials or financial documents filed with the Attorney General pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall, when certified by him or by his designated Assistant Attorney General, be taken and receiv…

(225 ILCS 460/21) (from Ch. 23, par. 5121) Sec. 21. Illinois Charity Bureau Fund. The court in its discretion may place costs, fines, and penalties collected pursuant to this Act into the Illinois Charity Bureau Fund created in Section 19 of the Charitable Trust Act and such shal…

(225 ILCS 460/22) Sec. 22. All fees and penalties collected by the Attorney General pursuant to this Act shall be paid and deposited into the Illinois Charity Bureau Fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the Fund shall be appropriated to the Attorney General for charitable trust …

(225 ILCS 460/23) Sec. 23. Charitable Advisory Council. As a part of charitable trust enforcement and public disclosure, a task force composed of citizens chosen by the Attorney General to be known as the Attorney General's Charitable Advisory Council shall be and is hereby forme…

(225 ILCS 460/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 5103) Sec. 3. Exemptions. (a) Upon initial filing of a registration statement pursuant to Section 2 of this Act and notification by the Attorney General of his determination that the organizational purposes or circumstances specified in this pa…

(225 ILCS 460/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 5104) Sec. 4. Annual reporting for charities. (a) Every charitable organization registered pursuant to Section 2 of this Act which shall receive in any 12-month period ending upon its established fiscal or calendar year contributions in excess …

(225 ILCS 460/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 5105) Sec. 5. Any charitable organization, trustee, person, professional fund raiser or professional solicitor, which or who solicits, receives, or collects contributions in this State, but does not maintain an office within the State or cannot…

(225 ILCS 460/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 5106) Sec. 6. Professional fund raiser registration. (a) No person shall act as a professional fund raiser or allow a professional fund raiser entity he owns, manages or controls to act for a charitable organization required to register pursuan…

(225 ILCS 460/6.5) (from Ch. 23, par. 5106.5) Sec. 6.5. Each person or entity that undertakes activities as a professional fundraising consultant, and that is not subject to the requirement to register or report as a professional fund raiser, shall register with the Attorney Gene…

(225 ILCS 460/7) (from Ch. 23, par. 5107) Sec. 7. (a) All contracts entered into by a professional fund raiser to conduct a fundraising campaign for a charitable purpose or charitable organization must be in writing in conformity with this Act. A true and correct copy of each con…

(225 ILCS 460/7.5) Sec. 7.5. Public Safety Personnel Organization. (a) Every Public Safety Personnel Organization that solicits contributions from the public shall, in addition to other provisions of this Act: (1) Have as a condition of public solicitation a provision included in…

(225 ILCS 460/8) (from Ch. 23, par. 5108) Sec. 8. (a) No person shall act as a professional solicitor in the employ of a professional fund raiser required to register pursuant to Section 6 of this Act before he has registered with the Attorney General or after the expiration or c…

(225 ILCS 460/9) (from Ch. 23, par. 5109) Sec. 9. (a) An action for violation of this Act may be prosecuted by the Attorney General in the name of the people of the State, and in any such action, the Attorney General shall exercise all the powers and perform all duties which the …

(225 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1651) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Transient Merchant Act of 1987". (Source: P.A. 85-600.)

(225 ILCS 465/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1652) Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Transient merchant" means any person who is engaged temporarily in the retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise in this State and who, for the purpose of conducting such business, occupies…

(225 ILCS 465/3) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1653) Sec. 3. It is a violation of this Act for any person, either as principal or agent, to conduct business as a transient merchant or itinerant vendor in this State without first complying with the requirements of Section 2a of the Reta…

(225 ILCS 465/4) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1654) Sec. 4. (a) Any person who wishes to obtain a license as a transient merchant or itinerant vendor shall file a written license application with the appropriate licensing agency as provided in this Section. (b) (1) The corporate autho…

(225 ILCS 465/5) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1655) Sec. 5. If any person makes retail sales as a transient merchant or itinerant vendor without having obtained a license under Section 4 of this Act, the licensing agency may hold the inventory, truck or other personal property of the …

(225 ILCS 465/5.5) Sec. 5.5. Flea market; prohibited sales. No person at a flea market shall sell, offer for sale, or knowingly permit the sale of baby food, infant formula, or similar products or any pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs, cosmetics, or medical devices. This Se…

(225 ILCS 465/5.6) Sec. 5.6. Receipts for the purchase of new and unused property. (a) An unused property merchant must maintain receipts for the purchase of new and unused property purchased or acquired on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General As…

(225 ILCS 465/6) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1656) Sec. 6. It shall be prima facie evidence that a person is a transient merchant or itinerant vendor under this Act if the person does not transact business from a fixed location or if the person does not own, or lease for a term of at…

(225 ILCS 465/7) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1657) Sec. 7. Any person who is convicted of violating any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Any person who is convicted of committing a second or subsequent violation of this Act is guilty of a Class 4 felony. (Sou…

(225 ILCS 465/8) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1658) Sec. 8. Nothing in this Act shall limit the authority of a unit of local government to license or regulate transient merchants or itinerant vendors in a manner not inconsistent with this Act. (Source: P.A. 85-600.)

(225 ILCS 470/1) (from Ch. 147, par. 101) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Weights and Measures Act". (Source: Laws 1963, p. 3433.)

(225 ILCS 470/10) (from Ch. 147, par. 110) Sec. 10. Inspection. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Director may inspect and test all weights and measures held, offered, or exposed for sale to ascertain if they are correct. The Director shall, within each period of 12 months or…

(225 ILCS 470/11) (from Ch. 147, par. 111) Sec. 11. The Director shall investigate complaints received by him concerning violations of the provisions of this Act and shall conduct such investigations as he deems appropriate and advisable to develop information on prevailing proce…

(225 ILCS 470/12) (from Ch. 147, par. 112) Sec. 12. The Director shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities held, offered or exposed for sale or sold or in the process of delivery, to determine whether they contain the amounts represen…

(225 ILCS 470/13) (from Ch. 147, par. 113) Sec. 13. The Director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being or susceptible of being commercially used, and may issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respe…

(225 ILCS 470/14) (from Ch. 147, par. 114) Sec. 14. Upon inspection and test, the Director shall approve for use and may seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he finds to be "correct" and shall reject and mark or tag as "rejected" such weights and mea…

(225 ILCS 470/15) (from Ch. 147, par. 115) Sec. 15. To enforce this Act and other Acts dealing with weights and measures and enforceable by him, the Director is vested with special police powers, and may without formal warrant both arrest any violator of such Acts and seize for u…

(225 ILCS 470/16) (from Ch. 147, par. 116) Sec. 16. The powers and duties given to and imposed upon the Director by Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21 and 56 of this Act shall also be conferred upon the designated or appointed qualified persons, whenever they act under the in…

(225 ILCS 470/17) (from Ch. 147, par. 117) Sec. 17. Sealer weights and measures. In and for each city having a population of 25,000 or more according to the latest official United States census, there may be a sealer of weights and measures and such deputy sealers of weights and …

(225 ILCS 470/19) (from Ch. 147, par. 119) Sec. 19. Subject to the annual training provisions of Section 17, the sealer of a city, and each of his deputy sealers when acting under his instructions and at his direction, has the same powers and duties within the city for which appo…

(225 ILCS 470/2) (from Ch. 147, par. 102) Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Person" means both singular and plural as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies and associations. "Weights and measures" means all weights a…

(225 ILCS 470/20) (from Ch. 147, par. 120) Sec. 20. The common or legislative council of each city for which a sealer has been appointed pursuant to Section 17 of this Act shall (1) procure at the expense of the city such standards of weight and measure and such additional equipm…

(225 ILCS 470/21) (from Ch. 147, par. 121) Sec. 21. In cities for which sealers of weights and measures have been appointed pursuant to this Act, the Director shall have concurrent authority to enforce the provisions of this Act. The legislative body of each such city may, by ord…

(225 ILCS 470/22) (from Ch. 147, par. 122) Sec. 22. Rejected weights and measures. Weights and measures rejected under the authority of the Director or a sealer remain subject to control of the rejecting authority until such time as suitable repair or disposition thereof has been…

(225 ILCS 470/23) (from Ch. 147, par. 123) Sec. 23. Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in this Act, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count.…

(225 ILCS 470/24) (from Ch. 147, par. 124) Sec. 24. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, any commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce or kept, offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce shall bear on t…

(225 ILCS 470/25) (from Ch. 147, par. 125) Sec. 25. In addition to the declarations required by Section 24 of this Act, any commodity in package form, the package being one of a lot containing random weights, measures or counts of the same commodity shall bear the total selling p…

(225 ILCS 470/26) (from Ch. 147, par. 126) Sec. 26. No commodity in package form shall be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled, as to mislead the purchaser as to the quantity of the contents of the package, and the contents of a container shall not…