Chapter 5, GENERAL PROVISIONS

(5 ILCS 180/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. (Source: P.A. 98-1097, eff. 1-1-15.)

(5 ILCS 365/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 351) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2707.)

(5 ILCS 280/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 120) Sec. 1. Any person holding office under the Constitution of the State of Illinois and every elected official of local government or of any school district who is convicted in any court of the State of Illinois or of the United States of a f…

(5 ILCS 179/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Identity Protection Act. (Source: P.A. 96-874, eff. 6-1-10.)

(5 ILCS 460/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 2901-1) Sec. 1. This Act may be cited as the State Designations Act. (Source: P.A. 87-273.)

(5 ILCS 350/1) Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act: (a) The term "State" means the State of Illinois, the General Assembly, the court, or any State office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or committee, the governing boards of the public institutions …

(5 ILCS 360/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 63b120.1) Sec. 1. After the effective date of this Act, computation of vacation time of former State employees re-entering State service shall be determined as though all previous State service which qualified for earning of vacation benefits is…

(5 ILCS 308/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Human Voice Contact Act. (Source: P.A. 94-620, eff. 1-1-07.)

(5 ILCS 90/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Gender-Neutral Statutes Commission Act. (Source: P.A. 93-350, eff. 7-24-03.)

(5 ILCS 810/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act. (Source: P.A. 100-512, eff. 7-1-18.)

(5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301) Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county board to provide United States national flags of not less than four by eight feet in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a suitable flag-staff to be placed on the top of or prominently disp…

(5 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 301) Sec. 1. Whenever the Congress of the United States of America has adopted a proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States of America and the mode of ratification thereof prescribed by Congress is by the legislatures of the several sta…

(5 ILCS 20/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 101) Sec. 1. Amendments to the Constitution of this State may be proposed by joint resolution in either house of the General Assembly, and if the same shall be voted for by 3/5 of all the members elected to each of the 2 houses in the manner provid…

(5 ILCS 225/1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 601) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Transportation Cooperation Act of 1971." (Source: P.A. 77-182.)

(5 ILCS 840/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the First Responders Suicide Prevention Act. (Source: P.A. 101-375, eff. 8-16-19.)

(5 ILCS 140/1) (from Ch. 116, par. 201) Sec. 1. Pursuant to the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of government, it is declared to be the public policy of the State of Illinois that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the a…

(5 ILCS 835/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Keep Illinois Families Together Act. (Source: P.A. 101-19, eff. 6-21-19.)

(5 ILCS 327/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Organ Donor Leave Act. (Source: P.A. 92-754, eff. 1-1-03.)

(5 ILCS 270/1) (from Ch. 103, par. 16) Sec. 1. The State or any county, township, municipality, or public board or body, whether organized under general or special Act, shall pay out of its funds the cost of any official bond furnished by any officer of the State, county, townshi…

(5 ILCS 290/1) (from Ch. 53, par. 1) Sec. 1. There shall be allowed and paid an annual salary in lieu of all other salaries, fees, perquisites, benefit of compensation in any form whatsoever, to each of the officers herein named, the following respectively: (1) For terms beginnin…

(5 ILCS 825/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Voices of Immigrant Communities Empowering Survivors (VOICES) Act. (Source: P.A. 100-1115, eff. 1-1-19.)

(5 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 151) Sec. 1. Whenever the question of whether a Constitutional Convention should be called is required to be submitted to the electors of this State pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of Section 1 of Article XIV of the Illinois Constitution, the Gen…

(5 ILCS 285/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 63b100-1) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Employee Rights Violation Act. (Source: P.A. 85-1436.)

(5 ILCS 865/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Gang Database Information Act. (Source: P.A. 103-185, eff. 6-30-23.)

(5 ILCS 815/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Criminal Sexual Assault Investigation Act. (Source: P.A. 100-515, eff. 1-1-18.)

(5 ILCS 260/1) (from Ch. 103, par. 1) Sec. 1. All official bonds required by law to be given by any public officer or public employee, excluding executors, administrators and guardians, in this State shall be signed by that officer or employee, and his or her securities, and ackn…

(5 ILCS 300/1) (from Ch. 53, par. 5.1) Sec. 1. The judges and associate judges of the circuit courts shall be allowed travel expenses when traveling outside their county of residence in connection with their judicial duties in any of the circuits. In addition associate judges sha…

(5 ILCS 160/1) (from Ch. 116, par. 43.4) Sec. 1. This Act may be cited as the State Records Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

(5 ILCS 347/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public Official Safety and Privacy Act. (Source: P.A. 104-443, eff. 1-1-26.)

(5 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 801) Sec. 1. That the common law of England, so far as the same is applicable and of a general nature, and all statutes or acts of the British parliament made in aid of, and to supply the defects of the common law, prior to the fourth year of James…

(5 ILCS 850/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Empowering Public Participation Act. (Source: P.A. 102-348, eff. 8-13-21.)

(5 ILCS 340/1) (from Ch. 15, par. 501) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983". (Source: P.A. 83-843.)

(5 ILCS 812/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Prostitution Investigation Act. (Source: P.A. 103-1071, eff. 7-1-25.)

(5 ILCS 170/1) (from Ch. 116, par. 35) Sec. 1. The term "public officer" means any officer of the Executive Department of the State government, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, all officers created by "The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois", approved March 7, 1917, as amended,…

(5 ILCS 75/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 1201) Sec. 1. Bills passed before June 1. (a) A bill passed prior to June 1 of a calendar year that does not provide for an effective date in the terms of the bill shall become effective on January 1 of the following year, or upon its becoming a la…

(5 ILCS 305/1) (from Ch. 111, par. 2701) Sec. 1. No State, county or municipal officer, whose duty it is to investigate the commission of any crime or to prosecute persons accused of crime, shall employ any detective or investigator on a compensation basis other than that of time…

(5 ILCS 282/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Elected Officials Misconduct Forfeiture Act. (Source: P.A. 96-597, eff. 8-18-09.)

(5 ILCS 295/1) (from Ch. 53, par. 5.11) Sec. 1. Whenever a vacancy exists in the office of judge of the Appellate Court, and the Supreme Court assigns another judge to serve as judge of the Appellate Court until the vacancy is filled by election, the judge assigned to serve as ju…

(5 ILCS 165/1) (from Ch. 116, par. 101) Sec. 1. Subject to the provisions of Sections 2, 3 and 4 of this Act, reproduced copies of the following forms, reports and schedules may be filed in lieu of the original copy: (a) capital stock tax return or schedule required by the Genera…

(5 ILCS 80/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 1901) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Regulatory Sunset Act. (Source: P.A. 90-580, eff. 5-21-98.)

(5 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 4301) Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Gender Balanced Appointments Act. (Source: P.A. 87-797.)

(5 ILCS 805/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois TRUST Act. (Source: P.A. 100-463, eff. 8-28-17.)

(5 ILCS 625/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Momence Dam Transfer Act. (Source: P.A. 91-848, eff. 6-22-00.)

(5 ILCS 265/1) (from Ch. 103, par. 15) Sec. 1. Whenever any county officer, who has been heretofore elected to any office in any county in this state, shall, for any cause, continue in office after the time for which he was elected, such officer so continuing in office shall exec…

(5 ILCS 235/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interstate Mutual Emergency Aid Act. (Source: P.A. 98-309, eff. 8-12-13.)

(5 ILCS 190/1) (from Ch. 123, par. 1) Sec. 1. That the seat of government shall continue to be at Springfield, in the County of Sangamon, at which place all acts shall be done which are required to be done at the seat of government: Provided, that they may be done at some other p…

(5 ILCS 283/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public Corruption Profit Forfeiture Act. (Source: P.A. 96-1019, eff. 1-1-11.)

(5 ILCS 312/1-101) (from Ch. 102, par. 201-101) Sec. 1-101. Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois Notary Public Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

(5 ILCS 312/1-102) (from Ch. 102, par. 201-102) Sec. 1-102. Purposes and Rules of Construction. (a) This Act shall be construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies. (b) The underlying purposes and policies of this Act are: (1) to simplify, clarify, and mod…

(5 ILCS 312/1-103) (from Ch. 102, par. 201-103) Sec. 1-103. Prospective Effect of Act. This Act applies prospectively. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to revoke any notary public commission existing on the effective date of this Act. All reappointments of notarial commissi…