(240 ILCS 40/5-5)

Sec. 5-5. Licenses required; applications; exemptions.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), a person may not engage in the business of buying grain from producers, or storing grain for compensation, in the State of Illinois without a license issued by the Department, or in the case of a federal warehouseman, by the United States government.

(b) An application for a license shall be filed with the Department, shall be in a form prescribed by the Department, and shall set forth the name of the applicant, the directors and officers if the applicant is a corporation, the partners if the applicant is a partnership, the members of the governing body and all persons with management or supervisory authority if the applicant is an entity other than a corporation or partnership, the location of the principal office or place of business of the applicant, the location of the principal office or place of business of the applicant in Illinois, and the location or locations in Illinois at which the applicant proposes to engage in business as a licensee, the fiscal year of the applicant, the kind of grain that the applicant proposes to buy, handle, or store, the type of business that the applicant proposes to conduct, and additional information that the Department may require by rule.

(c) The application for a warehouseman shall state whether the applicant proposes to store grain only for others or for the applicant and for others and shall also state the storage capacity for which the applicant desires to be licensed.

(d) If an applicant has been engaged in business as a grain dealer for one year or more, the application shall state the aggregate dollar amount paid to producers for grain during the applicant's last completed fiscal year. If the applicant has been engaged in business for less than one year or has not engaged in the business of buying grain from producers, the application shall state the estimated aggregate dollar amount to be paid by the applicant to producers for grain purchased from producers during the applicant's first fiscal year.

(e) The following persons are exempt from being licensed as a grain dealer or incidental grain dealer:

(1) A person purchasing grain from producers only for resale as agricultural seed.

(2) A producer purchasing grain from producers only for its own use as seed or feed.

(Source: P.A. 93-225, eff. 7-21-03.)