Public Act 100-1086
 
SB3295 EnrolledLRB100 18082 JLS 33275 b


  
    AN ACT concerning civil law.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended  by 
changing Section 1-109 as follows:
 



    (735 ILCS 5/1-109)  (from Ch. 110, par. 1-109)



    Sec. 1-109. Verification by certification. Unless  
otherwise expressly
provided by rule of the Supreme Court, 
whenever in this Code any complaint,
petition, answer, reply, 
bill of particulars, answer to interrogatories,
affidavit, 
return or proof of service, or other document or pleading filed

in any court of this State is required or permitted to be 
verified, or made,
sworn to or verified under oath, such 
requirement or permission is hereby
defined to include a 
certification of such pleading, affidavit or other
document 
under penalty of perjury as provided in this Section.

    Whenever any such pleading, affidavit or other document is 
so certified,
the several matters stated shall be stated 
positively or upon information
and belief only, according to 
the fact. The person or persons having knowledge
of the matters 
stated in a pleading, affidavit or other document certified
in 
accordance with this Section shall subscribe to a certification 
in substantially
the following form:  Under penalties as 
provided by law pursuant to Section
1-109 of the Code of Civil 
Procedure, the undersigned certifies that the
statements set 
forth in this instrument are true and correct, except as
to 
matters therein stated to be on information and belief and as 
to such
matters the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that he 
verily believes the
same to be true.

    Any pleading, affidavit, or other document certified in 
accordance with
this Section may be used in the same manner and 
with the same force and
effect as  though subscribed and sworn 
to under oath, and there is no further requirement that the 
pleading, affidavit, or other document be sworn before an 
authorized person.

    Any person who makes a false statement, material to the 
issue or point
in question, which he does not believe to be 
true, in any pleading, affidavit
or other document certified by 
such person in accordance with this Section
shall be guilty of 
a Class 3 felony.

(Source: P.A. 83-916.)