103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB2171

 

Introduced 2/7/2023, by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
815 ILCS 505/1  from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 261

    Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning business.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
5Practices Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (815 ILCS 505/1)  (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 261)
7    Sec. 1. (a) The The term "advertisement" includes the
8attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or
9circulation to induce directly or indirectly any person to
10enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in
11any merchandise and includes every work device to disguise any
12form of business solicitation by using such terms as
13"renewal", "invoice", "bill", "statement", or "reminder", to
14create an impression of existing obligation when there is
15none, or other language to mislead any person in relation to
16any sought after commercial transaction.
17    (b) The term "merchandise" includes any objects, wares,
18goods, commodities, intangibles, real estate situated outside
19the State of Illinois, or services.
20    (c) The term "person" includes any natural person or his
21legal representative, partnership, corporation (domestic and
22foreign), company, trust, business entity or association, and
23any agent, employee, salesman, partner, officer, director,

 

 

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1member, stockholder, associate, trustee or cestui que trust
2thereof.
3    (d) The term "sale" includes any sale, offer for sale, or
4attempt to sell any merchandise for cash or on credit.
5    (e) The term "consumer" means any person who purchases or
6contracts for the purchase of merchandise not for resale in
7the ordinary course of his trade or business but for his use or
8that of a member of his household.
9    (f) The terms "trade" and "commerce" mean the advertising,
10offering for sale, sale, or distribution of any services and
11any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed,
12and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever
13situated, and shall include any trade or commerce directly or
14indirectly affecting the people of this State.
15    (g) The term "pyramid sales scheme" includes any plan or
16operation whereby a person in exchange for money or other
17thing of value acquires the opportunity to receive a benefit
18or thing of value, which is primarily based upon the
19inducement of additional persons, by himself or others,
20regardless of number, to participate in the same plan or
21operation and is not primarily contingent on the volume or
22quantity of goods, services, or other property sold or
23distributed or to be sold or distributed to persons for
24purposes of resale to consumers. For purposes of this
25subsection, "money or other thing of value" shall not include
26payments made for sales demonstration equipment and materials

 

 

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1furnished on a nonprofit basis for use in making sales and not
2for resale.
3(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)