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1 AN ACT concerning kosher foods.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Kosher Food Act is amended by changing
5 Section 1 as follows:
6 (410 ILCS 645/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.1)
7 Sec. 1. (a) Every person, who, with intent to defraud,
8 sells, or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations and
9 falsely represents the same to be kosher, whether such meat
10 or meat preparations be raw or prepared for human
11 consumption, or as having been prepared under and of a
12 product or products sanctioned by the certifying organization
13 or the supervising rabbi Code of Jewish Laws; or falsely
14 represents any food product or the contents of any food
15 package or container to be so constituted and prepared, by
16 having or permitting to be inscribed thereon the word
17 "kosher" in any language; or in any sign, display or
18 advertisement characterizes his place of business as a
19 "kosher" establishment if non-kosher food products are sold
20 or offered for sale in such place of business; or who, while
21 dealing or purporting to deal in kosher meat or meat
22 preparations, prepares or handles or sells, or causes to be
23 prepared or handled or sold, any food products which, when so
24 prepared or handled or sold together with kosher meat or meat
25 preparations, constitute a violation of the requirements of
26 the certifying organization or the supervising rabbi Code of
27 Jewish Laws, and thereby render such kosher meat or meat
28 preparations, so handled or sold in conjunction therewith,
29 non-kosher, or who otherwise in the preparation, handling,
30 and sale of such kosher meat or meat preparations fails to
31 comply with such religious requirements and dietary laws
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1 necessary to constitute such meat or meat preparations
2 kosher, or who, without complying with such religious or
3 dietary laws, issues or maintains any sign or advertisement
4 in any language purporting to represent that he sells or
5 deals in kosher meat or meat preparations, shall be deemed
6 guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provided
7 for in Section 2 of this Act.
8 (b) It shall be unlawful to label or designate food or
9 food products with the words parve or pareve knowing that
10 such food or food products contain milk, meat or poultry
11 products rendering such food products impermissible to be
12 used or eaten according to the certifying organization or the
13 supervising rabbi Code of Jewish Laws.
14 (c) Any food commodity in package form which is marked
15 as being certified by an organization, identified on the
16 package by any symbol or is marked as being Kosher shall not
17 be offered for sale by the producer or distributor of such
18 food commodity until 30 days after such producer or
19 distributor shall have registered the name, current address
20 and telephone numbers of the certifying organization or the
21 supervising rabbi with the Illinois Department of
22 Agriculture.
23 (Source: P.A. 83-1029.)