HB2506 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB2506

Introduced 2/15/2023, by Rep. Michelle Mussman

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

205 ILCS 510/11

from Ch. 17, par. 4661

Amends the Pawnbroker Regulation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning violations of the Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Pawnbroker Regulation Act is amended by changing Section 11 as follows:

(205 ILCS 510/11) (from Ch. 17, par. 4661)

Sec. 11. Violations. Every person who knowingly violates the the provisions of this Act shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor, and for each subsequent offense shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, except that a person who knowingly violates this Act by operating a pawnshop without a license shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense and shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for any subsequent offense. This Act shall not be construed as to, in any wise, impair the power of cities or villages in this State to license, tax, regulate except as to fee amounts, suppress, and prohibit pawnbrokers as now provided by law.

(Source: P.A. 92-215, eff. 8-2-01.)