(225 ILCS 447/35-15)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2029)
Sec. 35-15. Advertisements; penalties.
(a) No licensee providing services regulated by this Act
may knowingly advertise those services without including the licensee's license number in the advertisement. The publisher of
the advertising, however, is not required to verify the
accuracy of the advertisement or the license number.
(b) A licensee who advertises services regulated by this
Act who knowingly (i) fails to display the licensee's license at
the licensee's place of business, (ii) fails to provide the
publisher with the current license number, or (iii) provides
the publisher with a false license number or a license number
other than that of the person or agency doing the advertising
or a licensee who knowingly allows the licensee's license number
to be displayed or used by another person or agency to
circumvent any provision of this subsection, is guilty of a
Class A misdemeanor. Each day an advertisement is published
or a licensee allows the licensee's license to be used in
violation of this Section constitutes a separate offense. In
addition to the penalties and remedies provided in this
Section, a licensee who violates any provision of this Section
shall be subject to the disciplinary action, fines, and civil
penalty provisions of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 103-309, eff. 1-1-24.)
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