(815 ILCS 645/12) (from Ch. 29, par. 60.2)
Sec. 12. Enforcement by Attorney General. All remedies, penalties and
authority granted to the Attorney General by the "Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act", approved July 24, 1961, as now or hereafter amended, shall
be available to him for the enforcement of this Act, and Sections 3, 4,
5, 6, 6.1, 7 and 10 of that Act are hereby incorporated by reference into
this Act. In addition, in any action brought by the Attorney General to
enforce this Act, the court may order that persons who incurred actual damages
be awarded 3 times the amount at which actual damages are assessed.
(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)
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