Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

815 ILCS 511/5

(815 ILCS 511/5)

Sec. 5.

Definitions.

As used in this Act:

"Electronic mail advertisement" means any electronic mail message,
the principal purpose of which is to promote, directly or indirectly,
the sale or other distribution of goods or services to the recipient.

"Unsolicited electronic mail advertisement" means any electronic mail
advertisement that (i) is addressed to a recipient with whom the
initiator does not have a prior or existing business or personal relationship
and (ii) is not sent at the request of or with the express consent of
the recipient.

"Electronic mail service provider" means any business or organization
qualified to do business in Illinois that provides registered users the
ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in
this State and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving
electronic mail.

"Initiation" of an electronic mail message refers to the action by
the initial sender of the electronic mail message.  "Initiation" does not refer
to the actions of any intervening electronic mail service provider that may
handle or retransmit the electronic mail message.

"Registered user" means any individual or entity that maintains an
electronic mail address with an electronic mail service provider.

"Electronic mail address" means a destination, commonly expressed
as a string of characters, to which electronic mail may be sent or
delivered.

"Internet domain name" refers to a globally unique, hierarchical
reference to an Internet host or service, assigned through centralized
Internet naming authorities, comprising a series of character strings
separated by periods, with the right-most string specifying the top of
the hierarchy.

(Source: P.A. 91-233, eff. 1-1-00.)