410 ILCS 645/ Kosher Food Act.

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PUBLIC HEALTH
(410 ILCS 645/) Kosher Food Act.

410 ILCS 645/0.01

(410 ILCS 645/0.01) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.01)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Kosher Food Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

410 ILCS 645/1

(410 ILCS 645/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.1)

Sec. 1.

(a) Every person, who, with intent to defraud, sells, or exposes
for sale
any meat or meat preparations and falsely represents the same to be kosher,
whether such meat or meat preparations be raw or prepared for human
consumption, or as having been prepared under and of a product or products
sanctioned by the certifying organization or the supervising rabbi;
or falsely represents any food product or the contents of any food package or
container to be so constituted and prepared, by having or permitting to be
inscribed thereon the word "kosher" in any language; or in any sign, display
or advertisement characterizes his place of business as a "kosher"
establishment
if non-kosher food products are sold or offered for sale in such place of
business; or who,
while dealing or purporting to deal in kosher meat or meat preparations,
prepares or handles or sells, or causes to be prepared or handled or sold,
any food products which, when so prepared or handled or sold together with
kosher meat or meat preparations, constitute a violation of the requirements
of the certifying
organization or the supervising rabbi, and thereby render such
kosher meat or meat preparations, so handled or sold in conjunction
therewith, non-kosher, or who otherwise in the preparation, handling, and
sale of such kosher meat or meat preparations fails to comply with
such religious requirements and dietary laws necessary to constitute such
meat or meat preparations kosher, or who, without complying with
such religious or dietary laws, issues or maintains any sign or
advertisement in any language purporting to represent that he sells or
deals in kosher meat or meat preparations, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provided for in
Section 2 of this Act.

(b) It shall be unlawful to label or designate food or food products
with the words parve or pareve knowing that such food or food products contain
milk, meat or poultry products rendering
such food products impermissible to be used or eaten according to the
certifying
organization or the supervising rabbi.

(c) Any food commodity in package form which is marked as being certified
by an organization, identified on the package by any symbol or is marked
as being Kosher shall not be offered for sale by the producer or distributor
of such food commodity until 30 days after such producer or distributor
shall have registered the name, current address and telephone numbers of
the certifying organization or the supervising rabbi with the Illinois
Department
of Agriculture.

(Source: P.A. 93-134, eff. 1-1-04.)

410 ILCS 645/2

(410 ILCS 645/2) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.2)

Sec. 2.

Any person convicted of violating Section 1 of this Act, shall for the
first offense, be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and for the second and
each subsequent offense shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2510.)