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90_HB1595
815 ILCS 505/3 from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 263
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions
concerning the powers of the Attorney General.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by changing Section 3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
6 Practices Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/3) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 263)
8 Sec. 3.
9 When it appears to the Attorney General that a person has
10 engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in any
11 practice declared to be unlawful by this Act; when he
12 receives a written complaint from a consumer or borrower of
13 the commission of a practice declared to be unlawful under
14 this Act; or when he believes it to be in the public interest
15 that an investigation should be made to ascertain whether a
16 person in fact has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to
17 engage in, any practice declared to be unlawful by this Act,
18 he may:
19 (a) Require that person to file on such terms as he
20 prescribes a statement or report in writing under oath or
21 otherwise, as to all information as he may consider
22 necessary;
23 (b) Examine under oath any person in connection with the
24 conduct of any trade or commerce;
25 (c) Examine any merchandise or sample of merchandise
26 thereof, record, book, document, account or paper as he may
27 consider necessary; and
28 (d) Pursuant to an order of a Circuit Court impound any
29 record, book, document, account, paper, or sample of
30 merchandise that is produced in accordance with this Act, and
31 retain it in his possession until the completion of all
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1 proceedings in connection with which it is produced.
2 (Source: P.A. 78-904.)