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815 ILCS 505/2P

(815 ILCS 505/2P) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262P)

Sec. 2P.

Offers of free prizes, gifts, or gratuities; disclosure of
conditions.  It is an unlawful practice for any person to promote or
advertise any business, product, utility service, including but not limited
to, the provision of electric, telecommunication, or gas service, or interest
in property, by means of
offering free prizes, gifts, or gratuities to any consumer, unless all
material terms and conditions relating to the offer are clearly and
conspicuously disclosed at the outset of the offer so as to leave no
reasonable probability that the offering might be misunderstood.

(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)