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90_SB0108enr
225 ILCS 446/117 new
Amends the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
Security, and Locksmith Act of 1993 to require licensees to
include their license number in any advertising relating to
services regulated by the Act. Sets forth penalties for
failure to display a license or to provide an accurate
license number to a publisher when advertising. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
2 Private Security, and Locksmith Act of 1993 by adding Section
3 117.
4 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5 represented in the General Assembly:
6 Section 5. The Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
7 Security, and Locksmith Act of 1993 is amended by adding
8 Section 117 as follows:
9 (225 ILCS 446/117 new)
10 Sec. 117. Advertisement; penalties.
11 (a) No licensee providing services regulated by this Act
12 may knowingly advertise those services without including his
13 or her license number in the advertisement. Nothing
14 contained in this Section requires the publisher of
15 advertising for such services to verify the accuracy of the
16 license number provided by the advertiser.
17 (b) A licensee who advertises services regulated by this
18 Act who knowingly (i) fails to display his or her license at
19 his or her place of business as required under Section 115,
20 (ii) fails to provide a publisher with the correct license
21 number, or (iii) provides a publisher with a false license
22 number or a license number of a person or agency other than
23 the person or agency doing the advertising, or a licensee who
24 knowingly allows his or her license number to be displayed or
25 used to allow another person or agency to circumvent any
26 provision of this Section, is guilty of a Class A
27 misdemeanor. Each day a licensee fails to display his or her
28 license as required under Section 115 and each day an
29 advertisement runs or a licensee allows his or her license to
30 be displayed or used in violation of this Section constitutes
31 a separate offense. In addition to the penalties and remedies
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1 provided for in this Section, a licensee who violates any
2 provision of this Section shall be subject to the
3 disciplinary sanction and civil penalty provisions of this
4 Act.
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.
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