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91_SB0188enr
SB188 Enrolled LRB9101222RCks
1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by adding
2 Section 17-23.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 adding Section 17-23 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/17-23 new)
8 Sec. 17-23. Counterfeit Universal Price Code Label.
9 (a) A person who, with intent to defraud a merchant,
10 possesses, uses, transfers, makes, sells, reproduces,
11 tenders, or delivers a false, counterfeit, altered, or
12 simulated Universal Price Code Label is guilty of a Class 4
13 felony.
14 (b) A person who possesses more than one false,
15 counterfeit, altered, or simulated Universal Price Code Label
16 or who possesses a device the purpose of which is to
17 manufacture false, counterfeit, altered, or simulated
18 Universal Price Code Labels is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
19 (d) Definitions. In this Section:
20 "Universal Price Code Label" means a unique symbol that
21 consists of a machine readable code and human readable
22 numbers.
23 "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
24 16A-2.4 of this Code.
25 "Intent to defraud" has the meaning ascribed to it in
26 paragraph (iii) of subsection (A) of Section 17-1 of this
27 Code.
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