Public Act 103-0087
 
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    AN ACT concerning business.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business 
Practices Act is amended  by changing Section 2PP as follows:
 



    (815 ILCS 505/2PP)



    Sec. 2PP.  Mail; disclosure. 
    (a) It is an unlawful practice under this
Act
to knowingly 
mail or send or cause to be mailed or sent a postcard or letter

to a recipient in this State if:


        (1) the postcard or letter contains a request that the 
    recipient contact the sender by mail, telephone, email, 
    website, or other prescribed means call a
telephone 
    number; and


        (2) the postcard or letter is mailed or sent to induce 
    the recipient to
contact the sender by mail, telephone, 
    email, website, or other prescribed means call the 
    telephone number so that goods, services, or other 
    merchandise, as
defined in Section 1, may be offered for 
    sale to the recipient; and


        (3) the postcard or letter does not disclose or 
    disclaim that it is not a bill and that it is a 
    solicitation for that goods, services, or
other 
    merchandise, as defined in Section 1, that may be offered 
    for sale if the
recipient contacts the sender by mail, 
    telephone, email, website, or any other prescribed means 
    calls the telephone number ; and .

        (4) the postcard or letter does not disclose or 
    disclaim any and all affiliations or lack thereof. 
    (b) All disclosures and disclaimers appearing on a 
postcard or letter must be conspicuously located at the top of 
the postcard or letter, be easily readable in clear and 
unambiguous language, and be printed in at least 14-point 
bold-face font in a black-outlined box. 
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)