Public Act 93-0134

HB0983 Enrolled                      LRB093 05737 RCE 05830 b

    AN ACT concerning kosher foods.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.   The  Kosher Food Act is amended by changing
Section 1 as follows:

    (410 ILCS 645/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.1)
    Sec. 1.  (a) Every person, who, with intent  to  defraud,
sells,  or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations and
falsely represents the same to be kosher, whether  such  meat
or   meat   preparations   be   raw  or  prepared  for  human
consumption, or as  having  been  prepared  under  and  of  a
product or products sanctioned by the certifying organization
or  the  supervising  rabbi  Code  of Jewish Laws; or falsely
represents any food product  or  the  contents  of  any  food
package  or  container  to be so constituted and prepared, by
having  or  permitting  to  be  inscribed  thereon  the  word
"kosher"  in  any  language;  or  in  any  sign,  display  or
advertisement  characterizes  his  place  of  business  as  a
"kosher" establishment if non-kosher food products  are  sold
or  offered for sale in such place of business; or who, while
dealing  or  purporting  to  deal  in  kosher  meat  or  meat
preparations, prepares or handles or sells, or causes  to  be
prepared or handled or sold, any food products which, when so
prepared or handled or sold together with kosher meat or meat
preparations,  constitute  a violation of the requirements of
the certifying organization or the supervising rabbi Code  of
Jewish  Laws,  and  thereby  render  such kosher meat or meat
preparations, so handled or sold  in  conjunction  therewith,
non-kosher,  or  who  otherwise in the preparation, handling,
and sale of such kosher meat or meat  preparations  fails  to
comply  with  such  religious  requirements  and dietary laws
necessary  to  constitute  such  meat  or  meat  preparations
kosher, or who, without  complying  with  such  religious  or
dietary  laws,  issues or maintains any sign or advertisement
in any language purporting to  represent  that  he  sells  or
deals  in  kosher  meat or meat preparations, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the  penalty  provided
for in Section 2 of this Act.
    (b)  It  shall  be unlawful to label or designate food or
food products with the words parve  or  pareve  knowing  that
such  food  or  food  products  contain milk, meat or poultry
products rendering such food  products  impermissible  to  be
used or eaten according to the certifying organization or the
supervising rabbi Code of Jewish Laws.
    (c)  Any  food  commodity in package form which is marked
as being certified by  an  organization,  identified  on  the
package  by any symbol or is marked as being Kosher shall not
be offered for sale by the producer or  distributor  of  such
food   commodity   until  30  days  after  such  producer  or
distributor shall have registered the name,  current  address
and  telephone  numbers of the certifying organization or the
supervising   rabbi   with   the   Illinois   Department   of
Agriculture.
(Source: P.A. 83-1029.)