Public Act 093-0815
 		





SB2372 Enrolled
LRB093 20441 RAS 46224 b






    AN ACT concerning agriculture.

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


 
    Section 5. The Agricultural Production Contract Code is 
amended  by changing Sections 20 and 50 and  by adding Section 7 
as follows:
 
    (505 ILCS 17/7  new)
    Sec. 7. Applicability. This Code applies to production 
contracts signed on or after January 1, 2005.
 



    (505 ILCS 17/20)



    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a 
delayed effective
date)

    Sec. 20. Readability of production contracts. 

    (a) A production contract must comply with all of the 
following:


        (1)  It must be in a typeface at least as large as 
    10-point modern,
one-point
leaded.


        (2) It must be divided and captioned by its various 
    sections, have an
index
of the major provisions of the 
    production contract and the pages on which they
are
found, 
    and use commonly-used and understood words and terms, but 
    may include
technical or industry terms customarily used 
    and understood by producers in
the
ordinary course of 
    business.


        (3) It must limit references to other sections or 
    provisions and, when
incorporating a document, have a copy 
    of the document attached.


        (4) It must have a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score no 
    higher than the twelfth grade
scale analysis readability 
    score of at least 50.
This provision does not apply to a 
    document attached to the contract if the contractor, 
    affiliate, or subsidiary is not the original publisher of 
    the document.


    (b) A contractor may include a provision in the index 
required by Section 25
that the production contract being 
offered meets the requirements of this
Section as to 
readability.

(Source: P.A. 93-522, eff. 1-1-05.)

 



    (505 ILCS 17/50)



    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a 
delayed effective
date)

    Sec. 50. Enforcement; offenses; remedies. The Attorney 
General is
primarily
responsible for enforcing this Act.

    A violation of
person who violates Section 20, 25, 30, or 
35 is
commits a business offense
under the Code of Corrections 
punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 per offense
under

the Code of Civil Procedure.

    A producer may recover his or her actual damages for a 
contractor's violation
of
Section 40 or 45 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-522, eff. 1-1-05.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2005.