(225 ILCS 460/11) (from Ch. 23, par. 5111)
Sec. 11.
(a) No person shall for the purpose of soliciting contributions
from persons in this State, use the name of any other person, except that
of an officer, director or trustee of the charitable organization by or for
which contributions are solicited, without the written consent of such
other persons.
(b) A person shall be deemed to have used the name of another person for
the purpose of soliciting contributions if such latter person's name is
listed on any stationery, advertisement, brochure or correspondence in or
by which a contribution is solicited by or on behalf of a charitable
organization or his name is listed or referred to in connection with a
request for a contribution as one who has contributed to, sponsored or
endorsed the charitable organization or its activities.
(c) Nothing contained in this Section shall prevent the publication of
names of contributors without their written consents, in an annual or other
periodic report issued by a charitable organization for the purpose of
reporting on its operations and affairs to its membership or for the
purpose of reporting contributions to contributors.
(d) No charitable organization or professional fund raiser soliciting
contributions shall use a name, symbol, or statement so closely related or
similar to that used by another charitable organization or governmental
agency that the use thereof would tend to confuse or mislead the public.
(d-1) No Public Safety Personnel Organization may by words in its name or
in
its
solicitations claim to be representing, acting on behalf of, assisting, or
affiliated with the public
safety personnel of a particular municipal, regional, or other geographical
area, unless: (1) 80% or
more of the organization's voting members and trustees are persons who are
actively employed or
retired or disabled
from employment within the particular municipal, regional, or other
geographical area stated in
the name or solicitation; (2) all of these members are vested with the right to
vote in the election
of the managing or controlling officers of the organization either directly or
through delegates; and (3) the
organization includes in
any solicitation the actual number of active or retired police officers, or police officers with disabilities, peace officers,
firemen, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians - ambulance, emergency
medical
technicians - intermediate, emergency medical technicians - paramedic,
ambulance drivers, or
other medical assistance or first aid personnel who are members of the
organization who are
actively employed, retired, or disabled from employment within the particular
municipal,
regional, or other geographical area referenced in the solicitation.
(d-2) No person or organization may have a name or use a name using the
words "officer",
"police", "policeman", "policemen", "trooper", "sheriff", "law enforcement
officer", "deputy",
"chief of police", or similar words therein unless 80% or more of its trustees
and voting members
are active or retired law enforcement personnel or law enforcement personnel with disabilities.
(d-3) No person or organization may have a name or use a name using the
words
"fireman", "firemen", "fire fighter", "fire chief", "paramedic", or similar
words therein unless
80% or more of its trustees and voting members are active or retired fire fighters or fire fighters with disabilities,
firemen, emergency medical technicians - ambulance, emergency medical
technicians -
intermediate, emergency medical technicians - paramedic, ambulance drivers, or
other medical
assistance or first aid personnel.
(d-4) No person by words in a Public Safety Personnel Organization name or
in
solicitations made therefor shall state he or she or his or her organization
is assisting or
affiliated with a local, municipal, regional, or other governmental body or
geographical area
unless 80% of its trustees and voting members are active or retired police officers or police officers with disabilities, law
enforcement officials, firemen, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians -
ambulance,
emergency medical technicians - intermediate, emergency medical technicians -
paramedic,
ambulance drivers, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel of the
local, municipal,
regional, or other geographical area so named or stated.
Nothing in this Act shall prohibit a Public
Safety
Personnel Organization from stating the actual number of members it has in any
geographical area.
(e) Any person or organization that willfully violates the
provisions of
this Section is
guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Any person or organization that willfully violates the provisions of
this Section may in addition to other remedies be subject to a fine of $2,000
for each violation,
shall be subject to forfeiture of all solicitation fees, and shall be
enjoined from operating as
a fund raiser and soliciting the public for fundraising purposes.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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