(310 ILCS 10/25.05) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 25.05)
Sec. 25.05.
Any person who by means of any fraudulent misstatement or
willful misrepresentation made in connection with an
application for tenancy or renewal of tenancy in a housing project of a local
housing authority misleads, defrauds, or induces the authority to
fix a rental payment for his or her tenancy at a sum less than required
under the regulations of the local housing authority shall be answerable to
that authority for payment of a sum equivalent to the difference
between the rental charged to the tenant and the rent which the tenant should
have been charged in accordance with the regulations of the local housing
authority, and in the event such payment is not made it shall be recoverable in
a civil action. In any such civil action where fraud is proven, the court
may, as a penalty receivable by the authority, assess an
additional sum of money up to but not in excess of the entire amount of the
difference in rent charged to the tenant and that which should have been
charged but for the willful misrepresentation and
misstatements.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
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