(505 ILCS 17/20)
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 |
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(2) It must be divided and captioned by its various
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| 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.
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(3) It must limit references to other sections or
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(4) It must have a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score
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| no higher than the twelfth grade. 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.
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(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; 93-815, eff. 1-1-05.)
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