720 ILCS 670/ Sale of Immoral Publications to Children Act.

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CRIMINAL OFFENSES
(720 ILCS 670/) Sale of Immoral Publications to Children Act.

720 ILCS 670/0.01

(720 ILCS 670/0.01) (from Ch. 23, par. 2362.9)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Sale of Immoral Publications to Children Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

720 ILCS 670/1

(720 ILCS 670/1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2363)

Sec. 1.

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, lend, give away or
show, or have in his possession with intent to sell or give away, or to
show or advertise, or otherwise offer for loan, gift or distribution to any
minor child any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, story paper or other
printed paper devoted to the publication, or principally made up of
criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures
and stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime.

(Source: Laws 1889, p. 114.)

720 ILCS 670/2

(720 ILCS 670/2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2364)

Sec. 2.

It shall be unlawful to exhibit upon any street or highway, or in
any place within the view, or which may be within the view of any minor
child, any book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, story paper or other paper
or publication coming within the description of matters mentioned in the
first section of this act, or any of them.

(Source: Laws 1889, p. 114.)

720 ILCS 670/3

(720 ILCS 670/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2365)

Sec. 3.

It shall be unlawful to hire, use or employ any minor child to sell
or give away, or in any manner to distribute, or who, having the care,
custody or control of any minor child, to permit such child to sell, give
away, or in any manner to distribute any book, magazine, pamphlet,
newspaper, story paper or publication coming within the description of
matters mentioned in the first section of this act, and any person
violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a Class B
misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2351.)