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[ Engrossed ][ House Amendment 001 ]

91_HB0498

 
                                               LRB9101221RCks

 1        AN ACT to amend the  Criminal  Code  of  1961  by  adding
 2    Section 17-23.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 17-23 as follows:

 7        (720 ILCS 5/17-23 new)
 8        Sec.   17-23.  Counterfeit   retail   sales  receipt  and
 9    Universal Price Code Label.
10        (a)  A person who, with the intent to  cheat  or  defraud
11    another,  possesses,  uses, utters, transfers, makes, alters,
12    counterfeits, or reproduces  a  retail  sales  receipt  or  a
13    Universal  Price  Code  Label,  is guilty of a Class 4 felony
14    and, in addition to any other penalty imposed, may  be  fined
15    not  exceeding  3  times  the value represented on the retail
16    sales receipt or the Universal Price Code Label.
17        (b)  A person who  possesses  more  than  one  fraudulent
18    retail  sales  receipt  or more than one fraudulent Universal
19    Price Code Label or who possesses a device that  manufactures
20    fraudulent  retail  sales  receipts  or  Universal Price Code
21    Labels is guilty of a Class 3 felony.

22        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
23    becoming law.

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