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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 498

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  498  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

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

 6        (720 ILCS 5/17-23 new)
 7        Sec.  17-23.  Counterfeit  retail   sales   receipt   and
 8    Universal Price Code Label.
 9        (a)  A  person  who,  with  intent to defraud a merchant,
10    possesses,  uses,  transfers,   makes,   sells,   reproduces,
11    tenders,  or  delivers  a  false,  counterfeit,  altered,  or
12    simulated  retail  sales  receipt  or  a Universal Price Code
13    Label is guilty of a Class 4 felony.
14        (b)  A  person  who  possesses  more  than   one   false,
15    counterfeit,  altered,  or  simulated retail sales receipt or
16    more than  one  false,  counterfeit,  altered,  or  simulated
17    Universal  Price  Code  Label  or  who possesses a device the
18    purpose  of  which  is  to  manufacture  false,  counterfeit,
19    altered, or simulated  retail  sales  receipts  or  Universal
20    Price Code Labels is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
21        (d)  Definitions.  In this Section:
22        "Universal  Price  Code Label" means a unique symbol that
 
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 1    consists of  a  machine  readable  code  and  human  readable
 2    numbers.
 3        "Merchant"  has  the  meaning  ascribed  to it in Section
 4    16A-2.4 of this Code.
 5        "Intent to defraud" has the meaning  ascribed  to  it  in
 6    paragraph  (iii)  of  subsection  (A) of Section 17-1 of this
 7    Code.".

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