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Public Act 91-0136
SB188 Enrolled LRB9101222RCks
AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by adding
Section 17-23.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
adding Section 17-23 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/17-23 new)
Sec. 17-23. Counterfeit Universal Price Code Label.
(a) A person who, with intent to defraud a merchant,
possesses, uses, transfers, makes, sells, reproduces,
tenders, or delivers a false, counterfeit, altered, or
simulated Universal Price Code Label is guilty of a Class 4
felony.
(b) A person who possesses more than one false,
counterfeit, altered, or simulated Universal Price Code Label
or who possesses a device the purpose of which is to
manufacture false, counterfeit, altered, or simulated
Universal Price Code Labels is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
(d) Definitions. In this Section:
"Universal Price Code Label" means a unique symbol that
consists of a machine readable code and human readable
numbers.
"Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this Code.
"Intent to defraud" has the meaning ascribed to it in
paragraph (iii) of subsection (A) of Section 17-1 of this
Code.
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