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• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1
  As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in Sections 9-1.1 through 9-1.13, have the respective meanings as defined...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.1
  "Board" means the State Board of Elections.

  (Source: P.A. 78-1183.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.3
  "Candidate" means any person who seeks nomination for election, election to or retention in public office, or any person who seeks election as ward...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.4
  Contribution.

  (A) "Contribution" means:

  (1) a gift, subscription, donation, dues, loan, advance, deposit of money, or anything of value, knowingly received in connection...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.5
  Expenditure.

  (A) "Expenditure" means:

  (1) a payment, distribution, purchase, loan, advance,

  deposit, gift of money, or anything of value, in connection with the...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.6
  Person. "Person" or "whoever" means a natural person, trust, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization or group of persons.

  (Source: P.A. 96-832,...

• Illinois Elections: Article 9 - Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
  (Source: P.A. 95-963, eff. 1-1-09. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.7
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 95-963, eff. 1-1-09. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.8
  Political committees.

  (a) "Political committee" includes a candidate political committee, a political party committee, a political action committee, and a ballot initiative committee.

  (b)...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.9
  Election cycle. "Election cycle" means any of the following:

  (1) For a candidate political committee organized to support a candidate to be elected at a...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.10
  Public Office. "Public office" means any elective office or judicial office subject to retention.

  (Source: P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.10b
  Severability. The provisions of this amendatory Act of 1995 are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.

  (Source: P.A. 89-405, eff....

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.11
  "Public official" means any person who is elected or appointed to public office.

  (Source: P.A. 78-1183.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.12
  Anything of value. "Anything of value" means any item, thing, service, or good, regardless of whether it may be valued in monetary terms according to...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.13
  Transfer of funds. "Transfer of funds" means any conveyance of money from one political committee to another political committee.

  (Source: P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.14
  Electioneering communication.

  (a) "Electioneering communication" means, for the purposes of this Article, any broadcast, cable, or satellite communication, including radio, television, or Internet communication,...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-1.15
  Independent expenditure. "Independent expenditure" means any payment, gift, donation, or expenditure of funds (i) by a natural person or political committee for the purpose of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-2
  Political committee designations.

  (a) Every political committee shall be designated as a (i) candidate political committee, (ii) political party committee, (iii) political action committee,...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-3
  Political committee statement of organization.

  (a) Every political committee shall file with the State Board of Elections a statement of organization within 10 business...

• Illinois Elections: Article 9 - Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
(Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-4
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-5
  Dissolved or inactive committee. Any political committee which, after having filed a statement of organization, dissolves as a political committee or determines that it will...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-6
  Accounting for contributions.

  (a) A person who collects or accepts a contribution for a political committee shall, within 5 days after receipt of such...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-7
  The treasurer of a political committee shall keep a detailed and exact account of-

  (a) the total of all contributions made to or for...

• Illinois Elections: Article 9 - Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-7.5
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-8
  Any political committee which solicits or receives contributions or makes expenditures on behalf of any candidate that is not authorized in writing by such candidate...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-8.5
  Limitations on campaign contributions.

  (a) It is unlawful for a political committee to accept contributions except as provided in this Section.

  (b) During an election...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-8.6
  Independent expenditures.

  (a) An independent expenditure is not considered a contribution to a political committee. An expenditure made by a natural person or political committee...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-8.10
  Use of political committee and other reporting organization funds.

  (a) A political committee shall not make expenditures:

  (1) In violation of any law...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-8.15
  Contributions on State property. In addition to any other provision of this Code, the solicitation, acceptance, offer, and making of contributions on State property by...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-9
  Any political committee shall include on all literature and advertisements soliciting funds the following notice:

  "A copy of our report filed with the State...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-9.5
  Disclosures in political communications.

  (a) Any political committee, organized under the Election Code, that makes an expenditure for a pamphlet, circular, handbill, Internet or telephone...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-10
  Disclosure of contributions and expenditures.

  (a) The treasurer of every political committee shall file with the Board reports of campaign contributions and expenditures as...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-11
  Financial reports.

  (a) Each quarterly report of campaign contributions, expenditures, and independent expenditures under Section 9-10 shall disclose the following:

  (1) the name and...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-12
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 90-737, eff. 1-1-99. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-13
  Audits of political committees.

  (a) The Board shall have the authority to order a political committee to conduct an audit of the financial records...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-14
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 90-737, eff. 1-1-99. Repealed by P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-15
  It shall be the duty of the Board-

  (1) to develop prescribed forms for filing statements

  of organization and required reports;

  (2) to prepare,...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-16
  It shall be the duty of the board and of each county clerk to provide to each candidate at the time he files his nomination...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-17
  All statements and reports filed under this Article with the board or county clerk shall be available for examination and copying by the public...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-18
  The Board may hold investigations, inquiries, and hearings concerning any matter covered by this Article, subject to such rules and regulations as the Board...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-19
  The Board may hire such investigators, examiners, and hearing officers as may be necessary to carry out its functions under this Article, and may...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-20
  Any person who believes a violation of this Article has occurred may file a verified complaint with the Board. Such verified complaint shall be...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-21
  Upon receipt of a complaint as provided in Section 9-20, the Board shall hold a closed preliminary hearing to determine whether or not the complaint...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-22
  Any party to a Board hearing, any person who files a complaint on which a hearing was denied or not acted upon within the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-23
  Whenever the Board, pursuant to Section 9-21, has issued an order, or has approved a written stipulation, agreed settlement or consent order, directing a person...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-23.5
  Public database of founded complaints. The State Board of Elections shall establish and maintain on its official website a searchable database, freely accessible to the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-24
  The Board may also petition the Circuit Court to issue an order of the Court compelling compliance with an order issued by the Board,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-25
  No person shall make an anonymous contribution or a contribution in the name of another person, and no person shall knowingly accept any anonymous...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-25.1
  Election interference.

  (a) As used in this Section, "public funds" means any funds appropriated by the Illinois General Assembly or by any political...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-25.2
  Contributions; candidate or treasurer of political committee.

  (a) No candidate may knowingly receive any contribution solicited or received in violation of Section 33-3.1...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-26
  Willful failure to file or willful filing of false or incomplete information required by this Article shall constitute a business offense subject to a...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-27
  

  As to any civil or criminal proceedings instituted under this Article, venue shall lie in the county where the political committee was organized...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-27.5
  Fundraising in Sangamon County. In addition to any other provision of this Code, fundraising events in Sangamon County by certain executive branch officers and candidates,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-28
  Electronic filing and availability. The Board shall by rule provide for the electronic filing of expenditure and contribution reports as follows:

  Electronic filing is...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-28.5
  Injunctive relief for electioneering communications.

  (a) Whenever the Attorney General, or a State's Attorney with jurisdiction over any portion of the relevant electorate, believes that...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-30
  Ballot forfeiture. The State Board of Elections shall not certify the name of any person who has not paid a civil penalty imposed against his...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-35
  Registration of business entities.

  (a) This Section governs the procedures for the registration required under Section 20-160 of the Illinois Procurement Code.

  For the...

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 9-40
  Campaign Finance Reform Task Force.

  (a) There is hereby created the Campaign Finance Reform Task Force. The purpose of the Task Force is to conduct...