Illinois Compiled Statutes 25 Legislature: Article -

• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 1
  Short title. This Act shall be known as the Lobbyist Registration Act. (Source: P.A. 76-1848.)
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 2
  Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 3
  Persons required to register. (a) Except as provided in Section 9, any natural person who, for compensation or otherwise, undertakes to lobby, or any person...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 3.1
  Prohibition on serving on boards and commissions. Notwithstanding any other law of this State, on and after February 1, 2004, but not before that date,...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 4
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-187. Repealed by P.A. 96-555, eff. 8-18-09.)
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 4.5
  Ethics training. Each natural person required to register as a lobbyist under this Act must complete a program of ethics training provided by the Secretary...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 5
  Lobbyist registration and disclosure. Every natural person and every entity required to register under this Act shall before any service is performed which requires the...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 6
  Reports. (a) Lobbyist reports. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, every lobbyist registered under this Act who is solely employed by a lobbying entity...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 6.5
  Expenditures on behalf of officials. (a) A registrant that makes an expenditure on behalf of an official must inform the official in writing, contemporaneously with...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 7
  Duties of the Secretary of State. (a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to provide appropriate forms for the registration and...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 8
  Contingent fees prohibited. No person shall retain or employ another to lobby with respect to any legislative, executive, or administrative action for compensation contingent in...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 9
  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to infringe in any way the right of a citizen to lawfully petition a member of the...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 10
  Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 11
  Enforcement. (a) The Secretary of State Inspector General appointed under Section 14 of the Secretary of State Act shall initiate investigations of violations of this...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 11.2
  Local regulation. A unit of local government or school district may adopt an ordinance or resolution regulating lobbying activities with that unit of local...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 11.3
  Compensation from a State agency. It is a violation of this Act for a person registered or required to be registered under this Act to...
• Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act. - 25 ILCS 170, Section 12
  Severability clause. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall...

Last modified: February 18, 2015