Illinois Compiled Statutes 765 ILCS 750 Safe Homes Act. Section 5

    (765 ILCS 750/5)

    Sec. 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to promote the State's interest in reducing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by enabling victims of domestic or sexual violence and their families to flee existing dangerous housing in order to leave violent or abusive situations, achieve safety, and minimize the physical and emotional injuries from domestic or sexual violence, and to reduce the devastating economic consequences thereof.

(Source: P.A. 94-1038, eff. 1-1-07.)

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