Illinois Compiled Statutes 815 Business Transactions: Article -

• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 1
  (a) The term "advertisement" includes the attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2
  Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including but not limited to the use or employment of any deception fraud,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2A
  (1) The use or employment of any chain referral sales technique, plan, arrangement or agreement whereby the buyer is induced to purchase merchandise upon...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2B
  Where a sale of merchandise involving $25 or more is made or contracted to be made whether under a single contract or under multiple...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2B.1
  It shall be unlawful in the sale of consumer goods or services for any person conducting a mail order or catalog business in this...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2B.2
  Solicitations regarding records. It is an unlawful practice for any person to offer for sale or sell to a consumer access to any records...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2B.3
  Deceptive sale or promotion of health-related cash discount cards. It is an unlawful practice for any person to sell, market, promote, advertise, or otherwise...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2C
  If the furnishing of merchandise, whether under purchase order or a contract of sale, is conditioned on the consumer's providing credit references or having...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2D
  If a consumer in a retail installment sales transaction gives the seller a negotiable instrument in part or full payment for the merchandise which...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2E
  Any person who is regularly engaged in the business of providing or furnishing merchandise to consumers or in making loans to consumers and who...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2F
  Any person who is held in any civil or criminal proceeding to have wilfully and materially violated any Illinois statutory provision regulating the extension...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2G
  If an installment seller wilfully and materially resells goods he has repossessed from a buyer in default to a person who is not a...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2H
  No person may make any attempt, whether by mail, telephone, personal contact, court action or by any other means, to collect an obligation from...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2I
  No person may attempt to collect an obligation by communicating in any way with an employer with regard to the obligation owing by one...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2J
  No seller may include or cause to be included in any advertisement, price tag, display or other device used to describe the goods to...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2J.1
  Any retail seller, or motor vehicle dealer within the meaning of Chapter 5 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, who publishes or issues coupons for...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2J.2
  Any person who sells or offers to sell or exposes for sale to consumers at retail any merchandise using an automatic price look-up system...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2K
  No person engaged in the making of loans to consumers or furnishing goods or services to consumers in a credit transaction may advertise using...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2L
  Any retail sale of a motor vehicle made after January 1, 1968 to a consumer by a new motor vehicle dealer or used motor...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2M
  No person engaged in the business of performing services on merchandise shall advertise such services as factory authorized services unless such services are performed...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2N
  Non-English language transaction. (a) If (i) a person conducts, in a language other than English, a retail transaction or negotiations related to a retail...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2P
  Offers of free prizes, gifts, or gratuities; disclosure of conditions. It is an unlawful practice for any person to promote or advertise any business,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2P.1
  Telemarketing; free trials. (a) As used in this Section, "telemarketing" means a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce the purchase of...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2Q
  (a) No person, firm, corporation, partnership or association engaged in the business of making home improvements or repairs shall operate a business under a...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2R
  It is an unlawful practice for any person who sells advertisements to be published in a directory or listing of telephone numbers to fail...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2S
  No person may report adverse information to a consumer reporting agency, provide information to a collection agency or take any collection action regarding a...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2T
  No person, firm, corporation, partnership or association which may extend credit or make a loan secured by an interest in real estate which is...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2U
  No person shall intentionally or negligently misrepresent the capabilities of a device for detecting and measuring radon or radon progeny. A person who violates...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2V
  No person shall intentionally or negligently misrepresent the results of a test to detect or measure radon or radon progeny. A person who violates...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2W
  No person shall, for compensation, perform any act or service to reduce radon or radon progeny unless that person has an objective basis to...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2X
  It is an unlawful practice for any person to promote or advertise any business, product or interest in property by means of distributing documents...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2Y
  Misrepresentation of effect of use of gasohol on motor vehicle warranties. (a) No person shall make any false or misleading statement or representation to...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2Z
  Violations of other Acts. Any person who knowingly violates the Automotive Repair Act, the Automotive Collision Repair Act, the Home Repair and Remodeling Act, the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2AA
  Immigration services. (a) "Immigration matter" means any proceeding, filing, or action affecting the nonimmigrant, immigrant or citizenship status of any person that arises under immigration...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2BB
  The assembly, drafting, execution, and funding of a living trust document or any of those acts by a corporation or a nonlawyer is an...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2CC
  Wholesale advertising. (a) A person may represent directly or by implication in any advertising that a person offers to sell or sells a particular...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2DD
  Telecommunication service provider selection. A telecommunication carrier shall not submit or execute a change in a subscriber's selection of a provider of local exchange...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2EE
  Electric service provider selection. An electric service provider shall not submit or execute a change in a subscriber's selection of a provider of electric service...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2FF
  Electric service fraud; elderly persons or disabled persons; additional penalties. With respect to the advertising, sale, provider selection, billings, or collections relating to the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2GG
  Electric service advertising. Any advertisement for electric service that lists rates shall clearly and conspicuously disclose all associated costs for such service including, but...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2HH
  Billing and collection practices of electric service providers. Each person selling generation, transmission, distribution, metering, or billing of electric service shall display the name,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2II
  Prohibition of sweepstakes boxes and conditions upon use of prize promotions to solicit authority to provide telecommunications or related service. (a) As used in...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2JJ
  Shoppers club information. (a) It is an unlawful practice for any person who is an officer, manager, or employee of a merchant to knowingly...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2KK
  Animal cremation services. It is an unlawful practice within the meaning of this Act for a provider of companion animal cremation services (1) to...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2LL
  Halal food; disclosure. (a) As used in this Section: "Dealer" means any establishment that advertises, represents, or holds itself out as growing animals in a...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2MM
  Verification of accuracy of consumer reporting information used to extend consumers credit and security freeze on credit reports. (a) A credit card issuer who mails...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2NN
  Receipts; credit card and debit card account numbers. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: "Cardholder" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 17-0.5...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2OO
  (Reserved). (Source: None; this Section number is reserved.)
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2PP
  Mail; disclosure. It is an unlawful practice under this Act to knowingly mail or send or cause to be mailed or sent a postcard or...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2QQ
  Insurance cards; social security number. (a) As used in this Section, "insurance card" means a card that a person or entity provides to an individual...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2RR
  Use of Social Security numbers. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, a person may not do any of the following: (1) Publicly post...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2SS
  Gift certificates. (a) "Gift certificate" means a record evidencing a promise, made for consideration, by the seller or issuer of the record that goods or...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2TT
  Prepaid calling service. (a) For purposes of this Section, the terms "Prepaid Calling Service", "Prepaid Calling Service Provider", "Prepaid Calling Service Retailer", and "Prepaid Calling...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2UU
  Internet service; cancellation. (a) As used in this Section: "Internet service provider" means a person who provides a service that combines computer processing, information storage,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2VV
  Credit and public utility service; identity theft. It is an unlawful practice for a person to deny credit or public utility service to or reduce...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2WW
  Wireless telephone service provider; third party billings. A wireless telephone service provider shall provide a contact telephone number and brief description of the service for...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2XX
  Performing groups. (a) As used in this Section: "Performing group" means a vocal or instrumental group seeking to use the name of another group that...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2YY
  Work-at-home solicitations. No person shall advertise, represent or imply that any person can earn money working at home by stuffing envelopes, addressing envelopes, mailing circulars,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2ZZ
  Payoff of liens on motor vehicles traded in to dealer. (a) When a motor vehicle dealer, as defined by Sections 5-101 or 5-102 of the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2AAA
  Mortgage marketing materials. (a) No person may send marketing materials to a consumer indicating that the person is connected to the consumer's mortgage company, indicating...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2BBB
  Long term care facility, ID/DD facility, or specialized mental health rehabilitation facility; Consumer Choice Information Report. A long term care facility that fails to comply...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2CCC
  Internet game service provider; cancellation. (a) As used in this Section: "Internet game service provider" means a person who provides a web site that includes...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2DDD
  Alternative gas suppliers. (a) Definitions. (1) "Alternative gas supplier" has the same meaning as in Section 19-105 of the Public Utilities Act. (2) "Gas utility"...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2EEE
  Natural gas service advertising. Any advertisement for natural gas service that lists rates shall clearly and conspicuously disclose all associated costs for such service including,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2FFF
  All personal information relating to the customer of transmission, distribution, metering, or billing of natural gas service, or the customer purchasing the commodity of natural...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2GGG
  Prohibition of prize promotions to solicit authority to provide alternative natural gas service. (a) It is an unfair or deceptive act or practice within the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2HHH
  Product and service charges billed on a telephone bill prohibited. (a) Definitions. For purposes of this Section: "Billing agent" means a person that submits charges...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2III
  Seller's shipments of similar merchandise to consumer. If a consumer purchases merchandise, it is an unlawful practice under this Act for the seller of the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2JJJ
  Violations of the Debt Settlement Consumer Protection Act. Any person who violates the Debt Settlement Consumer Protection Act commits an unlawful practice within the meaning...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2KKK
  (Reserved). (Source: None; this Section number is reserved.)
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2LLL
  Retail rebates. Any person who offers a rebate to consumers at retail on any merchandise must conspicuously display and clearly disclose to the consumer the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2MMM
  Violations of the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012. A school subject to the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012 commits...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2NNN
  Violations of the Tax Refund Anticipation Loan Reform Act. Any person who violates the Tax Refund Anticipation Loan Reform Act commits an unlawful practice within...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2OOO
  (Reserved). (Source: None; this Section number is reserved.)
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2PPP
  Internet dating, child care, senior care, and home care safety. It is an unlawful practice under this Act for an Internet dating service, Internet child...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2QQQ
  Criminal record information. (a) It is an unlawful practice for any person engaged in publishing or otherwise disseminating criminal record information through a print or...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 2RRR
  Household goods recycling bins. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or entity owning, operating, or maintaining a household goods recycling bin shall...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 3
  When it appears to the Attorney General that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in any practice...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 4
  To accomplish the objectives and to carry out the duties prescribed by this Act, the Attorney General, in addition to other powers conferred upon...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 5
  Service by the Attorney General of any notice requiring a person to file a statement or report, or of a subpoena upon any person,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 6
  If any person fails or refuses to file any statement or report, or obey any subpoena issued by the Attorney General or a State's...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 6.1
  In the administration of this Act, the Attorney General may accept an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with respect to any method, act or practice...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 7
  Injunctive relief; restitution; and civil penalties. (a) Whenever the Attorney General or a State's Attorney has reason to believe that any person is using,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 8
  When a receiver is appointed by the court pursuant to this Act, he shall have the power to sue for, collect, receive and take...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 9
  Subject to an order of the court terminating the business affairs of any person after receivership proceedings held pursuant to this Act, the provisions...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 10
  In any action brought under the provisions of this Act, the Attorney General or the State's Attorney is entitled to recover costs for the...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 10a
  Action for actual damages. (a) Any person who suffers actual damage as a result of a violation of this Act committed by any other...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 10b
  Nothing in this Act shall apply to any of the following: (1) Actions or transactions specifically authorized by laws administered by any regulatory body...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 10c
  Waiver or modification. Any waiver or modification of the rights, provisions, or remedies of this Act shall be void and unenforceable. (Source: P.A. 93-400,...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 10d
  Public Utilities Act; Illinois Commerce Commission. (a) The General Assembly finds that consumer protection is vital to the health, safety, and welfare of Illinois consumers....
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 11
  If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other...
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 11a
  This Act shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. (Source: P.A. 78-904.)
• Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. - 815 ILCS 505, Section 12
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act". (Source: P.A. 78-904.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015