(815 ILCS 395/7) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 144)
Sec. 7.
Any person, partnership, corporation, or association, or any
officer, director, employee, or agent thereof who shall sell or offer or
expose for sale in the state any article to which is applied any quality
mark which does not conform to all the provisions of this Act, or from
which is omitted any mark required by the provisions of this Act, shall be
guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Provided, however, that it shall be a
defense to any prosecution under this chapter for the defendant to prove
that the said article was manufactured and marked with the intention of and
for purposes of exportation from the United States, and that the said
article was either actually exported from the United States to a foreign
country within six months after date of manufacture thereof with the bona
fide intention of being sold in the said country and of not being
reimported, or that it was delivered within six months after date of
manufacture thereof to a person, firm, or corporation whose exclusive
customary business is the exportation of such articles from the United
States.
(Source: P.A. 77-2246.)
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