815 ILCS 417/1

(815 ILCS 417/1) (was 720 ILCS 380/1)

Sec. 1.

Any person who knowingly sells, offers or exposes for sale (except
in bulk as waste paper) any newspaper, magazine, periodical or other
publication, except a rare book, manuscript or educational text, from which
the cover or title page has been removed, or from which the title, trade
name, trade mark or other identification mark has been removed or
obliterated, is guilty of a petty offense.

(Source: P.A. 77-2830.)