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CRIMINAL OFFENSES
(720 ILCS 5/) Criminal Code of 2012.

720 ILCS 5/17-59

    (720 ILCS 5/17-59) (was 720 ILCS 5/39-1)
    Sec. 17-59. Criminal usury.
    (a) A person commits criminal usury when, in exchange for either a loan of money or other property or forbearance from the collection of such a loan, he or she knowingly contracts for or receives from an individual, directly or indirectly, interest, discount, or other consideration at a rate greater than 20% per annum either before or after the maturity of the loan.
    (b) When a person has in his or her personal or constructive possession records, memoranda, or other documentary record of usurious loans, the trier of fact may infer that he or she has violated subsection (a) of this Section.
    (c) Sentence. Criminal usury is a Class 4 felony.
    (d) Non-application to licensed persons. This Section does not apply to any loan authorized to be made by any person licensed under the Consumer Installment Loan Act or to any loan permitted by Sections 4, 4.2 and 4a of the Interest Act or by any other law of this State.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)

720 ILCS 5/17-60

    (720 ILCS 5/17-60) (was 720 ILCS 5/17-7)
    Sec. 17-60. Promotion of pyramid sales schemes.
    (a) A person who knowingly sells, offers to sell, or attempts to sell the right to participate in a pyramid sales scheme commits a Class A misdemeanor.
    (b) The term "pyramid sales scheme" means any plan or operation whereby a person, in exchange for money or other thing of value, acquires the opportunity to receive a benefit or thing of value, which is primarily based upon the inducement of additional persons, by himself or others, regardless of number, to participate in the same plan or operation and is not primarily contingent on the volume or quantity of goods, services, or other property sold or distributed or to be sold or distributed to persons for purposes of resale to consumers. For purposes of this subsection, "money or other thing of value" shall not include payments made for sales demonstration equipment and materials furnished on a nonprofit basis for use in making sales and not for resale.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)

720 ILCS 5/17-61

    (720 ILCS 5/17-61)
    Sec. 17-61. Unauthorized use of university stationery.
    (a) No person, firm or corporation shall use the official stationery or seal or a facsimile thereof, of any State supported university, college or other institution of higher education or any organization thereof unless approved in writing in advance by the university, college or institution of higher education affected, for any private promotional scheme wherein it is made to appear that the organization or university, college or other institution of higher education is endorsing the private promotional scheme.
    (b) A violation of this Section is a petty offense.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)

720 ILCS 5/17-62

    (720 ILCS 5/17-62)
    Sec. 17-62. Unlawful possession of device for manufacturing a false universal price code label. It is unlawful for a person to knowingly possess a device the purpose of which is to manufacture a false, counterfeit, altered, or simulated universal price code label. A violation of this Section is a Class 3 felony.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)

720 ILCS 5/Art. 17A

 
    (720 ILCS 5/Art. 17A heading)
ARTICLE 17A. DISQUALIFICATION FOR STATE BENEFITS
(Repealed)
(Article repealed by P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11)