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91_HB0964
LRB9102774DJcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by changing Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
6 Practices Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262)
8 Sec. 2. Unlawful practice; federal law. Unfair methods
9 of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices,
10 including but not limited to the use or employment of any
11 deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, or
12 misrepresentation, or the concealment, suppression, or
13 omission of any material fact, with intent that others rely
14 upon the concealment, suppression, or omission of such
15 material fact, or the use or employment of any practice
16 described in Section 2 of the "Uniform Deceptive Trade
17 Practices Act", approved August 5, 1965, in the conduct of
18 any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful whether
19 any person has in fact been misled, deceived, or damaged
20 thereby. In construing this Section, consideration shall be
21 given to the interpretations of the Federal Trade Commission
22 and the federal courts relating to Section 5 (a) of the
23 Federal Trade Commission Act.
24 (Source: P.A. 78-904.)