(30 ILCS 565/5) (from Ch. 48, par. 1805)
Sec. 5.
No public agency may authorize, provide for or make any payment
to any vendor or contractor upon any contract in violation of Section 4.
It shall be a business offense for any vendor or contractor to knowingly
enter into any contract in violation of Section 4 or to knowingly violate
contract provisions required by Section 4. Each such violation shall subject
the violator to a fine of the greater of $5,000 or the payment price received by
him as a result of such violation. The Attorney General is authorized to
file and prosecute a complaint in the circuit court of any county in which
the contract was in whole or in part executed or performed.
(Source: P.A. 83-1030.)
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