(240 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 119)
Sec. 1.
No person shall operate a warehouse or engage in the business
of storing personal property for a compensation, or hold himself out as
being in the storage or warehouse business, or as offering storage or
warehouse facilities, or advertise for, solicit or accept personal
property for storage, without a license issued by the Commission, except that licenses issued under this Act by
the Illinois Commerce Commission prior to May 4, 1967 shall remain valid
for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered or
revoked as provided in this Act, and except further that licenses issued by the Illinois Department of Agriculture under this Act prior to January 1, 2010 shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered, or revoked as provided in this Act. Recognized fair associations shall be
licensed as set forth under the special provisions of Section 1.1. No
person shall receive, hold, store or deliver any alcoholic liquors
without a certificate of registration from the Department of Revenue in
accordance with Article VII A of "An Act relating to alcoholic liquors",
approved January 31, 1934, as heretofore and hereafter amended. The
certificate of registration required by the Department of Revenue is in
addition to the license required under this Act. This Act does not apply
to warehouses licensed under "An Act to regulate refrigerated warehouses
in the handling and storage of certain articles of food, and to repeal
an Act therein named", approved May 25, 1955, as now or hereafter
amended; public warehouses storing grain; garages customarily housing
automobiles for in and out storage; storage of personal property in
safety deposit vaults or boxes, lock boxes, and check rooms where
personal effects, parcels and the like are received for temporary
custody; and to the storage of personal property while it is being held
in storage for scientific care for repairs or alterations, or is in the
process of repair or alteration, or which is incidental to the business
of manufacturing, selling, repairing, altering, cleaning, or glazing of
furs or of any other garment or article of which fur forms any part
thereof.
(Source: P.A. 96-515, eff. 1-1-10.)
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