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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 567

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 567 as follows:

 3    by replacing the title with the following:

 4        "AN ACT concerning business organizations, amending named
 5    Acts."; and

 6    on page 1, below line 4, by inserting the following:

 7        "Section 2.  The Business  Corporation  Act  of  1983  is
 8    amended by changing Section 7.65 as follows:

 9        (805 ILCS 5/7.65) (from Ch. 32, par. 7.65)
10        Sec. 7.65.  Voting trust agreement.
11        (a)  One   or  more  Any  number  of  shareholders  of  a
12    corporation may create a voting  trust  for  the  purpose  of
13    conferring  upon  a  trustee or trustees the right to vote or
14    otherwise represent their shares for a stated duration, which
15    may be perpetual or for a fixed period or may  be  determined
16    by  the occurrence of a stated condition or conditions, for a
17    period of not to exceed ten years, by entering into a written
18    voting trust agreement specifying the terms and conditions of
19    the voting trust,  and  by  transferring  the  subject  their
20    shares  to  such  trustee  or  trustees  pursuant  to for the
 
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 1    purposes of the agreement. If the agreement or any  amendment
 2    thereto  does  not contain a stated duration, the trust shall
 3    terminate  10  years  after  the   agreement   first   became
 4    effective.
 5        (b)  No  voting  Any  such  trust  agreement shall be not
 6    become effective until a  counterpart  of  the  agreement  is
 7    deposited  with  the  corporation  at  the  corporation's its
 8    registered  office.  The  counterpart  of  the  voting  trust
 9    agreement so deposited with the corporation shall be  subject
10    to  the  same  right  of  examination by a shareholder of the
11    corporation, in person or by agent or  attorney,  as  is  the
12    record  of  shareholders  of  the  corporation,  and shall be
13    subject to examination as provided in  Section  7.75  by  any
14    holder  of  a  beneficial  interest in the voting trust as if
15    that holder were a shareholder, either in person or by  agent
16    or attorney, at any reasonable time for any proper purpose.
17        (c)  The  rule against perpetuities does not apply to any
18    voting trust created in accordance with this Section.
19        (d)  Every voting trust agreement entered  into  pursuant
20    to  this  Section  is  specifically enforceable in accordance
21    with the principles of equity.
22        (e)  The changes made by this amendatory Act of the  91st
23    General  Assembly  apply only to voting trust agreements that
24    are:
25             (1)  entered into after the effective date  of  this
26        amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly; or
27             (2)  amended   after  the  effective  date  of  this
28        amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly to include  a
29        stated duration in accordance with subsection (a).
30    (Source: P.A. 83-1025.)"; and

31    on page 2, below line 13, by inserting the following:

32        "Section  10. The Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act
33    is amended by changing Section 108 as follows:
 
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 1        (805 ILCS 210/108) (from Ch. 106 1/2, par. 151-9)
 2        Sec. 108.  Assumed Name.
 3        (a)  A  limited  partnership   or   a   foreign   limited
 4    partnership  admitted  to transact business in this State may
 5    elect to  adopt  an  assumed  name  that  complies  with  the
 6    requirements   of   Section   102  of  this  Act  except  the
 7    requirement  that  the  name  contain  the   words   "limited
 8    partnership" or the abbreviation "L.P.".
 9        (b)  As  used  in this Act, "assumed name" means any name
10    other than the true name of a limited partnership or the name
11    under which a foreign  limited  partnership  is  admitted  to
12    transact business in this State, except that the following do
13    not constitute the use of an assumed name under this Act:
14             (1)  The  identification by a limited partnership or
15        foreign  limited  partnership  of  its  business  with  a
16        trademark or service mark of which it  is  the  owner  or
17        licensed  user shall not constitute the use of an assumed
18        name under this Act.
19             (2)  The  use  of  a  name  of   a   division,   not
20        constituting  a  separate  limited  partnership  and  not
21        containing   the   words   "limited  partnership"  or  an
22        abbreviation of those words, provided  that  the  limited
23        partnership also clearly discloses its true name.
24        (c)  Before  transacting any business in this State under
25    an assumed name or names, the limited partnership or  foreign
26    limited partnership shall, for each assumed name, execute and
27    file  in  accordance  with Section 204 or 903 of this Act, as
28    applicable, an application setting forth:
29             (1)  the true name of the limited partnership or the
30        name under  which  the  foreign  limited  partnership  is
31        admitted to transact business in this State;
32             (2)  the  State or other jurisdiction under the laws
33        of which it is formed;
34             (3)  that it intends to transact business  under  an
 
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 1        assumed name; and
 2             (4)  the assumed name which it proposes to use.
 3        (d)  The  right to use an assumed name shall be effective
 4    from the date of filing by the Secretary of State  until  the
 5    first day of the anniversary month of the limited partnership
 6    or  foreign  limited  partnership  that falls within the next
 7    calendar  year  evenly  divisible  by  5,  however,   if   an
 8    application   is   filed  within  the  3  months  immediately
 9    preceding the anniversary month of a limited  partnership  or
10    foreign limited partnership that falls within a calendar year
11    evenly  divisible  by  5,  the  right to use the assumed name
12    shall be effective until the first  day  of  the  anniversary
13    month   of   the   limited  partnership  or  foreign  limited
14    partnership that falls within the next succeeding year evenly
15    divisible by 5.
16        (e)  A limited partnership or foreign limited partnership
17    may renew the right to use its assumed name or names, if any,
18    within the 60 days preceding the expiration  of  such  right,
19    for  a period of 5 years, by making an election to do so on a
20    form prescribed by the Secretary of State and by  paying  the
21    renewal fee as prescribed by this Act.
22        (f)  Any   limited   partnership   or   foreign   limited
23    partnership  may  change  or cancel any or all of its assumed
24    names by executing and filing, in duplicate,  an  application
25    setting forth:
26             (1)  the true name of the limited partnership or the
27        name  under  which  the  foreign  limited  partnership is
28        admitted to transact business in this State;
29             (2)  the state or country under the laws of which it
30        is organized;
31             (3)  a  statement   that   it   intends   to   cease
32        transacting business under an assumed name by changing or
33        cancelling it;
34             (4)  the assumed name to be changed or cancelled;
 
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 1             (5)  the  assumed name which the limited partnership
 2        or foreign limited partnership proposes to use, if it  is
 3        to be changed.
 4        (g)  Upon  the  filing  of  an  application  to change an
 5    assumed name, the  limited  partnership  or  foreign  limited
 6    partnership shall have the right to use such assumed name for
 7    the period authorized by subsection (d) of this Section.
 8        (h)  The  right to use an assumed name shall be cancelled
 9    by the Secretary of State:
10             (1)  if the limited partnership or  foreign  limited
11        partnership fails to renew an assumed name;
12             (2)  if  the  limited partnership or foreign limited
13        partnership has filed an application to change or  cancel
14        an assumed name;
15             (3)  if   a  limited  partnership's  certificate  of
16        limited partnership or certificate to be governed by this
17        Act has been cancelled;
18             (4)  if a foreign limited partnership's  application
19        for admission to transact business has been cancelled.
20        (i)  Any   limited   partnership   or   foreign   limited
21    partnership  carrying  on, conducting or transacting business
22    under an assumed name which shall fail  to  comply  with  the
23    provisions  of  this  Section shall be subject to the penalty
24    provisions in Section 5 of "An Act in relation to the use  of
25    an  assumed name in the conduct or transaction of business in
26    this State", approved July 17, 1941, as amended.
27    (Source: P.A. 86-820; 86-836.)".

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