Public Act 093-0815
 
SB2372 Enrolled LRB093 20441 RAS 46224 b

    AN ACT concerning agriculture.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Agricultural Production Contract Code is
amended by changing Sections 20 and 50 and by adding Section 7
as follows:
 
    (505 ILCS 17/7 new)
    Sec. 7. Applicability. This Code applies to production
contracts signed on or after January 1, 2005.
 
    (505 ILCS 17/20)
    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
delayed effective date)
    Sec. 20. Readability of production contracts.
    (a) A production contract must comply with all of the
following:
        (1) It must be in a typeface at least as large as
    10-point modern, one-point leaded.
        (2) It must be divided and captioned by its various
    sections, have an index of the major provisions of the
    production contract and the pages on which they are found,
    and use commonly-used and understood words and terms, but
    may include technical or industry terms customarily used
    and understood by producers in the ordinary course of
    business.
        (3) It must limit references to other sections or
    provisions and, when incorporating a document, have a copy
    of the document attached.
        (4) It must have a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score no
    higher than the twelfth grade scale analysis readability
    score of at least 50. This provision does not apply to a
    document attached to the contract if the contractor,
    affiliate, or subsidiary is not the original publisher of
    the document.
    (b) A contractor may include a provision in the index
required by Section 25 that the production contract being
offered meets the requirements of this Section as to
readability.
(Source: P.A. 93-522, eff. 1-1-05.)
 
    (505 ILCS 17/50)
    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
delayed effective date)
    Sec. 50. Enforcement; offenses; remedies. The Attorney
General is primarily responsible for enforcing this Act.
    A violation of person who violates Section 20, 25, 30, or
35 is commits a business offense under the Code of Corrections
punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 per offense under
the Code of Civil Procedure.
    A producer may recover his or her actual damages for a
contractor's violation of Section 40 or 45 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-522, eff. 1-1-05.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2005.