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(720 ILCS 230/0.01) (from Ch. 96, par. 8m)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Business Use of Military Terms Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)
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(720 ILCS 230/1) (from Ch. 96, par. 9)
Sec. 1.
It is unlawful for any person, concern, firm or corporation to use
in the name, or description of the name, of any privately operated
mercantile establishment which may or may not be engaged principally in the
buying and selling of equipment or materials of the Government of the
United States or any of its departments, agencies or military services, the
terms "Army", "Navy", "Marine", "Coast Guard", "Government", "GI", "PX" or
any terms denoting a branch of the government, either independently or in
connection or conjunction with any other word or words, letter or insignia
which import or imply that the products so described are or were made for
the United States government or in accordance with government
specifications or requirements, or of government materials, or that such
products have been disposed of by the United States government as surplus
or rejected stock.
(Source: Laws 1945, p. 694.)
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(720 ILCS 230/2) (from Ch. 96, par. 10)
Sec. 2.
Any person, concern, firm or corporation violating the provisions of
this act is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not less than
$25.00 nor more than $500 for the first conviction, and not less than $500
or more than $1000 for each subsequent conviction.
(Source: P. A. 77‑2543.)
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