{"data":{"id":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-26-3","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"720 ILCS 5/26-3","heading":"Use of a facsimile machine in unsolicited advertising or fund-raising.","body":"(a) Definitions:\n(1) \"Facsimile machine\" means a device which is capable of sending or receiving facsimiles of documents through connection with a telecommunications network.\n(2) \"Person\" means an individual, public or private corporation, unit of government, partnership or unincorporated association.\n(b) A person commits use of a facsimile machine in unsolicited advertising or fund-raising when he or she knowingly uses a facsimile machine to send or cause to be sent to another person a facsimile of a document containing unsolicited advertising or fund-raising material, except to a person which the sender knows or under all of the circumstances reasonably believes has given the sender permission, either on a case by case or continuing basis, for the sending of the material.\n(c) Sentence. Any person who violates subsection (b) is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined an amount not to exceed $500.","path":["CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES","Criminal Code of 2012."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1876\u0026ChapterID=53\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:41Z","sha256":"eee48a42f0a9134f87475a9e72ccdf9c2fc3537c9f6c9bc200e1374c90acea78","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-26-2","next":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-26-4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}