Findings and declaration of General Assembly
815 ILCS 350/1
in effect(815 ILCS 350/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 157.1) Sec. 1. Findings and declaration of General Assembly. The General Assembly has found and declares: That sales to be licensed and regulated pursuant to the provisions of this Act have often been conducted and advertised in such a manner as to mislead and defraud the public and otherwise to result in harm to the public interest; That such fraud and imposition on the public has included, by way of partial enumeration only: the misrepresentation of the condition or necessity which is the occasion of such sale; the misrepresentation of the identity of the person conducting such sale and/or the name and style in which such sale is to be conducted; and the excessive valuation and misrepresentation of the quality and ownership of goods to be sold at such a sale; That in order to prevent such fraud and imposition, the public interest requires the regulation of such sales and of the duration and conduct thereof; and That the public interest therefore requires that no such sale should be conducted without a license or otherwise than in accordance with this Act. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2228.)
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