(225 ILCS 460/17) (from Ch. 23, par. 5117)
Sec. 17.
In any solicitation to the public for a charitable
organization by a professional fund raiser or professional solicitor:
(a) The public member shall be promptly informed by statement in verbal
communications and by clear and unambiguous disclosure in written materials
that the solicitation
is being made by a paid professional fund raiser. The fund raiser,
solicitor, and materials used shall also provide the professional fund raiser's
name and a statement that contracts and reports regarding the charity are on
file with the Illinois Attorney General and additionally, in verbal
communications, the solicitor's true name must be provided.
(b) If the professional fund raiser employs or uses a contract which
provides that it will be paid or retain a certain percentage of the gross
amount of each contribution or shall be paid an hourly rate for
solicitation, or the contract provides the charity will receive a fixed
amount or a fixed percentage of each contribution, the professional fund
raiser and person soliciting shall disclose to persons being solicited the
percentage amount retained or hourly rate paid to the
professional fund raiser and solicitor pursuant to the contract, and the
amount or the percentage to be received by the charitable organization from
each contribution, if such disclosure is requested by the person solicited.
(c) Any person, professional fund raiser, or professional
solicitor
soliciting charitable contributions from the public on behalf of a public
safety personnel organization shall not misrepresent that he or she is in fact
a law enforcement person, firefighter, or member of the organization for
whom the contributions are being raised, and, if requested by the
person
solicited, he or she shall promptly provide his or her
actual name, the exact legal
name of the organization with which he or she is employed and
its correct
address, as well as the exact name of the charitable organization.
(Source: P.A. 90-469, eff. 8-17-97; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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