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91_HB2926

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Currency Exchange Act by changing
 2    Section 4.1.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.   The  Currency  Exchange  Act  is amended by
 6    changing Section 4.1 as follows:

 7        (205 ILCS 405/4.1) (from Ch. 17, par. 4809)
 8        Sec. 4.1.  Investigation.  The General Assembly finds and
 9    declares that community currency exchanges provide  important
10    and  vital  services to Illinois citizens, that the number of
11    community currency exchanges  should  be  reviewed,  but  not
12    limited, in accordance with the needs of the communities they
13    are  to  serve,  and  that  it  is  in the public interest to
14    promote and foster the community currency  exchange  business
15    and  to insure the financial stability thereof.  Upon receipt
16    of an application for a  license  for  a  community  currency
17    exchange,  the Director shall cause a review an investigation
18    of the potential need of the community for the  establishment
19    of a community currency exchange at the location specified in
20    the application and the effect that granting the license will
21    have  on  the financial stability of other community currency
22    exchanges that may be serving  the  community  in  which  the
23    business of the applicant is proposed to be conducted.
24        "Community",  as used in this Act, means a locality where
25    there may or can be  available  to  the  people  thereof  the
26    services   of   a   community  currency  exchange  reasonably
27    accessible to them. If the issuance of a license to engage in
28    the community currency  exchange  business  at  the  location
29    specified  will not promote the needs and the convenience and
30    advantage of the community  in  which  the  business  of  the
31    applicant  is  proposed to be conducted, then the application
 
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 1    shall be denied.
 2    (Source: P.A. 83-652.)

 3        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 4    becoming law.

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