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 1        AN ACT to amend the General Not  For  Profit  Corporation
 2    Act of 1986 by changing Sections 101.15 and 110.05.

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

 5        Section 5.  The General Not For Profit Corporation Act of
 6    1986 is amended by changing Sections  101.15  and  110.05  as
 7    follows:

 8        (805 ILCS 105/101.15) (from Ch. 32, par. 101.15)
 9        Sec. 101.15.  Statement of correction.  (a)  Whenever any
10    instrument authorized to be filed with the Secretary of State
11    under  any provision of this Act has been so filed and, as of
12    the date of the action  therein  referred  to,  contains  any
13    misstatement   of   fact,   typographical   error,  error  of
14    transcription  or  any  other  error  or   defect,   or   was
15    defectively  or  erroneously executed, such instrument may be
16    corrected by filing, in accordance  with  Section  101.10  of
17    this Act, a statement of correction.
18        (b)  A statement of correction shall set forth:
19        (1)  The name or names of the corporation or corporations
20    and  the  State  or  country  under the laws of which each is
21    organized.
22        (2)  The title of the instrument being corrected and  the
23    date it was filed by the Secretary of State.
24        (3)  The  inaccuracy, error or defect to be corrected and
25    the portion of the instrument in corrected form.
26        (c)  A statement of correction shall be executed  in  the
27    same  manner  in  which  the  instrument  being corrected was
28    required to be executed.
29        (d)  The corrected instrument shall be  effective  as  of
30    the date the original instrument was filed.
31        (e)  A statement of correction shall not:
 
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 1        (1)  Effect  any  change  or  amendment of articles which
 2    would not in all respects have complied with the requirements
 3    of this Act;
 4        (2)  Take the place of any document, statement or  report
 5    otherwise required to be filed by this Act;
 6        (3)  Affect  any  right  or liability accrued or incurred
 7    before such  filing,  except  that  any  right  or  liability
 8    accrued  or  incurred  by reason of the error or defect being
 9    corrected shall be extinguished by such filing if the  person
10    having  such  right  has  not  detrimentally  relied  on  the
11    original instrument;
12        (4)  Alter    the   provisions   of   the   articles   of
13    incorporation with respect to the corporation name or purpose
14     or the names and addresses of the incorporators  or  initial
15    directors;
16        (5)  Alter   the   provisions   of  the  application  for
17    certificate  of  authority  of  a  foreign  corporation  with
18    respect to the corporation name;
19        (6)  Alter the provisions of the application to adopt  or
20    change  an assumed corporate name with respect to the assumed
21    corporate name; or
22        (7)  Alter the wording of any  resolution  which  was  in
23    fact  adopted  by  the  board  of directors or by the members
24    entitled to vote.
25    (Source: P.A. 84-1423.)

26        (805 ILCS 105/110.05) (from Ch. 32, par. 110.05)
27        Sec.   110.05.    Authority   to   amend   articles    of
28    incorporation.   (a)  A corporation may amend its articles of
29    incorporation at any time and from time to time to add a  new
30    provision  or  to  change  or  remove  an existing provision,
31    provided that the  articles  as  amended  contain  only  such
32    provisions  as are required or permitted in original articles
33    of incorporation at the time of amendment.  The  articles  as
 
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 1    amended   must   contain   all  the  provisions  required  by
 2    subsection (a) of Section 102.10 of this Act except that  the
 3    names  and  addresses of the initial directors may be omitted
 4    removed and the names of the initial registered agent or  the
 5    address  of  the  initial  registered  office  may be omitted
 6    removed if a statement of change is on file.
 7        (b)  A corporation whose period of duration  as  provided
 8    in  the  articles  of incorporation has expired may amend its
 9    articles of incorporation to revive its articles  and  extend
10    the  period  of  corporate  duration,  including  making  the
11    duration perpetual, at any time within 5 years after the date
12    of expiration.
13    (Source: P.A. 84-1423.)

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