Bill Text: IL SB1220 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning gambling contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-11 - Referred to Assignments [SB1220 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB1220-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB1220 Introduced 2/11/2015, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/28-7 from Ch. 38, par. 28-7
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning gambling contracts.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 28-7 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/28-7) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-7)
Sec. 28-7. Gambling contracts void.
(a) All promises, notes, bills, bonds, covenants,
contracts, agreements, judgments, mortgages, or other
securities or conveyances made, given, granted, drawn, or
entered into, or executed by any person whatsoever, where the
the whole or any part of the consideration thereof is for any
money or thing of value, won or obtained in violation of any
Section of this Article are null and void.
(b) Any obligation void under this Section may be set aside
and vacated by any court of competent jurisdiction, upon a
complaint filed for that purpose, by the person so granting,
giving, entering into, or executing the same, or by his
executors or administrators, or by any creditor, heir, legatee,
purchaser or other person interested therein; or if a judgment,
the same may be set aside on motion of any person stated above,
on due notice thereof given.
(c) No assignment of any obligation void under this Section

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may in any manner affect the defense of the person giving,
granting, drawing, entering into or executing such obligation,
or the remedies of any person interested therein.
(d) This Section shall not prevent a licensed owner of a
riverboat gambling operation from instituting a cause of action
to collect any amount due and owing under an extension of
credit to a riverboat gambling patron as authorized under the
Riverboat Gambling Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-826.)