(A) A person commits a deceptive practice when, with intent to defraud, the person does any of the following:
(1) He or she knowingly causes another, by deception or threat to execute a document disposing of property or a document by which a pecuniary obligation is incurred.
(2) Being an officer, manager, or other person participating in the direction of a financial institution, he or she knowingly receives or permits the receipt of a deposit or other investment, knowing that the institution is insolvent.
(3) He or she knowingly makes a false or deceptive statement addressed to the public for the purpose of promoting the sale of property or services.
(B) Bad checks. A person commits a deceptive practice when:
(1) With intent to obtain control over property or to pay for property, labor, or services of another or in satisfaction of an obligation for payment of tax under ILCS Ch. 35, Act 120, § 1 et seq. or any other tax due to the state, he or she issues or delivers a check or other order upon a real or fictitious depository for the payment of money, knowing that it will not be paid by the depository. The trier of fact may infer that the defendant knows that the check or other order will not be paid by the depository and that the defendant has acted with intent to defraud when the defendant fails to have sufficient funds or credit with the depository when the check or other order is issued or delivered, or when the check or other order is presented for payment and dishonored on each of two occasions at least seven days apart. In this division (B)(1), "PROPERTY" includes rental property (real or personal).
(2) He or she issues or delivers a check or other order upon a real or fictitious depository in an amount exceeding $150 in payment of an amount owed on any credit transaction for property, labor, or services, or in payment of the entire amount owed on any credit transaction for property, labor, or services, knowing that it will not be paid by the depository, and thereafter fails to provide funds or credit with the depository in the face amount of the check or order within seven days of receiving actual notice from the depository or payee of the dishonor of the check or order.
(ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 17-1(A), (B)) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Sentence provisions, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 17-1(D)
Civil liability, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 17-1(E)