§ 2E

Any person who is regularly engaged in the business of providing or furnishing merchandise to consumers or in making loans to consumers and who has committed in any calendar year 3 or more violations, as determined in any civil or criminal proceeding, of the "Consumer Finance Act"; the "Consumer Installment Loan Act"; the "Retail Installment Sales Act"; the "Motor Vehicle Retail Installment Sales Act"; "An Act to revise the law in relation to the rate of interest and to repeal certain acts therein named", approved May 24, 1879, as amended; "An Act to promote the welfare of wage-earners by regulating the assignment of wages, and prescribing a penalty for the violation thereof", approved July 1, 1935, as amended; or Part 8 of Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended, or of any 2 or more of those Acts, is guilty of an unlawful practice within the meaning of this Act. Nothing in this Section prohibits the prosecution of a person under the Acts specified herein as well as under this Act.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 82-783.)