Illinois · statute · 240 ILCS 35 · 13 active provisions
For the purpose of this Act: (a) "Artificially cooled refrigeration" hereinafter referred to as "refrigeration" means the storage or keeping of articles of food at or below a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit in an artificially cooled refrigerated warehouse. (b) "Artificially cooled warehouse" hereinafter referred t…
No person, firm or corporation shall maintain or operate a refrigerated warehouse without a license to do so issued by the Department. Any person, firm or corporation desiring such a license shall make written application to the Department for that purpose, stating the location of the refrigerated warehouse. The Direct…
In case any refrigerated warehouse, or any part thereof, is at any time deemed by the Department, to be in an unsanitary condition, or not properly equipped for its intended use, the Department shall notify the licensee of such condition and upon the failure of the licensee to put such refrigerated warehouse in a sanit…
The Department shall inspect and supervise all refrigerated warehouses and make such inspection of articles of food therein as it deems necessary to secure the proper enforcement of this Act, and shall have access to all refrigerated warehouses at all reasonable times. The Director shall appoint such persons as he deem…
No article of food intended for human consumption shall knowingly be placed, received or kept in any refrigerated warehouse, if such article is unfit for human consumption, or may not reasonably be expected to keep wholesome for human consumption, unless said article is previously marked, in accordance with regulations…
Whenever articles of food are received in a refrigerated warehouse, each lot of such articles shall be identified and stamped with a distinguishing lot number under which they shall be kept in refrigeration and which distinguishes them from each and all articles then in refrigeration or delivered later for refrigeratio…
No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter keep or permit to remain in any refrigerated warehouse any article of food which has been held in a refrigerated warehouse within the State for a longer aggregate period than 24 months except with the written approval of the Director. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 222.)
It is unlawful to represent or advertise as fresh any article of food which has been in refrigeration for a period of 30 days or more. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 222.)
It is unlawful to transfer any article of food from one refrigerated warehouse to another within the State of Illinois if such transfer is made for the purpose of avoiding the provisions of Section 8 of this Act. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 222.)
The Department shall make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Such rules and regulations shall be kept in the Director's office, and shall be filed and shall take effect as provided in "The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act", approved August 22, 1975 as am…
The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Department hereunder. The term "Administrative Decision" is defined as in Sect…
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a business offense, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $10,000 for each offense. (Source: P.A. 81-193.)
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Refrigerated Warehouses Act". (Source: P.A. 81-193.)