(410 ILCS 610/0.01) (from Ch. 5, par. 42.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Butter and Cheese Factories Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(410 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 5, par. 43) Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or corporation, within this State, to operate, carry on, or conduct the business of manufacturing butter or cheese, on the co-operative or dividend plan, until such person or persons, company or corporation, shall have filed with the circuit clerk, or recorder of the county in which it is proposed to carry on such business, a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by such circuit clerk, or recorder, in the penal sum of$6,000, with one or more good sureties, conditioned that such person or persons, company or corporation, proposing to carry on such business, will, on or before the first day of each month, make, acknowledge, subscribe and swear to a report in writing, showing the amount of products manufactured, the amount sold, the prices received therefor, and the dividends earned and declared for the third month preceding the month in which such report is made; and will file a copy of such report with the clerk of the town or precinct in which such factory is located; and will also keep publicly posted in a conspicuous place in such factory a copy of such report for the inspection of the patrons thereof, and that such dividends shall be promptly paid to the persons entitled thereto. (Source: P.A. 83-358.)

(410 ILCS 610/2) (from Ch. 5, par. 44) Sec. 2. Such bond shall be in favor of the People of the State of Illinois, and shall be for the benefit and protection of all patrons of such factory; and a civil action may be had thereon by any person or persons injured by a breach of the conditions thereof, for the use of the person or persons interested, for all damages sustained by them. (Source: P.A. 84-551.)

(410 ILCS 610/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 45) Sec. 3. Such bond shall be recorded by the circuit clerk, or recorder, with whom the same is filed; and all such reports so filed with any town or precinct clerk, shall be preserved by him and held subject to the inspection of any person or persons interested. (Source: Laws 1883, p. 54.)

(410 ILCS 610/4) (from Ch. 5, par. 46) Sec. 4. Any person who shall wilfully violate any provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2484.)