Illinois Code § 27
Illinois Code § 27. Reproduced from the official Illinois Compiled Statutes, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 27.
(1) (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this Act, or in an application for an amendment thereof, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof; or (b) Any person who without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this Act or a certified copy of such report, record, or certificate; or (c) Any person who willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use, or furnish to another for use, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, altered, amended, or mutilated; or (d) Any person who with the intention to deceive willfully uses or attempts to use any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued upon a record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person; or (e) Any custodian of a vital record who willfully and knowingly violates the provisions of Section 24 or Section 25 of this Act; or (f) Any person who willfully and knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth, or certified copy of a record of birth with the intention that it be used by a person or persons other than those recited in Section 25(4) of this Act is guilty of a Class 4 felony. (2) (a) Any person who knowingly transports or accepts for transportation, interment, or other disposition of a dead body without an accompanying permit as provided in this Act; or (b) Any person who refuses to provide information required by this Act; or (c) Any person who willfully neglects or violates any of the provisions of this Act or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her by this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (3) This Section shall not apply to any registration of a vital record obtained pursuant to Section 15.1 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 88-57.)
Source: official Illinois text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Illinois Compiled Statutes § 27
- Jurisdiction: Illinois
- Code: Illinois Compiled Statutes
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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