Illinois Code § 28.2

§ 28.2.

Proxies, consents and authorizations of domestic stock companies. (a) The Director is authorized to regulate proxies, consents, and authorizations in respect of securities issued by any company subject to the provisions of this Article to the extent as may be necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, and such regulation may include but shall not be limited to rules and regulations under which any such company, director, or employee of the company or any other person may solicit or permit the use of his name to solicit any proxy, consent or authorization in respect of securities issued by any such company. (b) Unless proxies, consents or authorizations in respect of a security of a company subject to the provisions of this Article are solicited by or on behalf of the management of such company from the holders of record of such security in accordance with the provisions of any rules and regulations prescribed under subsection (a) of this Section, prior to any annual or other meeting of the holders of such security, such company shall, if required by such rules and regulations prescribed by the Director as may be necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, file with the Director and transmit to all holders of record of such security information substantially equivalent to the information which would be required to be transmitted if a solicitation were made. (c) The authority granted under subsections (a) and (b) hereof includes the power on the part of the Director to require such companies to file with the Director and transmit to shareholders prior to the annual meeting of shareholders an annual report containing such financial statements for the last fiscal year as are referred to in the Stockholder Information Supplement filed with the annual statement of any such company under the provisions of Section 136 of this Code. (d) If the Director finds, after notice and hearing, that such company or any director, officer or employee of such company or any other person has willfully violated the provisions of this Section or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Director hereunder, he may order such company or any director, officer or employee of such company, or any other person, as the case may be, to pay to the State of Illinois a penalty in a sum not exceeding $5,000 for each such offense. The findings, determinations and orders of the Director made pursuant to this Section shall be subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended. (Source: P.A. 82-783.)