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5 ILCS 255/5 (2026)

All oaths, affirmations, affidavits and depositions, administered or taken as provided in this act, shall subject any person who shall so swear or affirm willfully and falsely, in matter material to any issue or point in question, to the like pains and penalties as are inflicted by law on persons convicted of willful and corrupt perjury

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(5 ILCS 255/5) (from Ch. 101, par. 5)
    Sec. 5. All oaths, affirmations, affidavits and depositions, administered or taken as provided in this act, shall subject any person who shall so swear or affirm willfully and falsely, in matter material to any issue or point in question, to the like pains and penalties as are inflicted by law on persons convicted of willful and corrupt perjury.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 725.)

    
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Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1993–2022 · leading case: People v. Hauck, 2022 IL App (2d) 191111 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022).
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People v. Hauck, 2022 IL App (2d) 191111 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “” 5 ILCS 255/5 (West 2018). Conversely, “an oath that is not administered by a person empowered to administer oaths will not support a charge of perjury.”
People v. Mancilla, 620 N.E.2d 1163 (Ill. App. Ct. 1993). “5 (now 5 ILCS 255/5 (West 1992))) and obstructing justice (Ill.”
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