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5 ILCS 70/1.05 (2026)

"Person" or "persons" as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals

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(5 ILCS 70/1.05) (from Ch. 1, par. 1006)
    Sec. 1.05. "Person" or "persons" as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals.
(Source: Laws 1945, p. 1717.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1995–2026 · leading case: In Re Est. of Funk, 849 N.E.2d 366 (Ill. 2006).
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In Re Est. of Funk, 849 N.E.2d 366 (Ill. 2006). “See 5 ILCS 70/1.05 (West 2004). With respect to who may serve as an administrator, however, the Probate Act appears to contemplate that he or she must be a natural person.”
People ex rel. Schad, Diamond & Shedden, P.C. v. My Pillow, Inc., 2018 IL 122487 (Ill. 2018). “" 740 ILCS 175/4(d)(2) (West 2012). ¶ 20 In the case before us, there is no question that the State elected not to bring an action under the Act itself.”
Paxson v. Bd. of Educ. of Sch. Dist. No. 87, 658 N.E.2d 1309 (Ill. App. Ct. 1995). “) (5 ILCS 70/ 1.05 (West 1992).) Unfortunately, the Statute on Statutes does not require a mandatory application of its definition; therefore, it is not conclusive as to whether a municipality or public official is a "person” for purposes of the Open Meetings Act.”
State ex rel. Schad, Diamond & Shedden, P.C. v. My Pillow, Inc., 2018 IL 122487 (Ill. 2019). “05 of the Statute on Statutes (5 ILCS 70/1.05 (West 2012)) and the ordinary and popularly understood meaning of the term (M.”
Doe ex rel. Smith v. Sobeck, 941 F. Supp. 2d 1018 (S.D. Ill. 2013). “(citing 5 ILCS 70/1.05). See also Fayfar v. CF Mgmt.”
United States v. Printy, 50 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 709 (Ill. 2006). · cites it 2× “See 5 ILCS 70/1.05 (West 2004). With respect to who may serve as an administrator, however, the Probate Act appears to contemplate that he or she must be a natural person.”
State ex rel. Phillip E. Edmondson v. Bd. of Trs. of Illinois E. Cmty. Colleges, 2019 IL App (5th) 180333 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). · cites it 2× “’ ” 5 ILCS 70/1.05 (West 2014). The Public Community College Act provides that “[t]he board of each community college district is a body politic and corporate” that “may sue and be sued in all courts and places where judicial proceedings are had.”
Admin. Dist. Council 1 of Illinois of the Int'l Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers v. Przada, 2026 IL App (1st) 242339 (Ill. App. Ct. 2026). “1999); see 5 ILCS 70/1.05 (West 2024) (the Statute on Statutes states that “ ‘[p]erson’ or ‘persons’ as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals”).”
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