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SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4-6 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new section 4-6-160, by adding the language underscored and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:
4-6-010 Regulated business license.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
(c) Business activities requiring a regulated business license under this chapter shall include the following: (1) health club; (2) clothing alteration; (3) laundry service; (4) residential real estate developer; (5) tattooing, body piercing or tanning facility; (6) day labor agency; (7) adult family care center; (8) assisted living establishment; (9) long-term care facility; (10) adult family care home; (11) automatic amusement operator; (12) private scavenger; (13) secondhand dealer in children's clothing and children's products only; (14) junk peddler; (15) Reserved debt collectors: (16) hospital; (17) hotel; (18) board-up company; (19) dry cleaner; (20) hazardous materials; (21) single-room occupancy buildings; (22) booting of motor vehicles; (23) immigration assistance; (24) expediter company: (25) expediter/natural person; (26) home occupation; (27) home repair; (28) bed-and-breakfast establishment.
Article XVI Reserved Debt Collectors.
4-6-160 Debt Collectors.
(a) Definitions: As used in this section:
"Consumer debt" means money, property, or their equivalent, due or owing, or alleged to be due or owing, from a debtor bv reason of a consumer credit transaction.
"Debt collection" means any act or practice in connection with the collection of consumer
debt.
"Debt Collector" means any person who in the ordinary course of business, on behalf of himself or others, regularly engages in consumer debt collection. A "Debt Collector" does not include anv person exempt from registration as a debt collector pursuant to section 2.03 of the Illinois Collection Agency Act. 225 ILCS 425/2.03.
"Debtor...
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