820 ILCS 405/205 — Illinois Code / Chapter 820 / Act 405 / Section 205
Section 205
Status: in_force

(820 ILCS 405/205) (from Ch. 48, par. 315) Sec. 205. "Employer" means: A. With respect to the years 1937, 1938, and 1939, any employing unit which has or had in employment eight or more individuals on some portion of a day, but not necessarily simultaneously, and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed on each such day within each of twenty or more calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year; B. 1. With respect to the years 1940 through 1955, inclusive, any employing unit which has or had in employment six or more individuals within each of twenty or more calendar weeks (but not necessarily simultaneously and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed in each such week), whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year; 2. With respect to the years 1956 through 1971, inclusive, any employing unit which has or had in employment four or more individuals within each of twenty or more calendar weeks (but not necessarily simultaneously and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed in each such week), whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year; 3. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301, any employing unit which (1) pays or paid, for services in employment, wages of at least $1500 within any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year; or (2) has or had in employment at least one individual on some portion of a day, irrespective of whether the same individual is or was employed on each such day, within each of twenty or more calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year; 4. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, any nonprofit organization as defined in Section 211.2, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301; 5. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, the State of Illinois and each of its instrumentalities; and with respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, each governmental entity referred to in clause (B) of Section 211.1, except as provided in Section 301; 6. With respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, any employing unit for which service in agricultural labor is performed in employment as defined in Section 211.4, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301; 7. With respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, any employing unit for which domestic service is performed in employment as defined in Section 211.5, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301; C. Any individual or employing unit which succeeded to the organization, trade, or business of another employing unit which at the time of such succession was an employer, and any individual or employing unit which succeeded to the organization, trade, or business of any distinct severable portion of another employing unit, which portion, if treated as a separate employing unit, would have been, at the time of the succession, an employer under subsections A or B of this Section; D. Any individual or employing unit which succeeded to any of the assets of an employer or to any of the assets of a distinct severable portion thereof, if such portion, when treated as a separate employing unit would be an employer under subsections A or B of this Section, by any means whatever, otherwise than in the ordinary course of business, unless and until it is proven in any proceeding where such issue is involved that all of the following exist: 1. The successor unit has not assumed a substantial amount of the predecessor unit's