101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2489

 

Introduced 1/22/2020, by Sen. David Koehler

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/9-102  from Ch. 110, par. 9-102

    Amends the Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes language that precludes an eviction action in the case of a vendee obtaining possession under a written or verbal agreement to purchase lands or tenements, failing to comply with the agreement, and withholding possession thereof, where the purchase price is to be paid in installments over a period in excess of 5 years and the amount unpaid under the terms of the contract at the time of the filing of a foreclosure complaint is less than 80% of the original purchase price, shall be foreclosed. Provides instead that an eviction action may be brought if the residential real estate is not subject to an installment contract or a specified provision under the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law relating to real estate installment contracts. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5changing Section 9-102 as follows:
 
6    (735 ILCS 5/9-102)  (from Ch. 110, par. 9-102)
7    Sec. 9-102. When action may be maintained.
8    (a) The person entitled to the possession of lands or
9tenements may be restored thereto under any of the following
10circumstances:
11        (1) When a forcible entry is made thereon.
12        (2) When a peaceable entry is made and the possession
13    unlawfully withheld.
14        (3) When entry is made into vacant or unoccupied lands
15    or tenements without right or title.
16        (4) When any lessee of the lands or tenements, or any
17    person holding under such lessee, holds possession without
18    right after the termination of the lease or tenancy by its
19    own limitation, condition or terms, or by notice to quit or
20    otherwise.
21        (5) When a vendee having obtained possession under a
22    written or verbal agreement to purchase lands or tenements,
23    and having failed to comply with the agreement, withholds

 

 

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1    possession thereof, after demand in writing by the person
2    entitled to such possession; provided, however, that any
3    such agreement for residential real estate is not an
4    installment sales contract, as defined in the Installment
5    Sales Contract Act, and is not subject to paragraph (2) of
6    subsection (a) of Section 15-1106 of as defined in the
7    Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law entered into on or after
8    July 1, 1987 where the purchase price is to be paid in
9    installments over a period in excess of 5 years and the
10    amount unpaid under the terms of the contract at the time
11    of the filing of a foreclosure complaint under Article XV,
12    including principal and due and unpaid interest, is less
13    than 80% of the original purchase price shall be foreclosed
14    under the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law.
15        This amendatory Act of 1993 is declarative of existing
16    law.
17        (6) When lands or tenements have been conveyed by any
18    grantor in possession, or sold under the order or judgment
19    of any court in this State, or by virtue of any sale in any
20    mortgage or deed of trust contained and the grantor in
21    possession or party to such order or judgment or to such
22    mortgage or deed of trust, after the expiration of the time
23    of redemption, when redemption is allowed by law, refuses
24    or neglects to surrender possession thereof, after demand
25    in writing by the person entitled thereto, or his or her
26    agent.

 

 

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1        (7) When any property is subject to the provisions of
2    the Condominium Property Act, the owner of a unit fails or
3    refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate share of
4    the common expenses of such property, or of any other
5    expenses lawfully agreed upon or any unpaid fine, the Board
6    of Managers or its agents have served the demand set forth
7    in Section 9-104.1 of this Article in the manner provided
8    for in that Section and the unit owner has failed to pay
9    the amount claimed within the time prescribed in the
10    demand; or if the lessor-owner of a unit fails to comply
11    with the leasing requirements prescribed by subsection (n)
12    of Section 18 of the Condominium Property Act or by the
13    declaration, by-laws, and rules and regulations of the
14    condominium, or if a lessee of an owner is in breach of any
15    covenants, rules, regulations, or by-laws of the
16    condominium, and the Board of Managers or its agents have
17    served the demand set forth in Section 9-104.2 of this
18    Article in the manner provided in that Section.
19        (8) When any property is subject to the provisions of a
20    declaration establishing a common interest community and
21    requiring the unit owner to pay regular or special
22    assessments for the maintenance or repair of common areas
23    owned in common by all of the owners of the common interest
24    community or by the community association and maintained
25    for the use of the unit owners or of any other expenses of
26    the association lawfully agreed upon, and the unit owner

 

 

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1    fails or refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate
2    share of such assessments or expenses and the board or its
3    agents have served the demand set forth in Section 9-104.1
4    of this Article in the manner provided for in that Section
5    and the unit owner has failed to pay the amount claimed
6    within the time prescribed in the demand.
7    (b) The provisions of paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of
8Section 9-102 and Section 9-104.3 of this Act shall not apply
9to any common interest community unless (1) the association is
10a not-for-profit corporation or a limited liability company,
11(2) unit owners are authorized to attend meetings of the board
12of directors or board of managers of the association in the
13same manner as provided for condominiums under the Condominium
14Property Act, and (3) the board of managers or board of
15directors of the common interest community association has,
16subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1984
17voted to have the provisions of this Article apply to such
18association and has delivered or mailed notice of such action
19to the unit owners or unless the declaration of the association
20is recorded after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
211985.
22    (c) For purposes of this Article:
23        (1) "Common interest community" means real estate
24    other than a condominium or cooperative with respect to
25    which any person by virtue of his or her ownership of a
26    partial interest or unit therein is obligated to pay for

 

 

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1    maintenance, improvement, insurance premiums, or real
2    estate taxes of other real estate described in a
3    declaration which is administered by an association.
4        (2) "Declaration" means any duly recorded instruments,
5    however designated, that have created a common interest
6    community and any duly recorded amendments to those
7    instruments.
8        (3) "Unit" means a physical portion of the common
9    interest community designated by separate ownership or
10    occupancy by boundaries which are described in a
11    declaration.
12        (4) "Unit owners' association" or "association" means
13    the association of all owners of units in the common
14    interest community acting pursuant to the declaration.
15    (d) If the board of a common interest community elects to
16have the provisions of this Article apply to such association
17or the declaration of the association is recorded after the
18effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985, the provisions
19of subsections (c) through (h) of Section 18.5 of the
20Condominium Property Act applicable to a Master Association and
21condominium unit subject to such association under subsections
22(c) through (h) of Section 18.5 shall be applicable to the
23community associations and to its unit owners.
24(Source: P.A. 99-41, eff. 7-14-15.)
 
25    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26becoming law.