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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3556
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3556, AS AMENDED,
3 in Section 10, by replacing the sentence:
4 ""Municipality" has the meaning provided in Section 1 of
5 Article VII of the Illinois Constitution." with:
6 ""Municipality" means a city, village, incorporated town,
7 or township.
8 "Unified license and permit bond" means a single bond
9 combining what are commonly known as a license bond and a
10 permit bond, issued on a uniform document prescribed by the
11 county board or board of county commissioners that includes
12 the name of the county, the name and address of the
13 contractor, the amount of the unified bond, the time period
14 covered by the unified bond, and other required terms and
15 conditions of the unified bond."; and
16 by replacing Section 20 with the following:
17 "Section 20. Unified license and permit bond.
18 (a) A contractor seeking to do work or doing work in a
19 county or municipality may obtain a unified license and
20 permit bond. This unified license and permit bond may be
21 used by the contractor, at the contractor's discretion,
22 instead of any other license or permit bond, or both,
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1 required of a contractor by the county or a municipality
2 within that county. The bond shall be in the amount of at
3 least $50,000 for counties included within the provisions of
4 the Northeastern Illinois Planning Act and in the amount of
5 at least $25,000 for all other counties.
6 (b) The unified license and permit bond shall be held
7 for compliance with the ordinances and regulations governing
8 contractors in the county or any municipality within that
9 county where the contractor seeks to do work or is doing
10 work. The unified bond required by this Act shall be filed
11 by the contractor with the county clerk. At the time of
12 filing, the county clerk may charge a reasonable
13 administration fee, determined by the county board or board
14 of county commissioners.
15 (c) If a contractor elects to use a unified license and
16 permit bond under this Act and the territory of a
17 municipality where a contractor seeks to do or is doing work
18 is included within more than one county, then the contractor
19 shall obtain a unified license and permit bond from each
20 county and shall file a unified bond with each of the
21 respective county clerks whether or not the contractor seeks
22 to do or is doing work in that part of the municipality
23 included in only one of the counties.
24 In addition, the contractor shall file a certified copy
25 of the unified bond with the clerk in the municipality within
26 that county where the contractor seeks to do work or is doing
27 work. At the time of the filing, the clerk may charge a
28 reasonable administration fee, determined by the corporate
29 authorities of the municipality."; and
30 by replacing Section 25 with the following:
31 "Section 25. Local permits, licenses, or performance
32 bonds. This Act does not prohibit a county or municipality
33 within that county from requiring local permits, licenses, or
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1 performance bonds for contractors to do business in that
2 county or municipality or from charging reasonable permit or
3 license fees or reasonable amounts for performance bonds.".