(60 ILCS 1/110-15)
Sec. 110-15.
Exercise of powers.
(a) The powers given by this Article shall not be exercised to deprive the
owner of any existing property of its use or maintenance for the purpose to
which it is then lawfully devoted.
(b) The powers given by this Article shall not be exercised to impose
regulations or require permits with respect to land used or to be used for
agricultural purposes or with respect to the erection, maintenance, repair,
alteration, remodeling, or extension of buildings or structures used or to be
used for agricultural purposes upon that land, except that buildings or
structures for agricultural purposes may be required to conform to building or
set back lines. "Agricultural purposes" include, without
limitation, the growing, developing, processing, conditioning, or selling
of hybrid seed corn, seed beans, seed oats, or other farm seeds.
(c) The powers given by this Article do not include the right to
specify or regulate the type or location of any poles, towers, wires,
cables, conduit, vaults, laterals, pipes, mains, valves, or any other
similar distributing equipment of a public utility as defined in the Public
Utilities Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-188; 88-62.)
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