94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2359


 
Introduced 1/18/2006, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













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430 ILCS 120/25 new











    Amends the Illinois Manufactured Home Installers Act. Provides that a manufactured home installed on private property that is not a mobile home park must be installed so that it rests wholly on a permanent foundation. Provides that the permanent foundation must meet or exceed the requirements for a permanent foundation as defined in this amendatory  Act or by federal rule. Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning public safety.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:

 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Manufactured Home Installers Act is 
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amended  by adding Sections 7 and 25 as follows:
 
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    (430 ILCS 120/7  new)
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    Sec. 7. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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    "Manufactured home" is synonymous with "mobile home" and 
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means a
structure
that is a factory-assembled, completely 
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integrated structure designed for
permanent
habitation, with a 
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permanent chassis and so constructed as to permit its

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transport, on
wheels temporarily or permanently attached to its 
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frame, from the place of its
construction to the location, or 
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subsequent locations, at which it is placed on
a support
system 
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for use as a permanent habitation, and designed and situated so 
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as to
permit its
occupancy as a dwelling place for one or more 
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persons. The term "manufactured
home"
includes manufactured 
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homes constructed after June 30, 1976 in accordance with
the

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federal National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety 
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Standards Act of
1974
and does not include an immobilized 
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mobile home as defined in Section 2.10 of
the
Mobile Home Park 
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Act.
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    "Mobile home park" means a tract of land or 2 or more 
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contiguous tracts
of land
that contain sites with the necessary 
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utilities for 5 or more manufactured
homes
either
free of 
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charge or for revenue purposes.
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    "Permanent foundation", for a manufactured home, means a 
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continuous perimeter
foundation of
material
such as mortared 
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concrete block, mortared brick, or concrete that extends into

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the ground
below the established frost depth and to which the 
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home is secured with
foundation bolts
at least one-half inch in 
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diameter, spaced at intervals of no more than 6 feet
and within

 


 






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one foot of the corners, and embedded at least 7 inches into 
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concrete
foundations or 15
inches into block foundations.

 
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    (430 ILCS 120/25  new)
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    Sec. 25. Installation requirements.  A manufactured home 
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installed
on private property that is not in a mobile home
park

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on or after
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 
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94th General Assembly must be installed so that it rests wholly 
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on a
permanent
foundation. The permanent foundation must meet 
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or exceed the requirements for a
permanent foundation as 
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defined in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly or 
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as defined by rule of the federal Department of Housing and 
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Urban Development.
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.