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1 | AN ACT concerning energy efficiency.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Energy
Efficient Commercial Building Act is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Sections 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 45 as | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 3125/1)
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8 | Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Energy
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9 | Efficient Commercial Building Act.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | (20 ILCS 3125/5)
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12 | Sec. 5. Findings.
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13 | (a) The legislature finds that an effective energy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | efficient commercial building code
is essential to:
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15 | (1) reduce the air pollutant emissions from energy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | consumption that are
affecting the health of residents of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | this State;
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18 | (2) moderate future peak electric power demand;
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19 | (3) assure the reliability of the electrical grid and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | an adequate supply
of heating oil and natural gas; and
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21 | (4) control energy costs for residents and businesses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | in this State.
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1 | (b) The legislature further finds that this State has a | ||||||
2 | number of different
climate types, all of which require energy | ||||||
3 | for both cooling and heating, and
that there are many | ||||||
4 | cost-effective measures that can reduce peak energy use and
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5 | reduce cooling, heating, lighting, and other energy costs in | ||||||
6 | commercial buildings.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04.) | ||||||
8 | (20 ILCS 3125/10)
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9 | Sec. 10. Definitions.
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10 | "Board" means the Capital Development Board.
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11 | "Building" includes both residential buildings and | ||||||
12 | commercial buildings.
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13 | "Code" means the latest published edition of the | ||||||
14 | International Code Council's International Energy Conservation | ||||||
15 | Code, excluding published supplements but including the | ||||||
16 | adaptations to the Code that are made by the
Board.
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17 | "Commercial building" means any building except a building | ||||||
18 | that is a residential building, as defined in this Section. | ||||||
19 | "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
20 | Opportunity. | ||||||
21 | "Municipality" means any city, village, or incorporated | ||||||
22 | town.
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23 | "Residential building" means (i) a detached one-family or | ||||||
24 | 2-family dwelling or (ii) any building that is 3 stories or | ||||||
25 | less in height above grade that contains multiple dwelling |
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1 | units, in which the occupants reside on a primarily permanent | ||||||
2 | basis, such as a townhouse, a row house, an apartment house, a | ||||||
3 | convent, a monastery, a rectory, a fraternity or sorority | ||||||
4 | house, a dormitory, and a rooming house.
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5 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04; 94-815, eff. 5-26-06.) | ||||||
6 | (20 ILCS 3125/15)
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7 | Sec. 15. Energy Efficient Building Code. The Board, in | ||||||
8 | consultation with the Department, shall adopt the Code as | ||||||
9 | minimum
requirements applying to the construction of, | ||||||
10 | renovations to, and additions to all commercial buildings in | ||||||
11 | the State. The Board may
appropriately adapt the International | ||||||
12 | Energy Conservation Code to apply to the
particular economy, | ||||||
13 | population distribution, geography, and climate of the
State | ||||||
14 | and construction therein, consistent with the public policy
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15 | objectives of this Act.
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16 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04.) | ||||||
17 | (20 ILCS 3125/20)
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18 | Sec. 20. Applicability.
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19 | (a) The Code shall take effect one year after it is adopted | ||||||
20 | by the Board and shall apply
to any commercial building or | ||||||
21 | structure in this State for which a building permit
application | ||||||
22 | is received by a municipality or county, except as otherwise | ||||||
23 | provided by this Act.
In the case of any addition, alteration, | ||||||
24 | renovation, or repair to an existing commercial structure, the |
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1 | Code adopted under this Act applies only to the portions of | ||||||
2 | that structure that are being added, altered, renovated, or | ||||||
3 | repaired.
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4 | (b) The following buildings shall be exempt from
the Code:
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5 | (1) Buildings otherwise exempt from the provisions of a | ||||||
6 | locally adopted
building code and buildings that do not | ||||||
7 | contain a conditioned space.
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8 | (2) Buildings that do not use either electricity or | ||||||
9 | fossil fuel for
comfort
conditioning. For purposes of | ||||||
10 | determining whether this exemption applies, a
building | ||||||
11 | will be presumed to be heated by electricity, even in the | ||||||
12 | absence of
equipment used for electric comfort heating, | ||||||
13 | whenever the building is provided
with electrical service | ||||||
14 | in excess of 100 amps, unless the code enforcement
official | ||||||
15 | determines that this electrical service is necessary for | ||||||
16 | purposes
other than providing electric comfort heating.
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17 | (3) Historic buildings. This exemption shall apply to | ||||||
18 | those buildings
that
are listed on the National Register of | ||||||
19 | Historic Places or the Illinois
Register of Historic | ||||||
20 | Places, and to those buildings that have been designated
as | ||||||
21 | historically significant by a local governing body that is | ||||||
22 | authorized to
make such designations.
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23 | (4) (Blank)
Residential buildings . | ||||||
24 | (5) Other buildings specified as exempt by the | ||||||
25 | International Energy Conservation Code.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04.) |
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1 | (20 ILCS 3125/45)
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2 | Sec. 45. Home rule. Unless otherwise provided in this | ||||||
3 | Section, no
No unit of local government, including any home | ||||||
4 | rule unit, may regulate energy efficient building standards in | ||||||
5 | a manner that is less stringent than the provisions contained | ||||||
6 | in this Act. Any unit of local government that has adopted the | ||||||
7 | efficiency standards of the 2000 International Energy | ||||||
8 | Conservation Code, including the 2001 supplement, on or before | ||||||
9 | January 1, 2007, may continue to regulate energy efficient | ||||||
10 | building standards under that Code.
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11 | This Section is a denial
and limitation
of home rule powers | ||||||
12 | and functions under subsection (i) of Section 6
of Article VII | ||||||
13 | of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home | ||||||
14 | rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
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15 | Nothing in this Section, however, prevents a unit of local | ||||||
16 | government from adopting an energy efficiency code or standards | ||||||
17 | that are more stringent than the Code under this Act.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 93-936, eff. 8-13-04.)
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19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.
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