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1     AN ACT concerning property.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Condominium Property Act is amended by
5 adding Section 18.7 as follows:
 
6     (765 ILCS 605/18.7 new)
7     Sec. 18.7. Standards for community association managers.
8     (a) "Community association" means an association in which
9 membership is a condition of ownership or shareholder interest
10 of a unit in a condominium, cooperative, townhouse, villa, or
11 other residential unit that is part of a residential
12 development plan as a master association or common interest
13 community and that is authorized to impose an assessment and
14 other costs that may become a lien on the unit or lot.
15     (b) "Community association manager" means an individual
16 who administers for compensation the coordination of
17 financial, administrative, maintenance, or other duties called
18 for in the management contract, including individuals who are
19 direct employees of a community association. A manager does not
20 include support staff, such as bookkeepers, administrative
21 assistants, secretaries, property inspectors, or customer
22 service representatives.
23     (c) Requirements. To perform services as a community

 

 

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1 association manager, an individual must meet these
2 requirements:
3         (1) shall have attained the age of 21 and be a citizen
4     or legal permanent resident of the United States;
5         (2) shall not have been convicted of forgery,
6     embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses,
7     larceny, extortion, conspiracy to defraud or other similar
8     offense or offenses;
9         (3) shall have a working knowledge of the fundamentals
10     of community association management, including the
11     Condominium Property Act, the Illinois Not-for-Profit
12     Corporation Act, and any other laws pertaining to community
13     association management; and
14         (4) shall not have engaged in the following activities:
15     failure to cooperate with any law enforcement agency in the
16     investigation of a complaint; or failure to produce any
17     document, book, or record in the possession or control of
18     the community association manager after a request for
19     production of that document, book, or record in the course
20     of an investigation of a complaint.
21     (d) Access to community association funds. For community
22 associations of 6 or more units, apartments, townhomes, villas
23 or other residential units, a community association manager or
24 the firm with whom the manager is employed shall not solely and
25 exclusively have access to and disburse funds of a community
26 association unless:

 

 

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1         (1) There is a fidelity bond in place.
2         (2) The fidelity bond is in an amount not less than all
3     monies of that association in the custody or control of the
4     community association manager.
5         (3) The fidelity bond covers the community association
6     manager and all partners, officers, and employees of the
7     firm with whom the community association manager is
8     employed during the term of the bond, as well as the
9     community association officers, directors, and employees
10     of the community association who control or disburse funds.
11         (4) The insurance company issuing the bond may not
12     cancel or refuse to renew the bond without giving not less
13     than 10 days' prior written notice to the community
14     association.
15         (5) The community association shall secure and pay for
16     the bond.
17     (e) A community association manager who provides community
18 association management services for more than one community
19 association shall maintain separate, segregated accounts for
20 each community association. The funds shall not, in any event,
21 be commingled with funds of the community association manager,
22 the firm of the community association manager, or any other
23 community association. The maintenance of these accounts shall
24 be custodial, and the accounts shall be in the name of the
25 respective community association.
26     (f) Exempt persons. Except as otherwise provided, this

 

 

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1 Section does not apply to any person acting as a receiver,
2 trustee in bankruptcy, administrator, executor, or guardian
3 acting under a court order or under the authority of a will or
4 of a trust instrument.
5     (g) Right of Action.
6         (1) Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 95th General
7     Assembly shall create a cause of action by a unit owner,
8     shareholder, or community association member against a
9     community association manager or the firm of a community
10     association manager.
11         (2) This amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly
12     shall not impair any right of action by a unit owner or
13     shareholder against a community association board of
14     directors under existing law.