95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0736

 

Introduced 2/8/2007, by Sen. Dan Cronin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 30/10-5-5   was 735 ILCS 5/7-101

    Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that gradual elimination of nonconforming off-premises outdoor advertising signs over time, as permitted under Section 11-13-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, shall be deemed just compensation for the signs under the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that the right to compensation for an eminent domain taking applies to the owner or owners of any lawfully erected off-premises outdoor advertising sign that is compelled to be removed (instead of altered or removed). Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Eminent Domain Act is amended by changing
5 Section 10-5-5 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 30/10-5-5)  (was 735 ILCS 5/7-101)
7     Sec. 10-5-5. Compensation; jury.
8     (a) Private property shall not be taken or damaged for
9 public use without just compensation and, in all cases in which
10 compensation is not made by the condemning authority,
11 compensation shall be ascertained by a jury, as provided in
12 this Act. When compensation is so made by the condemning
13 authority, any party, upon application, may have a trial by
14 jury to ascertain the just compensation to be paid. A demand on
15 the part of the condemning authority for a trial by jury shall
16 be filed with the complaint for condemnation of the condemning
17 authority. When the condemning authority is plaintiff, a
18 defendant desirous of a trial by jury must file a demand for a
19 trial by jury on or before the return date of the summons
20 served on him or her or on or before the date fixed in the
21 publication in case of defendants served by publication. If no
22 party in the condemnation action demands a trial by jury, as
23 provided for by this Section, then the trial shall be before

 

 

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1 the court without a jury.
2     (b) The right to just compensation, as provided in this
3 Act, applies to the owner or owners of any lawfully erected
4 off-premises outdoor advertising sign that is compelled to be
5 altered or removed under this Act or any other statute, or
6 under any ordinance or regulation of any municipality or other
7 unit of local government, and also applies to the owner or
8 owners of the property on which that sign is erected. Gradual
9 elimination of nonconforming off-premises outdoor advertising
10 signs over time, as permitted in Section 11-13-1 of the
11 Illinois Municipal Code, shall be deemed just compensation for
12 such signs under this Article. The right to just compensation,
13 as provided in this Act, applies to property subject to a
14 conservation right under the Real Property Conservation Rights
15 Act. The amount of compensation for the taking of the property
16 shall not be diminished or reduced by virtue of the existence
17 of the conservation right. The holder of the conservation right
18 shall be entitled to just compensation for the value of the
19 conservation right.
20 (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
 
21     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.