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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 Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Sections 2-1602 and 13-218 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/2-1602)
7     Sec. 2-1602. Revival of judgment.
8     (a) A petition to revive a judgment may be filed revived in
9 the seventh year after its entry, or in the seventh year after
10 its last revival, or in the twentieth year after its entry, or
11 at any other time thereafter within 20 years after its entry if
12 the judgment becomes dormant. The provisions of this amendatory
13 Act of the 96th General Assembly are declarative of existing
14 law.
15     (b) A petition to revive a judgment shall be filed in the
16 original case in which the judgment was entered. The petition
17 shall include a statement as to the original date and amount of
18 the judgment, court costs expended, accrued interest, and
19 credits to the judgment, if any.
20     (c) Service of notice of the petition to revive a judgment
21 shall be made in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 106.
22     (d) An order reviving a judgment shall be for the original
23 amount of the judgment. The plaintiff may recover interest and

 

 

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1 court costs from the date of the original judgment. Credits to
2 the judgment shall be reflected by the plaintiff in
3 supplemental proceedings or execution.
4     (e) If a judgment debtor has filed for protection under the
5 United States Bankruptcy Code and failed to successfully
6 adjudicate and remove a lien filed by a judgment creditor, then
7 the judgment may be revived only as to the property to which a
8 lien attached before the filing of the bankruptcy action.
9     (f) A judgment may be revived as to fewer than all judgment
10 debtors, and such order for revival of judgment shall be final,
11 appealable, and enforceable.
12     (g) This Section does not apply to a child support judgment
13 or to a judgment recovered in an action for damages for an
14 injury described in Section 13-214.1, which need not be revived
15 as provided in this Section and which may be enforced at any
16 time as provided in Section 12-108.
17 (Source: P.A. 92-817, eff. 8-21-02.)
 
18     (735 ILCS 5/13-218)  (from Ch. 110, par. 13-218)
19     Sec. 13-218. Revival of judgment. A petition to revive a
20 judgment, as provided by Section 2-1601 of this Code, Judgments
21 in a circuit court may be filed no later than revived as
22 provided by Section 2-1601 of this Act, within 20 years next
23 after the date of entry of such judgment and not after; and the
24 provisions of Section 13-217 of this Act shall apply also to
25 this Section. The provisions of this amendatory Act of the 96th

 

 

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1 General Assembly are declarative of existing law.
2 (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
 
3     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.