96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1260

 

Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. M. Maggie Crotty

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/9-201   from Ch. 110, par. 9-201

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning recovery of rent.


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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 Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Section 9-201 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/9-201)  (from Ch. 110, par. 9-201)
7     Sec. 9-201. Recovery of rent. The The owner of lands, his
8 or her executors or administrators, may sue for and recover
9 rent therefor, or a fair and reasonable satisfaction for the
10 use and occupation thereof, by a civil action in any of the
11 following instances:
12     1. When rent is due and in arrears on a lease for life or
13 lives.
14     2. When lands are held and occupied by any person without
15 any special agreement for rent.
16     3. When possession is obtained under an agreement, written
17 or verbal, for the purchase of the premises, and before a deed
18 is given the right to possession is terminated by forfeiture or
19 non-compliance with the agreement, and possession is
20 wrongfully refused or neglected to be given upon demand, made
21 in writing, by the party entitled thereto. All payments made by
22 the vendee, or his or her representatives or assigns, may be
23 set off against such rent.

 

 

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1     4. When land has been sold upon a judgment of court, when
2 the party to such judgment or person holding under him or her,
3 wrongfully refuses or neglects to surrender possession of the
4 same, after demand, in writing, by the person entitled to the
5 possession.
6     5. When the lands have been sold upon a mortgage or trust
7 deed, and the mortgagor or grantor, or person holding under him
8 or her, wrongfully refuses or neglects to surrender possession
9 of the same, after demand, in writing, by the person entitled
10 to the possession.
11 (Source: P.A. 83-707.)