Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB2432

Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Creates a definition of a "nuisance" under the Act, meaning anything that is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Provides that for the purposes of the Act, "nuisance" includes tobacco smoke that drifts into any residential unit a person rents, leases, or owns, from another residential or commercial unit, and this smoke: (i) drifts in more than once in each of 2 or more consecutive 7-day periods and (ii) creates a condition that is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Provides that an action for a nuisance may be brought by any person whose property is injuriously affected, or whose personal enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance. Provides that upon judgment, the nuisance may be enjoined or abated, and damages may be recovered. Provides that a cause of action for a nuisance shall not be brought under the Section in certain circumstances. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2009.

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