HB5474 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 17324 AJO 52619 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5474

Introduced 1/27/2006, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

735 ILCS 5/7-103

from Ch. 110, par. 7-103

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning "quick-take" eminent domain powers.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by changing Section 7-103 as follows:

(735 ILCS 5/7-103) (from Ch. 110, par. 7-103)

Sec. 7-103. "Quick-take".

(a) This Section applies only to proceedings under this Article that that are authorized in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 7-104.

(b) In a proceeding subject to this Section, the plaintiff, at any time after the complaint has been filed and before judgment is entered in the proceeding, may file a written motion requesting that, immediately or at some specified later date, the plaintiff either be vested with the fee simple title (or such lesser estate, interest or easement, as may be required) to the real property, or specified portion thereof, which is the subject of the proceeding, and be authorized to take possession of and use such property; or only be authorized to take possession of and to use such property, if such possession and use, without the vesting of title, are sufficient to permit the plaintiff to proceed with the project until the final ascertainment of compensation; however, no land or interests therein now or hereafter owned, leased, controlled or operated and used by, or necessary for the actual operation of, any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, or any other public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission, shall be taken or appropriated hereunder by the State of Illinois, the Illinois Toll Highway Authority, the sanitary district, the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Airport Authority or the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois without first securing the approval of such Commission.

Except as hereinafter stated, the motion for taking shall state: (1) an accurate description of the property to which the motion relates and the estate or interest sought to be acquired therein; (2) the formally adopted schedule or plan of operation for the execution of the plaintiff's project; (3) the situation of the property to which the motion relates, with respect to the schedule or plan; (4) the necessity for taking such property in the manner requested in the motion; and (5) if the property (except property described in Section 3 of the Sports Stadium Act, or property described as Site B in Section 2 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act) to be taken is owned, leased, controlled or operated and used by, or necessary for the actual operation of, any interstate common carrier or other public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission, a statement to the effect that the approval of such proposed taking has been secured from such Commission, and attaching to such motion a certified copy of the order of such Commission granting such approval. If the schedule or plan of operation is not set forth fully in the motion, a copy of such schedule or plan shall be attached to the motion.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 91-367, eff. 7-30-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)