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90_HB2053
735 ILCS 5/7-119 from Ch. 110, par. 7-119
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure regarding
admissibility of evidence in eminent domain cases. Provides
that if a court makes a determination that actual sales of
property have been completed which constitute "comparable
sales", then offers to purchase either the subject property
or a comparable property are inadmissible in evidence.
Effective immediately.
LRB9005186SMdv
LRB9005186SMdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Code of Civil Procedure by changing
2 Section 7-119.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
6 changing Section 7-119 as follows:
7 (735 ILCS 5/7-119) (from Ch. 110, par. 7-119)
8 Sec. 7-119. Admissibility of evidence. Evidence is
9 admissible as to (1) any benefit to the landowner that will
10 result from the public improvement for which the eminent
11 domain proceedings were instituted; (2) any unsafe,
12 unsanitary, substandard or other illegal condition, use or
13 occupancy of the property; (3) the effect of such condition
14 on income from the property; and (4) the reasonable cost of
15 causing the property to be placed in a legal condition, use
16 or occupancy. Such evidence is admissible notwithstanding the
17 absence of any official action taken to require the
18 correction or abatement of such illegal condition, use or
19 occupancy.
20 If the court makes a determination that actual sales of
21 property have been completed which constitute "comparable
22 sales", then offers to purchase either the subject property
23 or a comparable property are inadmissible in evidence.
24 (Source: P.A. 82-280.)
25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.