Bill Text: IL SB0071 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Amends the Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes language that precludes an eviction action in the case of a vendee obtaining possession under a written or verbal agreement to purchase lands or tenements, failing to comply with the agreement, and withholding possession thereof, where the purchase price is to be paid in installments over a period in excess of 5 years and the amount unpaid under the terms of the contract at the time of the filing of a foreclosure complaint is less than 80% of the original purchase price. Provides instead that any agreement for residential real estate that is an installment sales contract and the amount unpaid under the terms of the contract at the time of the filing of the foreclosure complaint, including principal and due and unpaid interest, at the rate prior to default, is less than 80% of the original purchase price of the real estate as stated in the contract is subject to foreclosure. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0071 [SB0071 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0071-Chaptered.html



Public Act 102-0071
SB0071 EnrolledLRB102 04663 LNS 14682 b
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 9-102 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/9-102) (from Ch. 110, par. 9-102)
Sec. 9-102. When action may be maintained.
(a) The person entitled to the possession of lands or
tenements may be restored thereto under any of the following
circumstances:
(1) When a forcible entry is made thereon.
(2) When a peaceable entry is made and the possession
unlawfully withheld.
(3) When entry is made into vacant or unoccupied lands
or tenements without right or title.
(4) When any lessee of the lands or tenements, or any
person holding under such lessee, holds possession without
right after the termination of the lease or tenancy by its
own limitation, condition or terms, or by notice to quit
or otherwise.
(5) When a vendee having obtained possession under a
written or verbal agreement to purchase lands or
tenements, and having failed to comply with the agreement,
withholds possession thereof, after demand in writing by
the person entitled to such possession; provided, however,
that any such agreement for residential real estate
entered into on or after July 1, 1987 that is an
installment sales contract, as defined in the Installment
Sales Contract Act, and the amount unpaid under the terms
of the contract at the time of the filing of the
foreclosure complaint, including principal and due and
unpaid interest, at the rate prior to default, is less
than 80% of the original purchase price of the real estate
as stated in the contract, as required under paragraph (2)
of subsection (a) of Section 15-1106 of the Illinois
Mortgage Foreclosure Law, is subject to foreclosure
entered into on or after July 1, 1987 where the purchase
price is to be paid in installments over a period in excess
of 5 years and the amount unpaid under the terms of the
contract at the time of the filing of a foreclosure
complaint under Article XV, including principal and due
and unpaid interest, is less than 80% of the original
purchase price shall be foreclosed under the Illinois
Mortgage Foreclosure Law.
This amendatory Act of 1993 is declarative of existing
law.
(6) When lands or tenements have been conveyed by any
grantor in possession, or sold under the order or judgment
of any court in this State, or by virtue of any sale in any
mortgage or deed of trust contained and the grantor in
possession or party to such order or judgment or to such
mortgage or deed of trust, after the expiration of the
time of redemption, when redemption is allowed by law,
refuses or neglects to surrender possession thereof, after
demand in writing by the person entitled thereto, or his
or her agent.
(7) When any property is subject to the provisions of
the Condominium Property Act, the owner of a unit fails or
refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate share of
the common expenses of such property, or of any other
expenses lawfully agreed upon or any unpaid fine, the
Board of Managers or its agents have served the demand set
forth in Section 9-104.1 of this Article in the manner
provided for in that Section and the unit owner has failed
to pay the amount claimed within the time prescribed in
the demand; or if the lessor-owner of a unit fails to
comply with the leasing requirements prescribed by
subsection (n) of Section 18 of the Condominium Property
Act or by the declaration, by-laws, and rules and
regulations of the condominium, or if a lessee of an owner
is in breach of any covenants, rules, regulations, or
by-laws of the condominium, and the Board of Managers or
its agents have served the demand set forth in Section
9-104.2 of this Article in the manner provided in that
Section.
(8) When any property is subject to the provisions of
a declaration establishing a common interest community and
requiring the unit owner to pay regular or special
assessments for the maintenance or repair of common areas
owned in common by all of the owners of the common interest
community or by the community association and maintained
for the use of the unit owners or of any other expenses of
the association lawfully agreed upon, and the unit owner
fails or refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate
share of such assessments or expenses and the board or its
agents have served the demand set forth in Section 9-104.1
of this Article in the manner provided for in that Section
and the unit owner has failed to pay the amount claimed
within the time prescribed in the demand.
(b) The provisions of paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of
Section 9-102 and Section 9-104.3 of this Act shall not apply
to any common interest community unless (1) the association is
a not-for-profit corporation or a limited liability company,
(2) unit owners are authorized to attend meetings of the board
of directors or board of managers of the association in the
same manner as provided for condominiums under the Condominium
Property Act, and (3) the board of managers or board of
directors of the common interest community association has,
subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1984 voted to have the provisions of this Article apply to such
association and has delivered or mailed notice of such action
to the unit owners or unless the declaration of the
association is recorded after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1985.
(c) For purposes of this Article:
(1) "Common interest community" means real estate
other than a condominium or cooperative with respect to
which any person by virtue of his or her ownership of a
partial interest or unit therein is obligated to pay for
maintenance, improvement, insurance premiums, or real
estate taxes of other real estate described in a
declaration which is administered by an association.
(2) "Declaration" means any duly recorded instruments,
however designated, that have created a common interest
community and any duly recorded amendments to those
instruments.
(3) "Unit" means a physical portion of the common
interest community designated by separate ownership or
occupancy by boundaries which are described in a
declaration.
(4) "Unit owners' association" or "association" means
the association of all owners of units in the common
interest community acting pursuant to the declaration.
(d) If the board of a common interest community elects to
have the provisions of this Article apply to such association
or the declaration of the association is recorded after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985, the provisions
of subsections (c) through (h) of Section 18.5 of the
Condominium Property Act applicable to a Master Association
and condominium unit subject to such association under
subsections (c) through (h) of Section 18.5 shall be
applicable to the community associations and to its unit
owners.
(Source: P.A. 99-41, eff. 7-14-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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