Bill Text: IL SB2834 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act. Prohibits a park from evicting a tenant on the grounds of non-payment of rent if the park has not applied for its license or its license renewal and failed to submit all fees due and payable under the Mobile Home Park Act. Provides that non-payment of rent may not be used as a reprisal if the park has failed to apply for its license or renewal of its license and failed to submit all fees due and payable under the Act. Requires the park to be licensed to operate a mobile home park by either the Department of Public Health or applicable home rule jurisdiction. Provides that the license shall expire April 30 of each year, and a new license shall be issued upon proper application and payment of the annual license fee.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-07-01 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0630 [SB2834 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2834-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0630
SB2834 Enrolled LRB103 36767 JRC 66877 b
AN ACT concerning property.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act
is amended by changing Sections 15, 16, and 17 as follows:
(765 ILCS 745/15) (from Ch. 80, par. 215)
Sec. 15. Statutory grounds for eviction.
(a) A park owner may terminate the lease and evict a tenant
for any one or more of the following acts:
(1) (a) Non-payment of rent due;
(2) (b) Failure to comply with the park rules;
(3) (c) Failure to comply with local ordinances and
State laws regulating mobile homes.
(b) Non-payment of rent to a park that has not applied for
its license or its license renewal and failed to submit all
fees due and payable under the Mobile Home Park Act shall not
be grounds for eviction.
(Source: P.A. 81-637.)
(765 ILCS 745/16) (from Ch. 80, par. 216)
Sec. 16. Improper grounds for eviction. The following
conduct by a tenant shall not constitute grounds for eviction
or termination of the lease, nor shall an eviction order be

entered against a tenant:
(a) As a reprisal for the tenant's effort to secure or
enforce any rights under the lease or the laws of the State of
Illinois, or its governmental subdivisions of the United
States;
(b) As a reprisal for the tenant's good faith complaint to
a governmental authority of the park owner's alleged violation
of any health or safety law, regulation, code or ordinance, or
State law or regulation which has as its objective the
regulation of premises used for dwelling purposes;
(c) As a reprisal for the tenant's being an organizer or
member of, or involved in any activities relative to a
homeowners' association;
(d) As a reprisal for or on the basis of the tenant's
immigration or citizenship status; .
(e) As a reprisal for the non-payment of rent if the park
has failed to apply for its license or renewal of its license
and failed to submit all fees due and payable under the Mobile
Home Park Act.
(Source: P.A. 101-439, eff. 8-21-19; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)