Bill Text: IL HB0965 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning partition.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0965 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB0965-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 17-101 as follows:
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| 6 | (735 ILCS 5/17-101) (from Ch. 110, par. 17-101)
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| 7 | Sec. 17-101. Compelling partition. When lands, tenements, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | or hereditaments
are held in joint
tenancy or tenancy in common | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | or other form of co-ownership and
and regardless of whether any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | or all of the claimants are
minors or adults, any one or more | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | of the persons interested therein
may compel a partition | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | thereof by a verified complaint in the circuit court of
the
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| 13 | county where the premises or part of the premises are situated.
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| 14 | If lands, tenements or hereditaments held in joint tenancy or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | tenancy in
common are situated in 2 or more counties, the venue | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | may be in any one
of such counties, and the circuit court of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | any such county first
acquiring jurisdiction shall retain sole | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | and exclusive jurisdiction.
Ownership of an interest in the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | surface of lands, tenements, or
hereditaments by a co-owner of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | an interest in minerals underlying
the surface does not prevent | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | partition of the mineral estate.
This amendatory Act of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | 92nd General Assembly is a declaration
of existing law and is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | intended to remove any possible conflicts or
ambiguities, | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | thereby confirming existing law pertinent to the
partition of | ||||||
| 2 | interests in minerals and applies to all actions for the
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| 3 | partition of minerals now pending or filed on or after the | ||||||
| 4 | effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General | ||||||
| 5 | Assembly.
Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 92nd General | ||||||
| 6 | Assembly shall be
construed as allowing an owner of a mineral | ||||||
| 7 | interest in coal to mine and
remove the coal by the surface | ||||||
| 8 | method of mining without first obtaining the
consent of all of | ||||||
| 9 | the owners of the surface to the mining and removal of coal
by | ||||||
| 10 | the
surface method of mining. Ownership of an interest in | ||||||
| 11 | minerals by a co-owner of an interest in the surface does not | ||||||
| 12 | prevent partition of the surface. The ownership of an interest | ||||||
| 13 | in some, but not all, of the mineral estate by a co-owner of an | ||||||
| 14 | interest in other minerals does not prevent the partition of | ||||||
| 15 | the co-owned mineral estate.
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| 16 | (Source: P.A. 92-379, eff. 8-16-01; 93-925, eff. 8-12-04.)
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