Bill Text: IL SB0032 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act. Provides that a unit of local government, as defined in the Illinois Constitution, other than a municipality having a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, may enact and enforce an ordinance that restricts the ability of a mobile home park owner to increase rent, fees, or other charges if the park owner fails to correct health or life safety violations. Provides that a park owner who increases rent, fees, or other charges imposed upon a tenant in violation of an ordinance enacted under the new provisions shall be liable to that tenant for all damages and attorney's fees reasonably incurred as a result of the park owner's violation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0032 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0032-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 Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 6.7 as follows:
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6 | (765 ILCS 745/6.7) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 6.7. Violations; inspection reports; postings; | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | penalty. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) Any nonconformance with a statute, rule, or ordinance | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | applicable to the mobile home park or manufactured home | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | community constitutes a violation. The authority having | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | jurisdiction shall identify violations in an inspection | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | report. The inspection report shall be served upon the park | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | owner or managing agent in person or by certified United States | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (b) The park owner or its managing agent shall post in a | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | conspicuous place any inspection report received from the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | authority having jurisdiction regarding health and life safety | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | violations as defined in rules promulgated by the Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Department of Public Health. The inspection report shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | posted beginning the business day after the date by which the | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | violation or violations must be corrected as set forth in the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | inspection report issued by the authority having jurisdiction. |
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1 | The posting may be removed only when: | ||||||
2 | (1) the authority having jurisdiction has issued | ||||||
3 | written authorization to remove the posting; or | ||||||
4 | (2) the park owner or its managing agent has corrected | ||||||
5 | the violation or violations, served notice to the authority | ||||||
6 | having jurisdiction that the violation or violations have | ||||||
7 | been corrected by submitting such documentation or | ||||||
8 | affidavit as may be necessary to substantiate the | ||||||
9 | correction by certified United States mail, return receipt | ||||||
10 | requested, postage prepaid, and no less than 15 days have | ||||||
11 | expired from the mailing date of the notice to the | ||||||
12 | authority having jurisdiction. | ||||||
13 | (c) Nothing in this Act may be construed to diminish, | ||||||
14 | impair, or otherwise affect the authority of the authority | ||||||
15 | having jurisdiction to charge violations under the Mobile Home | ||||||
16 | Park Act or any other statute, rule, or ordinance applicable to | ||||||
17 | the mobile home park or manufactured home community. | ||||||
18 | (d) Failure to comply with the requirements of this Section | ||||||
19 | subjects the park owner or managing agent to a $250 penalty. | ||||||
20 | The penalty shall be payable to the authority having | ||||||
21 | jurisdiction which issued the inspection report citing | ||||||
22 | violations. | ||||||
23 | (e) For purposes of enforcement of this Section by the | ||||||
24 | Illinois Department of Public Health, the Illinois | ||||||
25 | Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted. The | ||||||
26 | Illinois Department of Public Health has the authority to |
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1 | promulgate rules to enforce this Section. | ||||||
2 | (f) For purposes of enforcement of this Section by any | ||||||
3 | authority having jurisdiction other than the Illinois | ||||||
4 | Department of Public Health, the authority having jurisdiction | ||||||
5 | has the authority to adopt ordinances to enforce this Section.
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