Public Act 097-0536

SB1996 Enrolled LRB097 10234 AJO 50430 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 Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act

is amended by adding Section 14.2 as follows:

(765 ILCS 745/14.2 new)

Sec. 14.2. Relocation plan. The Department of Public

Health shall facilitate the development of a plan to address

the relocation efforts of manufactured home or mobile home

owners who are compelled to relocate due to (i) the sale of the

manufactured home community or mobile home park in which they

live to a person or entity which will use the property for a

use other than as a manufactured home community or mobile home

park or (ii) the closure of or the cessation of the operation

of the manufactured home community or mobile home park in which

they live. The plan shall be developed in cooperation with

members of the General Assembly, manufactured home owners,

mobile home owners, manufactured home community owners, mobile

home park owners, and the respective statewide organizations

that represent manufactured home owners, mobile home owners,

manufactured home community owners, or mobile home park owners.

Both the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois

Housing Development Authority will participate in this

collaborative effort by providing office space for meetings and

information on matters that arise in which the agencies have

expertise, such as issues relating to public health and options

for affordable housing, respectively. The plan shall include

provisions for the special counseling of manufactured home or

mobile home owners displaced from the manufactured home

community or mobile home park in which they live; the

relocation or shelter needs of displaced manufactured home or

mobile home owners; and the creation of a Manufactured Housing

Relocation Fund. The plan may include proposed legislation. No

later than October 1, 2011, the plan and any proposed

legislation shall be submitted to the President of the Senate,

the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the House of

Representatives, and the House Minority Leader.