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HB0328 Enrolled |
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LRB094 05172 RCE 35214 b |
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| AN ACT concerning property.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by adding |
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| Section 9-218 as follows:
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| (735 ILCS 5/9-218 new) |
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| Sec. 9-218. Rent payments at business office.
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| (a) If the lessor, or agent of the lessor, of residential |
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| real property, containing 100 or more residential units in |
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| either a single building or a complex of buildings, maintains a |
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| business office on the premises of the building or complex that |
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| has regularly scheduled office hours, then the lessor, or agent |
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| of the lessor, must accept rent payments from a lessee of any |
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| of those residential units at that business office during the |
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| regularly scheduled office hours and the lessor may not impose |
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| any penalty, fee, or charge for making rent payments in this |
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| manner that are otherwise considered timely under the lease, |
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| but the landlord may refuse to accept payment by cash when rent |
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| payments are made in this manner. |
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| (b) This Section applies to each lease and other rental |
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| agreement in effect on the effective date of this amendatory |
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| Act of the 94th General Assembly unless there is specific |
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| language in that lease or other rental agreement that conflicts |
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| with the provisions of this Section. If any provision of a |
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| lease or other rental agreement entered into, extended, or |
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| renewed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act |
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| of the 94th General Assembly conflicts with the provisions of |
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| this Section, then that provision of the lease or other rental |
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| agreement is void and unenforceable.
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| Section 10. The Landlord and Tenant Act is amended by |
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| adding Section 3 as follows:
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