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EVICTION-CRIMINAL TRESSPASS, the official text

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1   AN ACT concerning civil law.

2   Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4   Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by

5 changing Section 9-102 as follows:

6   (735 ILCS 5/9-102) (from Ch. 110, par. 9-102)

7   Sec. 9-102. When action may be maintained.

8   (a) The person entitled to the possession of lands or

9 tenements may be restored thereto under any of the following

10 circumstances:

11  (1) When a forcible entry is made thereon.

12  (2) When a peaceable entry is made and the possession

13  unlawfully withheld.

14  (3) When entry is made into vacant or unoccupied lands

15  or tenements without right or title.

16  (4) When any lessee of the lands or tenements, or any

17  person holding under such lessee, holds possession without

18  right after the termination of the lease or tenancy by its

19  own limitation, condition or terms, or by notice to quit

20  or otherwise.

21  (5) When a vendee having obtained possession under a

22  written or verbal agreement to purchase lands or

23  tenements, and having failed to comply with the agreement,
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1   withholds possession thereof, after demand in writing by

2   the person entitled to such possession; however, any

3   agreement for residential real estate entered into on or

4   after July 1, 1987 that is an installment sales contract,

5   as defined in the Installment Sales Contract Act, and the

6   amount unpaid under the terms of the contract at the time

7   of the filing of the foreclosure complaint, including

8   principal and due and unpaid interest, at the rate prior

9   to default, is less than 80% of the original purchase

10  price of the real estate as stated in the contract, as

11  required under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section

12  15-1106 of the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law, is

13  subject to foreclosure.

14  This amendatory Act of 1993 is declarative of existing

15  law.

16  (6) When lands or tenements have been conveyed by any

17  grantor in possession, or sold under the order or judgment

18  of any court in this State, or by virtue of any sale in any

19  mortgage or deed of trust contained and the grantor in

20  possession or party to such order or judgment or to such

21  mortgage or deed of trust, after the expiration of the

22  time of redemption, when redemption is allowed by law,

23  refuses or neglects to surrender possession thereof, after

24  demand in writing by the person entitled thereto, or his

25  or her agent.

26  (7) When any property is subject to the provisions of
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1   the Condominium Property Act, the owner of a unit fails or

2   refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate share of

3   the common expenses of such property, or of any other

4   expenses lawfully agreed upon or any unpaid fine, the

5   Board of Managers or its agents have served the demand set

6   forth in Section 9-104.1 of this Article in the manner

7   provided for in that Section and the unit owner has failed

8   to pay the amount claimed within the time prescribed in

9   the demand; or if the lessor-owner of a unit fails to

10  comply with the leasing requirements prescribed by

11  subsection (n) of Section 18 of the Condominium Property

12  Act or by the declaration, by-laws, and rules and

13  regulations of the condominium, or if a lessee of an owner

14  is in breach of any covenants, rules, regulations, or

15  by-laws of the condominium, and the Board of Managers or

16  its agents have served the demand set forth in Section

17  9-104.2 of this Article in the manner provided in that

18  Section.

19  (8) When any property is subject to the provisions of

20  a declaration establishing a common interest community and

21  requiring the unit owner to pay regular or special

22  assessments for the maintenance or repair of common areas

23  owned in common by all of the owners of the common interest

24  community or by the community association and maintained

25  for the use of the unit owners or of any other expenses of

26  the association lawfully agreed upon, and the unit owner
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1   fails or refuses to pay when due his or her proportionate

2   share of such assessments or expenses and the board or its

3   agents have served the demand set forth in Section 9-104.1

4   of this Article in the manner provided for in that Section

5   and the unit owner has failed to pay the amount claimed

6   within the time prescribed in the demand.

7   (b) The provisions of paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of

8 Section 9-102 and Section 9-104.3 of this Act shall not apply

9 to any common interest community unless (1) the association is

10 a not-for-profit corporation or a limited liability company,

11 (2) unit owners are authorized to attend meetings of the board

12 of directors or board of managers of the association in the

13 same manner as provided for condominiums under the Condominium

14 Property Act, and (3) the board of managers or board of

15 directors of the common interest community association has,

16 subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of

17 1984 voted to have the provisions of this Article apply to such

18 association and has delivered or mailed notice of such action

19 to the unit owners or unless the declaration of the

20 association is recorded after the effective date of this

21 amendatory Act of 1985.

22  (c) For purposes of this Article:

23  (1) "Common interest community" means real estate

24  other than a condominium or cooperative with respect to

25  which any person by virtue of his or her ownership of a

26  partial interest or unit therein is obligated to pay for
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1   maintenance, improvement, insurance premiums, or real

2   estate taxes of other real estate described in a

3   declaration which is administered by an association.

4           (2) "Declaration" means any duly recorded instruments,

5   however designated, that have created a common interest

6   community and any duly recorded amendments to those

7   instruments.

8           (3) "Unit" means a physical portion of the common

9   interest community designated by separate ownership or

10  occupancy by boundaries which are described in a

11  declaration.

12          (4) "Unit owners' association" or "association" means

13  the association of all owners of units in the common

14  interest community acting pursuant to the declaration.

15  (d) If the board of a common interest community elects to

16 have the provisions of this Article apply to such association

17 or the declaration of the association is recorded after the

18 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985, the provisions

19 of subsections (c) through (h) of Section 18.5 of the

20 Condominium Property Act applicable to a Master Association

21 and condominium unit subject to such association under

22 subsections (c) through (h) of Section 18.5 shall be

23 applicable to the community associations and to its unit

24 owners.

25  (e) Nothing in this Article may be construed to prohibit

26 law enforcement officials from enforcing the offense of
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1 criminal trespass under Section 21-3 of the Criminal Code of
2 1963 or any other violation of the Code or to interfere with
3 the ability of law enforcement officials to remove persons or
4 property from the premises when there is a criminal trespass.
5 (Source: P.A. 102-71, eff. 7-9-21.)
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