HB4025 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB4025

Introduced 1/20/2012, by Rep. Paul Evans

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

735 ILCS 5/9-206

from Ch. 110, par. 9-206

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that a written notice to terminate a year-to-year lease of farm land, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary, shall be given by August 1 of the then current year (instead of in writing by not less than 4 months prior to the end of the year of letting).

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by changing Section 9-206 as follows:

(735 ILCS 5/9-206) (from Ch. 110, par. 9-206)

Sec. 9-206. Notice to terminate tenancy of farm land. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, in In order to terminate tenancies from year to year of farm lands, occupied on a crop share, livestock share, cash rent or other rental basis, the notice to quit shall be given in writing no later than August 1 of the then current calendar year not less than 4 months prior to the end of the year of letting. Such notice may not be waived in a verbal lease. The notice to quit may be substantially in the following form:

To A.B.: You are hereby notified that I have elected to terminate your lease of the farm premises now occupied by you, being (here describe the premises) and you are hereby further notified to quit and deliver up possession of the same to me at the end of the lease year, the last day of such year being (here insert the last day of the lease year).

(Source: P.A. 82-280.)