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| AN ACT concerning business.
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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 Illinois Residential Building
Code
Act is |
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| amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as follows:
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| (815 ILCS 670/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "International Residential Code" means the International |
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| Residential Code for
One and Two Family Dwellings published by |
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| the International Code Council, as
now
or hereafter amended by |
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| the Council.
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| "New residential construction" means any original |
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| construction of a
single-family home or a dwelling containing 2 |
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| or fewer apartments,
condominiums,
or town houses.
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| "Residential building code" means an ordinance, |
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| resolution, law, housing or
building code developed and adopted |
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| by a recognized model code organization, or zoning ordinance |
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| that establishes, for residential building
contractors, |
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| construction-related
activities
applicable to single-family or |
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| 2-family residential structures.
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| "Residential building contractor" means any individual, |
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| corporation, or
partnership that constructs a fixed building or |
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| structure for sale or use by
another as a residence or that, |
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| for a price, commission, fee, wage, or other
compensation, |
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| undertakes or offers to undertake the construction of any
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| building or structure to be used by another as a residence, if |
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| the individual,
corporation, or partnership reasonably expects |
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| to earn a financial profit from
that activity.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-778, eff. 1-1-05.)
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| (815 ILCS 670/15)
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| Sec. 15. Adoption of building code. A contract to build a |
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| home (1) in any municipality in this State that does not have a |
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| residential building code in effect or (2) in any portion of a |
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| county that is not located within a municipality and does not |
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| have a residential building code in effect must adopt as part |
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| of the construction contract the applicability of a residential |
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| building code that is agreed to by the home builder and the |
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| home purchaser as provided in this Section. The home builder |
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| and the home purchaser may agree to adopt any extant municipal |
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| residential building code or county residential building code |
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| that is in effect on the first day of construction in any |
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| county or municipality within the State of Illinois that is |
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| within 100 miles of the location of the new home. If the home |
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| builder and the home purchaser fail to agree to a residential |
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| building code or if no residential building code is stated in |
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| the contract, the plumbing code promulgated by the Illinois |
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| Department of Public Health under Section 35 of the Illinois |
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| Plumbing License Law, the National Electric Code as adopted by |