101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB0050

 

Introduced 1/9/2019, by Rep. André Thapedi

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
765 ILCS 605/18.7

    Amends the Condominium Property Act. Provides that if a community association enters into a written contract with a party to provide maintenance or management services for the community association, the contract is enforceable only if the contract meets certain requirements. Provides that the community association is authorized to procure services from another party and is entitled to collect any fees or charges paid for service performed by another party from the party contracting to provide maintenance or management services if the party fails to provide contracted maintenance or management services. Excludes contracts for services or property made available for the convenience of unit owners, including, but not limited to, coin-operated laundry, food, soft drink, or telephone vendors, cable television or retail store operators, businesses, restaurants, or similar vendors. Provides that a party contracting to provide maintenance or management services to a community association may not purchase a unit at a foreclosure sale resulting from the community association's foreclosure of a community association lien for unpaid assessments or take a deed in lieu of foreclosure. Provides that if 50% or more of the units in the condominium are owned by a party contracting to provide maintenance or management services to a community association, or by an officer or board member of such a party, the contract with the party providing maintenance or management services may be canceled by a majority vote of the unit owners other than the contracting party, or an officer or board member of such a party.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Condominium Property Act is amended by
5changing Section 18.7 as follows:
 
6    (765 ILCS 605/18.7)
7    Sec. 18.7. Standards for community association managers.
8    (a) "Community association" means an association in which
9membership is a condition of ownership or shareholder interest
10of a unit in a condominium, cooperative, townhouse, villa, or
11other residential unit that is part of a residential
12development plan as a master association or common interest
13community and that is authorized to impose an assessment and
14other costs that may become a lien on the unit or lot.
15    (b) "Community association manager" means an individual
16who administers for compensation the coordination of
17financial, administrative, maintenance, or other duties called
18for in the management contract, including individuals who are
19direct employees of a community association. A manager does not
20include support staff, such as bookkeepers, administrative
21assistants, secretaries, property inspectors, or customer
22service representatives.
23    (c) Requirements. To perform services as a community

 

 

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1association manager, an individual must meet these
2requirements:
3        (1) shall have attained the age of 21 and be a citizen
4    or legal permanent resident of the United States;
5        (2) shall not have been convicted of forgery,
6    embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses,
7    larceny, extortion, conspiracy to defraud or other similar
8    offense or offenses;
9        (3) shall have a working knowledge of the fundamentals
10    of community association management, including the
11    Condominium Property Act, the Illinois Not-for-Profit
12    Corporation Act, and any other laws pertaining to community
13    association management; and
14        (4) shall not have engaged in the following activities:
15    failure to cooperate with any law enforcement agency in the
16    investigation of a complaint; or failure to produce any
17    document, book, or record in the possession or control of
18    the community association manager after a request for
19    production of that document, book, or record in the course
20    of an investigation of a complaint.
21    (d) Access to community association funds. For community
22associations of 6 or more units, apartments, townhomes, villas
23or other residential units, a community association manager or
24the firm with whom the manager is employed shall not solely and
25exclusively have access to and disburse funds of a community
26association unless:

 

 

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1        (1) There is a fidelity bond in place.
2        (2) The fidelity bond is in an amount not less than all
3    monies of that association in the custody or control of the
4    community association manager.
5        (3) The fidelity bond covers the community association
6    manager and all partners, officers, and employees of the
7    firm with whom the community association manager is
8    employed during the term of the bond, as well as the
9    community association officers, directors, and employees
10    of the community association who control or disburse funds.
11        (4) The insurance company issuing the bond may not
12    cancel or refuse to renew the bond without giving not less
13    than 10 days' prior written notice to the community
14    association.
15        (5) The community association shall secure and pay for
16    the bond.
17    (e) A community association manager who provides community
18association management services for more than one community
19association shall maintain separate, segregated accounts for
20each community association. The funds shall not, in any event,
21be commingled with funds of the community association manager,
22the firm of the community association manager, or any other
23community association. The maintenance of these accounts shall
24be custodial, and the accounts shall be in the name of the
25respective community association.
26    (f) Exempt persons. Except as otherwise provided, this

 

 

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1Section does not apply to any person acting as a receiver,
2trustee in bankruptcy, administrator, executor, or guardian
3acting under a court order or under the authority of a will or
4of a trust instrument.
5    (g) Right of Action.
6        (1) Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 95th General
7    Assembly shall create a cause of action by a unit owner,
8    shareholder, or community association member against a
9    community association manager or the firm of a community
10    association manager.
11        (2) This amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly
12    shall not impair any right of action by a unit owner or
13    shareholder against a community association board of
14    directors under existing law.
15    (h) If a community association enters into a written
16contract with a party to provide maintenance or management
17services for the community association, the contract is
18enforceable only if the contract:
19        (1) specifies the services, obligations, and
20    responsibilities of the party contracting to provide
21    maintenance or management services to the unit owners;
22        (2) specifies the costs incurred in the performance of
23    those services, obligations, or responsibilities that are
24    reimbursed by the community association to the party
25    contracting to provide maintenance or management services;
26        (3) provides an indication of how often each service,

 

 

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1    obligation, or responsibility is to be performed, either:
2    (i) stated for each service, obligation, or
3    responsibility; or (ii) in categories thereof;
4        (4) specifies a minimum number of personnel to be
5    employed by the party contracting to provide maintenance or
6    management services;
7        (5) discloses any financial or ownership interest that
8    the developer, if the developer is in control of the
9    community association, holds with regard to the party
10    contracting to provide maintenance or management services;
11    and
12        (6) discloses any financial or ownership interest a
13    board member or any party providing maintenance or
14    management services to the community association holds
15    with the contracting party.
16    If the party contracting to provide maintenance or
17management services fails to provide such services in
18accordance with the contract, the community association is
19authorized to procure such services from another party and is
20entitled to collect any fees or charges paid for service
21performed by another party from the party contracting to
22provide maintenance or management services.
23    Any services or obligations not stated on the face of the
24contract are unenforceable.
25    Notwithstanding other vendors' contracts with a community
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1serve unit owners, this Section applies to contracts for
2maintenance or management services for which the community
3association pays compensation. This Section shall not apply to
4contracts for services or property made available for the
5convenience of unit owners by lessees or licensees of the
6community association, including, but not limited to,
7coin-operated laundry, food, soft drink, or telephone vendors,
8cable television or retail store operators, businesses,
9restaurants, or similar vendors.
10    A party contracting to provide maintenance or management
11services to a community association, or an officer or board
12member of such a party, may not purchase a unit at a
13foreclosure sale resulting from the community association's
14foreclosure of a community association lien for unpaid
15assessments or take a deed in lieu of foreclosure. If 50% or
16more of the units in the condominium are owned by a party
17contracting to provide maintenance or management services to a
18community association, or by an officer or board member of such
19a party, the contract with the party providing maintenance or
20management services may be canceled by a majority vote of the
21unit owners other than the contracting party, or an officer or
22board member of such a party.
23(Source: P.A. 95-318, eff. 1-1-08.)