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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 9-106.2 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (735 ILCS 5/9-106.2) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 9-106.2. Affirmative defense for violence ; barring | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | persons from property . | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) It shall be an affirmative defense to an action | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | maintained under this Article IX if the court makes one of the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | following findings that the demand for possession is: | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | (1) based solely on the tenant's, lessee's, or | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | household member's status as a victim of domestic violence | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | or sexual violence as those terms are defined in Section | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | 10 of the Safe Homes Act, stalking as that term is defined | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | in the Criminal Code of 2012, or dating violence; | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (2) based solely upon an incident of actual or | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | threatened domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | or sexual violence against a tenant, lessee, or household | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | member; | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (3) based solely upon criminal activity directly | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | relating to domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | or sexual violence engaged in by a member of a tenant's or |
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1 | lessee's household or any guest or other person under the | ||||||
2 | tenant's, lessee's, or household member's control, and | ||||||
3 | against the tenant, lessee, or household member; or | ||||||
4 | (4) based upon a demand for possession relating to the | ||||||
5 | entry of a barred individual onto any portion of the | ||||||
6 | premises pursuant to subsection (f) where the tenant, | ||||||
7 | lessee, or household member who was the victim of domestic | ||||||
8 | violence, sexual violence, stalking, or dating violence | ||||||
9 | did not knowingly consent to the barred person entering | ||||||
10 | the premises or a valid court order permitted the barred | ||||||
11 | person's entry onto the premises. | ||||||
12 | (b) When asserting the affirmative defense, at least one | ||||||
13 | form of the following types of evidence shall be provided to | ||||||
14 | support the affirmative defense: medical, court, or police | ||||||
15 | records documenting the violence or a statement from an | ||||||
16 | employee of a victim service organization or from a medical | ||||||
17 | professional from whom the tenant, lessee, or household member | ||||||
18 | has sought services. | ||||||
19 | (c) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord | ||||||
20 | from seeking possession solely against a tenant, household | ||||||
21 | member, or lessee of the premises who perpetrated the violence | ||||||
22 | referred to in subsection (a). | ||||||
23 | (d) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord | ||||||
24 | from seeking possession against the entire household, | ||||||
25 | including the tenant, lessee, or household member who is a | ||||||
26 | victim of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or |
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1 | sexual violence if the tenant, lessee, or household member's | ||||||
2 | continued tenancy would pose an actual and imminent threat to | ||||||
3 | other tenants, lessees, household members, the landlord or | ||||||
4 | their agents at the property. | ||||||
5 | (e) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord | ||||||
6 | from seeking possession against the tenant, lessee, or | ||||||
7 | household member who is a victim of domestic violence, dating | ||||||
8 | violence, stalking, or sexual violence if that tenant, lessee, | ||||||
9 | or household member has committed the criminal activity on | ||||||
10 | which the demand for possession is based. | ||||||
11 | (f) Nothing in this Section precludes a landlord from | ||||||
12 | exercising any rights the landlord may have under existing | ||||||
13 | local, State, federal, or common law to bar an individual who | ||||||
14 | is not a tenant or lessee or member of the tenant's or lessee's | ||||||
15 | household. A landlord shall have the power to bar the presence | ||||||
16 | of a person from the premises owned by the landlord who is not | ||||||
17 | a tenant or lessee or who is not a member of the tenant's or | ||||||
18 | lessee's household. A landlord bars a person from the premises | ||||||
19 | by providing written notice to the tenant or lessee that the | ||||||
20 | person is no longer allowed on the premises. That notice shall | ||||||
21 | state that if the tenant invites the barred person onto any | ||||||
22 | portion of the premises, then the landlord may treat this as a | ||||||
23 | breach of the lease, whether or not this provision is | ||||||
24 | contained in the lease. Subject to paragraph (4) of subsection | ||||||
25 | (a), the landlord may evict the tenant. | ||||||
26 | (g) (Blank). Further, a landlord may give notice to a |
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1 | person that the person is barred from the premises owned by the | ||||||
2 | landlord. A person has received notice from the landlord | ||||||
3 | within the meaning of this subsection if he has been notified | ||||||
4 | personally, either orally or in writing including a valid | ||||||
5 | court order as defined by subsection (7) of Section 112A-3 of | ||||||
6 | the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 granting remedy (2) of | ||||||
7 | subsection (b) of Section 112A-14 of that Code, or if a printed | ||||||
8 | or written notice forbidding such entry has been conspicuously | ||||||
9 | posted or exhibited at the main entrance to such land or the | ||||||
10 | forbidden part thereof. Any person entering the landlord's | ||||||
11 | premises after such notice has been given shall be guilty of | ||||||
12 | criminal trespass to real property as set forth in Section | ||||||
13 | 21-3 of the Criminal Code of 2012. After notice has been given, | ||||||
14 | an invitation to the person to enter the premises shall be void | ||||||
15 | if made by a tenant, lessee, or member of the tenant's or | ||||||
16 | lessee's household and shall not constitute a valid invitation | ||||||
17 | to come upon the premises or a defense to a criminal trespass | ||||||
18 | to real property.
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19 | (Source: P.A. 96-1188, eff. 7-22-10; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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