93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5298

 

Introduced 02/06/04, by Michael J. Madigan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/2-407   from Ch. 110, par. 2-407

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT in relation to civil procedure.
 
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 2-407 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/2-407)  (from Ch. 110, par. 2-407)
7     Sec. 2-407. Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties; change of
8 parties. No action shall be dismissed for misjoinder of
9 parties, or dismissed for nonjoinder of necessary parties
10 without first affording reasonable opportunity to add them as
11 parties. New parties may be added and parties misjoined may be
12 dropped by order of the court, at any stage of the cause,
13 before or after judgment, as the ends of justice may require
14 and on terms that which the court may fix.
15 (Source: P.A. 82-280.)