Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB1142

Creates the Manufactured Housing Buyer Protection Act. Provides that, if, after a reasonable number of attempts, the seller of a manufactured housing unit is unable to conform the manufactured housing unit to any of its applicable express warranties, then the manufacturer must either provide the consumer with a new manufactured housing unit of like model line, if available, or otherwise a comparable manufactured housing unit as a replacement, or accept the return of the manufactured housing unit from the consumer and refund to the consumer the full purchase price or lease cost of the new manufactured housing unit, including all collateral charges, less a reasonable allowance for consumer use of the manufactured housing unit, but only when the consumer has first resorted to an informal settlement procedure applicable to such disputes. Provides that persons electing to proceed and settle under the Act are barred from a separate cause of action under the Uniform Commercial Code. Provides guidelines for commencement of such actions. Requires the seller who sells a new manufactured housing unit to a consumer, upon delivery of that manufactured housing unit to the consumer, to provide the consumer with a written statement clearly and conspicuously setting forth in full detail the consumer's rights under specified provisions of the Act. Makes the Act applicable to manufactured housing sold after the effective date of this Act.

Deletes from the list of definitions the term "manufactured housing" or "manufactured housing unit" and replaces it with the term "manufactured home". Defines "manufactured home" to mean a manufactured home as provided in the Illinois Administrative Code and shall not include the term modular dwelling.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Modular Housing Buyer Protection Act. Defines "modular home" to mean factory built housing regulated by the Illinois Department of Public Health that consists of a building assembly or system of building sub-assemblies, designed for habitation as a dwelling for one or more persons, including the necessary electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, and other service systems, which is of closed or open construction and which is made or assembled by a manufacturer, on or off the building site, for installation, or assembly and installation, on the building site with a permanent foundation. Provides that the state-approved modular dwelling unit must comply with all applicable State laws; that failure to comply is grounds for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant approval to a manufacturer or an authorized inspection agency and that such actions shall be governed by the Department of Public Health's Rules of Practice and Procedure in Administrative Hearings; that approved modular housing units shall have a specific seal in one of two designated locations; and that local building officials may require construction requirements in addition to the minimum State requirements.

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