HB4405 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB4405

Introduced 1/30/2012, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

735 ILCS 5/2-407

from Ch. 110, par. 2-407

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

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by changing Section 2-407 as follows:

(735 ILCS 5/2-407) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-407)

Sec. 2-407. Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties - Change of parties. No action shall be dismissed for misjoinder of parties, or dismissed for nonjoinder of necessary parties without first affording reasonable opportunity to add them as parties. New parties may be added and and parties misjoined may be dropped by order of the court, at any stage of the cause, before or after judgment, as the ends of justice may require and on terms which the court may fix.

(Source: P.A. 82-280.)