Full Text of HB4215 93rd General Assembly
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Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 04, 2004
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4215
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4215 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Mechanics Lien Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 24 as follows:
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| (770 ILCS 60/24) (from Ch. 82, par. 24)
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| Sec. 24. Sub-contractors, or party furnishing labor or | 8 |
| materials, may at
any time after making his or her contract | 9 |
| with the contractor, and shall
within 90 days after the | 10 |
| completion thereof, or, if extra or additional work
or material | 11 |
| is delivered thereafter, within 90 days after the date of
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| completion of such extra or additional work or final delivery | 13 |
| of such extra or
additional material, or within 90 days of | 14 |
| substantial completion of a commercial project, whichever is | 15 |
| greater, cause a written notice of his or her claim and the | 16 |
| amount
due or to become due thereunder, to be sent by | 17 |
| registered or certified
mail, with return receipt requested, | 18 |
| and delivery limited to addressee
only, to or personally served | 19 |
| on the owner of record or his agent or
architect, or the | 20 |
| superintendent having charge of the building or
improvement and | 21 |
| to the lending agency, if known; however, if the lot or
lots | 22 |
| and tract or tracts of land in question are registered under | 23 |
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provisions of "An Act concerning land titles", approved May | 24 |
| 1, 1897, as
amended, the notice shall not be served as above |
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| stated,
but shall be filed in
the office of the registrar of | 2 |
| titles of the county in which such lot or
lots and tract or | 3 |
| tracts of land are situated, and such notice shall not be
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| necessary when the sworn statement of the contractor or | 5 |
| subcontractor
provided for herein shall serve to give the owner | 6 |
| notice of the amount due
and to whom due, but where such | 7 |
| statement is incorrect as to the amount,
the subcontractor or | 8 |
| material man named shall be protected to the extent of
the | 9 |
| amount named therein as due or to become due to him or her. For | 10 |
| purposes of
this Section, notice by registered or certified | 11 |
| mail is considered served
at the time of its mailing.
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| The form of such notice may be as follows: To (name of | 13 |
| owner): You are
hereby notified that I have been employed by | 14 |
| (the name of contractor) to
(state here what was the contract | 15 |
| or what was done, or to be done, or what
the claim is for) under | 16 |
| his or her contract with you, on your property at (here
give | 17 |
| substantial description of the property) and that there was due | 18 |
| to me,
or is to become due (as the case may be) therefor, the | 19 |
| sum of $.....
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| Dated at .... this .... day of ....., .....
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| (Signature).....
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| (Source: P.A. 84-551.)".
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