Full Text of SB0328 96th General Assembly
SB0328eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning business.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Residential Building
Code
Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as follows: | 6 |
| (815 ILCS 670/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "International Residential Code" means the International | 9 |
| Residential Code for
One and Two Family Dwellings published by | 10 |
| the International Code Council, as
now
or hereafter amended by | 11 |
| the Council.
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| "New residential construction" means any original | 13 |
| construction of a
single-family home or a dwelling containing 2 | 14 |
| or fewer apartments,
condominiums,
or town houses.
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| "Residential building code" means an ordinance, | 16 |
| resolution, law, housing or
building code developed and adopted | 17 |
| by a recognized model code organization , or zoning ordinance | 18 |
| that establishes, for residential building
contractors, | 19 |
| construction-related
activities
applicable to single-family or | 20 |
| 2-family residential structures.
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| "Residential building contractor" means any individual, | 22 |
| corporation, or
partnership that constructs a fixed building or | 23 |
| structure for sale or use by
another as a residence or that, |
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| for a price, commission, fee, wage, or other
compensation, | 2 |
| undertakes or offers to undertake the construction of any
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| building or structure to be used by another as a residence, if | 4 |
| the individual,
corporation, or partnership reasonably expects | 5 |
| to earn a financial profit from
that activity.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-778, eff. 1-1-05.) | 7 |
| (815 ILCS 670/15)
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| Sec. 15. Adoption of building code. A contract to build a | 9 |
| home (1) in any municipality in this State that does not have a | 10 |
| residential building code in effect or (2) in any portion of a | 11 |
| county that is not located within a municipality and does not | 12 |
| have a residential building code in effect must adopt as part | 13 |
| of the construction contract the applicability of a residential | 14 |
| building code that is agreed to by the home builder and the | 15 |
| home purchaser as provided in this Section. The home builder | 16 |
| and the home purchaser may agree to adopt any extant municipal | 17 |
| residential building code or county residential building code | 18 |
| that is in effect on the first day of construction in any | 19 |
| county or municipality within the State of Illinois that is | 20 |
| within 100 miles of the location of the new home . If the home | 21 |
| builder and the home purchaser fail to agree to a residential | 22 |
| building code or if no residential building code is stated in | 23 |
| the contract, the plumbing code promulgated by the Illinois | 24 |
| Department of Public Health under Section 35 of the Illinois | 25 |
| Plumbing License Law, the National Electric Code as adopted by |
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| the American National Standards Institute, and the | 2 |
| International Residential Code shall, by law, be adopted as | 3 |
| part of the construction contract.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-778, eff. 1-1-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 |
| becoming law.
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