(55 ILCS 5/5-1063) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1063)
Sec. 5-1063. Building construction, alteration and
maintenance. For the purpose of promoting and
safeguarding the public health, safety, comfort and welfare, a county
board may prescribe by resolution or ordinance reasonable
rules and regulations (a) governing the construction and alteration of all
buildings, structures and camps or parks accommodating persons in house
trailers, house cars, cabins or tents and parts and appurtenances thereof
and governing the maintenance thereof in a condition reasonably safe from
hazards of fire, explosion, collapse, electrocution, flooding,
asphyxiation, contagion and the spread of infectious disease, where such
buildings, structures and camps or parks are located outside the limits of
cities, villages and incorporated towns, but excluding those for
agricultural purposes on farms including farm residences, but any such
resolution or ordinance shall be subject to any rule or regulation
heretofore or hereafter adopted by the State Fire Marshal
pursuant to "An Act to regulate the storage, transportation, sale and use
of gasoline and volatile oils", approved June 28, 1919, as amended; (b) for
prohibiting the use for residential purposes of buildings and structures
already erected or moved into position which do not comply with such rules
and regulations; and (c) for the restraint, correction and abatement of any
violations.
In addition, the county board may by resolution or ordinance require
that each occupant of an industrial or commercial building located outside
the limits of cities, villages and incorporated towns obtain an occupancy
permit issued by the county. The county board may by resolution or ordinance require
that an occupancy permit be obtained for each newly constructed residential dwelling located outside
the limits of cities, villages, and incorporated towns, but may not require more than one occupancy permit per newly constructed residential dwelling. Such permit may be valid for the duration of
the occupancy or for a specified period of time, and shall be valid only
with respect to the occupant to which it is issued. A county board may not impose a fee on an occupancy permit for a newly constructed residential dwelling issued pursuant to this Section. If, before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, a county board imposes a fee on an occupancy permit for a newly constructed residential dwelling, then the county board may continue to impose the occupancy permit fee.
Within 30 days after its adoption, such resolution or ordinance shall be
printed in book or pamphlet form, published by authority of the County
Board; or it shall be published at least once in a newspaper published and
having general circulation in the county; or if no newspaper is published
therein, copies shall be posted in at least 4 conspicuous places in each
township or Road District. No such resolution or ordinance shall take
effect until 10 days after it is published or posted. Where such building
or camp or park rules and regulations have been published previously in
book or pamphlet form, the resolution or ordinance may provide for the
adoption of such rules and regulations or portions thereof, by reference
thereto without further printing, publication or posting, provided that not
less than 3 copies of such rules and regulations in book or pamphlet form
shall have been filed, in the office of the County Clerk, for use and
examination by the public for at least 30 days prior to the adoption
thereof by the County Board.
Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
Assembly,
any county adopting a new building code or amending an existing
building code under this Section must, at least 30 days before adopting the
building code or
amendment, provide an identification of the building code, by title and
edition, or the amendment for identification under Section 10.18 of the Capital Development Board Act.
For the purposes of this Section, "building code" means any ordinance,
resolution, law,
housing or building code, or zoning ordinance that establishes construction
related activities
applicable to structures in the county.
The violation of any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this Section,
except for a violation of the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
General Assembly and the rules and regulations adopted under those
provisions,
shall be a petty offense.
All rules and regulations enacted by resolution or ordinance under the
provisions of this Section shall be enforced by such officer of the county
as may be designated by resolution of the County Board.
No such resolution or ordinance shall be enforced if it is in conflict
with any law of this State or with any rule of the Department of Public
Health.
(Source: P.A. 99-639, eff. 7-28-16.)
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