65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 30 heading) DIVISION 30. GENERAL REGULATORY POWERS

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-1)

Sec. 11-30-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate fences and party walls. Provisions of this act do not apply to railroad right of way fences which are regulated under Section 57 of the Public Utilities Act.

(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1027.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-2)

Sec. 11-30-2. For the purpose of lessening or avoiding the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from flooding, the corporate authorities of each municipality may prescribe rules and regulations for the construction and alteration of buildings and structures and parts and appurtenances thereof.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-3)

Sec. 11-30-3. In order to promote the public health and safety and the health and safety of the occupants of the premises herein defined, the corporate authorities may license, locate and regulate the use and construction of rooming houses. In municipalities of more than 500,000 inhabitants the fee for any license authorized under this Section shall not exceed the sum of $25 per year.

For the purposes of this section, the term "rooming house" means a building or portion of a building other than a hotel, motel, apartment hotel, or residential hotel, in which sleeping accommodations not constituting an apartment are furnished at a fee for 4 or more persons ordinarily renting such accommodations at a specified rate for a specified time, and occupying the premises as a permanent place of abode rather than on a transient basis for a short term period of occupancy. An apartment is herein defined as a self-contained unit with private bath and cooking facilities.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2614.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-4)

Sec. 11-30-4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prescribe the strength and manner of constructing all buildings, structures and their accessories and of the construction of fire escapes thereon.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-5)

Sec. 11-30-5. In order to promote the public health and safety and the health and safety of the occupants of the premises herein defined, the corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and provide for supervision of every building, structure or any part thereof used or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished or maintained for 20 or more persons for a period of one day or more, and in connection therewith, but not as a limitation thereon, to regulate and provide for supervision of desk clerks in such buildings or structures.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-6)

Sec. 11-30-6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the lighting of stairs, vestibules, passageways and common ways in premises containing more than 2 flats or apartments and to require the owner, lessee, person, firm or corporation having control of such stairs, vestibules, passageways and common ways to light the same.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-7)

Sec. 11-30-7. In municipalities of 500,000 or more inhabitants or municipalities lying wholly or partly within a radius of 30 miles from the corporate limits of municipalities of 500,000 or more inhabitants, the corporate authorities may prohibit the erection of buildings for habitation on any lot or parcel of land within the municipality, unless a highway, road, street or way for public service facilities improved with water mains and sanitary sewers is provided to serve the lot or parcel of land.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-8)

Sec. 11-30-8. The corporate authorities may prescribe rules and regulations for grading and draining of lots and construction of (1) paving for motor vehicle driveways and parking areas, (2) terraces, (3) retaining walls of masonry and other materials and for preserving drainage channels in connection with building improvements or without such improvements.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2620.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-30-9)

Sec. 11-30-9. The corporate authorities may prescribe rules and regulations for the construction of privately owned artificial basins of water used for swimming or wading, which use or need external buttresses or which are dug into the ground, located on private residential property and intended for the use of the owner and guests.

The corporate authorities may by ordinance require the construction of fences around or protective covers over previously constructed artificial basins of water dug in the ground and used for swimming or wading, which are located on private residential property and intended for the use of the owner and guests.

(Source: P.A. 86-1470.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-30-10)

Sec. 11-30-10. Municipality of 500,000 or more; landlord compliance program.

(a) This Section applies only to municipalities having 500,000 or more inhabitants.

(b) If a person is a legal or beneficial owner of a building containing rooms or groups of rooms used or intended to be used as housekeeping units for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating and rented to persons for those purposes and if a court or municipal officer or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction determines that the owner has violated a municipal ordinance or code that establishes construction, plumbing, heating, electrical, fire prevention, sanitation, or other health and safety standards that are applicable to such buildings, then, in addition to any other action authorized by law, the court, officer, or agency may offer the owner the option of attending a program designed to encourage the owner's compliance with all municipal ordinances and codes applicable to such buildings. The municipality may prepare and present the program or may contract with a public or private entity for that purpose. If the owner states to the court, officer, or agency that he or she intends to attend the program but then does not attend the program, then the court, officer, or agency may impose against the owner a fine of twice the amount that would have been imposed if the owner had not stated an intention to attend the program, except that the total fine may not exceed the maximum amount authorized by law.

(Source: P.A. 89-599, eff. 8-2-96.)