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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5238 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified requirements in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual notice during National Fire Prevention Week to be given by the operator of a mobile home community to replace batteries in weather radios and smoke detectors. Provides installers with immunity from liability for the functionality of weather radios or smoke detectors. |
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| | HB5238 | | LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile |
| 5 | | Structure Safety Act is amended by adding Section 18 as |
| 6 | | follows:
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| 7 | | (430 ILCS 115/18 new) |
| 8 | | Sec. 18. Weather radio requirement. |
| 9 | | (a) This Section applies to a person that installs a |
| 10 | | manufactured home in a mobile home community after 2023. |
| 11 | | (b) A person shall supply a weather radio inside each |
| 12 | | manufactured home that the person installs. The weather radio |
| 13 | | must be equipped with the following features: |
| 14 | | (1) tone alarm activation; |
| 15 | | (2) specific alert message encoding, or SAME, |
| 16 | | technology; and |
| 17 | | (3) public alert standard (CEA-2009) certification. |
| 18 | | (c) The supplying of a weather radio by a person that |
| 19 | | installs a manufactured home as required by this Section does |
| 20 | | not subject the person to liability for the functionality of |
| 21 | | that weather radio. |
| 22 | | (d) Each year during National Fire Prevention Week, the |
| 23 | | operator of a mobile home community is encouraged to provide a |