(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.)
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