(765 ILCS 5/28b) (from Ch. 30, par. 27b)
Sec. 28b.
Whenever a power of attorney relating to or affecting real estate in
this State, executed by a person who is in the service or employment of the
Federal Government and who is reported by the Federal Government or an
agency or department thereof as lost, missing, missing in action or being
held incommunicado or imprisoned in any foreign country, shall be recorded
in the county in which such real estate is situated, together with an
affidavit, executed by the attorney-in-fact or agent, setting forth that he
has not or had not, at the time of doing any act pursuant to the power of
attorney, received actual knowledge or actual notice of revocation or
termination of the power of attorney, by death or otherwise, or notice of
any facts, indicating the same, any person dealing in good faith with the
person named in such power of attorney, so recorded, as agent or attorney
in fact in any transaction within the powers expressed in such power of
attorney shall not be required to ascertain whether or not the person who
executed such power of attorney be then living, and any bona fide purchaser
for value who accepts a deed, mortgage, lease, or other instrument relating
to or affecting real estate in this State, executed by the person named as
agent or attorney in fact in the power of attorney so recorded, pursuant to
the powers expressed in such power of attorney and in the name of the
principal, shall be protected against any claim that such power of
attorney, so relied upon, had been terminated by the death of the principal
or had been otherwise revoked, unless prior to the execution and delivery
of such deed, mortgage, lease, or other instrument there shall have been
filed in the office of the recorder of the county where the power
of attorney is recorded, (1) an instrument duly executed and acknowledged,
revoking the powers contained in the power of attorney, or (2) an affidavit
in proof of the death of the person who executed such power of attorney.
For the purposes of this Section the term "bona fide purchaser" shall be
deemed to include "bona fide mortgagee".
No report or listing, either official or otherwise, of "missing" or
"missing in action", as such words are used in military parlance, shall
constitute or be interpreted as constituting actual knowledge or actual
notice of the death of such principal or notice of any facts indicating the
same, or shall operate to revoke the agency.
(Source: P.A. 83-358.)
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