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91_HB0504
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1 AN ACT to amend the Mechanics Lien Act by changing
2 Section 1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Mechanics Lien Act is amended by changing
6 Section 1 as follows:
7 (770 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 82, par. 1)
8 Sec. 1. Any person who shall by any contract or
9 contracts, express or implied, or partly expressed or
10 implied, with the owner of a lot or tract of land, or with
11 one whom the owner has authorized or knowingly permitted to
12 contract, to improve the lot or tract of land or to manage a
13 structure thereon, or to furnish material, fixtures,
14 apparatus or machinery, forms or form work used in the
15 process of construction where cement, concrete or like
16 material is used for the purpose of or in the building,
17 altering, repairing or ornamenting any house or other
18 building, walk or sidewalk, whether the walk or sidewalk is
19 on the land or bordering thereon, driveway, fence or
20 improvement or appurtenances to the lot or tract of land or
21 connected therewith, and upon, over or under a sidewalk,
22 street or alley adjoining; or fill, sod or excavate such lot
23 or tract of land, or do landscape work thereon or therefor;
24 or raise or lower any house thereon or remove any house
25 thereto, or remove any house or other structure therefrom, or
26 perform any services or incur any expense as an architect,
27 structural engineer, professional engineer, land surveyor or
28 property manager in, for or on a lot or tract of land for any
29 such purpose; or drill any water well thereon; or furnish or
30 perform labor or services as superintendent, time keeper,
31 mechanic, laborer or otherwise, in the building, altering,
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1 repairing or ornamenting of the same; or lease as lessor any
2 heavy construction equipment, with or without an operator,
3 for use about the land or a structure on the land; or
4 furnish material, fixtures, apparatus, machinery, labor or
5 services, forms or form work used in the process of
6 construction where concrete, cement or like material is used,
7 or drill any water well on the order of his agent, architect,
8 structural engineer or superintendent having charge of the
9 improvements, building, altering, repairing or ornamenting
10 the same, is known under this Act as a contractor, and has a
11 lien upon the whole of such lot or tract of land and upon
12 adjoining or adjacent lots or tracts of land of such owner
13 constituting the same premises and occupied or used in
14 connection with such lot or tract of land as a place of
15 residence or business; and in case the contract relates to 2
16 or more buildings, on 2 or more lots or tracts of land, upon
17 all such lots and tracts of land and improvements thereon for
18 the amount due to him for such material, fixtures, apparatus,
19 machinery, services or labor, and interest at the rate of 10%
20 per annum from the date the same is due. This lien extends
21 to an estate in fee, for life, for years, or any other estate
22 or any right of redemption, or other interest which the owner
23 may have in the lot or tract of land at the time of making
24 such contract or may subsequently acquire. The taking of
25 additional security by the contractor or sub-contractor is
26 not a waiver of any right of lien which he may have by virtue
27 of this Act, unless made a waiver by express agreement of the
28 parties and the waiver is not prohibited by this Act. This
29 lien attaches as of the date of the contract.
30 (Source: P.A. 86-807; 87-361.)
31 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
32 becoming law.