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91_HB4144eng HB4144 Engrossed LRB9111020MWgcA 1 AN ACT in relation to condominiums. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 3. The Counties Code is amended by changing 5 Section 5-1041 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/5-1041) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1041) 7 Sec. 5-1041. Maps, plats and subdivisions. A county board 8 may prescribe, by resolution or ordinance, reasonable rules 9 and regulations governing the location, width and course of 10 streets and highways and of floodplain, stormwater and 11 floodwater runoff channels and basins, and the provision of 12 necessary public grounds for schools, public libraries, parks 13 or playgrounds, in any map, plat or subdivision of any block, 14 lot or sub-lot or any part thereof or any piece or parcel of 15 land, not being within any city, village or incorporated 16 town. The authority granted to county boards under this 17 Section does not apply to condominium campgrounds in non-home 18 rule counties with a population of less than 35,000 according 19 to the 1990 federal Decennial Census. A "condominium 20 campground", for purposes of this Section, is a campground as 21 defined in the Campground Licensing and Recreational Area Act 22 in which individual units are sold. This amendatory Act of 23 the 91st General Assembly is declarative of existing law. 24 The rules and regulations may include such reasonable 25 requirements with respect to water supply and sewage 26 collection and treatment as may be established by the 27 Environmental Protection Agency, and such reasonable 28 requirements with respect to floodplain and stormwater 29 management as may be established by the County Stormwater 30 Management Committee established under Section 5-1062 of this 31 Code, and such reasonable requirements with respect to street HB4144 Engrossed -2- LRB9111020MWgcA 1 drainage and surfacing as may be established by the county 2 engineer or superintendent of highways and which by 3 resolution shall be deemed to be the minimum requirements in 4 the interest of the health, safety, education and convenience 5 of the public of the county; and may provide by resolution 6 that the map, plat or subdivision shall be submitted to the 7 county board or to some officer to be designated by the 8 county board for their or his approval. The county board 9 shall have a qualified engineer make an estimate of the 10 probable expenditures necessary to enable any person to 11 conform with the standards of construction established by the 12 board pursuant to the provisions of this Section. Except as 13 provided in Section 3 of the Public Construction Bond Act, 14 each person who seeks the county board's approval of a map, 15 plat or subdivision shall post a good and sufficient bond or 16 other adequate security with the county clerk, in a penal sum 17 sufficient to cover the estimate of expenditures made by the 18 estimating engineer. The bond or other adequate security 19 shall be conditioned upon faithful adherence to the rules and 20 regulations of the county board promulgated pursuant to the 21 authorization granted to it by this Section or by Section 22 5-1062 of this Code, and in such cases no such map, plat or 23 subdivision shall be entitled to record in the proper county 24 or have any validity until it has been so approved. This 25 Section is subject to the provisions of Section 5-1123. 26 The county board may, by resolution, provide a schedule 27 of fees sufficient to reimburse the county for the costs 28 incurred in reviewing such maps, plats and subdivisions 29 submitted for approval to the county board. The fees 30 authorized by this Section are to be paid into the general 31 corporate fund of the county by the party desiring to have 32 the plat approved. 33 No officer designated by a county board for the approval 34 of plats shall engage in the business of surveying, and no HB4144 Engrossed -3- LRB9111020MWgcA 1 map, plat or subdivision shall be received for record or have 2 any validity which has been prepared by or under the 3 direction of such plat officer. 4 It is the intention of this amendatory Act of 1990 to 5 repeal the language added to Section 25.09 of "An Act to 6 revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 7 1874, by P.A. 86-614, Section 25.09 of that Act being the 8 predecessor of this Section. 9 (Source: P.A. 90-558, eff. 12-12-97; 91-328, eff. 1-1-00.) 10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 11 becoming law.