HB1694 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1694

Introduced , by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

735 ILCS 30/1-1-5

Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Eminent Domain Act is amended by changing Section 1-1-5 as follows:

(735 ILCS 30/1-1-5)

Sec. 1-1-5. Definitions. As used in this Act, except with with respect to the acquisition or damaging of property authorized under the O'Hare Modernization Act:

"Acquisition of property", unless the context otherwise requires, includes the acquisition, damaging, or use of property or any right to or interest in property.

"Blighted area", "blight", and "blighted" have the same meanings as under the applicable statute authorizing the condemning authority to exercise the power of eminent domain or, if those terms have no defined meaning under the applicable statute, then the same meanings as under Section 11-74.4-3 of the Illinois Municipal Code.

"Condemning authority" means the State or any unit of local government, school district, or other entity authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)