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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4999

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 4999  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.   The Condominium Property Act is amended by
 5    changing Section 18.4 as follows:

 6        (765 ILCS 605/18.4) (from Ch. 30, par. 318.4)
 7        Sec. 18.4.  Powers and Duties of Board of Managers.   The
 8    board  of  managers  shall  exercise  for the association all
 9    powers, duties and authority vested in the association by law
10    or the condominium instruments except for such powers, duties
11    and  authority  reserved  by  law  to  the  members  of   the
12    association.   The powers and duties of the board of managers
13    shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
14             (a)  To provide for  the  operation,  care,  upkeep,
15        maintenance,  replacement  and  improvement of the common
16        elements.  Nothing in this subsection (a) shall be deemed
17        to invalidate any provision in a  condominium  instrument
18        placing  limits  on expenditures for the common elements,
19        provided, that such limits shall  not  be  applicable  to
20        expenditures  for  repair, replacement, or restoration of
21        existing portions  of  the  common  elements.   The  term
22        "repair,  replacement  or restoration" means expenditures
 
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 1        to deteriorated  or  damaged  portions  of  the  property
 2        related   to  the  existing  decorating,  facilities,  or
 3        structural or mechanical components, interior or exterior
 4        surfaces,  or  energy  systems  and  equipment  with  the
 5        functional equivalent of the original  portions  of  such
 6        areas.   Replacement of the common elements may result in
 7        an improvement over the original quality of such elements
 8        or facilities; provided that, unless the  improvement  is
 9        mandated  by  law  or  is an emergency as defined in item
10        (iv) of subparagraph (8) of paragraph (a) of Section  18,
11        if  the  improvement  results  in  a proposed expenditure
12        exceeding 5% of the annual budget, the board of managers,
13        upon written petition by unit  owners  with  20%  of  the
14        votes of the association delivered to the board within 14
15        days after the owners receive written notification of the
16        agenda of the board proposing to approve the expenditure,
17        shall call a meeting of the unit owners within 30 days of
18        the  date  of  delivery  of  the petition to consider the
19        expenditure.  Unless a majority of the total votes of the
20        unit owners  are  cast  at  the  meeting  to  reject  the
21        expenditure, it is ratified.
22             (b)  To  prepare,  adopt  and  distribute the annual
23        budget for the property.
24             (c)  To levy and expend assessments.
25             (d)  To collect assessments from unit owners.
26             (e)  To provide for the employment and dismissal  of
27        the  personnel necessary or advisable for the maintenance
28        and operation of the common elements.
29             (f)  To obtain adequate  and  appropriate  kinds  of
30        insurance.
31             (g)  To  own, convey, encumber, lease, and otherwise
32        deal with units conveyed to or purchased by it.
33             (h)  To  adopt  and  amend  rules  and   regulations
34        covering  the  details  of  the  operation and use of the
 
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 1        property, after a meeting of the unit owners  called  for
 2        the specific purpose of discussing the proposed rules and
 3        regulations.   Notice  of  the  meeting shall contain the
 4        full text of the proposed rules and regulations, and  the
 5        meeting  shall  conform  to  the  requirements of Section
 6        18(b) of this Act, except that no quorum is  required  at
 7        the  meeting  of  the unit owners unless the declaration,
 8        bylaws or other condominium instrument expressly provides
 9        to the contrary.  However,  no  rule  or  regulation  may
10        impair  any  rights  guaranteed by the First Amendment to
11        the Constitution of the United States  or  Section  4  of
12        Article I of the Illinois Constitution, nor may any rules
13        or  regulations  conflict with the provisions of this Act
14        or the condominium instruments.
15             (i)  To  keep  detailed,  accurate  records  of  the
16        receipts and expenditures affecting the use and operation
17        of the property.
18             (j)  To have access to each unit from time  to  time
19        as  may  be  necessary  for  the  maintenance,  repair or
20        replacement  of  any  common  elements  or   for   making
21        emergency  repairs  necessary  to  prevent  damage to the
22        common elements or to other units.
23             (k)  To   pay   real   property    taxes,    special
24        assessments,  and  any  other special taxes or charges of
25        the State of Illinois or  of  any  political  subdivision
26        thereof,  or other lawful taxing or assessing body, which
27        are authorized by law to be assessed and levied upon  the
28        real property of the condominium.
29             (l)  To  impose  charges  for late payment of a unit
30        owner's proportionate share of the  common  expenses,  or
31        any other expenses lawfully agreed upon, and after notice
32        and  an opportunity to be heard, to levy reasonable fines
33        for violation of the declaration, by-laws, and rules  and
34        regulations of the association.
 
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 1             (m)  Unless  the  condominium  instruments expressly
 2        provide to the contrary, by a majority vote of the entire
 3        board of managers, to assign the right of the association
 4        to future income from common expenses or  other  sources,
 5        and  to  mortgage  or  pledge  substantially  all  of the
 6        remaining assets of the association.
 7             (n)  To record the dedication of a  portion  of  the
 8        common  elements  to  a  public  body  for  use as, or in
 9        connection with, a street or utility where authorized  by
10        the unit owners under the provisions of Section 14.2.
11             (o)  To  record  the granting of an easement for the
12        laying of cable television cable where authorized by  the
13        unit  owners  under  the  provisions  of Section 14.3; to
14        obtain, if available and determined by the board to be in
15        the best interests of the association,  cable  television
16        service for all of the units of the condominium on a bulk
17        identical  service  and equal cost per unit basis; and to
18        assess and recover the expense as a common  expense  and,
19        if  so  determined by the board, to assess each and every
20        unit on the same equal cost per unit basis.
21             (p)  To seek relief on behalf  of  all  unit  owners
22        when  authorized pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 10
23        from or in connection with the assessment or  levying  of
24        real  property  taxes, special assessments, and any other
25        special taxes or changes of the State of Illinois  or  of
26        any political subdivision thereof or of any lawful taxing
27        or assessing body.
28             (q)  To   reasonably  accommodate  the  needs  of  a
29        handicapped unit owner as required by the  federal  Civil
30        Rights  Act  of  1968,  the  Human  Rights  Act  and  any
31        applicable local ordinances in the exercise of its powers
32        with respect to the use of common elements or approval of
33        modifications in an individual unit.
34        In  the  performance  of  their  duties, the officers and
 
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 1    members of the board, whether appointed by the  developer  or
 2    elected  by the unit owners, shall exercise the care required
 3    of a fiduciary of the unit owners.
 4        The collection of assessments  from  unit  owners  by  an
 5    association,  board  of  managers  or  their  duly authorized
 6    agents shall not be considered acts constituting a collection
 7    agency for purposes of the Collection Agency Act.
 8        The provisions of this  Section  are  applicable  to  all
 9    condominium instruments recorded under this Act.  Any portion
10    of   a   condominium  instrument  which  contains  provisions
11    contrary to these provisions shall be void as against  public
12    policy  and  ineffective.   Any such instrument that fails to
13    contain the provisions required  by  this  Section  shall  be
14    deemed to incorporate such provisions by operation of law.
15    (Source: P.A. 91-195, eff. 7-20-99.)

16        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
17    becoming law.".

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