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The actual law · Illinois
Illinois Common Interest Community Association Act (765 ILCS 160) & Condominium Property Act (765 ILCS 605), full text. This is the law your board answers to — read it yourself, then use the owner guides to see what it means in practice.
Governs Illinois common interest communities other than condominiums and cooperatives -- typically townhome, villa, and single-family-home associations whose owners must pay for shared common areas under a recorded declaration administered by an association (765 ILCS 160). Covers definitions, applicability, board elections and voting, board duties and records, member rights and resale disclosure, meetings and quorum, and finances and budgets. The Act does not create its own recorded-lien or power-of-sale foreclosure mechanism; associations collect unpaid assessments through the courts, including the possession remedy under the Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/Art. IX). No non-judicial power of sale is conferred.
Board of managers, board of directors, duties, elections, and voting
Covered in an owner guide
Board duties and obligations; records
Covered in an owner guide
The translation
The statute is the authority; the guides are the translation. Each one walks a real owner problem through the Illinois sections that control it.
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Member powers, duties, and obligations
Meetings
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Finances
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Definitions
Governs property submitted to the condominium form of ownership in Illinois under 765 ILCS 605. Covers definitions, sharing of common expenses and the assessment lien (with judicial foreclosure in the same manner as a mortgage), powers and duties of the board of managers, master associations, association records and member examination rights, and the resale disclosure a unit owner must furnish a prospective purchaser.
Powers and duties of board of managers
Covered in an owner guide
Records of the association; availability for examination
Covered in an owner guide
Definitions
Covered in an owner guide
Resale of condominium unit; disclosure to prospective purchaser
Covered in an owner guide
Sharing of expenses; lien for nonpayment
Covered in an owner guide
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