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Illinois Public Construction Bond Act. – 30 ILCS 550
Public Construction Bond Act
Illinois State Prompt Payment Act. – 30 ILCS 540
State Prompt Payment Act
Illinois Local Government Prompt Payment Act. – 50 ILCS 505/1
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 0.01
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Mechanics Lien Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 1
Contractor defined; amount of lien; waiver of lien; attachment of lien; agreement to waive; when not enforceable. (a) Any person who shall by any contract…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 1.1
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-361. Repealed by P.A. 94-627, eff. 1-1-06.)
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 1.2
Rental equipment liens. In addition to persons who would otherwise have a lien under this Act, any person, whether contractor or subcontractor, who leases construction…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 2
Labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work furnished by mistake. Any person furnishing labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 3
Labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work furnished for lands of married person; lands held by husband and wife. If any…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 4
When the owner of the land shall fail to pay the contractor moneys justly due him under the contract at the time when the…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 5
Statement of persons furnishing labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work notice to owner of waiver; size of type. (a) It…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 6
In no event shall it be necessary to fix or stipulate in any contract a time for the completion or a time for payment…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 7
Claim for lien; third parties; errors or overcharges; multiple buildings or lots. (a) No contractor shall be allowed to enforce such lien against or to…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 8
All liens or claims for lien which may arise or accrue under the terms of this act shall be assignable, and proceedings to enforce…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 9
If payment shall not be made to the contractor having a lien by virtue of this act of any amount due when the same…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 10
Suits may be instituted under the provisions of this act in favor of administrators or executors, and may be maintained against the representatives in…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 11
Averments in pleading; parties; dismissal; notice. (a) Any pleading asserting a claim for lien shall contain (i) a brief statement of the contract or contracts…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 12
The court shall permit amendments to any part of the pleadings, and may issue process, make all orders, requiring parties to appear, and requiring…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 13
Defendant shall answer as in other civil actions. (a) The owner may make any defense against the contractor by way of counter claim that he…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 14
In no case shall the want of preparation for trial of one claim delay the trial in respect to others, but trial shall be…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 15
Upon all questions arising between different contractors having liens under this act, no preference shall be given to him whose contract was made first,…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 16
No incumbrance upon land, created before or after the making of the contract under the provisions of this act, shall operate upon the building…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 17
Costs. (a) The costs of proceedings as between all parties to the suit shall be taxed equitably against the losing party, and where taxed…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 18
Whatever right or estate such owner had in the land at the time of making the contract may be sold in the same manner…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 19
The court shall ascertain the amount due each lien creditor and shall direct the application of the proceeds of sale to be made to…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 20
Upon all sales under this Act the right of redemption shall exist in favor of the same persons, and may be made in the…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 21
Sub-contractor defined; lien of sub-contractor; notice; size of type; service of notice; amount of lien; default by contractor. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 21.01
Failure of contractor to pay sub-contractor; fraud; penalty. Any contractor, or if the contractor is a corporation any officer or employee thereof, who with intent…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 21.02
Construction Trust Funds. (a) Money held in trust; trustees. Any owner, contractor, subcontractor, or supplier of any tier who requests or requires the execution and…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 22
Partners or joint contractors; sub-letting of contract; statement by sub-contractor; failure to provide; penalty. Whenever, after a contract has been made, the contractor shall associate…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 23
Liens against public funds. (a) For the purpose of this Section “contractor” includes any sub-contractor; “State” includes any department, board or commission thereof, or other…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 24
Written notice by sub-contractor; service; when notice not necessary; form of notice. (a) Sub-contractors, or parties furnishing labor, materials, fixtures, apparatus, machinery, or services, may…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 25
Notice to persons not found or not residing in county. (a) In all cases where the owner of record, his or her agent, architect, or…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 26
Claim for wages as laborer preferred. The claim of any person for wages under Sections 21 and 22 of this Act shall be a preferred…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 27
When the owner or his agent is notified as provided in this Act, he shall retain from any money due or to become due…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 28
Suits by laborers, materialmen or sub-contractors. If any money due to the laborers, materialmen, or sub-contractors be not paid within 10 days after his notice…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 30
Multiple liens; insufficient funds; hearing; judgment. If there are several liens under Sections 21 and 22 of this Act upon the same premises, and the…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 31
Should the contractor, for any cause, fail to complete his or her contract, any person entitled to a lien under this Act may file…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 32
Payments to contractor by owner. No payments to the contractor or to his order of any money or other considerations due or to become due…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 34
Upon written demand of the owner, lienor, or any person interested in the real estate, or their agent or attorney, served on the person…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 35
Satisfaction or release; recording; neglect; penalty. Whenever a claim for lien has been filed with the recorder of deeds, either by the contractor or sub-contractor,…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 36
Any owner, contractor, sub-contractor or other person who shall purchase materials on credit and represent at the time of purchase that the same are…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 37
Any architect, contractor, sub-contractor, materialman, or other person furnishing services, labor or material for the purpose of or in constructing, building, altering, repairing or…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 38
When claims for lien are filed pursuant to the provisions of Sections 7, 25 and 28, the Recorder shall affix thereto a certificate of…
Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. – 770 ILCS 60, Section 39
This act is and shall be liberally construed as a remedial act. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 230.)
Illinois Home Repair & Remodeling Act. – 815 ILCS 513
Home Repair and Remodeling Act

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