(765 ILCS 75/0.01) (from Ch. 29, par. 8.20) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Dwelling Unit Installment Contract Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 75/1) (from Ch. 29, par. 8.21) Sec. 1. As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Family unit" means any person maintaining a household, or 2 or more persons maintaining a common household. A person is deemed to be maintaining a household even though the room or rooms being occupied are only sleeping rooms. (b) "Dwelling structure" means any private home or residence, or any building or structure to be occupied or resided in by 12 or less family units. A family unit is deemed to live independently of another family unit even though the family units may be required to share cooking facilities, laundry facilities or bathroom facilities. Dwelling structures do not include public or private hospitals, public or private school dormitories, fraternity houses, convents, monasteries, mental institutions, penal institutions, seminaries, State-licensed nursing homes or shelter care homes, or any federal, State, county or municipal institution or home. (c) "Dwelling code" means any municipal or county ordinance, building code, or law establishing construction, plumbing, heating, electrical, fire prevention, sanitation or other health and safety standards applicable to dwellings. (d) "Contract seller" means the owner of a legal or beneficial interest in a dwelling structure, or the owner's agent who executes an installment contract to sell a dwelling structure for the owner. (e) "Installment contract" means any contract or agreement, including contracts for deeds, bonds for deeds or any other sale or legal device, whereby a contract seller agrees to sell and a buyer agrees to buy a dwelling structure, wherein the consideration for such sale is payable in installments for a period of at least one year after buyer takes possession of the dwelling structure and the contract seller continues to have an interest, or security for the purchase price or otherwise in that property. (f) "Certificate of compliance" means an affidavit executed by a contract seller stating that the dwelling structure was inspected within 30 days before the contract was executed by an Inspector of the Municipality or County wherein the premises is located, and that at the date of the execution of the contract the dwelling structure is not in violation of any dwelling code. (Source: Laws 1968, p. 164.)

(765 ILCS 75/2) (from Ch. 29, par. 8.22) Sec. 2. After the effective date of this Act, any installment contract for the sale of a dwelling structure shall be voidable at the election of the buyer unless there is attached to the contract or incorporated therein a certificate of compliance, or in the absence of such a certificate (i) an express written warranty that no notice from any city, village or other governmental authority of a dwelling Code violation which existed in the dwelling structure before the installment contract was executed had been received by the contract seller, his principal or his agent within 10 years of the date of execution of the installment contract, or, (ii) if any such notice of violation had been received, a list of all such notices so received with a detailed statement of all violations referred to in such notice. The requirements of this section cannot be waived by the buyer or seller. (Source: Laws 1968, p. 164.)