Illinois Compiled Statutes 765 ILCS 745 Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act. Section 12

    (765 ILCS 745/12) (from Ch. 80, par. 212)

    Sec. 12. Lease prohibitions. No lease hereafter executed or currently existing between a park owner and tenant in a mobile home park or manufactured home community in this State shall contain any provision:

        (a) Permitting the park owner to charge a penalty fee

    for late payment of rent without allowing a tenant a minimum of 5 days beyond the date the rent is due in which to remit such payment;

        (b) Permitting the park owner to charge an amount in

    excess of one month's rent as a security deposit;

        (c) Requiring the tenant to pay any fees not

    specified in the lease;

        (d) Permitting the park owner to transfer, or move, a

    mobile home to a different lot, including a different lot in the same mobile home park or manufactured home community, during the term of the lease;

        (e) Waiving the homeowner's right to a trial by jury.

    If one provision of a lease is invalid, that does not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of the lease.

(Source: P.A. 98-1062, eff. 1-1-15.)

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