This year,
Municipal Minute will be counting down to the New Year with updates on
legislation that will be effective starting on January 1, 2025.
Back in May, we reported on changes made by Public Act 103-0510 to the Capital Development Board
Act and the Illinois Residential Building Code Act. The new law requires
certain building code standards to be adopted to create a statewide building
code.
Effective
January 1, 2025, the new laws will prohibit any person from occupying a “newly
constructed commercial building” or a “substantially improved commercial
building” in any “non-building code jurisdiction” until the property owner has
contracted with a qualified inspector to inspect the building.
Also
effective January 1, 2025, the law requires any municipal or county building
code to regulate the structural design of new buildings, rehabilitation work in
existing buildings, and residential buildings in a manner at least as stringent
as the applicable baseline code applicable to those buildings. This section
also expressly preempts home rule municipalities.
Post Authored by Alexis Carter & Julie Tappendorf, Ancel Glink