Chapter 765 — PROPERTY

(765 ILCS 205/5a) (from Ch. 109, par. 5a) Sec. 5a. The recorder or the Registrar of Title of any county shall not record deeds or leases which attempt to convey property contrary to the provisions of this Act. In case of doubt, the recorder or the Registrar of Title of any county…

(765 ILCS 205/6) (from Ch. 109, par. 6) Sec. 6. Any plat may be vacated by the owner of the premises at any time before the sale of any lot therein, by a written instrument to which a copy of the plat is attached, declaring it to be vacated. If there are public service facilities…

(765 ILCS 205/7) (from Ch. 109, par. 7) Sec. 7. Any part of a plat may be vacated in the manner provided in the preceding section, and subject to the conditions therein prescribed: Provided, such vacation shall not abridge or destroy any of the rights or privileges of other propr…

(765 ILCS 205/8) (from Ch. 109, par. 8) Sec. 8. When any plat or part thereof is vacated the recorder or registrar of titles in whose office the plat is recorded or filed as aforesaid, shall, upon the recording of such vacation, write in plain letters across the plat or part so v…

(765 ILCS 205/9) (from Ch. 109, par. 9) Sec. 9. Whenever any highway, road, street, alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad, reservoir or canal is laid out, located, opened, widened or extended, or its location altered, it is the duty of the commissioners, authorities, officers…

(765 ILCS 205/9.1) (from Ch. 109, par. 9.1) Sec. 9.1. When any county or township authority proposes to extend or widen a public highway by obtaining easements from abutting property owners without transfer of land titles, then such map or plat of the land parcels involved in the…

(765 ILCS 210/0.01) (from Ch. 109, par. 10.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Judicial Plat Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 210/1) (from Ch. 109, par. 11) Sec. 1. In any proceeding in any court in this state, by executors or administrators, for the sale of lands of deceased persons, or by guardians, for the sale of lands of their wards, or for partition of lands, when such lands are to be so…

(765 ILCS 210/14) (from Ch. 109, par. 14) Sec. 14. This Act shall be deemed to incorporate the provisions of Sections 5 and 14.2 of the Condominium Property Act. (Source: P.A. 83-833.)

(765 ILCS 210/2) (from Ch. 109, par. 12) Sec. 2. Maps or plats of lands made in conformity to the preceding section, when approved by the court, shall have the like authenticity as maps or plats of lands made by owners of the same, and shall be sufficient in law for all purposes …

(765 ILCS 210/3) (from Ch. 109, par. 13) Sec. 3. The costs and expenses necessarily incurred in making such subdivisions of lands and maps, or plats of the same, together with the cost of the record thereof, shall be taxed as costs in any suit or proceeding in which the court sha…

(765 ILCS 215/0.01) (from Ch. 133, par. 10.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Permanent Survey Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 215/1) (from Ch. 133, par. 11) Sec. 1. Whenever the owner or owners of adjacent tracts of land shall desire to establish permanently the lines and corners thereof between them, he, she or they may enter into a written agreement to employ and abide by the survey of some …

(765 ILCS 215/2) (from Ch. 133, par. 12) Sec. 2. Whenever one or more proprietors of lands in this state, the corners and boundaries of whose lands are lost, destroyed, or are in dispute, or who are desirous of having said corners and boundaries permanently re-established, and wh…

(765 ILCS 215/3) (from Ch. 133, par. 13) Sec. 3. Upon the filing of proper petition and proof of due notice as aforesaid, the said court shall appoint a commission of three surveyors, entirely disinterested, to make said survey, who shall proceed to make said survey and report th…

(765 ILCS 215/4) (from Ch. 133, par. 14) Sec. 4. Upon the filing of the report, any person whose interest may be affected by the survey shall be at liberty to enter his objections to the report, and the court shall hear and determine the objection, and enter an order or judgment …

(765 ILCS 220/0.01) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-0.1) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Land Survey Monuments Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 220/1) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-1) Sec. 1. It is the finding of the General Assembly that there exists a substantial problem of loss and deterioration of land survey monuments with the attendant uncertainty created in titles and transactions of real property in the State …

(765 ILCS 220/10) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-10) Sec. 10. No monument record need be recorded when a monument record exists and the monument is found as described in the existing record. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/11) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-11) Sec. 11. Any land surveyor, or any person, including the responsible official of any agency of state, county, or local government who shall willfully and knowingly violate any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Clas…

(765 ILCS 220/2) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-2) Sec. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to establish a program of monumentation and preservation and restoration of existing monuments in order to protect and preserve these important land survey monuments. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/3) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3) Sec. 3. Definitions. The following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in Section 3.01 through 3.06. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/3.01) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.01) Sec. 3.01. "Examining Committee" means the examining committee established in Section 3 of "An Act to afford protection to the public by prescribing and regulating the practice of Land Surveying by registration and to repeal an Act…

(765 ILCS 220/3.02) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.02) Sec. 3.02. "Monument Record" means a written and illustrated document describing the physical appearance of a survey monument and its accessories. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/3.03) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.03) Sec. 3.03. "Public land survey monument" means any land boundary monument or position thereof established on the ground by a cadastral survey of the United States Government and made part of United States public land records. (Sour…

(765 ILCS 220/3.04) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.04) Sec. 3.04. "Accessory" means any physical evidence in the vicinity of a survey monument or position thereof, the relative position of which is of public record and which is used to perpetuate the location of the monument. Accessori…

(765 ILCS 220/3.05) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.05) Sec. 3.05. "Aliquot corner" means any corner in the public land survey system created by subdividing a section of land according to the rules of procedure set forth in the "Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands …

(765 ILCS 220/3.06) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-3.06) Sec. 3.06. "Control Corner" means any land survey monument whose position controls the location of the boundaries of a tract or parcel of land. The control corner may or may not be included within the perimeter of said tract or par…

(765 ILCS 220/4) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-4) Sec. 4. An entry book shall be provided by the recorder or Registrar of Deeds for the recordation of a monument record by Illinois Registered Land Surveyors for public land survey corners, as defined by the Manual of Instructions for the…

(765 ILCS 220/5) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-5) Sec. 5. The charge for indexing and recording the monument record shall be the same as for the recording of a miscellaneous document. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/6) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-6) Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the examining committee to prescribe the form in which such monument record shall be presented and recorded, and time limits within which the form shall be recorded. (Source: P.A. 79-649.)

(765 ILCS 220/7) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-7) Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of any land surveyor who conducts a survey which uses as a control corner any public land survey monument, to record with the recorder or Registrar of Titles in the county in which the survey was conducted, a…

(765 ILCS 220/8) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-8) Sec. 8. No monument record shall be recorded unless the same is signed by an Illinois Registered Land Surveyor and impressed with his seal. In case of an agency of the United States government, the record may be signed by the Chief of th…

(765 ILCS 220/9) (from Ch. 133, par. 60-9) Sec. 9. When a monument record is recorded pursuant to this Act, it shall be the duty of the land surveyor to reconstruct or rehabilitate the corner monument and accessories to such corner and, if practicable, affix securely to the top o…

(765 ILCS 226/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois Coordinate System Act of 2024. (Source: P.A. 103-1029, eff. 1-1-25.)

(765 ILCS 226/10) Sec. 10. Illinois Coordinate System Committee. (a) The Illinois Coordinate System Committee is hereby created. The Committee is created for the purpose of creating, reviewing, and revising the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. The Committee shall meet at …

(765 ILCS 226/100) Sec. 100. The Illinois Coordinate System Act is repealed. (Source: P.A. 103-1029, eff. 1-1-25.)

(765 ILCS 226/3) Sec. 3. Purpose. The Illinois Coordinate System Act is established for the purpose of compiling accessible, accurate, reliable, and repeatable data for use in the Illinois Coordinate System and the Illinois State Plane Coordinate System. Highly accurate geospatia…

(765 ILCS 226/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Committee" means the Illinois Coordinate System Committee. "Illinois Coordinate System" means a collection of various plane coordinate systems included in the guide for defining and stating the position or location of po…

(765 ILCS 230/0.01) (from Ch. 1, par. 3500) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Coast and Geodetic Survey Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 230/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3501) Sec. 1. That any person employed under and by virtue of an act of congress of the United States, approved the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and of the supplements thereto, for the survey of the coasts of the …

(765 ILCS 230/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 3502) Sec. 2. If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for damages caused thereby, the United States of America may proceed to condemn said land as provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Emine…

(765 ILCS 230/2.5) Sec. 2.5. Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-…

(765 ILCS 230/3) (from Ch. 1, par. 3503) Sec. 3. If any person shall willfully deface, injure or remove any signal, monument, building, or other property of the United States coast and geodetic survey, constructed or used under or by virtue of the acts of congress aforesaid, he s…

(765 ILCS 330/0.01) (from Ch. 30, par. 37a.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Rights of Entry or Re-entry Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(765 ILCS 330/1) (from Ch. 30, par. 37b) Sec. 1. No possibility of reverter or right of entry or re-entry for breach of a condition subsequent is alienable or devisable; and no conveyance thereof made after the effective date of this Act shall operate in favor of the grantee, or …

(765 ILCS 330/2) (from Ch. 30, par. 37c) Sec. 2. At the termination of a trust, however effected, any possibility of reverter and any right of entry or re-entry for breach of condition subsequent heretofore or hereafter reserved by or to the trustee and affecting land in this Sta…

(765 ILCS 330/3) (from Ch. 30, par. 37d) Sec. 3. When a corporation is dissolved or ceases to exist, any possibility of reverter and any right of entry or re-entry for breach of a condition subsequent heretofore or hereafter reserved by or to the corporation and affecting land in…

(765 ILCS 330/4) (from Ch. 30, par. 37e) Sec. 4. Neither possibilities of reverter nor rights of entry or re-entry for breach of condition subsequent, whether heretofore or hereafter created, where the condition has not been broken, shall be valid for a longer period than 40 year…

(765 ILCS 330/5) (from Ch. 30, par. 37f) Sec. 5. If by reason of a possibility of reverter created more than fifty years prior to the effective date of this Act, a reverter has come into existence prior to the time of the effective date of this Act, no person shall commence an ac…