2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 50 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT › 50 ILCS 830/ - Contractor Unified License and Permit Bond Act.

(50 ILCS 830/1)
Sec. 1. 
		
		This Act may be cited as the Contractor Unified License and Permit Bond Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/5)
Sec. 5. 
		Application. 
		Except for the City of Chicago, this Act applies to
all counties, municipalities, and home rule units.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/10)
Sec. 10. 
		Definitions. 
		As used in this Act,
"Contractor" means any
person who, in any capacity other than as the employee of another for wages as
the sole compensation, undertakes to construct, alter, repair, move, wreck, or
demolish any fixture or structure. The term includes a subcontractor or
specialty
contractor, but does not include a person who furnishes only materials or
supplies.
"Home rule unit" has the meaning provided in Section 6 of Article VII of the
Illinois Constitution.
"Municipality" means a city, village, incorporated town, or township.
"Unified license and permit bond" means a single bond combining what are
commonly known as a license bond and a permit bond, issued on a uniform
document prescribed by the
county board or board of county commissioners that includes the name of the
county, the name and address of the contractor, the amount of the unified bond,
the time period covered by the unified bond, and other required terms and
conditions of the unified bond.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/15)
Sec. 15. 
		Rules. 
		The county board or county board of commissioners may
adopt rules and enter into intergovernmental agreements to implement this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/20)
Sec. 20. Unified license and permit bond.
(a) A contractor seeking to do work or doing work in a county or
municipality may obtain a
unified license and permit bond.  This unified license and permit bond may be
used by the contractor, at the contractor's discretion, instead of any other
license or permit bond, or both, required of a contractor by the county or a
municipality within that county.  The bond shall be in the amount of at least
$50,000 for counties included within the provisions of the Northeastern
Illinois Planning Act (now repealed) and in the amount of at least $25,000 for all other
counties.
(b) The unified license and permit bond shall be held for compliance with
the ordinances and regulations governing
contractors in the county or any municipality within that county where the
contractor seeks to do work or is
doing work.  The unified bond required by this Act shall be filed by the
contractor with the county clerk.
At the time of filing, the county clerk may charge a reasonable administration
fee, determined by the county board or board of county commissioners.
(c) If a contractor elects to use a unified license and permit bond under
this
Act and the territory of a municipality where a contractor seeks to do or is
doing
work is included within more than one county, then the contractor shall obtain
a unified license and permit bond from each county and shall file
a unified bond with each of the respective county clerks whether or not the
contractor seeks to do or is doing work in that part of the municipality
included in only one
of the counties.
In addition, the contractor shall file a certified copy of the unified
bond with the clerk in the municipality within that county where the
contractor seeks to do work or is doing work.  At the time of the filing, the
clerk may charge a
reasonable administration fee, determined by the corporate authorities of the
municipality.
(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)
(50 ILCS 830/25)
Sec. 25. 
		Local permits, licenses, or performance bonds. 
		This Act does
not prohibit a county or municipality within that county from requiring local
permits, licenses, or performance bonds for contractors to do business in that
county or municipality or from charging reasonable permit or license fees or
reasonable amounts for performance bonds.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/30)
Sec. 30. 
		Home rule. 
		A home rule unit may not regulate unified
license and permit bonds for contractors in a manner inconsistent with this
Act.
This
Section is a limitation under
subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the
concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the
State.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)
(50 ILCS 830/99)
Sec. 99. 
		Effective date. 
		This Act takes effect upon becoming law.
(Source: P.A. 90-712, eff. 8-7-98.)