Day Two: The New Year Countdown – Statewide Building and Residential Code
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.
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