94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4760


 
Introduced 01/18/06, by Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














765 ILCS 5/35c
  from Ch. 30, par. 34c







    Amends the Conveyances Act.
Provides that the signatures of all persons conveying an interest in real property shall be notarized on the instrument of conveyance.
















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    AN ACT concerning property.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Conveyances Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 35c as follows:
 



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    (765 ILCS 5/35c)  (from Ch. 30, par. 34c)



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    Sec. 35c. Whenever any deed or instrument of conveyance or 
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other instrument
to be made a matter of record is executed 
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there shall be typed or printed
to the side or below all 
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signatures the names of the parties signing such
instruments 
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including the witnesses thereto, if any, and the names of the

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parties or officers taking the acknowledgments. The absence or 
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neglect to
print or type the names of the parties under the 
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signatures shall not
invalidate the instrument.

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    Whenever any deed or instrument of conveyance or other 
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instrument to be made a matter of record is executed, the 
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signatures of the parties making the conveyance shall be 
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notarized by a notary public appointed and commissioned by the 
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Secretary of State, or an equivalent officer in another state.  
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The absence or neglect to notarize the signatures of the 
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parties making the conveyance shall not invalidate the 
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instrument.

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    Whenever any deed or instrument of conveyance is executed 
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the name and
address of the owner or owners to whom subsequent 
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tax bills are to be sent
shall be endorsed on the instrument. 
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The absence or neglect of any one to
comply with this provision 
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shall not invalidate the instrument.

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    Whenever any deed or instrument of conveyance is executed 
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and is to be
made a matter of record wherein a
metes and bounds 
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description is incorporated, the metes and bounds
description 
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shall contain the section, township and range with an

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identifiable point of beginning.  Subsequent courses shall 
 


 






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contain
approximate linear distance and direction values, 
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direction being defined
as any one or more of the following:

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    a. The angular relationship of the described course to a 
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described course.

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    b. The bearing of the described course relative to the 
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bearing of a
described course.

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    c. The relationship of the described course to a known 
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line, or a
point thereon, such as a previously described course 
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in the same
description or a line of a section or fraction 
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thereof or a line in a
platted lot or block.

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    If references are made to existing monuments or points or 
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lines of
previously recorded conveyances, the instant 
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description shall contain
sufficient information so that it may 
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be located without reference to
matters outside the instant 
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description.

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    The neglect to comply with the provisions of this Section 
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shall not
invalidate the instrument.

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(Source: P.A. 85-1232.)