Elgin — Ch. 16.46 Residential Condominium Conversions § 16.46.050

A. A developer submitting a property to the provisions of the Illinois Condominium Property Act (765 ILCS 605/1 et seq.), as amended, shall file a notice of intent to convert with the director within three (3) business days from the date said notice is given to the tenants of the property. A code inspection of the property, including all projected condominium units and common elements and facilities, shall be scheduled by agreement between the developer and the director when the notice of intent to convert is received by the director.
B. Any code violations and deficiencies detected during an inspection of projected condominium units and common elements and facilities shall be corrected by the developer at least thirty (30) days prior to the closing of a sales contract on any condominium unit to provide the director with adequate time to perform a re-inspection of the premises and prepare the inspection report and certificate for delivery to the prospective purchaser by the developer at or prior to closing as required by this section. Said corrections shall be evidenced by a code inspection report and certificate of code compliance, except as provided in this section, issued by the director.
C. If substantial rehabilitation is being performed as part of a conversion to condominium, the director may issue a partial certificate of code compliance to permit the closing of sales contracts for those condominium units in which rehabilitation is complete and all code violations are corrected. Partial certificates also may be issued for common elements and facilities on which rehabilitation is complete and all code violations are corrected. However, prior to the issuance of a certificate of code compliance for the entire property, a re-inspection shall be made on all common elements and facilities and units for which sales contracts have not been closed. Any recurrence of code violations in the common elements and facilities covered by a partial certificate of code compliance shall be corrected by the developer at the developer's expense unless control of the building has passed to the board of managers.
D. Until such time as all units in a condominium property are sold, the director shall conduct annual code inspections of all common elements, all common facilities, and at least ten (10) percent (but never less than one (1) unit) of the unsold condominium units.
E. Subsequent to the sale of all condominium units, the director shall conduct an annual inspection of all the common elements and facilities of a condominium property. The condominium building shall be subject to all applicable city ordinances which may be enforced as to the developer, unit owners, board of managers or any other person to whom the ordinances are applicable.
F. A developer shall be required to provide a prospective purchaser with a copy of a code inspection report and a certificate or partial certificate of code compliance prior to or at the closing of a condominium unit sales contract.