Hillside — Ch. 18 Art. XIII Condominium Conversion § 18-580

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section.
Agent means any person, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, corporation or any other entity or combination of entities, who represents or acts for or on behalf of a developer in selling or offering to sell any condominium unit.
Bedrooms shall be defined by the inclusion of enclosed closet space and a door that separates the sleeping quarters from other interior space.
Board of managers means the entity formed in compliance with all regulations of the Illinois Condominium Property Act as the acting body of the property.
Building means all structures, attached or unattached, containing one or more units.
Common elements means all portions of the property except the units, including limited common elements unless otherwise specified.
Common expenses means the proposed or actual expenses affecting the property, including reserves, if any, lawfully assessed by the board of managers of the unit owner's association.
Condominium instruments means all documents and authorized amendments thereto recorded pursuant to the provisions of the Act, including the declaration, bylaws and plat.
Conversion condominium means a property that contains structures, excepting those newly constructed and intended for condominium ownership, which are, or have previously been, wholly or partially occupied before recording of condominium instruments by persons other than those who have contracted for the purchase of condominiums.
Declaration means the instrument by which the property is submitted to the provisions of this Act, as hereinafter provided, and such declaration as from time to time amended.
Dens shall be differentiated from bedrooms by the fact that there are no closets.
Developer means any person who submits property legally or equitably owned in fee simple by the developer, or leased to the developer to the provisions of this Act, or any person who offers units legally or equitably owned in fee simple by the developer, or leased to the developer, for sale in the ordinary course of such person's business, including any successor or successors to such developers' entire interest in the property other than the purchaser of an individual unit.
Dwelling unit or unit means a part of the property designed and intended for any type of independent use. This shall be inclusive of all bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and the like that are inhabited and owned independently from the rest of the property.
General common elements means except as otherwise provided in the plat of condominium subdivision, all portions of the property with the exception of the individual condominium unit.
Limited common elements means those common elements to be reserved for the use of a certain number of condominium units, such as special corridors, stairways, elevators, parking and other items common to a particular floor, and the like.
Parcel means the lot or lots, tract or tracts of land, described in the declaration, submitted to the provisions of this Act.
Person means a natural individual, corporation, partnership, trustee or other legal entity capable of holding title to real property.
Plat means a plat or plats of survey of the parcel and of all units in the property submitted to the provisions of this Act, which may consist of a three-dimensional horizontal and vertical delineation of all such units.
Property means all the land, property and space comprising the parcel, all improvements and structures erected, constructed or contained therein or thereon, including the building and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all fixtures and equipment intended for the mutual use, benefit or enjoyment of the unit owners, submitted to the provisions of this Act.
Purchaser means any person or persons other than the Developer who purchase a unit in a bona fide transaction for value.
Unit owner means the person or persons whose estates or interests, individually or collectively, aggregate fee simple absolute ownership of a unit.
Unit owners' association or "Association" means the association of all the unit owners, acting pursuant to bylaws through its duly elected board of managers.