Illinois Compiled Statutes 765 ILCS 120 — Real Property Conservation Rights Act.

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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Real Property Conservation Rights Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(a) A conservation right is a right, whether stated in the form of a restriction, easement, covenant or condition, or, without limitation, in any other form in any deed, will, plat, or without limitation any other instrument executed by or on behalf of the owner of land or in any condemnation order of taking, appropria…

Any owner of real property in this State may convey a conservation right in such real property to the United States or any agency of the federal government, to an agency of the State, to a unit of local government, to a federally recognized Indian tribe, or to a not-for-profit corporation or trust whose primary purpose…

For the purposes of this Act the word "owner" shall include not only the owner of fee simple title, but also the owner of any other interest in the land, including, without limitation, a contract purchaser, a lessee, and a life tenant. Provided, any conveyance shall bind only the interest of the grantor, nor shall any…

A conservation right created pursuant to this Act may be enforced in an action seeking injunctive relief, specific performance, or damages in the circuit court of the county in which the area, place, building, structure or site is located by any of the following: (a) the United States or any agency of the federal gover…

All instruments creating conservation rights and all instruments releasing conservation rights shall be duly recorded in the county where the land lies so as to affect title in the manner of other conveyances of interests in land and shall describe the land subject to or released from such conservation right by adequat…

This Act shall not be construed to imply that any restriction, easement, covenant or condition which does not have the benefit of the Act shall, on account of any provision herein, be unenforceable

This Act shall not be construed to imply that any restriction, easement, covenant or condition which does not have the benefit of the Act shall, on account of any provision herein, be unenforceable. Nothing in this Act shall diminish the powers granted in any other law to acquire by purchase, gift, grant, eminent domai…