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815 ILCS 513/10 (2026)

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(815 ILCS 513/10)
    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
    "Home repair and remodeling" means the fixing, replacing, altering, converting, modernizing, improving, or making of an addition to any real property primarily designed or used as a residence other than maintenance, service, or repairs under $500. "Home repair and remodeling" includes the construction, installation, replacement, or improvement of driveways, swimming pools, porches, kitchens, bathrooms, basements, chimneys, chimney liners, garages, fences, fallout shelters, central air conditioning, central heating, boilers, furnaces, electrical wiring, sewers, plumbing fixtures, storm doors, windows, roofs, awnings, and other improvements to structures within the residence or upon the land adjacent to the residence. "Home repair and remodeling" does not include the sale, installation, cleaning, or repair of carpets; the repair, installation, replacement, or connection of any home appliance including, but not limited to, disposals, refrigerators, ranges, garage door openers, televisions or television antennas, washing machines, telephones, hot water heaters, satellite dishes, or other appliances when the persons replacing, installing, repairing, or connecting the home appliance are employees or agents of the merchant that sold the home appliance or sold new products of the same type; or landscaping.
    "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, business, trust, or other legal entity.
    "Residence" means a single-family home or dwelling or a multiple-family home or dwelling containing 6 or fewer apartments, condominiums, town houses, or dwelling units, used or intended to be used by occupants as dwelling places. This Act does not apply to original construction of single-family or multi-family residences or repairs to dwellings containing more than 6 apartments or family units.
(Source: P.A. 91-230, eff. 1-1-00.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 2006–2010 · leading case: MD Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. Abrams, 888 N.E.2d 54 (Ill. 2008).
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MD Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. Abrams, 888 N.E.2d 54 (Ill. 2008). · cites it 6× “" 815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006). "Home repair and remodeling" is defined as "the fixing, replacing, altering, converting, modernizing, improving, or making of an addition to any real property primarily designed or used as a residence other than maintenance, service, or repairs…”
MD Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. Abrams, 859 N.E.2d 1070 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006). · cites it 4× “” 815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2004). “§15. Written contract; costs enumerated.”
Artisan Design Build, Inc. v. Bilstrom, 397 Ill. App. 3d 317 (Ill. App. Ct. 2009). · cites it 2× “815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006). “Person” means “any individual, partnership, corporation, business, trust, or other legal entity.”
Tom Geise Plumbing, Inc. v. Taylor, 917 N.E.2d 1209 (Ill. App. Ct. 2009). · cites it 5× “Quoting section 10 of the Act (815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006)), the court noted that the Act states “ ‘Home repair and remodeling’ means the fixing, replacing, altering, converting, modernizing, improving, or making of an addition to any real property primarily designed or used as…”
Fleissner v. Fitzgerald, 937 N.E.2d 1152 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). “815 ILCS 513/10, 15, 30 (West 2008). Turning to the facts of this case, we have a statute that declares that the business of home repair or remodeling affects the public interest and that improved and accurate communications between contractors and consumers will have a positive…”
Artisan Design Build, Inc. v. Bilstrom, 922 N.E.2d 361 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). · cites it 2× “815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006). "Person" means "any individual, partnership, corporation, business, trust, or other legal entity.”
MD Elec. Eontractors, Inc. v. Abrams (Ill. App. Ct. 2006). · cites it 4× “" 815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2004). "§15. Written contract; costs enumerated.”
MD Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. Abrams (Ill. 2008). · cites it 3× “” 815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006). “Home repair and remodeling” is defined as “the fixing, replacing, altering, converting, modernizing, improving, or making of an addition to any real property primarily designed or used as a residence other than maintenance, service, or repairs…”
Tom Geise Plumbing, Inc. v. Taylor (Ill. App. Ct. 2009). · cites it 3× “Quoting section 10 of the Act (815 ILCS 513/10 (West 2006)), the court noted that the Act states "'Home repair and remodeling' means the fixing, replacing, altering, converting, modernizing, improving, or making of an addition to any real property primarily designed or used as a…”
Fleissner v. Fitzgerald (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). “815 ILCS 513/10, 15, 30 (West 2008). Turning to the facts of this case, we have a statute that declares that the business of home repair or remodeling affects the public interest and that improved and accurate communications between contractors and consumers will have a positive…”
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