9-118.Emergency housing eviction proceedings.

It applies to housing owned or managed by a housing authority, or privately owned and managed, where a verified complaint alleges direct evidence of unlawful drug activity -- possessing, storing, manufacturing, using, selling, or trafficking cannabis, methamphetamine, narcotics, or controlled substances -- an otherwise-prohibited firearm, or a specific list of violent and sexual felonies, all on the premises, committed by, with the knowledge and consent of, or in concert with the person named in the complaint.

Instead of the predicate notice of termination or Section 9-104 demand normally required before filing, the verified complaint itself, served on the tenant or occupant at least 14 days before the hearing, does that job. The hearing is set for any day after that 14-day period runs from filing, and the summons must tell the defendant to be ready with evidence.

A defendant who doesn't appear gets a default eviction order. One who appears gets an immediate trial, which can't be continued more than 7 days past the original hearing date without both sides agreeing, decided under the ordinary preponderance-of-the-evidence standard. If drugs are found or used anywhere on the premises, there's a rebuttable presumption that a tenant or occupant used or possessed them, or knew or should have known about it. A public housing authority plaintiff who accepts rent after filing isn't barred from proceeding on that account.

Any court stay is capped at 7 days, after which the plaintiff can re-enter immediately, and the sheriff must give this kind of order priority over other possession orders. The section doesn't reach cannabis, methamphetamine, narcotics, or a controlled substance lawfully possessed under a valid prescription for a lawful occupant's personal use.