Kane County, IL Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

Section 7-62 of the Kane County Code conditions every short-term rental license on two inspection reports submitted with the annual application to the Development and Community Services Department. The first is documentation of an approved inspection of the well, water, and septic infrastructure serving the rental, which matters in unincorporated Kane County because most rural short-term rentals rely on private wells and septic systems rather than municipal utilities. The second is a documented safety inspection of the structure itself, which the code requires to be performed by a licensed home inspector or an Illinois Licensed Architect, not simply a walkthrough by the owner.

Section 7-63 backs the well-and-septic inspection with an ongoing operating condition: if the septic system serving a licensed short-term rental is later found to be failing, the owner must immediately stop renting until the system is brought back into compliance with state and local law, regardless of how recently the property was licensed. Together, the two inspection requirements in Section 7-62 and the septic shutdown rule in Section 7-63 function as Kane County's rental inspection program for short-term rentals, since there is no separate periodic county inspector visit built into the article beyond these owner-submitted, professional-certified reports.