SB2140 Enrolled LRB093 14787 SJM 40343 b

1     AN ACT concerning property taxes.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5 Section 9-230 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/9-230)
7     Sec. 9-230. Return of township or multi-township
8 assessment books. The township or multi-township assessors in
9 counties with less than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000
10 federal decennial census, shall, on or before April 15 of the
11 assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to
12 the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township
13 assessors in counties with 600,000 or more but no more than
14 700,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial
15 census, shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year,
16 return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of
17 assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in
18 counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than
19 700,000 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal
20 decennial census, shall, on or before November 15 of the
21 assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to
22 the supervisor of assessments. If a township or multi-township
23 assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but
24 more than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal
25 decennial census, does not return the assessment books or work
26 books within the required time, the supervisor of assessments
27 may take possession of the books and complete the assessments
28 pursuant to law. Each of the books shall be verified by
29 affidavit by the assessor substantially as follows:
30 State of Illinois)
31                  )ss.
32 County of .......)

 

 

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2     I do solemnly swear that the book or books .... in number,
3 to which this affidavit is attached, contains a complete list
4 of all of the property in the township or multi-township or
5 assessment district herein described subject to taxation for
6 the year .... so far as I have been able to ascertain, and that
7 the assessed value set down in the proper column opposite the
8 descriptions of property is a just and equal assessment of the
9 property according to law.
10     Dated ...............
11     If the supervisor of assessments determines that the
12 township or multi-township assessor has not completed the
13 assessments as required by law before returning the assessment
14 books under this Section, the county board may submit a bill to
15 the township board of trustees for the reasonable costs
16 incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing the
17 assessments.
18 (Source: P.A. 85-1253; 88-455.)
 
19     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
20 1, 2005.