SB2584 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2584

Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

35 ILCS 200/27-30
35 ILCS 200/27-35

Amends the Special Service Area Tax Law in the Property Tax Code. Requires that the mailed notice of the proposed special service area be mailed by registered mail, return receipt requested, to each resident and landowner in the proposed special service area. Requires that, at the public hearing for the creation of a special service area, the municipality or county shall certify a list of electors who may sign an objection petition. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning revenue.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing Sections 27-30 and 27-35 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/27-30)

Sec. 27-30. Manner of notice.

(a) Prior to or within 60 days after the adoption of the ordinance proposing the establishment of a special service area the municipality or county shall fix a time and a place for a public hearing. Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication and mailing, except that notice of a public hearing to propose the establishment of a special service area for weather modification purposes may be given by publication only.

(b) Notice by publication shall be given by publication at least once not less than 15 days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality or county.

(c) Notice by mailing shall be given by registered mail, return receipt requested, to each of the electors residing within the special service area and to each of the owners of record of the land included within the boundaries of the special service area. depositing the notice in the United States mails addressed to the person or persons in whose name the general taxes for the last preceding year were paid on each property lying within the special service area. A notice shall be mailed not less than 10 days prior to the time set for the public hearing. In the event taxes for the last preceding year were not paid, the notice shall be sent to the person last listed on the tax rolls prior to that year as the owner of the property.

(Source: P.A. 82-282; 88-455.)

(35 ILCS 200/27-35)

Sec. 27-35. Public hearing; protests and objections. At the public hearing, any interested person, including all persons owning taxable property located within the proposed special service area, may file with the municipal clerk or county clerk, as the case may be, written objections to and may be heard orally in respect to any issues embodied in the notice. The municipality or county shall hear and determine all protests and objections at the hearing and the hearing may be adjourned to another date without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes fixing the time and place it will reconvene. At the public hearing or at the first regular meeting of the corporate authorities thereafter, the municipality or county may delete area from the special service area. However, the special service area must still be a contiguous area as defined in Section 27-5.

At the public hearing, the municipality or county shall certify a list of electors who may sign an objection petition under Section 27-55. The list must be comprised of each person to whom notice was mailed under subsection (c).

(Source: P.A. 82-640; 88-455.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.