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REVENUE
(35 ILCS 200/) Property Tax Code.

35 ILCS 200/18-214

    (35 ILCS 200/18-214)
    Sec. 18-214. Referenda on removal of the applicability of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law to non-home rule taxing districts.
    (a) The provisions of this Section do not apply to a taxing district that is subject to this Law because a majority of its 1990 equalized assessed value is in a county or counties contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, or because a majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value is in an affected county and the taxing district was not subject to this Law before the 1995 levy year.
    (b) For purposes of this Section only:
    "Taxing district" means any non-home rule taxing district that became subject to this Law under Section 18-213 of this Law.
    "Equalized assessed valuation" means the equalized assessed valuation for a taxing district for the immediately preceding levy year.
    (c) The county board of a county that became subject to this Law by a referendum approved by the voters of the county under Section 18-213 may, by ordinance or resolution, in the manner set forth in this Section, submit to the voters of the county the question of whether this Law applies to all non-home rule taxing districts that have all or a portion of their equalized assessed valuation situated in the county in the manner set forth in this Section.
    (d) The ordinance or resolution shall request the submission of the proposition at any election, except a consolidated primary election, for the purpose of voting for or against the continued application of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law to all non-home rule taxing districts that have all or a portion of their equalized assessed valuation situated in the county.
    The question shall be placed on a separate ballot and shall be in substantially the following form:
        Shall the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (35
    
ILCS 200/18-185 through 35 ILCS 200/18-245), which limits annual property tax extension increases, apply to non-home rule taxing districts with all or a portion of their equalized assessed valuation located in (name of county)?
Votes on the question shall be recorded as "yes" or "no".
    (e) The county clerk shall order the proposition submitted to the electors of the county at the election specified in the ordinance or resolution. If part of the county is under the jurisdiction of a board or boards of election commissioners, the county clerk shall submit a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution to each board of election commissioners, which shall order the proposition submitted to the electors of the taxing district within its jurisdiction at the election specified in the ordinance or resolution.
    (f) With respect to taxing districts having all of their equalized assessed valuation located in one county, if a majority of the votes cast on the proposition are against the proposition, then this Law shall not apply to the taxing district beginning on January 1 of the year following the date of the referendum.
    (g) With respect to taxing districts that do not have all of their equalized assessed valuation located in a single county, if both of the following conditions are met, then this Law shall no longer apply to the taxing district beginning on January 1 of the year following the date of the referendum.
        (1) Each county in which the district has any
    
equalized assessed valuation must either, (i) have held a referendum under this Section, (ii) be an affected county, or (iii) have held a referendum under Section 18-213 at which the voters rejected the proposition at the most recent election at which the question was on the ballot in the county.
        (2) The majority of the equalized assessed valuation
    
of the taxing district, other than any equalized assessed valuation in an affected county, is in one or more counties in which the voters rejected the proposition. For purposes of this Section, in determining whether a majority of the equalized assessed valuation of the taxing district is located in one or more counties in which the voters have rejected the proposition under this Section, the equalized assessed valuation of any taxing district in a county which has held a referendum under Section 18-213 at which the voters rejected that proposition, at the most recent election at which the question was on the ballot in the county, will be included with the equalized assessed value of the taxing district in counties in which the voters have rejected the referendum held under this Section.
    (h) Immediately after a referendum is held under this Section, the county clerk of the county holding the referendum shall give notice of the referendum having been held and its results to all taxing districts that have all or a portion of their equalized assessed valuation located in the county, the county clerk of any other county in which any of the equalized assessed valuation of any such taxing district is located, and the Department of Revenue. After the last referendum affecting a multi-county taxing district is held, the Department of Revenue shall determine whether the taxing district is no longer subject to this Law and, if the taxing district is no longer subject to this Law, the Department of Revenue shall notify the taxing district and the county clerks of all of the counties in which a portion of the equalized assessed valuation of the taxing district is located that, beginning on January 1 of the year following the date of the last referendum, the taxing district is no longer subject to this Law.
(Source: P.A. 89-718, eff. 3-7-97.)

35 ILCS 200/18-215

    (35 ILCS 200/18-215)
    Sec. 18-215. Merging and consolidating taxing districts; transfer of service. For purposes of this Law, when 2 or more taxing districts merge or consolidate, the sum of the last preceding aggregate extensions for each taxing district shall be combined for the resulting merged or consolidated taxing district. When a service performed by one taxing district is transferred to another taxing district, that part of the aggregate extension base for that purpose shall be transferred and added to the aggregate extension base of the transferee taxing district for purposes of this Law and shall be deducted from the aggregate extension base of the transferor taxing district. If the service and corresponding portion of the aggregate extension base transferred to the taxing district are for a service that the transferee district does not currently levy for, the provisions of Section 18-190 of this Law requiring a referendum to establish a new levy shall not apply.
(Source: P.A. 90-719, eff. 8-7-98.)

35 ILCS 200/18-220

    (35 ILCS 200/18-220)
    Sec. 18-220. (Repealed).
(Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/18-225

    (35 ILCS 200/18-225)
    Sec. 18-225. Annexed or disconnected property. If property is annexed into the taxing district or is disconnected from a taxing district during the current levy year, the calculation of the limiting rate under Section 18-185 is not affected. The rates as limited under this Law are applied to all property in the district for the current levy year, excluding property that was annexed after the adoption of the levy for the current levy year.
(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/18-230

    (35 ILCS 200/18-230)
    Sec. 18-230. Rate increase or decrease factor. Only when a new rate or a rate increase or decrease has been approved by referendum held prior to March 22, 2006, the aggregate extension base, as adjusted in Section 18-215, shall be multiplied by a rate increase (or decrease) factor. The numerator of the rate increase (or decrease) factor is the total combined rate for the funds that made up the aggregate extension for the taxing district for the prior year plus the rate increase approved or minus the rate decrease approved. The denominator of the rate increase or decrease factor is the total combined rate for the funds that made up the aggregate extension for the prior year. For those taxing districts for which a new rate or a rate increase has been approved by referendum held after December 31, 1988 and prior to March 22, 2006, and that did not increase their rate to the new maximum rate for that fund, the rate increase factor shall be adjusted for 4 levy years after the year of the referendum (unless the governing body of a taxing district to which this Law applied before the 1995 levy year that approved a tax rate increase at a general election held after 2002 directs the county clerk or clerks by resolution to make such adjustment for a lesser number of years) by a factor the numerator of which is the portion of the new or increased rate for which taxes were not extended plus the aggregate rate in effect for the levy year prior to the levy year in which the referendum was passed and the denominator of which is the aggregate rate in effect for the levy year prior to the levy year in which the referendum was passed.
(Source: P.A. 94-976, eff. 6-30-06.)

35 ILCS 200/18-233

    (35 ILCS 200/18-233)
    Sec. 18-233. Adjustments for certificates of error, certain court orders, or final administrative decisions of the Property Tax Appeal Board. Beginning in levy year 2021, a taxing district levy shall be increased by a prior year adjustment whenever an assessment decrease due to the issuance of a certificate of error, a court order issued pursuant to an assessment valuation complaint under Section 23-15, or a final administrative decision of the Property Tax Appeal Board results in a refund from the taxing district of a portion of the property tax revenue distributed to the taxing district. On or before November 15 of each year, the county treasurer shall certify the aggregate refunds paid by a taxing district during such 12-month period for purposes of this Section. For purposes of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, the taxing district's most recent aggregate extension base shall not include the prior year adjustment authorized under this Section.
(Source: P.A. 102-519, eff. 8-20-21.)

35 ILCS 200/18-235

    (35 ILCS 200/18-235)
    Sec. 18-235. Tax increment financing districts. Extensions allocable to a special tax allocation fund and the amount of taxes abated under Sections 18-165 and 18-170 are not included in the aggregate extension base when computing the limiting rate.
(Source: P.A. 87-17; 88-455.)

35 ILCS 200/18-240

    (35 ILCS 200/18-240)
    Sec. 18-240. Certification of new property.
    (a) The township assessor, the multi-township assessor, the chief county assessment officer, the board of review, and the board of appeals shall cause the assessed value attributable to new property to be entered and certified in the assessment books under rules promulgated by the Department.
    (b) For the levy year in which this Law first becomes applicable to a county pursuant to Section 18-213, the chief county assessment officer shall certify to the county clerk, after all changes by the board of review or board of appeals, as the case may be, the assessed value of new property by taxing districts for that levy year under rules promulgated by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-510, eff. 1-1-97.)

35 ILCS 200/18-241

    (35 ILCS 200/18-241)
    Sec. 18-241. School Finance Authority and Financial Oversight Panel.
    (a) A School Finance Authority established under Article 1E of the School Code shall not be a taxing district for purposes of this Law. A Financial Oversight Panel established under Article 1H of the School Code shall not be a taxing district for purposes of this Law.
    (b) This Law shall not apply to the extension of taxes for a school district for the levy year in which a School Finance Authority for the district is created pursuant to Article 1E of the School Code. This Law shall not apply to the extension of taxes for the purpose of repaying an emergency financial assistance loan levied pursuant to Section 1H-65 of the School Code.
(Source: P.A. 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)

35 ILCS 200/18-243

    (35 ILCS 200/18-243)
    Sec. 18-243. Severability. The provisions of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
(Source: P.A. 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/18-245

    (35 ILCS 200/18-245)
    Sec. 18-245. Rules. The Department shall make and promulgate reasonable rules relating to the administration of the purposes and provisions of Sections 18-185 through 18-240 as may be necessary or appropriate.
(Source: P.A. 87-17; 88-455.)

35 ILCS 200/Art. 18 Div. 5.1

 
    (35 ILCS 200/Art. 18 Div. 5.1 heading)
Division 5.1. One-year Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.

35 ILCS 200/18-246

    (35 ILCS 200/18-246)
    Sec. 18-246. Short title; definitions. This Division 5.1 may be cited as the One-year Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
    As used in this Division 5.1:
    "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section 1-150, except that it includes only each non-home rule taxing district with the majority of its 1993 equalized assessed value contained in one or more affected counties, as defined in Section 18-185, other than those taxing districts subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law before February 12, 1995 (the effective date of Public Act 89-1).
    "Aggregate extension" means the annual corporate extension for the taxing district and those special purpose extensions that are made annually for the taxing district, excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay interest or principal on general obligation bonds that were approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on general obligation bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (c) made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to refund those bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (d) made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to refund bonds issued after March 1, 1995 that were approved by referendum; (e) made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before March 1, 1995 for payment of which a property tax levy or the full faith and credit of the unit of local government is pledged; however, a tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds shall be made only after the governing body of the unit of local government finds that all other sources for payment are insufficient to make those payments; (f) made for payments under a building commission lease when the lease payments are for the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before March 1, 1995, to pay for the building project; (g) made for payments due under installment contracts entered into before March 1, 1995; and (h) made for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued under the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act to finance construction projects initiated before October 1, 1991.
    "Special purpose extensions" includes, but is not limited to, extensions for levies made on an annual basis for unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, self-insurance, contributions to pension plans, and extensions made under Section 6-601 of the Illinois Highway Code for a road district's permanent road fund, whether levied annually or not. The extension for a special service area is not included in the aggregate extension.
    "Aggregate extension base" means the taxing district's aggregate extension for the 1993 levy year as adjusted under Section 18-248.
    "Levy year" has the same meaning as "year" under Section 1-155.
    "New property" means (i) the assessed value, after final board of review or board of appeals action, of new improvements or additions to existing improvements on any parcel of real property that increase the assessed value of that real property during the levy year multiplied by the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section 17-30 and (ii) the assessed value, after final board of review or board of appeals action, of real property not exempt from real estate taxation, which real property was exempt from real estate taxation for any portion of the immediately preceding levy year, multiplied by the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section 17-30.
    "Recovered tax increment value" means the amount of the 1994 equalized assessed value, in the first year after a city terminates the designation of an area as a redevelopment project area previously established under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code or previously established under the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law of the Illinois Municipal Code, or previously established under the Economic Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in the redevelopment project area over and above the initial equalized assessed value of each property in the redevelopment project area.
    Except as otherwise provided in this Section, "limiting rate" means a fraction the numerator of which is the aggregate extension base times 1.05 and the denominator of which is the 1994 equalized assessed value of all real property in the territory under the jurisdiction of the taxing district during the 1993 levy year. The denominator shall not include new property and shall not include the recovered tax increment value.
(Source: P.A. 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)

35 ILCS 200/18-247

    (35 ILCS 200/18-247)
    Sec. 18-247. Limitation. Tax extensions for the 1994 levy year made under Sections 18-45 and 18-105 are further limited by the provisions of this Law.
    For those taxing districts for which the county clerk extended taxes for any funds included in the aggregate extension base for the 1993 levy year, the county clerk shall extend a rate for the sum of the funds in the aggregate extension base that is no greater than the limiting rate.
    This limitation does not apply to those taxing districts for which the county clerk did not extend taxes for any funds included in the aggregate extension base for the 1993 levy year, except that it does apply to those districts that have an aggregate extension base established under subsection (a) of Section 18-248.
    If the county clerk is required to reduce the aggregate extension of a taxing district by provisions of this Law, the county clerk shall proportionally reduce the extension for each fund unless otherwise requested by the taxing district.
(Source: P.A. 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/18-248

    (35 ILCS 200/18-248)
    Sec. 18-248. Adjustments to the limiting rate.
    (a) Merging and consolidating taxing districts. For purpose of this Law, when 2 or more taxing districts merge or consolidate, the sum of the last preceding aggregate extension for each taxing district shall be combined for the resulting merged or consolidated taxing district. When a service performed by one taxing district is transferred to another taxing district, that part of the aggregate extension base for that purpose shall be transferred and added to the aggregate extension base of the transferee taxing district for purposes of this Law and shall be deducted from the aggregate extension base of the transferor taxing district.
    (b) Annexed or disconnected property. If property is annexed into the taxing district or is disconnected from a taxing district during the current levy year, the calculation of the limiting rate under Section 18-246 is not affected. The rates as limited under this Law are applied to all property in the district for the 1994 levy year, excluding property that was annexed after the adoption of the levy for the current levy year.
    (c) Rate increase or decrease factor. When a new rate or a rate increase or decrease that is first effective for the 1994 levy year has been approved by referendum, the aggregate extension base, as adjusted in subsection (a), shall be multiplied by a rate increase or decrease factor. The numerator of the rate increase or decrease factor is the total combined rate for the funds that made up the aggregate extension for the taxing district for the 1993 levy year plus the rate increase approved or minus the rate decrease approved. The denominator of the rate increase or decrease factor is the total combined rate for the funds that made up the aggregate extension for the 1993 levy year. For those taxing districts for which a new rate or a rate increase has been approved by referendum held after December 31, 1989, and that did not increase their rate to the new maximum rate for that fund, the rate increase factor for the 1994 levy year shall be adjusted by a factor the numerator of which is the portion of the new or increased rate for which taxes were not extended plus the aggregate rate in effect for the levy year prior to the levy year in which the referendum was passed and the denominator of which is the aggregate rate in effect for the levy year prior to the levy year in which the referendum was passed.
    (d) Tax increment financing districts. Extensions allocable to a special tax allocation fund and the amount of taxes abated under Sections 18-165 and 18-170 are not included in the aggregate extension base when computing the limiting rate.
(Source: P.A. 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/18-249

    (35 ILCS 200/18-249)
    Sec. 18-249. Miscellaneous provisions.
    (a) Certification of new property. For the 1994 levy year, the chief county assessment officer shall certify to the county clerk, after all changes by the board of review or board of appeals, as the case may be, the assessed value of new property by taxing district for the 1994 levy year under rules promulgated by the Department.
    (b) School Code. A school district's State aid shall not be reduced under the computation under subsections 5(a) through 5(h) of Part A of Section 18-8 of the School Code or under Section 18-8.15 of the School Code due to the operating tax rate falling from above the minimum requirement of that Section of the School Code to below the minimum requirement of that Section of the School Code due to the operation of this Law.
    (c) Rules. The Department shall make and promulgate reasonable rules relating to the administration of the purposes and provisions of Sections 18-246 through 18-249 as may be necessary or appropriate.
(Source: P.A. 100-465, eff. 8-31-17.)

35 ILCS 200/18-249.5

    (35 ILCS 200/18-249.5)
    Sec. 18-249.5. Severability. The provisions of the One-year Property Tax Extension Limitation Law are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
(Source: P.A. 89-1, eff. 2-12-95.)

35 ILCS 200/Art. 18 Div. 6

 
    (35 ILCS 200/Art. 18 Div. 6 heading)
Division 6. Preparation and delivery of books