Section 520.400  Zone Administration

a)         The administration of an Enterprise Zone shall be under the jurisdiction of the designating municipality or county.  Each designating municipality or county shall, by ordinance, designate a Zone Administrator for the certified zones within its jurisdiction. A Zone Administrator must be an officer or employee of the municipality or county.  The Zone Administrator shall be the liaison between the designating municipality or county, the Department, and any Designated Zone Organizations within zones under his or her jurisdiction.  Where there are two or more designating units of government for an Enterprise Zone, only one Zone Administrator is required for designation. The Zone Administrator must be an officer or employee of at least one of the designating units of government and must be selected in accordance with the intergovernmental agreement (see Section 520.240(c)).

b)         Each Zone Administrator shall post a copy of the boundaries of the Enterprise Zone on its official Internet website and shall provide an electronic copy to the Department. The Department shall post each copy of the boundaries of an Enterprise Zone that it receives from a Zone Administrator on its official Internet website. [20 ILCS 655/8.2(a)]  Administrators are encouraged to submit geospatial data in the form of ESRI ARCGIS Shape files.

c)         The Zone Administrator shall collect and aggregate the following information:

1)         the estimated cost of each building project, broken down into labor and materials; and

2)         within 60 days after the end of the project, the estimated cost of each building project, broken down into labor and materials. [20 ILCS 655/8.2(b)]

d)         By April 1 of each year, each Zone Administrator shall file a copy of its fee schedule with the Department, and the Department shall post the fee schedule on its website.  Zone Administrators shall charge no more than 0.5% of the cost of building materials of the project associated with the specific Enterprise Zone, with a maximum fee of no more than $50,000. [20 ILCS 655/8.2(c)]

(Source:  Amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 10858, effective July 29, 2016)