HB0910ham003 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Kam Buckner

Filed: 4/22/2026

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 910

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 910 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"ARTICLE 1

Section 1-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Capital Area Tourism Authority Act. References in this Article to "this Act" mean this Article.

Section 1-5. Findings; purpose.

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that:

(1) The City of Springfield is the capital city of the State of Illinois and the home of President Abraham Lincoln.

(2) The City of Springfield and Sangamon County welcome visitors from around the world and are the cornerstone of State government.

(b) The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the City of Springfield has a vibrant hospitality industry that is capable of hosting visitors, legislative advocates, and those doing business with the State.

Section 1-10. Definitions. In this Act:

"Authority" means the Capital Area Tourism Authority established by this Act.

"Base year" means the calendar year immediately before the calendar year in which the STAR bond project is approved under this Act.

"Board" means the Board of Trustees of the Authority.

"Hotel operator" has the meaning given to that term in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act.

"Local sales taxes" has the meaning given to that term in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, except that, with respect to locally imposed taxes received by the City of Springfield, "local sales taxes" shall be limited to 50% of that portion of the tax arising from sales by retailers and servicemen within the territory of the Authority that is in excess of the aggregate local sales tax in the territory for the same month in the base year, as determined by the municipality.

"Master developer" has the meaning given to that term in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

"Project costs" has the meaning given to that term in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

"STAR bond district" has the meaning given to that term in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

"STAR bond project" has the meaning given to that term in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

Section 1-15. Creation of the Authority. The Capital Area Tourism Authority is hereby created as a political subdivision and unit of local government for the benefit of the general public and the promotion of business, industry, commerce, and tourism in the City of Springfield, Sangamon County, and the State of Illinois. The Authority shall have only those powers described in Section 1-20 of this Act, and its territorial jurisdiction shall extend over all territory in the City of Springfield that is coterminous with the 62701 zip code.

Section 1-20. Powers and duties of the Authority.

(a) If and only if the Sangamon County Board, by ordinance, imposes a tax under subsection (b-5) of Section 5-1030 of the Counties Code on all hotel operators who engage in business as a hotel operator within any STAR bond district that is established in the territory of the Authority, and if the Sangamon County Board also resolves that all of the revenue generated from the tax under subsection (b-5) of Section 5-1030 of the Counties Code and all of the tax receipts generated from local sales taxes within the STAR bond district shall be dedicated to the payment of the project costs for any STAR bond project in the district and shall be considered pledged STAR revenues under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, then the Authority may exercise the powers set forth in subsection (c) as well as those powers ordinarily authorized by law for a political subdivision for the purposes described in subsection (b).

(b) The Authority shall use the powers conferred on it under this Section to assist in the development, construction, and acquisition of industrial or commercial projects within its territorial jurisdiction and to promote business, industry, commerce, and tourism within Sangamon County and the State of Illinois.

(c) If and only if the conditions described in subsection (a) are satisfied, then the Authority shall possess all powers of a body politic or municipal corporation necessary and convenient to accomplish the purpose of this Act, including, but not limited to, the power:

(1) to exercise all of the powers afforded to a political subdivision pursuant to Section 5-100 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act in connection with a STAR bond district, including, but not limited to, establishing a STAR bond district and issuing STAR bonds to finance a STAR bond project;

(2) to enter into loans, contracts, agreements, and mortgages;

(3) to acquire by purchase, donation, or lease; to own, convey, lease, sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of interests in and to real or personal property; and to grant or acquire licenses, easements, and options with respect to property;

(4) to sue and be sued;

(5) to employ agents and employees necessary to carry out this Act's purposes;

(6) to have, use, and alter a common seal;

(7) to acquire, own, construct, equip, finance, lease, operate, and maintain grounds, buildings, facilities, property or any portion of a building, facility, or property owned or leased by the Authority to carry out the purposes and duties of this Act and to fix, charge, and collect fees, rents, and charges for the use of any building, facility, property or portion thereof;

(8) to adopt all ordinances, resolutions, by-laws, rules, and regulations necessary or proper to carry into effect the purpose of this Act and the powers granted to the Authority;

(9) to apply for, accept, and expend grants, appropriations, guarantees, donations of property or labor, or any other thing of value;

(10) to exercise the right of eminent domain by condemnation proceedings in the manner provided by the Eminent Domain Act;

(11) to finance, construct, equip, own, operate, and maintain any STAR bond project and to determine and direct the use of the local tax contribution and the State tax contribution for the approved STAR bond projects in the STAR bond district;

(12) to pay or cause to be paid STAR bond project costs and the principal and interest of any revenue bonds issued by the Authority;

(13) to borrow money and to issue revenue bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness as provided for in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act; and

(14) to exercise any and all other powers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act.

Section 1-25. Board members; officers; governance.

(a) The governing and administrative powers of the Authority shall be vested in its Board, which shall consist of 5 members appointed as follows:

(1) 3 members appointed by the Sangamon County Board;

(2) one member appointed by the Springfield City Council; and

(3) one member appointed by the Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority.

(b) All persons appointed as members of the Board shall be residents of Sangamon County and shall have recognized ability and experience in one or more of the following areas: economic development, finance, banking, commercial development, small business management, real estate development, community development, organized labor, units of local government, or civic, community, or neighborhood organization.

(c) The Chairperson of the Board shall be selected by a majority vote of the Board.

(d) The Sangamon County Board may remove any member of the Board in case of incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office by a simple majority vote.

(e) Members of the Board shall hold office until their respective successors have been appointed. Any member may resign from his or her office. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments.

(f) Members of the Board shall serve without compensation for their services as members but may be reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their duties as members.

(g) The Board shall hold meetings quarterly or upon the call of the Chairperson of the Board or written notice of 3 members of the Board.

(h) A majority of the appointed members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the Board may not meet or take any action without a quorum present. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be necessary for any official act of the Authority.

(i) All members of the Board and employees of the Authority are subject to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, in accordance with its terms, and shall submit a statement of economic interests in accordance with Article 4A of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Additionally, each Board member shall disclose to the Board outside sources of income and any business relationships in economic development, consulting, or lobbying. Reporting shall include the source of income, services provided, and timeline of when services were provided. If the source of income is a firm or organization with multiple clients, the report shall list all of the entities for which the individual provided services.

(j) The Board may appoint an Executive Director who shall have a background in finance, real estate, economic development, or administration. The Executive Director shall hold office at the discretion of the Board. The Executive Director shall be the chief administrative and operational officer of the Authority, shall direct and supervise its administrative affairs and general management, shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board, and shall receive compensation fixed by the Board. The Executive Director shall attend all meetings of the Board; however, no action of the Board or the Authority shall be invalid on account of the absence of the Executive Director from a meeting.

Section 1-30. Open meetings; record disclosure.

(a) The Authority is subject to the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. All rules, regulations, ordinances, and resolutions of the Authority, and all documents and records in its possession, shall be public records and shall be open to public inspection, except such documents and records as shall be kept or prepared by the Board for use in negotiations, actions, or proceedings to which the Authority is a party.

(b) Each contract or agreement entered into by the Authority must be posted on the Authority's website. The Authority shall provide a detailed report of the Authority's financial information on the Authority's website.

Section 1-35. Limitations. If any of the Authority's powers are exercised within the territorial jurisdiction of any municipality, all ordinances of that municipality shall remain in full force and effect and shall be controlling.

Section 1-40. Approval of STAR bond districts and STAR bond project.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all real property in the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority shall automatically constitute an eligible area for the purposes of approving a STAR bond district or STAR bond project in that jurisdiction under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, and the territorial boundaries of the STAR bond district may be entirely within the corporate limits of the City of Springfield.

(b) Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 5-15 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, STAR bond projects may be undertaken in a STAR bond district located in the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority provided that:

(1) each STAR bond project is approved under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act; and

(2) the local tax contribution and the State tax contribution to the STAR bond projects are sufficient, together with other pledged STAR revenues, to support the financing of the STAR bond projects.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent that the local tax contribution and the State tax contribution, together with other available funds, aggregate an amount that exceeds those funds required to pay any project costs, including debt service on the STAR bonds issued in connection with the STAR bond project, the Authority may direct such excess local tax contribution and State tax contribution to finance additional STAR bond projects in the same STAR bond district.

Section 1-45. State tax contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any State sales tax increment pledged to pay STAR bonds in any STAR bond district located in the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority shall not be limited to 50% of the total project costs in the STAR bond district but rather will cover up to 100% of the total project costs.

Section 1-50. Master developer. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Authority shall own and control any STAR bond project and acreage on which the project is located in any STAR Bond district created in the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority instead of the Master Developer as required in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act. The Master Developer shall not be required to provide equity in such STAR bond project.

Section 1-55. Reports; commitment notice. The Authority shall annually submit a report of its finances to the Auditor General. The Authority shall annually submit a report of its activities to the Governor and General Assembly. The Authority shall provide notice to the General Assembly, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and the Governor once the Authority enters into a commitment to support the financing of a project. The notice to the General Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, in electronic form only, in the manner that the Clerk and the Secretary shall direct.

Section 1-60. Exemption from taxation. All property of the Authority is exempt from taxation by the State or taxing districts of the State.

Section 1-65. Investigatory authority. The Board may investigate conditions in which it has an interest within the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority, the enforcement of its ordinances, rules and regulations, and the action, conduct, and efficiency of all officers, agents and employees of the Authority. In the conduct of such investigations the Board may hold public hearings on its own motion. Each member of the Board shall have power to administer oaths, and the secretary, by order of the Board, shall issue subpoenas to secure the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to those investigations and to any hearing before the Board or any member of the Board. Any circuit court of this State, upon application of the Board or any Board member, may, in its discretion and by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before the court, compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and the giving of testimony before the Board or before any Board member or any officers' committee appointed by the Board.

ARTICLE 5

Section 5-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Capital City Downtown Medical District Act. References in this Article to "this Act" mean this Article.

Section 5-5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that Springfield's distinctive role as Illinois' capital, a regional medical destination, the home of President Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Library and Museum, and a National Historic Site warrants strengthened, structured collaboration anchored by State government to advance medical, entertainment, educational, legal, and public policy priorities in the District. State and local governmental bodies should encourage the leveraging of the District's proximity to State government to support healthcare, civic, legal, policy, and professional education activities that advance the public benefit of all Illinoisans through public service, workforce development, and downtown vitality.

Section 5-7. Definition. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, "District" means the Capital City Downtown Medical District.

Section 5-10. Creation of District. There is created in the City of Springfield a special development district to be known as the Capital City Downtown Medical District, whose boundaries are 11th Street on the east, North Grand Avenue on the north, Walnut Street on the west, and South Grand Avenue on the south, and which excludes:

(1) all local, State, and federal government properties; and

(2) the area bounded by Washington Street on the north, Third Street on the east, Cook Street on the South, and Walnut Street on the west.

The District is created to help build and sustain a vibrant and thriving downtown zone in the State's capital city by encouraging economic development, by increasing the number of people who reside, who are employed, who visit, and who study within the District, and by increasing economic activity in the heart of downtown Springfield through commercial development, including mixed-use housing developments, workforce housing, student housing, and middle-income housing within walking distance of government facilities, healthcare facilities, commercial facilities, and educational facilities in and near the District. The District aims to support revitalization in key sectors, including, but not limited to, healthcare, education, research, technology, housing, retail merchandising, restaurants, arts and culture, tourism, historic preservation and public infrastructure, and to improve and provide for the management of land and facilities within the District.

Section 5-15. Capital City Downtown Medical District Commission.

(a) There is created a body politic and corporate under the corporate name of the Capital City Downtown Medical District Commission whose general purpose, in addition to and not in limitation of those purposes and powers set forth in this Act, is to:

(1) maintain the proper surroundings of and within the District in order to attract, stabilize, and retain within the District facilities, buildings, enterprises, and other establishments permitted under this Act;

(2) provide for the orderly creation, maintenance, development, and expansion of (i) facilities, buildings, enterprises, and other establishments permitted under this Act and (ii) public infrastructure related to the use and enjoyment of those facilities, buildings, enterprises, and other establishments;

(3) convene dialogue among leaders in the public and private sectors on topics and issues associated with training in the delivery of services and related industry in the District's program area;

(4) provide support for the attraction and creation of new businesses and new jobs within the District;

(5) maintain the proper surroundings for a medical center and a related technology center in order to attract, stabilize, and retain within the District hospitals, clinics, research facilities, educational facilities, or other facilities permitted under this Act; and

(6) employ agents and employees necessary to carry out its purposes.

(b) The Commission has perpetual succession and the power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, except in actions sounding in tort, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure. All actions sounding in tort against the Commission shall be prosecuted in the Court of Claims. The principal office of the Commission shall be in the City of Springfield.

(c) The Commission shall consist of the following members:

(1) 5 members appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate;

(2) 3 members appointed by the Mayor of Springfield, with the advice and consent of the Springfield City Council; and

(3) 3 members appointed by the Chairperson of the County Board of Sangamon County.

One of each of the 3 members appointed by the Mayor of Springfield and by the Chairperson of the County Board of Sangamon County shall be a representative of a recognized neighborhood organization that has a legitimate interest in the development and improvement of the District, as determined by the Mayor of the City of Springfield and the Chairperson of the County Board of Sangamon County, respectively. The initial members of the Commission appointed by the Governor shall be appointed for terms ending, respectively, on the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth anniversaries of their appointments. The initial members appointed by the Mayor of Springfield and by the Chairperson of the County Board of Sangamon County shall be appointed for terms ending, respectively, on the second, third, and fourth anniversaries of their appointments. Thereafter, all the members shall be appointed to hold office for a term of 5 years and until their successors are appointed as provided in this Act.

(d) Any vacancy in the membership of the Commission occurring by reason of the death, resignation, disqualification, removal, or inability or refusal to act of any of the members of the Commission shall be filled by the authority that had appointed the particular member. The authority that appointed the particular member shall appoint a replacement to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term of office of that particular member. A vacancy caused by the expiration of the period for which the member was appointed shall be filled by a new appointment for a term of 5 years from the date of the expiration of the prior 5-year term notwithstanding when the appointment is actually made. The Commission shall obtain, under the provisions of the Personnel Code, such personnel as the Commission shall deem advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act and the work of the Commission.

(e) The Commission shall hold regular meetings annually for the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer from among its members, for the adoption of a budget, and for such other business as may properly come before it. The Commission shall establish the duties and responsibilities of its officers by rule. The President or any 4 members of the Commission may call special meetings of the Commission. Each Commissioner shall take an oath of office for the faithful performance of his or her duties. The Commission 4 may not transact business at a meeting of the Commission unless there is a quorum consisting of at least 6 Commissioners present at the meeting. Meetings may be held by telephone conference or by other means through which all persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other.

(f) The Commission shall submit to the General Assembly, not later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, a detailed report covering its operations for the 2 preceding calendar years and a statement of its program for the next 2 years. The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act, and by filing such additional copies with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.

(g) The Auditor General shall conduct audits of the Commission in the same manner as the Auditor General conducts audits of State agencies under the Illinois State Auditing Act.

(h) Neither the Commission nor the District has any power to tax.

(i) The Commission is a public body and subject to the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

Section 5-20. Grants; loans; contracts. The Commission may apply for and accept grants, loans, or appropriations from the State of Illinois, the federal government, any State or federal agency or instrumentality, any unit of local government, or any other person or entity to be used for any of the purposes of the District. The Commission may enter into any agreement with the State of Illinois, the federal government, any State or federal instrumentality, any unit of local government, or any other person or entity in relation to the grants, matching grants, loans, or appropriations. The Commission also may, by contractual agreement, accept and collect assessments or fees from entities who enter into a contractual agreement for District enhancement and improvements, common area shared services, shared facilities, or other activities or expenditures in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. The Commission may provide assistance, including grants, loans, land conveyances, and other incentives to entities, including, but not limited to, neighborhood organizations, to induce development and revitalization consistent with this Act and for the purpose of benefiting the community. The Commission may also provide programmatic assistance, operational assistance, or facilities to support academic, professional, and training programs located within the District if it finds that such support advances the purposes of this Act.

Section 5-25. Property; acquisition. The Commission may acquire the fee simple title to real property lying within the District and personal property required for its purposes, by gift, donation, purchase, or otherwise. Title shall be taken in the corporate name of the Commission. The Commission may acquire, by lease or other means, any real property lying within the District and personal property found by the Commission to be necessary for its purposes and to which the Commission finds that it need not acquire the fee simple title for carrying out of those purposes. The Commission shall hold a public hearing in accordance with Section 5-80 of this Act before acquiring the title to property. All real and personal property within the District, except that owned and used for purposes authorized under this Act by medical institutions or allied educational institutions, hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, dormitories or homes for the nurses, doctors, students, instructors, or other officers or employees of those institutions located in the District, or any real property that is used for offices or for recreational purposes in connection with those institutions, or any improved residential property within a currently effective historical district properly designated under a federal statute or a State or local statute that has been certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury as containing criteria that will substantially achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings of historical significance to the district, may be acquired by the Commission in its corporate name under the provisions for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. The Commission may undertake environmental remediation, demolition, site preparation, interim site management, and other predevelopment activities necessary to prepare property for redevelopment, transfer, or related activities. The Commission has no quick-take powers, no zoning powers, and no power to establish or enforce building codes. The Commission may not acquire any property pursuant to this Section before a comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 5-75.

Section 5-30. Construction. After a public hearing in accordance with Section 5-80 of this Act, the Commission may, in its corporate capacity, construct or cause to be constructed within the District, any building, structure, or other ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may, from time to time, determine are to be established and operated (i) for the carrying out of any aspect of the Commission's purposes as set forth in this Act or (ii) for any uses the Commission shall determine will support and nurture facilities and uses permitted by this Act. All such structures and improvements shall be erected and constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code that apply to State agencies. No construction may be undertaken pursuant to this Section before a comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 5-75.

Section 5-35. Relocation assistance. The Commission shall provide relocation assistance to persons and entities displaced by the Commission's acquisition of property and improvement of the District. Relocation assistance shall not be less than the amount provided under the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the regulations under that Act, including the eligibility criteria. The Commission may enter into long-term development, land-use, or operating agreements with institutions, including hospitals, universities, State agencies, or nonprofit organizations. Relocation assistance may include assistance with the moving of a residential unit to a new location, and the Commission may develop, own, lease, sublease, or manage facilities used for academic instruction, professional education, or research, including facilities owned or operated by colleges, universities, or their affiliates. The Commission shall establish a single point of contact for all relocation assistance under this Section.

Section 5-40. Bonds. To obtain the funds necessary for financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation of facilities and equipment within the District, and for the operation of the District as set forth in this Act, the Commission may borrow money from any public or private agency, department, corporation, or person. In evidence of and as security for funds borrowed, the Commission may issue revenue bonds in its corporate capacity to be payable from the revenues derived from the operation of the institutions or buildings owned, leased, or operated by or on behalf of the Commission, but the bonds shall in no event constitute an indebtedness of the Commission or a claim against the property of the Commission. The bonds may be issued in such denominations as may be expedient, in such amounts, and at such rates of interest as the Commission shall deem necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all the costs authorized under this Section. The bonds shall be executed by the President of the Commission, attested by the Secretary, and sealed with the Commission's corporate seal. If either of those officers of the Commission who shall have signed or attested any of the bonds shall have ceased to be such officer before delivery of the bonds, the signature of the officer shall be valid and sufficient to the same effect as if the officer had remained in office at the time of delivery. The Commission shall furnish the State Comptroller with a record of all bonds issued under this Act.

Section 5-45. Power to sell or lease. The Commission may sell, convey, transfer, or lease, at fair market value, any title or interest in real property owned by it to any person or persons, to be used, subject to the restrictions of this Act, for the purposes stated in this Act, for the purpose of serving persons using the facilities offered within the District, or for the carrying out of any aspect of the Commission's purposes as set forth in Section 5-15 of this Act, subject to the restrictions as to the use of the real property as the Commission shall determine will carry out the purposes of this Act. To assure that the use of the real property so sold or leased is in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the Commission shall inquire into and satisfy itself concerning the financial ability of the purchaser to complete the project for which the real property is sold or leased. The purchaser or lessee shall submit, in writing, a plan to the Commission of the purchaser's or lessee's ability to complete the project for which the real property is sold or leased. Under the required plan, the purchaser or lessee shall undertake (1) to use the land for the purposes designated in the plan so presented; (2) to commence and complete the construction of the buildings or other structures to be included in the project within the time the Commission fixes as reasonable; and (3) to comply with such other conditions as the Commission shall determine are necessary to carry out the project. All conveyances and leases authorized in this Section shall be on condition that in the event the use of property is for other purposes than prescribed in this Act, or there is nonuse for a period of one year, title to the property shall revert to the Commission. All conveyances and leases made by the Commission to any corporation or person for the use of serving the residents or any person using the facilities offered within the District shall be on condition that in the event of a violation of any of the restrictions as to the use of the property according to this Act, and the Commission's determinations of projects that will carry out the purposes of this Act, title to the property shall revert to the Commission. If, however, the Commission finds that financing necessary for the acquisition or lease of any real estate or for the construction or improvement of any building to be used for purposes prescribed in this Act cannot be obtained if title to the land, building, or improvement is subject to such a reverter provision, the Commission may cause the real property to be conveyed free of a reverter provision, provided that at least 7 members of the Commission vote in favor thereof. The finding that the title shall be conveyed free of a reverter provision shall be made at a public hearing in accordance with Section 5-80 of this Act and notice provided in accordance with Section 5-50 of this Act. The Commission may also provide, in the conveyances, leases, or other documentation, provisions for notice of such violations or default and the cure thereof for the benefit of any lender or mortgagee as the Commission shall determine are appropriate. If, at a regularly scheduled meeting, the Commission resolves that a parcel of real estate leased by it, or in which it has sold the fee simple title or any lesser estate, is not being used for the purposes prescribed in this Act or has been in nonuse for a period of one year, the Commission may file a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County to enforce the terms of the sale or lease. If a reverter of title to any property is ordered by the court under the terms of this Act, the interest of the Commission shall be subject to any existing valid mortgage or trust deed in the nature of a mortgage, but if the title is acquired through foreclosure of that mortgage or trust deed or by deed in lieu of foreclosure of that mortgage or trust deed, then the title to the property shall not revert, but shall be subject to the restrictions as to use, but not any penalty for nonuse contained in this Act with respect to any mortgagee in possession or its successor or assigns. No conveyance of real property shall be executed by the Commission without the prior written approval of the Governor. The Commission may not sell, convey, transfer, or lease any property pursuant to this Section before a comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 5-75.

Section 5-50. Notice. Before holding any public hearing prescribed in Section 5-45 of this Act, or any meeting regarding the passage of any resolution to file a lawsuit, the Commission shall give notice to the grantee or lessee, or his or her legal representatives, successors, or assigns, of the time and place of the proceeding. The notice shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the Secretary of the Commission, or by any person authorized by the Commission to sign the same, setting forth any act or things done or omitted to be done in violation, or claimed to be in violation, of any restriction as to the use of the property, whether the restriction be prescribed in any of the terms of this Act or by any restriction as to the use of the property determined by the Commission under the terms of this Act. The notice of the time and place fixed for the proceeding shall also be given to such person or persons as the Commission shall deem necessary. The notice may be given by registered mail, addressed to the grantee, lessee, or legal representatives, successors, or assigns, at the last known address of the grantee, lessee, or legal representatives, successors, or assigns.

Section 5-55. Rules. The Commission may adopt reasonable and proper rules, in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, relative to the exercise of its powers, and proper rules to govern its proceedings, to regulate the mode and manner of all hearings held by it or at its direction, and to alter and amend those rules.

Section 5-60. Official documents. Copies of all official documents, findings, and orders of the Commission, certified by a Commissioner or by the Secretary of the Commission to be true copies of the originals, and under the official seal of the Commission, shall be evidence in like manner as the originals.

Section 5-65. Judicial review. All final administrative decisions of the Commission shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Any party may obtain judicial review of a final order or administrative decision of the Commission in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County only under and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Review Law and its adopted rules. The Circuit Court shall take judicial notice of all the rules of practice and procedure of the Commission.

Section 5-70. Parks. The Commission may set apart any part of the District as a park, except those areas owned, operated, or used for purposes authorized under this Act by organizations or institutions engaged in the delivery or conduct of health care services, education, or research. The Commission may construct, control, and maintain the same, or may provide by contract with the Springfield Park District, the City of Springfield, or the Department of Natural Resources, as applicable, for the construction, control, and maintenance of any area within the District set apart as a park.

Section 5-75. Master plan; improvement and management of District. The Commission shall approve a comprehensive master plan for the orderly development and management of all property within the District. The master plan, and any amendment to the master plan, shall only take effect once delivered to the Springfield City Council. The Commission shall take the actions permitted to be taken by it under this Act as it may determine are appropriate to provide conditions most favorable for the special care and treatment of the sick and injured and for the study of disease and for any other purpose of this Act. In the master plan, the Commission may provide for shared services and facilities within the District for the accredited higher education institutions and the licensed non-profit acute care hospitals within the District.

Section 5-80. Public hearing. The Commission shall conduct a public hearing prior to either (i) acquiring real or personal property within the District through Section 5-25 of this Act, (ii) constructing any building or structure under Section 5-30 of this Act, (iii) conveying property under Section 5-45 of this Act, or (iv) approving a comprehensive master plan under Section 5-75 of this Act. The Commission shall also conduct a public hearing whenever it is otherwise required by law to do so, and may conduct a public hearing whenever it may elect to do so. The Commission shall conduct the public hearing called by it in accordance with the requirements of the law mandating it, if any, or in accordance with the provisions of this Section if either the law mandating it is silent as to the procedures for its holding or if the Commission elects to hold a public hearing in the absence of any law mandating it. In the absence of any law, or of any procedures in any law, mandating the holding of a public hearing, the Commission may authorize a Commissioner or other person of legal age to conduct a hearing. The Commissioner or other authorized person has the power to administer oaths and affirmations, take the testimony of witnesses, take and receive the production of papers, books, records, accounts, and documents, receive pertinent evidence, and certify the record of the hearing. The record of the hearing shall become part of the Commission's record. Notice of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing shall be given by a single publication notice in a secular newspaper of general circulation in the City of Springfield at least 10 days before the date of the hearing.

Section 5-85. Jurisdiction. This Act shall not be construed to limit the jurisdiction of the City of Springfield to territory outside the limits of the District nor to impair any power now possessed by or hereafter granted to the City of Springfield or to cities generally. Property owned by and exclusively used by the Commission shall be exempt from taxation.

Section 5-90. Disposition of money; income fund. All money received by the Commission from the sale or lease of any property, in excess of the amount expended by the Commission for authorized purposes under this Act or as may be necessary to satisfy the obligation of any revenue bond issued pursuant to Section 5-40, shall be deposited into the Capital City Downtown Medical District Income Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. The Commission may use all money received as rentals for the purposes of planning, acquisition, and development of property within the District, for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of property of the Commission, and for all purposes and powers set forth in this Act. All moneys held pursuant to this Section shall be maintained in a depository approved by the State Treasurer. The Auditor General shall, at least biennially, audit or cause to be audited all records and accounts of the Commission pertaining to the operation of the District.

Section 5-95. Assumption. As allowable under State or federal law, any and all assets, holdings, contracts and agreements of the Mid-Illinois Medical District or Mid-Illinois Medical District Commission established under the Mid-Illinois Medical District Act shall hereby be conveyed or assigned to the Capital City Downtown Medical District or the Capital City Downtown Medical District Commission established under this Act.

ARTICLE 10

Section 10-5. The Illinois Enterprise Zone Act is amended by changing Section 5.4.1 as follows:

(20 ILCS 655/5.4.1)

Sec. 5.4.1. Adoption of Tax Increment Financing.

(a) If (i) a redevelopment project area is, will be, or has been created by a municipality under Division 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code, (ii) the redevelopment project area contains property that is located in an enterprise zone, (iii) the municipality adopts an amendment to the enterprise zone designating ordinance pursuant to Section 5.4 of this Act specifically concerning the abatement of taxes on property located within a redevelopment project area created pursuant to Division 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code, and (iv) the Department certifies the ordinance amendment, then the property that is located in both the enterprise zone and the redevelopment project area shall not be eligible for the abatement of taxes under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code.

No business enterprise or expansion or individual, however, that has constructed a new improvement or renovated or rehabilitated an existing improvement and has received an abatement on the improvement under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code shall be denied any benefit previously extended within the zone pursuant to this Act or pursuant to any other Illinois law providing benefits specifically to or within enterprise zones. Moreover, if the business enterprise or individual presents evidence to the municipality within 30 days after the adoption by the municipality of an amendment to the designating ordinance the sufficiency of which shall be determined by findings of the corporate authorities made within 30 days of the receipt of such evidence by the municipality, that before the date of the notice of the public hearing provided by the municipality regarding the amendment to the designating ordinance (i) the business enterprise or expansion or individual was committed to locate within the enterprise zone, (ii) substantial and binding financial obligations were made toward towards the development of the enterprise, and (iii) those commitments were made in reasonable reliance on the benefits and programs that were applicable to the enterprise or individual by reason of the enterprise zone, then the enterprise or expansion or individual shall not be denied any benefit previously extended within the zone pursuant to this Act or pursuant to any other Illinois law providing benefits specifically to or within enterprise zones.

(b) This Section applies to all property located within both a redevelopment project area adopted under Division 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code and an enterprise zone even if the redevelopment project area or the enterprise zone was adopted before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997.

(c) After July 1, 1997, if (i) a redevelopment project area is created by a municipality under Division 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code and (ii) the redevelopment project area contains property that is located in an enterprise zone, the municipality must adopt an amendment to the certified enterprise zone designating ordinance under Section 5.4 that property that is located in both the enterprise zone and the redevelopment project area shall not be eligible for any abatement of taxes under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code for new improvements or the renovation or rehabilitation of existing improvements, except as provided in subsections (e) and (f).

(d) In declaratory judgment actions under this Section, the Department and the designating municipality shall be necessary parties defendant.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a municipality has adopted an enterprise zone pursuant to this Act and subsequently establishes a redevelopment project area pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code, the municipality may, by amendment to the certified enterprise zone designating ordinance, provide for a partial abatement of taxes under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code for property located within both the enterprise zone and the redevelopment project area. Any portion of property taxes not abated shall be subject to tax increment financing, and the terms of the applicable redevelopment project area agreement adopted pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a municipality has established a redevelopment project area pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code and subsequently adopts an enterprise zone that includes property within the redevelopment project area, the municipality may, subject to the redevelopment project area plan and agreement, provide for a partial abatement of taxes under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code for property located within both the enterprise zone and the redevelopment project area. No such abatement shall reduce or impair any tax increment revenues pledged to secure outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations of the redevelopment project area. Any portion of property taxes not abated shall remain subject to tax increment financing and the terms of the applicable redevelopment project area agreement adopted pursuant to Division 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code.

(Source: P.A. 90-258, eff. 7-30-97.)

Section 10-10. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by changing Section 3-1 as follows:

(30 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 15, par. 303-1)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 3-1. Jurisdiction of Auditor General. The Auditor General has jurisdiction over all State agencies to make post audits and investigations authorized by or under this Act or the Constitution.

The Auditor General has jurisdiction over local government agencies and private agencies only:

(a) to make such post audits authorized by or under this Act as are necessary and incidental to a post audit of a State agency or of a program administered by a State agency involving public funds of the State, but this jurisdiction does not include any authority to review local governmental agencies in the obligation, receipt, expenditure or use of public funds of the State that are granted without limitation or condition imposed by law, other than the general limitation that such funds be used for public purposes;

(b) to make investigations authorized by or under this Act or the Constitution; and

(c) to make audits of the records of local government agencies to verify actual costs of state-mandated programs when directed to do so by the Legislative Audit Commission at the request of the State Board of Appeals under the State Mandates Act.

In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General may conduct an audit of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Suburban Bus Division, the Commuter Rail Division and the Chicago Transit Authority and any other subsidized carrier when authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission. Such audit may be a financial, management or program audit, or any combination thereof.

The audit shall determine whether they are operating in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Subject to the limitations of this Act, the Legislative Audit Commission may by resolution specify additional determinations to be included in the scope of the audit.

In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General must also conduct a financial audit of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority's expenditures of public funds in connection with the reconstruction, renovation, remodeling, extension, or improvement of all or substantially all of any existing "facility", as that term is defined in the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act.

The Auditor General may also conduct an audit, when authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission, of any hospital which receives 10% or more of its gross revenues from payments from the State of Illinois, Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Department of Public Aid), Medical Assistance Program.

The Auditor General is authorized to conduct financial and compliance audits of the Illinois Distance Learning Foundation and the Illinois Conservation Foundation.

As soon as practical after August 18, 1995 (the effective date of Public Act 89-386), the Auditor General shall conduct a compliance and management audit of the City of Chicago and any other entity with regard to the operation of Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago Midway Airport and Merrill C. Meigs Field. The audit shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of revenues, expenses, and transfers of funds; purchasing and contracting policies and practices; staffing levels; and hiring practices and procedures. When completed, the audit required by this paragraph shall be distributed in accordance with Section 3-14.

The Auditor General must conduct an audit of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board pursuant to Section 19.5 of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.

The Auditor General of the State of Illinois shall annually conduct or cause to be conducted a financial and compliance audit of the books and records of any county water commission organized pursuant to the Water Commission Act of 1985 and shall file a copy of the report of that audit with the Governor and the Legislative Audit Commission. The filed audit shall be open to the public for inspection. The cost of the audit shall be charged to the county water commission in accordance with Section 6z-27 of the State Finance Act. The county water commission shall make available to the Auditor General its books and records and any other documentation, whether in the possession of its trustees or other parties, necessary to conduct the audit required. These audit requirements apply only through July 1, 2007.

The Auditor General must conduct audits of the Rend Lake Conservancy District as provided in Section 25.5 of the River Conservancy Districts Act.

The Auditor General must conduct financial audits of the Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority as provided in Section 70 of the Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority Act.

The Auditor General shall conduct a compliance audit in accordance with subsections (d) and (f) of Section 30 of the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

The Auditor General shall conduct a compliance audit in accordance with subsections (d) and (g) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

(Source: P.A. 104-2, eff. 6-16-25.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 3-1. Jurisdiction of Auditor General. The Auditor General has jurisdiction over all State agencies to make post audits and investigations authorized by or under this Act or the Constitution.

The Auditor General has jurisdiction over local government agencies and private agencies only:

(a) to make such post audits authorized by or under this Act as are necessary and incidental to a post audit of a State agency or of a program administered by a State agency involving public funds of the State, but this jurisdiction does not include any authority to review local governmental agencies in the obligation, receipt, expenditure or use of public funds of the State that are granted without limitation or condition imposed by law, other than the general limitation that such funds be used for public purposes;

(b) to make investigations authorized by or under this Act or the Constitution; and

(c) to make audits of the records of local government agencies to verify actual costs of state-mandated programs when directed to do so by the Legislative Audit Commission at the request of the State Board of Appeals under the State Mandates Act.

In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General may conduct an audit of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, the Suburban Bus Division, the Commuter Rail Division and the Chicago Transit Authority and any other subsidized carrier when authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission. Such audit may be a financial, management or program audit, or any combination thereof.

The audit shall determine whether they are operating in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Subject to the limitations of this Act, the Legislative Audit Commission may by resolution specify additional determinations to be included in the scope of the audit.

In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General must also conduct a financial audit of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority's expenditures of public funds in connection with the reconstruction, renovation, remodeling, extension, or improvement of all or substantially all of any existing "facility", as that term is defined in the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act.

The Auditor General may also conduct an audit, when authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission, of any hospital which receives 10% or more of its gross revenues from payments from the State of Illinois, Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Department of Public Aid), Medical Assistance Program.

The Auditor General is authorized to conduct financial and compliance audits of the Illinois Distance Learning Foundation and the Illinois Conservation Foundation.

As soon as practical after August 18, 1995 (the effective date of Public Act 89-386), the Auditor General shall conduct a compliance and management audit of the City of Chicago and any other entity with regard to the operation of Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago Midway Airport and Merrill C. Meigs Field. The audit shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of revenues, expenses, and transfers of funds; purchasing and contracting policies and practices; staffing levels; and hiring practices and procedures. When completed, the audit required by this paragraph shall be distributed in accordance with Section 3-14.

The Auditor General must conduct an audit of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board pursuant to Section 19.5 of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.

The Auditor General of the State of Illinois shall annually conduct or cause to be conducted a financial and compliance audit of the books and records of any county water commission organized pursuant to the Water Commission Act of 1985 and shall file a copy of the report of that audit with the Governor and the Legislative Audit Commission. The filed audit shall be open to the public for inspection. The cost of the audit shall be charged to the county water commission in accordance with Section 6z-27 of the State Finance Act. The county water commission shall make available to the Auditor General its books and records and any other documentation, whether in the possession of its trustees or other parties, necessary to conduct the audit required. These audit requirements apply only through July 1, 2007.

The Auditor General must conduct audits of the Rend Lake Conservancy District as provided in Section 25.5 of the River Conservancy Districts Act.

The Auditor General must conduct financial audits of the Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority as provided in Section 70 of the Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority Act.

The Auditor General shall conduct a compliance audit in accordance with subsections (d) and (f) of Section 30 of the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

The Auditor General shall conduct a compliance audit in accordance with subsections (d) and (g) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

(Source: P.A. 104-2, eff. 6-16-25; 104-457, eff. 6-1-26.)

Section 10-15. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Sections 6z-18 and 6z-20 and by adding Section 5.1038 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.1038 new)

Sec. 5.1038. The Capital City Downtown Medical District Income Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-18) (from Ch. 127, par. 142z-18)

Sec. 6z-18. Local Government Tax Fund. A portion of the money paid into the Local Government Tax Fund from sales of tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the Service Occupation Tax Act, which occurred in municipalities, shall be distributed to each municipality based upon the sales which occurred in that municipality. The remainder shall be distributed to each county based upon the sales which occurred in the unincorporated area of that county.

Moneys transferred from the Grocery Tax Replacement Fund to the Local Government Tax Fund under Section 6z-130 shall be treated under this Section in the same manner as if they had been remitted with the return on which they were reported.

A portion of the money paid into the Local Government Tax Fund from the 6.25% general use tax rate on the selling price of tangible personal property which is purchased outside Illinois at retail from a retailer and which is titled or registered by any agency of this State's government shall be distributed to municipalities as provided in this paragraph. Each municipality shall receive the amount attributable to sales for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being in such municipality. The remainder of the money paid into the Local Government Tax Fund from such sales shall be distributed to counties. Each county shall receive the amount attributable to sales for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being located in the unincorporated area of such county.

A portion of the money paid into the Local Government Tax Fund from the 6.25% general rate (and, beginning July 1, 2000 and through December 31, 2000, the 1.25% rate on motor fuel and gasohol, and beginning on August 6, 2010 through August 15, 2010, and beginning again on August 5, 2022 through August 14, 2022, the 1.25% rate on sales tax holiday items) on sales subject to taxation under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the Service Occupation Tax Act, which occurred in municipalities, shall be distributed to each municipality, based upon the sales which occurred in that municipality. The remainder shall be distributed to each county, based upon the sales which occurred in the unincorporated area of such county.

For the purpose of determining allocation to the local government unit, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund of money paid into the Local Government Tax Fund should be made to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Local Government Tax Fund.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district and deposited into the Local Government Tax Fund, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district and deposited into the Local Government Tax Fund, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred to the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities and counties, the municipalities and counties to be those entitled to distribution of taxes or penalties paid to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality or county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected during the second preceding calendar month by the Department and paid into the Local Government Tax Fund, plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which are payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality or county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and counties, provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

When certifying the amount of monthly disbursement to a municipality or county under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease that amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the 6 months preceding the time a misallocation is discovered.

The provisions directing the distributions from the special fund in the State treasury provided for in this Section shall constitute an irrevocable and continuing appropriation of all amounts as provided herein. The State Treasurer and State Comptroller are hereby authorized to make distributions as provided in this Section.

In construing any development, redevelopment, annexation, preannexation, or other lawful agreement in effect prior to September 1, 1990, which describes or refers to receipts from a county or municipal retailers' occupation tax, use tax or service occupation tax which now cannot be imposed, such description or reference shall be deemed to include the replacement revenue for such abolished taxes, distributed from the Local Government Tax Fund.

As soon as possible after March 8, 2013 (the effective date of Public Act 98-3), the State Comptroller shall order and the State Treasurer shall transfer $6,600,000 from the Local Government Tax Fund to the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Fund.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, Article 60, Section 60-10, eff. 4-19-22; 102-700, Article 65, Section 65-15, eff. 4-19-22; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)

(30 ILCS 105/6z-20) (from Ch. 127, par. 142z-20)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 6z-20. County and Mass Transit District Fund. Of the money received from the 6.25% general rate (and, beginning July 1, 2000 and through December 31, 2000, the 1.25% rate on motor fuel and gasohol, and beginning on August 6, 2010 through August 15, 2010, and beginning again on August 5, 2022 through August 14, 2022, the 1.25% rate on sales tax holiday items) on sales subject to taxation under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Service Occupation Tax Act and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, distribution to the Regional Transportation Authority tax fund, created pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act, for deposit therein shall be made based upon the retail sales occurring in a county having more than 3,000,000 inhabitants. The remainder shall be distributed to each county having 3,000,000 or fewer inhabitants based upon the retail sales occurring in each such county.

For the purpose of determining allocation to the local government unit, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Of the money received from the 6.25% general use tax rate on tangible personal property which is purchased outside Illinois at retail from a retailer and which is titled or registered by any agency of this State's government and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, the amount for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being in each county having more than 3,000,000 inhabitants shall be distributed into the Regional Transportation Authority tax fund, created pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act. The remainder of the money paid from such sales shall be distributed to each county based on sales for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being located in the county. Any money paid into the Regional Transportation Authority Occupation and Use Tax Replacement Fund from the County and Mass Transit District Fund prior to January 14, 1991, which has not been paid to the Authority prior to that date, shall be transferred to the Regional Transportation Authority tax fund.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund of money paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund should be made to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the County and Mass Transit District Fund.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district and deposited into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to the Regional Transportation Authority and to named counties, the counties to be those entitled to distribution, as hereinabove provided, of taxes or penalties paid to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to the Regional Transportation Authority and each county having 3,000,000 or fewer inhabitants shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected during the second preceding calendar month by the Department and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the Regional Transportation Authority or county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the amount to be paid to the Regional Transportation Authority, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the Regional Transportation Authority, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the Regional Transportation Authority, counties, and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to the Regional Transportation Authority or to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease that amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the 6 months preceding the time a misallocation is discovered.

The provisions directing the distributions from the special fund in the State treasury Treasury provided for in this Section and from the Regional Transportation Authority tax fund created by Section 4.03 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act shall constitute an irrevocable and continuing appropriation of all amounts as provided herein. The State Treasurer and State Comptroller are hereby authorized to make distributions as provided in this Section.

In construing any development, redevelopment, annexation, preannexation or other lawful agreement in effect prior to September 1, 1990, which describes or refers to receipts from a county or municipal retailers' occupation tax, use tax or service occupation tax which now cannot be imposed, such description or reference shall be deemed to include the replacement revenue for such abolished taxes, distributed from the County and Mass Transit District Fund or Local Government Distributive Fund, as the case may be.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 6z-20. County and Mass Transit District Fund. Of the money received from the 6.25% general rate (and, beginning July 1, 2000 and through December 31, 2000, the 1.25% rate on motor fuel and gasohol, and beginning on August 6, 2010 through August 15, 2010, and beginning again on August 5, 2022 through August 14, 2022, the 1.25% rate on sales tax holiday items) on sales subject to taxation under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Service Occupation Tax Act and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, distribution to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority tax fund, created pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act, for deposit therein shall be made based upon the retail sales occurring in a county having more than 3,000,000 inhabitants. The remainder shall be distributed to each county having 3,000,000 or fewer inhabitants based upon the retail sales occurring in each such county.

For the purpose of determining allocation to the local government unit, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Of the money received from the 6.25% general use tax rate on tangible personal property which is purchased outside Illinois at retail from a retailer and which is titled or registered by any agency of this State's government and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, the amount for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being in each county having more than 3,000,000 inhabitants shall be distributed into the Northern Illinois Transit Authority tax fund, created pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act. The remainder of the money paid from such sales shall be distributed to each county based on sales for which Illinois addresses for titling or registration purposes are given as being located in the county. Any money paid into the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Occupation and Use Tax Replacement Fund from the County and Mass Transit District Fund prior to January 14, 1991, which has not been paid to the Authority prior to that date, shall be transferred to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority tax fund.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund of money paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund should be made to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the County and Mass Transit District Fund.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district and deposited into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district and deposited into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and to named counties, the counties to be those entitled to distribution, as hereinabove provided, of taxes or penalties paid to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and each county having 3,000,000 or fewer inhabitants shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected during the second preceding calendar month by the Department and paid into the County and Mass Transit District Fund, plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority or county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the amount to be paid to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, counties, and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to the Northern Illinois Transit Authority or to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease that amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the 6 months preceding the time a misallocation is discovered.

The provisions directing the distributions from the special fund in the State treasury provided for in this Section and from the Northern Illinois Transit Authority tax fund created by Section 4.03 of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act shall constitute an irrevocable and continuing appropriation of all amounts as provided herein. The State Treasurer and State Comptroller are hereby authorized to make distributions as provided in this Section.

In construing any development, redevelopment, annexation, preannexation or other lawful agreement in effect prior to September 1, 1990, which describes or refers to receipts from a county or municipal retailers' occupation tax, use tax or service occupation tax which now cannot be imposed, such description or reference shall be deemed to include the replacement revenue for such abolished taxes, distributed from the County and Mass Transit District Fund or Local Government Distributive Fund, as the case may be.

(Source: P.A. 104-457, eff. 6-1-26.)

(30 ILCS 105/5.593 rep.)

(30 ILCS 105/6z-60 rep.)

Section 10-17. The State Finance Act is amended by repealing Sections 5.593 and 6z-60.

Section 10-20. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by adding Sections 221.5 and 221.6 as follows:

(35 ILCS 5/221.5 new)

Sec. 221.5. Rehabilitation costs; qualified historic properties; Capital City Downtown Medical District.

(a) As used in this Section:

"Phased rehabilitation" means a project that is completed in phases, as defined under Section 47 of the federal Internal Revenue Code and pursuant to National Park Service regulations at 36 C.F.R. 67.

"Placed in service" means the date when the property is placed in a condition or state of readiness and availability for a specifically assigned function as defined under Section 47 of the federal Internal Revenue Code and federal Treasury Regulation Sections 1.46 and 1.48.

"Qualified expenditure" means all the costs and expenses defined as qualified rehabilitation expenditures under Section 47 of the federal Internal Revenue Code that were incurred in connection with a qualified historic structure.

"Qualified historic structure" means a certified historic structure as defined under Section 47(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

"Qualified rehabilitation plan" means a project that is approved by the Department of Natural Resources and the National Park Service as being consistent with the United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.

"Qualified taxpayer" means the owner of the qualified historic structure or any other person who qualifies for the federal rehabilitation credit allowed by Section 47 of the federal Internal Revenue Code with respect to that qualified historic structure.

(b) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, there shall be allowed a tax credit against the tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act in an aggregate amount equal to 25% of the qualified expenditures incurred by a qualified taxpayer in the restoration and preservation of a qualified historic structure located within the bounds of the Capital City Downtown Medical District pursuant to a qualified rehabilitation plan, provided that the total amount of such expenditures must (i) equal $5,000 or more and (ii) exceed the adjusted basis of the qualified historic structure on the first day the qualified rehabilitation plan begins. For any rehabilitation project, regardless of duration or number of phases, the project's compliance with items (i) and (ii) shall be determined based on the aggregate amount of qualified expenditures for the entire project and may include expenditures incurred under subsection (a), this subsection, or both subsection (a) and this subsection. If the qualified rehabilitation plan spans multiple years, the aggregate credit for the entire project shall be allowed in the last taxable year, except for phased rehabilitation projects, which may receive credits upon completion of each phase. Before obtaining the first phased credit, the total amount of such expenditures must meet the requirements of items (i) and (ii) and the rehabilitated portion of the qualified historic structure must be placed in service.

If the taxpayer is a partnership or subchapter S corporation, the credit shall be allowed to the partners or shareholders in accordance with the provisions of Section 251.

(c) The credit or credits may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. If the amount of the credit or credits exceeds the taxpayer's liability, the excess may be carried forward and applied against the taxpayer's liability in the 5 taxable years following the excess credit year. The credit or credits shall be applied to the earliest year for which there is a tax liability. If there are credits from more than one taxable year that are available to offset a liability, the earlier credit shall be applied first.

(d) To obtain a tax credit pursuant to this Section, the taxpayer must apply to the Department of Natural Resources. The Department of Natural Resources shall determine the amount of eligible rehabilitation costs and expenses within 45 days of receipt of a complete application. The taxpayer must submit a certification of costs prepared by an independent certified public accountant that certifies (i) the project expenses, (ii) whether those expenses are qualified expenditures, and (iii) that the qualified expenditures exceed the adjusted basis of the qualified historic structure on the first day the qualified rehabilitation plan commenced. The Department of Natural Resources is authorized, but not required, to accept this certification of costs to determine the amount of qualified expenditures and the amount of the credit. The Department of Natural Resources shall provide guidance as to the minimum standards to be followed in the preparation of the certification. The Department of Natural Resources and the National Park Service shall determine whether the rehabilitation is consistent with the United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.

(e) Upon completion of the project and approval of the complete application, the Department of Natural Resources shall issue a single certificate in the amount of the eligible credits equal to 25% of the qualified expenditures incurred by the taxpayer during the eligible taxable years, as defined in subsection (b), excepting any phased credits issued prior to the eligible taxable year under subsection (b). At the time the certificate is issued, an issuance fee up to the maximum amount of 2% of the amount of the credits issued by the certificate may be collected from the applicant to administer the provisions of this Section. If collected, this issuance fee shall be deposited into the Historic Property Administrative Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Historic Property Administrative Fund shall be provided to the Department of Natural Resources as reimbursement for the costs associated with administering this Section.

(f) The taxpayer must attach the certificate to the tax return on which the credits are to be claimed.

(g) Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Historic Property Administrative Fund shall be used, on a biennial basis on and after June 30, 2029, to hire a qualified third party to prepare a biennial report to assess the overall economic impact to the State from the qualified rehabilitation projects under this Section completed in that fiscal year and in previous fiscal years. The overall economic impact shall include at least: (1) the direct and indirect or induced economic impacts of completed projects; (2) temporary, permanent, and construction jobs created; (3) sales, income, and property tax generation before construction, during construction, and after completion; and (4) indirect neighborhood impact after completion. The report shall be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly. The report to the General Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in electronic form only, in the manner that the Clerk and the Secretary shall direct.

(h) The Department of Natural Resources may adopt rules to implement this Section in addition to the rules expressly authorized in this Section.

(i) This Section is exempt from the provisions of Section 250.

(35 ILCS 5/221.6 new)

Sec. 221.6. Capital city construction jobs credit.

(a) As used in this Section:

"Capital city construction jobs credit" means:

(1) an amount equal to 50% of the incremental income tax attributable to capital city construction employees employed on a capital city construction jobs project not located in an underserved area; or

(2) an amount equal to 75% of the incremental income tax attributable to capital city construction employees employed on a capital city construction jobs project located in an underserved area.

"Capital city construction jobs project" means a project that involves the construction of a structure or building or the making of improvements of any kind to real property that is: (i) located in a Capital City Redevelopment Zone and (ii) built or improved in the course of completing a qualified rehabilitation plan.

"Capital city construction jobs project" does not include the routine operation, routine repair, or routine maintenance of existing structures, buildings, or real property.

"Incremental income tax" means means the total amount withheld during the taxable year from the compensation of capital city construction jobs employees under Article 7 of this Act.

"Qualified rehabilitation plan" means a project that is approved by the Department of Natural Resources and the National Park Service as being consistent with the United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.

"Underserved area" means a geographic area that meets one or more of the following conditions:

(1) the area has a poverty rate of at least 20% according to the latest American Community Survey;

(2) 35% or more of the families with children in the area are living below 130% of the poverty line, according to the latest American Community Survey;

(3) at least 20% of the households in the area receive assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); or

(4) the area has an average unemployment rate, as determined by the Department of Employment Security, that is more than 120% of the national unemployment average, as determined by the United States Department of Labor, for a period of at least 2 consecutive calendar years preceding the date of the application.

(b) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, a taxpayer may receive a tax credit against the tax imposed under subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act in an amount equal to 50%, or 75% if the project is located in an underserved area, of the amount of the incremental income tax attributable to construction wages paid to capital city construction jobs employees employed in the course of completing a capital city construction jobs project. The credit allowed under this Section shall apply only to taxpayers that make a capital investment of at least $1,000,000 in a qualified rehabilitation plan.

(c) A taxpayer seeking a credit under this Section must submit an application to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity describing the nature and benefit of the capital city construction jobs project to the qualified rehabilitation project and the Capital City Redevelopment Zone. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may adopt any necessary rules in order to administer the provisions of this Section.

(d) Within 45 days after the receipt of an application, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall give notice to the applicant as to whether the application has been approved or disapproved. If the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity disapproves the application, it shall specify the reasons for this decision and allow 60 days for the applicant to amend and resubmit its application. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall provide assistance upon request of the applicant. Resubmitted applications shall receive the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's approval or disapproval within 30 days of resubmission. Those resubmitted applications satisfying initial Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity objectives shall be approved unless reasonable circumstances warrant disapproval.

(e) On an annual basis, the taxpayer shall furnish a statement to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on the programmatic and financial status of any approved project and an audited financial statement of the project.

(f) The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall certify to the Department of Revenue the identity of the taxpayers who are eligible for capital city construction jobs credits and the amounts of capital city construction jobs credits awarded in each taxable year.

(g) The credit or credits may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. If the amount of the credit or credits exceeds the taxpayer's liability, the excess may be carried forward and applied against the taxpayer's liability in the 5 taxable years following the excess credit year. The credit or credits shall be applied to the earliest year for which there is a tax liability. If there are credits from more than one taxable year that are available to offset a liability, the earlier credit shall be applied first.

(h) The prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Prevailing Wage Act apply to each project that is entitled to a construction jobs credit under this Section.

(i) This Section is exempt from the provisions of Section 250.

Section 10-25. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding Division 23 to Article 10 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/Art. 10 Div. 23 heading new)

Division 23. Megaprojects

(35 ILCS 200/10-1010 new)

Sec. 10-1010. Megaproject Assessment Freeze and Payment Law; definitions. This Division 23 may be cited as the Megaproject Assessment Freeze and Payment Law.

As used in this Division:

"Assessment officer" means the chief county assessment officer of the county in which the megaproject is located.

"Assessment period" means the period beginning on the first day of the calendar year after the calendar year in which a megaproject is placed in service and ending on the date when the megaproject no longer qualifies as a megaproject under this Division.

"Base year" means:

(1) the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the Department issues the megaproject certificate, if the Department issues a megaproject certificate for a project located on the property without granting preliminary approval for the project under Section 10-1040; or

(2) the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the Department grants that preliminary approval, if the Department grants preliminary approval under Section 10-1040 for a megaproject located on the property.

"Base year valuation" means the assessed value, in the base year, of the property comprising the megaproject.

"Company" means one or more entities whose aggregate investment in the megaproject meets the minimum investment required under this Division. The term "company" includes a company affiliate unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Company affiliate" means an entity that joins with or is an affiliate of a company and that participates in the investment in, or financing of, a megaproject.

"Consumer Price Index" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100.

"Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

"Eligible costs" means all costs incurred by or on behalf of, or allocated to, a company, prior to the Department's issuance of the megaproject certificate or during the investment period, to create or construct a megaproject. "Eligible costs" includes, without limitation:

(1) the purchase, site preparation, renovation, rehabilitation, and construction of land, buildings, structures, equipment, and furnishings used for or in the megaproject;

(2) any goods or services for the megaproject that are purchased and capitalized under generally accepted accounting principles, including any organizational costs and research and development costs incurred in Illinois;

(3) capitalized lease costs for land, buildings, structures, and equipment valued at their present value using the interest rate at which the company borrows funds prevailing at the time the company entered into the lease;

(4) infrastructure development costs;

(5) debt service and project financing costs;

(6) noncapitalized research and development costs;

(7) job training and education costs;

(8) lease and relocation costs; and

(9) remediation costs, as defined in Section 58.2 of the Environmental Protection Act, incurred voluntarily as a nonresponsible party pursuant to Title XVII of the Environmental Protection Act and rules adopted under that Title.

"Entity" means a sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other business enterprise.

"Incentive agreement" means an agreement that is between a company and a local municipality, that is for the benefit of the entire community, and that obligates the company to make the special payment under this Division, in addition to paying property taxes, during the incentive period for a megaproject.

"Incentive period" means the period beginning on the first day of the calendar year after the calendar year in which the megaproject is placed in service and each calendar year thereafter until the earlier of (i) the termination date or (ii) the revocation of the megaproject certificate.

"Investment period" means the period ending 7 years after the date on which the Department issues the megaproject certificate, or such other longer period of time as the local municipality and the company may agree to, not to exceed an initial period of 10 years.

"Local municipality" means the city, village, or incorporated town in which the megaproject is located or, if the megaproject is located in an unincorporated area, the county in which the megaproject is located.

"Local review board" means a group that consists of one representative of each of the following: (i) the local municipality; (ii) each local school district in which the property is located; (iii) each local park district in which the property is located; and (iv) each other taxing district that levies property taxes over any portion of the proposed site of the megaproject.

"Megaproject" means a project that is expected to satisfy the minimum investment requirements; investment period requirements; and other requirements of this Division. "Megaproject" includes an RREDY megaproject.

"Megaproject certificate" means a certificate issued by the Department that authorizes an assessment freeze and special payments as provided in this Division.

"Minimum investment" means:

(1) an investment during the investment period in the megaproject of at least $100,000,000 but less than $500,000,000 in eligible costs within the investment period; or

(2) an investment during the investment period in the megaproject of at least $500,000,000 but less than $1,000,000,000 in eligible costs within the investment period; or

(3) an investment during the investment period in the megaproject of at least $1,000,000,000 in eligible costs within the investment period.

"Minority person" means a person who is a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States and who is any of the following:

(1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, including Central America, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment).

(2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam).

(3) Black or African American (a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa).

(4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race).

(5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).

"Minority-owned business" means a business that is at least 51% owned by one or more minority persons, or that, in the case of a corporation, has at least 51% of its stock owned by one or more minority persons, and that, in either case, is managed and operated on a daily basis by one or more of the minority individuals who own the business.

"Placed in service" means that the company has commenced its business operations at the megaproject site and has met its minimum investment requirements under this Section.

"Project" means land, buildings, and other improvements on the land of a megaproject or RREDY megaproject, including water facilities, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, and all other machinery, apparatuses, equipment, office facilities, related infrastructure, and furnishings that are considered necessary, suitable, or useful by a company and comprise the development of the megaproject or RREDY megaproject, including all of that property that is subject to assessment under the Property Tax Code.

"Project labor agreement" means a prehire collective bargaining agreement that covers all terms and conditions of employment between the general contractor and all subcontractors hired by the master developer, developer, codevelopers, as applicable, of a megaproject. A "project labor agreement" must include the following provisions: (1) a provision establishing the minimum hourly wage for each class of labor organization employee; (2) a provision establishing the benefits and other compensation for each class of labor organization employee; (3) a provision requiring that no strike or dispute will be engaged in by the labor organization employees; (4) a provision requiring that no lockout or dispute will be engaged in by the general contractor and all subcontractors building the project; and (5) a provision establishing goals for apprenticeship hours to be performed by minority persons and women and goals for total hours to be performed by minority persons and women, as those terms are defined in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. A "project labor agreement" may include other terms and conditions as necessary.

"Railroad Rehabilitation and Economic Development for Yards megaproject" or "RREDY megaproject" means a megaproject that (i) is expected to satisfy the additional minimum investment requirements, investment period requirements, and other requirements of this Division, (ii) includes the improvement and redevelopment of blighted or underused rail yards, railroad tracks, train maintenance and storage facilities, and other rail infrastructure, including the land, air rights, or land and air rights above, and (iii) meets the requirements of subsection (c) of Section 10-1015 of this Division.

"Special payment" means the annual amount paid in addition to property taxes paid during the incentive period as provided in the incentive agreement.

"Taxing district" has the meaning given to that term in Section 1-150.

"Termination date" means:

(1) for a company making the minimum investment described in paragraph (1) of the definition of "minimum investment" in this Section, 25 years following the first calendar year in which a megaproject is placed in service or 30 years if the preparation of the site required environmental remediation under any applicable State or federal laws;

(2) for a company making the minimum investment described in paragraph (2) of the definition of "minimum investment" in this Section, 30 years following the first calendar year in which a megaproject is placed in service or 35 years if the preparation of the site required environmental remediation under any applicable State or federal laws; or

(3) for a company making the minimum investment described in paragraph (3) of the definition of "minimum investment" in this Section, 40 years following the first calendar year in which a megaproject is placed in service or 45 years if the preparation of the site required environmental remediation under any applicable State or federal laws.

"Termination date" means, for an RREDY megaproject, 40 years following the first calendar year in which a megaproject is placed in service.

If the incentive agreement is terminated under Section 10-1037, then the termination date is the date the agreement is terminated.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1015 new)

Sec. 10-1015. Valuation during incentive period; eligibility.

(a) Property that receives a megaproject certificate from the Department is eligible for an assessment freeze, as provided in this Division, eliminating from consideration, for assessment purposes during the incentive period, the value added to the property by the project and limiting the total valuation of the property during the incentive period to the base year valuation. If the company does not anticipate completing the project within the investment period, then the local municipality may approve one or more extensions of time to complete the project. However, the local municipality may not extend the project for a period that exceeds 5 years after the last day of the investment period, including any extension of the investment period agreed to by the local municipality and the company under Section 10-1010. Unless approved as part of the original incentive agreement, the corporate authorities of the local municipality may approve an extension under this subsection by resolution, a copy of which must be delivered to the Department within 30 days after the date the resolution is adopted.

(b) To qualify for the assessment freeze for a megaproject, other than an RREDY megaproject, the company must:

(1) make the minimum investment in the megaproject during the investment period;

(2) enter into an incentive agreement with the local municipality as described in this Division;

(3) enter into a project labor agreement prior to the commencement of any demolition, building construction, or building renovation related to the megaproject; and

(4) establish the goal of awarding 20% of the total dollar amount of contracts that are related to the megaproject and are awarded by the company during each calendar year to minority-owned businesses.

(c) To qualify for the assessment freeze for an RREDY megaproject, the company must:

(1) meet the requirements for a megaproject set forth in paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (b);

(2) develop and deliver capital improvements on land, within air rights, or on land and within air rights that meet the following additional requirements:

(A) the megaproject is located in a municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or more;

(B) not less than 75% of the cost of land and project improvements are infrastructure costs;

(C) the megaproject is found, by an independent, third-party feasibility analysis, to present a unique opportunity for economic development and activating an underdeveloped portion of land that could complement existing civic assets;

(D) the project is found, by an independent, third-party feasibility analysis within a reasonable order of magnitude that reflects key inputs, to have the potential to result in not less than $40,000,000,000 in aggregate new tax revenues to all taxing jurisdictions over not less than 40 years; and

(E) the project is found by an independent, third-party feasibility analysis, to have the potential to result in an increase in regional transit ridership by not less than 10,000 average daily boardings.

(d) For the purposes of this Division, if a single company enters into a financing arrangement of the type described in subsection (b) of Section 10-1050, the investment in or financing of the property by a developer, lessor, financing entity, or other third party in accordance with this arrangement is considered investment by the company. Investment by a related person to the company is considered investment by the company.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1020 new)

Sec. 10-1020. Incentive agreement; assessment freeze for megaprojects; incentive period; location of the project; criteria to qualify.

(a) To obtain the benefits provided in this Division, the company shall apply in writing to the local municipality to enter into an incentive agreement with the municipality, in the form and manner required by the local municipality, and shall certify to the facts asserted in the application.

(b) The corporate authorities of the local municipality, prior to entering into an incentive agreement under this Section, shall hold a public hearing to consider the application. The amount and terms of the proposed special payment and the duration of the incentive agreement shall be considered at the public hearing.

(c) The local municipality may not enter into, alter, or amend an incentive agreement under this Division unless and until all of the following are considered and approved by a majority of the members of a local review board, in accordance with the weighted vote set forth below:

(1) the base year;

(2) the base year valuation, which may be subject to adjustment based on factors memorialized in the incentive agreement, including an annual rate adjustment equal to the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, if negotiated;

(3) the amount of the special payment, including the manner in which the payment will adjust over time;

(4) the manner in which sufficient revenues will be generated and provided, either by the megaproject or by alternative sources, to address the extraordinary capital needs of the local school districts that will be incurred to meet the demands of new students who (i) reside within housing units constructed as part of a master development plan that includes the megaproject site and (ii) are anticipated to attend a school under the jurisdiction of a local school district; and

(5) the adjustment of the amount of the special payment in accordance with changes in the Consumer Price Index, as negotiated.

In addition, the local review board may not approve an incentive agreement unless it finds that the agreement is reasonably designed to prevent local school districts from receiving less than the base-year school revenue amount, adjusted annually by the percentage change, if any, in the Consumer Price Index.

As duly appointed officials representing their respective bodies, local review board members are entrusted to keep in mind the best interests of the entire affected community area of the project for the short and long term. Members are expected to review the project reports and information, where provided and applicable, on behalf of the constituents they represent. The board may request additional documentation from the applicant to inform its review as the board deems necessary to render a decision. This documentation shall include a school impact analysis with a statement of projected enrollment effects and, where necessary, a mitigation plan for extraordinary capital burdens. The local review board shall consist of one representative of each of the following: (i) the local municipality; (ii) each local school district in which the property is located; (iii) each local park district in which the property is located; and (iv) each other taxing district that levies property taxes over any portion of the proposed site of the megaproject. Except for an RREDY megaproject, the vote of the local review board shall be weighted in proportion to each voting member's taxing district's share of property taxes levied on the proposed site of the megaproject, and each taxing district's vote shall be weighted on a 100-point scale to reflect its proportionate share of the applicable property taxes. All plan documents relied upon by the municipality in its review of the application for an incentive agreement under this Division shall be provided to the local review board. The local review board may make reasonable requests of the municipality for additional documents related to the megaproject. All meetings of the local review board shall be open to the public and subject to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act. For an RREDY megaproject, the local review board shall follow the procedural requirements of a joint review board under Section 11-74.4-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.

(d) The company and the local municipality shall enter into an incentive agreement requiring the special payment described in Section 10-1025. The corporate authorities of the local municipality shall adopt an ordinance approving the incentive agreement.

(e) As used in this Section, "Consumer Price Index" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1025 new)

Sec. 10-1025. Contents of incentive agreement.

(a) The incentive agreement under Section 10-1020 must require the company to pay, or be responsible for the payment of, an annual special payment to the local municipality, beginning with the first tax year for which the assessment freeze under this Division is applied to the megaproject. The amount of the special payment shall be established in the incentive agreement. It may be a fixed amount for the duration of the incentive period or may be subject to adjustment based on factors memorialized in the incentive agreement, including an annual rate adjustment equal to the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, if negotiated. The amount of the special payment may exceed but shall be at least 10% of the property tax levied against the megaproject property for the year immediately preceding the base year; provided, however, that this requirement does not apply to any project with an investment expected to exceed $2,000,000,000.

(b) The incentive agreement shall obligate the company to operate the megaproject at the designated project location for a minimum of 20 years.

(b-5) The incentive agreement shall obligate the company to enter into a labor peace agreement as provided in Section 10-1026.

(c) The incentive agreement may contain such other terms and conditions as are mutually agreeable to the local municipality and the company and are consistent with the requirements of this Division, including, without limitation, operational and job creation requirements.

(d) In addition, all incentive agreements entered into under Section 10-1020 must include, as the first portion of the document, a recapitulation of the remaining contents of the document, which shall include the following:

(1) the legal name of each party to the agreement;

(2) the street address of the project and the property subject to the agreement;

(3) the agreed minimum investment;

(4) the term of the agreement;

(5) a schedule showing the amount of the special payment and its calculation for each year of the agreement;

(6) a schedule showing the amount to be distributed annually to each taxing district, as set forth in the incentive agreement;

(7) any other feature or aspect of the agreement which may affect the calculation of items (5) and (6) of this subsection;

(8) the party or parties to the agreement who are responsible for updating the information contained in the summary document; and

(9) a requirement that the company submit a third-party agreed-upon procedures report verifying that the project has been placed in service and that the minimum investment requirements under this Division have been met.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1026 new)

Sec. 10-1026. Labor peace agreement. Companies receiving incentives under this Division shall have in place, at all times during the incentive period, a labor peace agreement with any bona fide labor organization that represents or is attempting to represent any employees or vendors performing work in connection with the megaproject. Companies receiving incentives under this Division shall also require that any vendor performing work in connection with the megaproject enter into a labor peace agreement with any bona fide labor organization that represents or is attempting to represent any employees of a subcontractor who are performing work in connection with the megaproject. The company must attest to the Department each year, in the form and manner required by the Department, that it remains in compliance with this Section. If a company fails to comply with the provisions of this Section, then the Department shall revoke the company's megaproject certificate, and the incentive agreement shall be terminated.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1030 new)

Sec. 10-1030. Installment bills; distribution of special payments.

(a) The local municipality shall prepare a bill for the company for each installment of the special payment according to the schedule set forth in paragraph (5) of subsection (d) of Section 10-1025, or as modified pursuant to paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of Section 10-1025. The treasurer of the local municipality shall deposit 50% of the special payment proceeds, when collected, into a locally held property tax relief fund. Moneys in the property tax relief fund shall be allocated as follows:

(1) 60% of the moneys shall be used for property tax rebates for residential homeowners in taxing districts in which the megaproject is located; and

(2) 40% of the moneys shall be paid to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Illinois Property Tax Relief Fund created under Section 6z-113 of the State Finance Act.

The local municipality shall, by ordinance or resolution, establish eligibility standards and benefit amounts for property tax rebates awarded under item (1).

(b) After deposits have been made into the property tax relief fund under subsection (a), the municipality shall distribute the remainder of the special payment to each affected taxing district in an amount equal to the taxing district's proportionate share of property taxes due and payable for the megaproject site, as evidenced by the most recent property tax bill issued for the megaproject site.

(c) Distribution to the taxing districts of the amounts set forth in subsection (b) must be made within 60 days after receipt by the local municipality of the special payment amounts.

(d) Misallocations of the amounts distributed under subsection (b) may be corrected by adjusting later distributions, but these adjustments must be made in the next succeeding year following identification and resolution of the misallocation. To the extent that distributions have been made improperly in previous years, claims for adjustment must be made within one year of the distribution.

(e) A taxing district that receives and retains revenues from a special payment under this Division may, in its discretion and in accordance with applicable law, use all or a portion of the revenues for the purposes of financing the issuance of revenue bonds.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1037 new)

Sec. 10-1037. Termination of incentive agreement; automatic termination; minimum level of investment required to remain qualified for assessment freeze.

(a) The local municipality and the company may mutually agree to terminate the incentive agreement at any time. From the date of termination, the megaproject is subject to assessment on the basis of the then-current fair cash value.

(b) An incentive agreement shall be terminated if the company fails to satisfy the minimum investment level provided in this Division. If the incentive agreement is terminated under this subsection, the megaproject is subject to assessment on the basis of the then-current fair cash value beginning in the tax year during which the termination occurs.

(c) An incentive agreement shall terminate if, at any time, the company no longer meets the minimum investment requirements applicable to the company under this Division, without regard to depreciation.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1038 new)

Sec. 10-1038. Megaproject administration. The administration of a megaproject shall be under the jurisdiction of the local municipality that approved the incentive agreement by ordinance. Each local municipality that approves an incentive agreement by ordinance shall, by ordinance, designate a Megaproject Administrator for the megaproject within its jurisdiction. A Megaproject Administrator must be an officer or employee of the local municipality. The Megaproject Administrator shall be the liaison between the local municipality, the Department, and the Department of Revenue. The Megaproject Administrator shall be responsible for ensuring the company is complying with the terms of the incentive agreement. The Megaproject Administrator shall notify the chief county assessment officer once the project is placed in service and is eligible for the property tax assessment freeze pursuant to Section 10-1015.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1040 new)

Sec. 10-1040. Megaproject applications; certification as a megaproject and revocation of certification.

(a) The Department shall receive applications for megaproject certificates under this Division. The Department shall promptly notify the assessment officer when the Department receives an application under this Section.

(b) An applicant for a megaproject certificate under this Division must provide evidence to the Department of a fully executed incentive agreement between the company and the local municipality, as described in this Division, and the Department shall verify that the incentive agreement meets the requirements of Section 10-1025.

(c) An applicant for a megaproject certificate under this Division must provide evidence to the Department of a fully executed project labor agreement prior to the commencement of any demolition, building construction, or building renovation at the project. The Department may approve an application prior to the execution of the project labor agreement, but the applicant shall provide evidence of a fully executed project labor agreement prior to any demolition, building construction, or building renovation at the project.

The project labor agreement must include the following provisions:

(1) a provision establishing the minimum hourly wage for each class of labor organization employee;

(2) a provision establishing the benefits and other compensation for each class of labor organization employee;

(3) a provision requiring that no strike or dispute will be engaged in by the labor organization employees;

(4) a provision requiring that no lockout or dispute will be engaged in by the general contractor or any subcontractor building the project;

(5) a provision establishing goals for apprenticeship hours to be performed by minority persons and women and goals for total hours to be performed by minority persons and women, as those terms are defined in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act; and

(6) other provisions as necessary.

(d) An applicant for a megaproject certificate under this Division must provide evidence to the Department that the company has established the goal of awarding 20% of the total dollar amount of contracts awarded during each calendar year by the company, that are related to the project, to minority-owned businesses.

(e) The Department shall also consider the economic benefits the project brings to underserved communities.

(f) Except for an RREDY megaproject that meets not less than the minimum affordable housing requirements of the applicable local municipality, no project that contains any residential dwelling units may be certified as a megaproject under this Division.

(g) The Department shall approve an application for a megaproject certificate if the Department finds that the project meets the requirements of this Division.

(h) Upon approval of the application, the Department shall issue a megaproject certificate to the applicant and transmit a copy to the assessment officer and the Department of Revenue. The certificate shall identify the property on which the megaproject is located and state that the property is eligible for the property tax assessment freeze pursuant to Section 10-1015 once the project is placed in service.

(i) On May 1 of each calendar year following issuance of the megaproject certificate, until the minimum investment requirements have been met and the megaproject has been placed in service, the company shall deliver a report to the Department and Megaproject Administrator on the status of construction or creation of the megaproject and the amount of minimum investment made in the megaproject during the preceding calendar year. If a project for which a certificate has been issued has not met the minimum investment requirements of this Division within the investment period, the Department shall revoke the certificate by written notice to the taxpayer of record and transmit a copy of the revocation to the assessment officer.

(j) If the local municipality notifies the Department that the incentive agreement between the company and the local municipality has been terminated, the Department shall revoke the certificate by written notice to the taxpayer of record and transmit a copy of the revocation to the assessment officer.

(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, beginning 7 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Department shall not approve any application for a megaproject.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1045 new)

Sec. 10-1045. Computation of valuation.

(a) Upon receipt of the megaproject certificate from the Department, the assessment officer shall set the assessment of the megaproject property based upon the terms of the incentive agreement and shall make a notation on each statement of assessment during the assessment period that the valuation of the project is based upon the issuance of a megaproject certificate.

(b) Upon revocation of a megaproject certificate, the assessment officer shall compute the assessed valuation of the project on the basis of the then-current fair cash value of the property.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1050 new)

Sec. 10-1050. Transfers of interest in a megaproject; sale-leaseback arrangement; requirements.

(a) Subject to the terms of the incentive agreement between the company and the local municipality, ownership of or any interest in the megaproject and any and all related megaproject property, including, without limitation, transfers of indirect beneficial interests and equity interests in a company owning a megaproject, shall not affect the assessment freeze or the validity of the megaproject certificate issued under this Division. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the incentive agreement shall be a covenant running with the land.

(b) A company may enter into lending, financing, security, leasing, or similar arrangements, or a succession of such arrangements, with a financing entity concerning all or part of a project, including, without limitation, a sale-leaseback arrangement, equipment lease, build-to-suit lease, synthetic lease, nordic lease, defeased tax benefit, or transfer lease, an assignment, sublease, or similar arrangement, or succession of those arrangements, with one or more financing entities concerning all or part of a project, regardless of the identity of the income tax or fee owner of the megaproject. Neither the original transfer to the financing entity nor the later transfer from the financing entity back to the company, under terms in the sale-leaseback agreement, shall affect the assessment freeze or the validity of the megaproject certificate issued under this Division, regardless of whether the income tax basis is changed for income tax purposes.

(c) The Department must receive notice of all transfers undertaken with respect to the project to effect a financing. Notice shall be made in writing within 60 days after the transfer, shall identify each transferee, and shall contain other information required by the Department with the appropriate returns. Failure to meet this notice requirement does not adversely affect the assessment freeze.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1055 new)

Sec. 10-1055. Minimum investment by company affiliates. To be eligible for the benefits of this Division, a company must invest the minimum investment. Investments by company affiliates during the investment period for the project may be applied toward the minimum investment under this Division regardless of whether the company affiliate was part of the project. To qualify for the assessment freeze, the minimum investment must be made in connection with the megaproject.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1065 new)

Sec. 10-1065. Abatements. Any taxing district, upon a majority vote of its governing authority, may, after the determination of the assessed valuation as set forth in this Division, order the clerk of the appropriate municipality or county to abate any portion of real property taxes otherwise levied or extended by the taxing district on a megaproject.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1067 new)

Sec. 10-1067. Building materials exemption. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sales of building materials that will be incorporated into a megaproject and that are purchased during the incentive period are eligible for the same building materials exemption available to High Impact Businesses under Section 5l of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, which includes an exemption from the 6.25% State rate of tax and any applicable local taxes. The Department of Revenue shall issue a Building Materials Exemption Certificate, in the form and manner described in Section 5l of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, to each construction contractor or other entity identified by the company as being eligible for the building materials exemption under this Section.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1070 new)

Sec. 10-1070. Filing of returns, contracts, and other information; due date of payments and returns.

(a) The company and the local municipality shall file notices, reports, and other information as required by the Department.

(b) Special payments are due at the same time as property tax payments and property tax returns are due for the megaproject property.

(c) Failure to make a timely special payment results in the assessment of penalties as if the payment were a delinquent property tax payment or return.

(d) Within 30 days after the date of execution of an incentive agreement, a copy of the incentive agreement must be filed with the chief county assessment officer and the county auditor for the county in which the megaproject is located.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1080 new)

Sec. 10-1080. Rules. The Department may adopt rules as necessary to carry out the purpose of this Division.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1085 new)

Sec. 10-1085. Prohibition on multiple credits, exemptions, and freezes. An applicant for a megaproject certificate who qualifies for an assessment freeze under this Section is not entitled to any other property tax credits, exemptions, assessment freezes, or other preferential assessment relating to the megaproject. The provisions of this Section do not prohibit an applicant from receiving the incentive under Section 10-1067.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1087 new)

Sec. 10-1087. Impact analysis. A local municipality that has entered into an incentive agreement with a company shall prepare and publish on its website a written impact analysis concerning the effects of that agreement within 5 years after the effective date of the incentive agreement and every 5 years thereafter for as long as the incentive agreement remains in effect. A written copy of each impact analysis shall be filed with the General Assembly as provided under Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1090 new)

Sec. 10-1090. Data centers; prohibited.

(a) As used in this Section, "data center" has the meaning given in subsection (c) of Section 605-1025 of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department shall not approve any megaproject certificate application that includes as part of the application the development of any data center.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1091 new)

Sec. 10-1091. Ethics.

(a) No State or local elected official may knowingly accept from an employee or agent of a company a free or discounted ticket to a professional sporting event held at a sports stadium that is constructed as part of a megaproject, unless the free or discounted ticket is given or sold as part of a promotion generally available to the public on the same terms as generally available to the public.

(b) No person who participates personally and substantially in the negotiation of a megaproject agreement on behalf of a local municipality or taxing district, including, but not limited to, any officer, agent, or employee of the local municipality or taxing district or any lobbyist or outside attorney employed by the local municipality or taxing district, may, within a period of one year after the effective date of the agreement, knowingly accept employment or receive compensation or fees from a company that is a party to the agreement.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1095 new)

Sec. 10-1095. Tax Increment Financing districts. Land, including improvements thereon, designated as a megaproject site under this Division 23 that is located within a redevelopment project area designated under Division 74.4 of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal Code is eligible may not receive both the benefits afforded property under this Division and the benefits afforded property under Division 74.4 of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal Code.

(35 ILCS 200/10-1098 new)

Sec. 10-1098. Invalidity. If all or any part of this Division is determined to be unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, a company has 180 days from the date of the determination to transfer the megaproject's title to an authorized economic development authority, which may qualify for property tax assessment under this Division or which may be exempt from property taxes.

Section 10-30. The Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act is amended by changing Sections 5-5, 5-10, 5-15, 5-20, 5-30, 5-35, 5-45, 5-50, 5-55, 5-70, and 5-75 as follows:

(50 ILCS 475/5-5)

Sec. 5-5. Purpose; findings.

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the purpose of this Act is to promote, stimulate, and develop the general and economic welfare of the State of Illinois and its communities and to assist in the development and redevelopment of major tourism, entertainment, retail, and related projects within eligible areas of the State, thereby creating new jobs, stimulating significant capital investment, and promoting the general welfare of the citizens of this State, by authorizing municipalities and counties to issue sales tax and revenue (STAR) bonds for the financing of STAR bond projects, as defined in Section 5-10, and to otherwise exercise the powers and authorities granted to municipalities.

(b) The General Assembly further finds and declares that:

(1) It is the policy of the State, in the interest of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of all the people of the State, to provide incentives to create new job opportunities, and to promote major tourism, entertainment, retail, and related projects within the State.

(2) It is in the public interest to limit the portion of the aggregate proceeds of STAR bonds issued that are derived from the State sales tax increment pledged to pay STAR bonds in any STAR bond district to not more than 50% of the total development costs for a STAR bond project in the STAR bond district as set forth in subsection (g) of Section 5-45.

(3) As a result of the costs of land assemblage, financing, and infrastructure and other project costs, the private sector, without the assistance contemplated in this Act, is unable to develop major tourism, entertainment, retail, and related projects in some parts of the State.

(4) The type of projects for which this Act is intended must be of a certain size and scope and must be developed in a cohesive and comprehensive manner.

(5) The eligible tracts of land are more likely to remain underused and undeveloped or to be developed in a piecemeal manner resulting in inefficient and poorly planned developments that do not maximize job creation, job retention, and tax revenue generation within the State.

(6) There are multiple eligible areas in the State that could benefit from this Act.

(7) Investment in major tourism, entertainment, retail, and related development within the State would stimulate economic activity in the State, including the creation and maintenance of jobs, the creation of new and lasting infrastructure and other improvements, and the attraction and retention of interstate tourists and entertainment events that generate significant economic activity.

(8) The continual encouragement, development, growth, and expansion of major tourism, entertainment, retail, and related projects within the State requires a cooperative and continuous partnership between government and the private sector.

(9) The State has a responsibility to help create a favorable climate for new and improved job opportunities for its citizens and to increase the tax base of the State and its political subdivisions by encouraging development of major retail and entertainment spaces within the State by the private sector.

(10) The provision of additional incentives by the State and its political subdivisions will relieve conditions of unemployment, maintain existing levels of employment, create new job opportunities, retain jobs within the State, increase commerce within the State, and increase the tax base of the State and its political subdivisions.

(11) The powers conferred by this Act promote and protect the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the State and are for a public purpose and public use for which public money and resources may be expended.

(12) The necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this Act is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-10)

Sec. 5-10. Definitions. In this Act:

"Base year" means the calendar year immediately before the calendar year in which the Office of the Governor approves the first STAR bond project within the STAR bond district.

"Commence work" means the manifest commencement of actual operations on the development site, such as erecting a building, site mobilization, general on-site and off-site grading and utility installations, commencing design and construction documentation, ordering lead-time materials, excavating the ground to lay a foundation or a basement, or work of like description that a reasonable person would recognize as being done with the intention and purpose to continue work until the project is completed.

"Corporate authority" or "corporate authorities" means the county board of a county; the mayor and alderpersons or similar body when the reference is to cities; the president and trustees or similar body when the reference is to villages or incorporated towns; and the council when the reference is to municipalities under the commission form of government.

"De minimis amount" means an amount less than 15% of the land area within a STAR bond district.

"Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

"Developer" means any individual, corporation, trust, estate, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other entity. "Developer" does not include a not-for-profit entity, political subdivision, or other agency or instrumentality of the State.

"Development user" means an owner, operator, licensee, codeveloper, subdeveloper, or tenant that: (i) operates a business within a STAR bond district that is a retail store, hotel, or entertainment venue; (ii) does not have another Illinois location within a 15-mile 30-mile radius at the time of opening or, for a NOVA district or a NOVA urban district, within a 10-mile radius; and (iii) makes an initial capital investment, including project costs and other direct costs, of not less than $30,000,000 for the business or, for a NOVA urban district, makes in aggregate with other development users capital investments, including project costs and other direct costs, of not less than $60,000,000.

"Director" means the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

"Economic development region" means the counties encompassed within any one of the 10 economic development regions recognized by the Department on the effective date of this Act.

"Eligible area" means, in respect of any STAR bond district other than a NOVA urban district, contiguous parcels of real property that meet all of the following: (i) the property is directly and substantially benefited by the proposed STAR bond district plan; (ii) at least 50% of the total land area of the real property is located within an underserved area, as defined by the Department at the time the STAR bond district plan is submitted, or, in the alternative, all of the total land area of the property is located within both a municipality with not less than 70,000 residents and that municipality is located within a county with not less than 3,000,000 residents; (iii) the property is located in an area with not less than 10,000 residents within a 5-mile radius of the proposed district; (iv) the property is located 15 miles or less from either a State highway or federal interstate highway. "Eligible area" means, in respect of a NOVA urban district, contiguous parcels of real property, including land, air rights, or land and air rights, that meet all of the following: (i) the property is directly and substantially benefited by the proposed STAR bond district plan; (ii) the property includes one or more parcel boundaries located within 2 miles or less from existing public assembly, convention, and other civic and cultural facilities and attractions directly and substantially benefited by the proposed STAR bond district plan; (iii) the property is located in an area with not less than 10,000 residents within a 2-mile radius of the proposed district; and (iv) the property is located one-quarter mile or less from a commuter rail station and either a State highway or federal interstate highway. ; and (v) the

For an area to be an eligible area, is found by the governing body of the political subdivision must find that the area meets to meet the following requirements:

(1) the use, condition, and character of the buildings in the area, if any, are not consistent with the purposes set forth in Section 5-5;

(2) a STAR bond district within the area is expected to create or retain job opportunities within the political subdivision;

(3) a STAR bond district within the area will serve to further the development of adjacent areas;

(4) without the availability of STAR bonds, the projects described in the STAR bond district plan would not be feasible in the area;

(5) a STAR bond district will strengthen the commercial sector of the political subdivision;

(6) a STAR bond district will enhance the tax base of the political subdivision; and

(7) the formation of a STAR bond district is in the best interest of the political subdivision.

The findings described in paragraphs (1) through (7) are subject to the review process provided in subsections (e) and (f) of Section 5-20.

For the purposes of this definition, the area may be bisected by streets, highways, roads, alleys, railways, bike paths, streams, rivers, and other waterways, and other public land and facilities and still be deemed contiguous.

"Entertainment user" means an owner, operator, licensee, developer, codeveloper, subdeveloper, or tenant that operates a business within a STAR bond district whose primary purpose is providing entertainment attractions, rides, or other activities oriented toward the entertainment and amusement of patrons, occupies not less than 50 acres of land within the STAR bond district, and makes an initial capital investment, including project costs and other direct and indirect costs, of not less than $150,000,000 for that venue. An entertainment user may include restaurants, bars, hotels, retail establishments, and other commercial, recreational, or hospitality uses that are ancillary to or supportive of the entertainment attractions and activities of the entertainment user. The acreage and capital investment requirements set forth in this Act apply to the entertainment user as a whole and not to individual businesses, tenants, or users within the designated area. Any businesses, tenants, or users operating within an entertainment user designated area shall be considered part of the entertainment user for purposes of this Act. An entertainment user shall be considered as one development user for purposes of any limitation related to the number of development users in the definition of "State sales tax increment" under this Act.

"Entertainment venue" means a business that has a primary use of providing a venue for entertainment attractions, destination-oriented retail facilities, corporate brand development and entertainment-based media, rides, or other activities oriented toward the entertainment and amusement of its patrons, including, but not limited to, a professional sports stadium or arena.

"Feasibility study" means the feasibility study described in subsection (b) of Section 5-30.

"Hotel" has the same meaning given to that term in Section 2 of the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act.

"Infrastructure" means the public improvements and private improvements that serve the public purposes set forth in Section 5-5 of this Act and that benefit the STAR bond district or any STAR bond projects, including, but not limited to, streets, drives and driveways, traffic and directional signs and signals, parking lots and parking facilities, interchanges, highways, sidewalks, bridges, underpasses and overpasses, bike and walking trails, landscaping and site features, sanitary and storm sewers, and lift stations, drainage conduits, channels, levees, canals, storm water detention and retention facilities, utilities and utility connections, utility distribution systems, railway and rail yard improvements, transit stations and related facilities, transit vehicles and mobility systems, digital media and signage, substructure and foundations, structural slabs and transfer structures, district energy facilities, low voltage systems, mobilization and site preparation, earthwork and earth retention systems, soil removal and remediation, building enclosure systems, site improvements that serve as an engineered barrier addressing ground level or below ground level environmental contamination and remediation, vertical circulation, water mains and extensions, and street and parking lot lighting and connections.

"Local hotel tax" means any taxes received by a municipality, county, or other local government entity arising from transactions by all persons engaged in the business of renting, leasing, or letting rooms in a hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, within a STAR bond district, imposed pursuant to Section 8-3-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code or Section 5-1030 of the Counties Code.

"Local sales taxes" means any locally imposed taxes received by a municipality, county, or other local governmental entity arising from sales by retailers and servicemen within a STAR bond district. "Local sales taxes" includes business district sales taxes, taxes imposed under Section 5-50, and that portion of the net revenue allocated from the Local Government Tax Fund and the County and Mass Transit District Fund to the municipality, county, or other governmental entity under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax Act from transactions at places of business located in a STAR bond district. "Local sales taxes" does not include (i) any taxes authorized under the Local Mass Transit District Act or the Metro-East Park and Recreation District Act for so long as the applicable taxing district does not impose a tax on real property, (ii) any county school facility and resources occupation taxes imposed under Section 5-1006.7 of the Counties Code, (iii) any taxes authorized under the Flood Prevention District Act, (iv) any taxes authorized under the Special County Occupation Tax For Public Safety, Public Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation Law, (v) any taxes authorized under the Regional Transportation Authority Act, (vi) any taxes authorized under the County Motor Fuel Tax Law, or (vii) any taxes authorized under the Municipal Motor Fuel Tax Law, or (viii) any locally administered taxes committed to other uses by election of voters or pledged to any bond repayment, other than STAR bonds, prior to the approval of the STAR bond project.

"Local sales tax increment" means:

(1) with respect to local sales taxes administered by a municipality, county, or other unit of local government, that portion of the local sales tax that is in excess of the aggregate local sales tax in the district for the same month in the base year, as determined by the respective municipality, county, or other unit of local government; the Department of Revenue shall allocate the local sales tax increment only if the local sales tax is administered by the Department; and

(2) with respect to local sales taxes administered by the Department of Revenue:

(A) except with respect to the 0.25% county portion of the 6.25% State rate, all the local sales tax paid by taxpayers in the district that is in excess of the aggregate local sales tax paid by taxpayers in the district for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue; and

(B) with respect to the 0.25% county portion of the 6.25% State rate, in the case of a STAR bond district that is partially or wholly within a municipality, that portion of the 0.25% county portion of the 6.25% rate paid by taxpayers in the district for sales made within the corporate limits of the municipality that is in excess of the aggregate local sales tax paid by taxpayers in the district for sales made within the corporate limits of the municipality for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue, but only if the corporate authorities of the county adopt an ordinance, and file a copy of the ordinance with the Department of Revenue within the same time frames as required for STAR bond occupation taxes under Section 5-50, that designates the taxes as part of the local sales tax increment under this Act; and .

(3) with respect to any local hotel tax that is administered and collected directly by a political subdivision, if approved by the political subdivision, that portion of the local hotel tax revenues that is in excess of the amount of such tax revenues generated within the STAR bond district that are in excess of the aggregate hotel tax revenues generated within the district for the same month in the base year, as determined by the political subdivision.

"Market study" means a study to determine the ability of the proposed STAR bond project to gain market share locally and regionally and to remain profitable after the term of repayment of STAR bonds.

"Master developer" means a developer cooperating with a political subdivision to plan, develop, and implement a STAR bond project plan for a STAR bond district. Subject to the limitations of Section 5-40, the master developer may work with and transfer certain development rights to other developers for the purpose of implementing STAR bond project plans and achieving the purposes of this Act. A master developer for a STAR bond district shall be appointed by a political subdivision in the resolution establishing the STAR bond district or, in the case of a NOVA urban district, by the State or the political subdivision, and the master developer or its affiliate must, at the time of appointment, own or have control of, through purchase agreements, option contracts, or other means, not less than 50% of the acreage within the STAR bond district. "Master developer" also means any successor developer who has assumed the role and responsibilities of the original master developer through the execution of an amended master development agreement and has been approved as the master developer through resolution by the applicable political subdivision.

"Master development agreement" means an agreement between the master developer (or any approved successor developers) and the political subdivision or, in the case of a NOVA urban district, the State, to govern a STAR bond district and any STAR bond projects.

"Municipality" means the city, village, or incorporated town in which a proposed STAR bond district is located.

"New Opportunities for Vacation and Adventure District" or "NOVA district" means a STAR bond district that encompasses a minimum of 300 500 contiguous acres and, during the STAR bond district plan approval process, demonstrates a reasonable expectation of (1) producing a capital investment of at least $500,000,000, (2) generating not less than $300,000,000 in average annual gross sales over the life of the district, (3) attracting at least 600,000 average annual 1,000,000 visitors over the life of the district annually, and (4) creating a minimum of 1,500 average annual jobs over the life of the district.

"New Opportunities for Vacation and Adventure Urban District" or "NOVA urban district" means a STAR bond district that encompasses a minimum of 20 contiguous acres of land or air rights and, during the STAR bond district plan approval process, demonstrates a reasonable expectation of (1) producing an initial capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000, of which 75% shall be infrastructure project costs, (2) generating not less than $450,000,000 in average annual gross sales over the life of the district, (3) attracting at least 2,000,000 average annual visitors over the life of the district, and (4) creating a minimum of 3,000 average annual jobs over the life of the district.

"Pledged STAR revenues" means those sales tax revenues and other sources of funds that are pledged to pay debt service on STAR bonds or to pay project costs under Section 5-45. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any State sales tax increment or local sales tax increment from a retail entity initiating operations in a STAR bond district while terminating operations at another Illinois location within 25 miles of the STAR bond district or, for a NOVA urban district, within 2 miles of the STAR bond district shall not constitute pledged STAR revenues or be available to pay principal and interest on STAR bonds. For purposes of this definition, "terminating operations" means a closing of a retail operation that is directly related to the opening of the same operation or like retail entity owned or operated by more than 50% of the original ownership in a STAR bond district within one year before or after initiating operations in the STAR bond district, but it does not mean closing an operation for reasons beyond the control of the retail entity, as documented by the retail entity, subject to a reasonable finding by the municipality (or county if such retail operation is not located within a municipality) in which the terminated operations were located that the closed location contained inadequate space, had become economically obsolete, or was no longer a viable location for the retailer or serviceperson.

"Political subdivision" means a municipality or county that undertakes to establish a STAR bond district under the provisions of this Act.

"Professional sports" means any of the following sports at the major league level: baseball, basketball, football, or ice hockey.

"Project costs" means the total of all costs incurred or estimated to be incurred on or after the date of establishment of a STAR bond district that are reasonable or necessary to implement a STAR bond district plan or any STAR bond project plans, or both, including costs incurred for public improvements and private improvements that serve the public purposes set forth in Section 5-5 of this Act. "Project costs" includes, without limitation:

(1) costs of studies, surveys, development of plans and specifications, formation, implementation, and administration of a STAR bond district, STAR bond district plan, any STAR bond projects, or any STAR bond project plans, including, but not limited to, staff and professional service costs for architectural, engineering, legal, financial, planning, or other services; however, no charges for professional services may be based on a percentage of the tax increment collected, and no contracts for professional services, excluding architectural and engineering services, may be entered into if the terms of the contract extend beyond a period of 3 years;

(2) property assembly costs, including, but not limited to, costs related to:

(A) the acquisition of land and other real property or rights or interests in the land or other real property located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district;

(B) the demolition of buildings, site preparation, and site improvements that serve as an engineered barrier addressing ground level or below ground environmental contamination, including, but not limited to, parking lots and other concrete or asphalt barriers; and

(C) the clearing and grading of land and the importing of additional soil and fill materials or the removal of soil and fill materials from the site;

(3) subject to paragraph (6), the costs of buildings and other vertical improvements that are located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district and are owned by a political subdivision or other public entity, including without limitation police and fire stations, educational facilities, and public restrooms and rest areas;

(4) costs of buildings and other vertical improvements that are located within: (i) the boundaries of a STAR bond district and are owned by a development user, except that only 4 development users, other than a hotel or entertainment venue, in a STAR bond district and one hotel are eligible to include the cost of those vertical improvements as project costs, or (ii) the boundaries of a NOVA district;

(5) costs of the following vertical improvements that are located within (i) the boundaries of a STAR bond district and owned by an entertainment venue, except that only one entertainment venue in a STAR bond district is eligible to include the cost of those vertical improvements as project costs, or (ii) a NOVA district:

(A) buildings;

(B) rides and attractions, including, but not limited to, carousels, slides, roller coasters, displays, models, towers, works of art, and similar theme and amusement park improvements; and

(C) other vertical improvements;

(6) costs of the design and construction of infrastructure and public works located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district that are reasonable or necessary to implement a STAR bond district plan or any STAR bond project plans, or both, except that "project costs" does not include the cost of constructing a new municipal public building principally used to provide offices, storage space, or conference facilities or vehicle storage, maintenance, or repair for administrative, public safety, or public works personnel and that is not intended to replace an existing public building unless the political subdivision makes a reasonable determination in a STAR bond district plan or any STAR bond project plans, supported by information that provides the basis for that determination, that the new municipal building is required to meet an increase in the need for public safety purposes anticipated to result from the implementation of the STAR bond district plan or any STAR bond project plans;

(7) costs of the design and construction of the following improvements located outside the boundaries of a STAR bond district but within a 2-mile radius of the boundaries of a STAR bond district if the costs are essential to further the purpose and development of a STAR bond district plan and consist of one or more of the following: and either (i) part of and connected to sewer, water, or utility service lines that physically connect to the STAR bond district, or (ii) significant improvements for adjacent off-site highways, streets, roadways, and interchanges that are approved by the Department of Transportation, or (iii) transit facilities and improvements undertaken with the applicable transit agency. No other cost of infrastructure and public works improvements located outside the boundaries of a STAR bond district may be deemed project costs;

(8) costs of job training and retraining projects for current and future employees of development users, including programs implemented by businesses located within a STAR bond district;

(9) financing costs, including, but not limited to, all necessary and incidental expenses related to the issuance of obligations and the payment of interest on any obligations issued under this Act, including interest accruing during the estimated period of construction of any improvements in a STAR bond district or any STAR bond projects for which such obligations are issued and for not exceeding 36 months thereafter and including reasonable reserves related thereto;

(10) interest costs incurred by a developer for project costs related to the acquisition, formation, implementation, development, construction, and administration of a STAR bond district, STAR bond district plan, STAR bond projects, or any STAR bond project plans if:

(A) payment of the costs in any one year may not exceed 30% of the annual interest costs incurred by the developer with regard to the STAR bond district or any STAR bond projects during that year; and

(B) the total of the interest payments paid under this Act may not exceed 30% of the total cost paid or incurred by the developer for a STAR bond district or STAR bond projects, plus project costs, excluding any property assembly costs incurred by a political subdivision under this Act;

(11) to the extent the political subdivision by written agreement accepts and approves the same, all or a portion of a taxing district's capital costs resulting from a STAR bond district or STAR bond projects necessarily incurred or to be incurred within a taxing district in furtherance of the objectives of a STAR bond district plan or STAR bond project plans;

(12) costs of common areas located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district;

(13) costs of landscaping and plantings, retaining walls and fences, artificial lakes and ponds, shelters, benches, lighting, and similar amenities located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district;

(14) costs of mounted building signs, site monuments, and pylon signs located within the boundaries of a STAR bond district; or

(15) if included in the STAR bond district plan and approved in writing by the Director, salaries or a portion of salaries for local government employees to the extent the same are directly attributable to the work of those employees on the establishment and management of a STAR bond district or any STAR bond project.

Except as specified in items (1) through (15) of this definition, "project costs" does not include:

(A) the cost of construction of buildings that are owned by a municipality or county and leased to a development user for uses other than as a retail store, hotel, or entertainment venue;

(B) moving expenses for employees of the businesses locating within the STAR bond district;

(C) property taxes for property located in the STAR bond district;

(D) lobbying costs; and

(E) general overhead or administrative costs of the political subdivision that would still have been incurred by the political subdivision if the political subdivision had not established a STAR bond district; and .

(F) the cost of construction of a professional sports stadium building.

"Project development agreement" means any one or more agreements, including any amendments to that agreement or those agreements, between a master developer and any codeveloper or subdeveloper in connection with a STAR bond project, which project development agreement may include the political subdivision as a party.

"Project labor agreement" means a prehire collective bargaining agreement that covers all terms and conditions of employment between the general contractor and all subcontractors hired by the master developer, developer, codeveloper, or subdeveloper, as applicable, of a STAR bond project. A "project labor agreement" must include the following provisions: (1) a provision establishing the minimum hourly wage for each class of labor organization employee; (2) a provision establishing the benefits and other compensation for each class of labor organization employee; (3) a provision requiring that no strike or dispute will be engaged in by the labor organization employees; (4) a provision requiring that no lockout or dispute will be engaged in by the general contractor and all subcontractors building the project; and (5) a provision establishing goals for apprenticeship hours to be performed by minority persons and women and goals for total hours to be performed by minority persons and women, as those terms are defined in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. A "project labor agreement" may include other terms and conditions as necessary.

"Projected market area" means any area within the State in which a STAR bond district or STAR bond project is projected to have a significant fiscal or market impact as determined by the Director.

"Resolution" means a resolution, order, ordinance, or other appropriate form of legislative action of a political subdivision or other applicable public entity approved by a vote of a majority of a quorum at a meeting of the governing body of the political subdivision or applicable public entity.

"STAR bond" means a sales tax and revenue bond, note, or other obligation payable from pledged STAR revenues and issued by a political subdivision, the proceeds of which shall be used only to pay project costs as defined in this Act.

"STAR bond district" means the specific area that is declared to be an eligible area by the political subdivision, that has received approval by the State, and in which the political subdivision may develop one or more STAR bond projects.

"STAR bond district plan" means the preliminary or conceptual plan that generally identifies the proposed STAR bond project areas and identifies in a general manner the buildings, facilities, and improvements to be constructed or improved in each STAR bond project area or, for a NOVA urban district, the STAR bond district plan may also include a specific STAR bond project.

"STAR bond project" means a project that is located within a STAR bond district and that is approved under Section 5-30.

"STAR bond project area" means the geographic area within a STAR bond district in which there may be one or more STAR bond projects.

"STAR bond project plan" means the written plan adopted by a political subdivision for the development of a STAR bond project in a STAR bond district; the plan may include, but is not limited to, (i) project costs incurred prior to the date of the STAR bond project plan and estimated future STAR bond project costs, (ii) proposed sources of funds to pay those costs, (iii) the nature and estimated term of any obligations to be issued by the political subdivision to pay those costs, (iv) the most recent equalized assessed valuation of the STAR bond project area, (v) an estimate of the equalized assessed valuation of the STAR bond district or applicable project area after completion of a STAR bond project, (vi) a general description of the types of any known or proposed developers or development , users, or tenants of the STAR bond project or projects included in the plan, (vii) a general description of the type, structure, and character of the property or facilities to be developed or improved, (viii) a description of the general land uses to apply to the STAR bond project, and (ix) a general description or an estimate of the type, class, and number of employees to be employed in the operation of the STAR bond project.

"State sales tax" means all the net revenue realized under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax Act from transactions at places of business located within a STAR bond district, excluding that portion of the net revenue realized under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax Act from transactions at places of business located within a STAR bond district that is deposited into the Local Government Tax Fund and the County and Mass Transit District Fund.

"State sales tax increment" means:

(1) with respect to all STAR bond districts that do not qualify as NOVA districts or NOVA urban districts:

(A) 100% of that portion of the aggregate State sales tax that is in excess of the aggregate State sales tax for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue, from transactions at up to 4 development users located within a STAR bond district, which development users shall be designated by the master developer and approved by the political subdivision and the Director of Revenue in conjunction with the applicable STAR bond project approval, and may thereafter be designated or modified, no more than once per year, by the master developer, subject to the approval of the political subdivision and the Director of Revenue, including the designation of additional development users and an entertainment user, provided that no more than 4 development users shall be designated and approved at any time; and

(B) 25% of that portion of the aggregate State sales tax that is in excess of the aggregate State sales tax for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue from all other transactions within a STAR bond district; and

(2) with respect to all NOVA districts:

(A) 100% of that portion of the State sales tax that is in excess of the State sales tax for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue, from transactions at up to 4 development users located, which development users shall be designated by the master developer and approved by the political subdivision and the Director of Revenue in conjunction with the applicable STAR bond project approval; and

(B) 50% of that portion of the State sales tax that is in excess of the State sales tax for the same month in the base year from all other transactions within the NOVA district; and .

(3) with respect to all NOVA urban districts, 100% of that portion of the State sales tax that is in excess of the State sales tax for the same month in the base year, as determined by the Department of Revenue, from all transactions within the NOVA urban district.

"Substantial change" means a change in which the proposed STAR bond project plan differs substantially in size, scope, or use from the approved STAR bond district plan or STAR bond project plan.

"Taxpayer" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, estate, or other entity that is subject to the Illinois Income Tax Act.

"Total development costs" means the aggregate public and private investment in a STAR bond district, including project costs and other direct and indirect costs related to the development of the STAR bond district over the life of the STAR bond district.

"Underserved area" has the meaning given to that term in Section 5-5 of the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act.

"Vacant" means that portion of the land in a proposed STAR bond district that is not occupied by a building, facility, or other vertical improvement.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-15)

Sec. 5-15. Limitations on STAR bond districts and STAR bond projects. The Office of the Governor, in consultation with the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, shall have final approval of all STAR bond districts and STAR bond projects established under this Act, which may be established throughout the 10 Economic Development Regions in the State as established by the Department. Regardless of the number of STAR bond districts established within any Economic Development Region: (i) only one STAR bond project may be approved for each Economic Development Region having a population of less than 400,000 600,000; (ii) up to 2 STAR bond projects may be approved for each Economic Development Region having a population of between 400,000 and 599,999; (iii) up to 3 STAR bond projects may be approved for each Economic Development Region having a population of between 600,000 and 999,999; and (iv) (iii) up to 4 STAR bond projects may be approved for each Economic Development Region having a population of 1,000,000 or more, excluding projects located in STAR bond districts established under the Innovation Development and Economy Act. A STAR bond district under this Act may not be located either entirely or partially inside of a municipality with a population in excess of 2,000,000.

A STAR bond project that is not located in a NOVA district may not receive reimbursement from the proceeds of bonds secured by State sales tax increment that exceeds the lesser of (1) 50% of the total development costs or (2) an aggregate amount of $75,000,000. A STAR bond project that is located in a NOVA district may not receive reimbursement from the proceeds of bonds secured by State sales tax increment that exceeds the lesser of (1) 50% of the total development costs or (2) an aggregate amount of $800,000,000. A STAR bond project that is located in a NOVA urban district may not receive reimbursement from the proceeds of bonds secured by State sales tax increment that exceeds the lesser of (1) 75% of the total development costs or (2) an aggregate amount of $1,600,000,000.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-20)

Sec. 5-20. Establishment of STAR bond district.

(a) The corporate authorities of a municipality may establish a STAR bond district within an eligible area within the municipality or partially outside the boundaries of the municipality in an unincorporated area of the county. A STAR bond district that is partially outside the boundaries of the municipality must also be approved by the corporate authorities of the county by the passage of a resolution. The corporate authorities of a county may establish a STAR bond district in an eligible area in any unincorporated area of the county.

(b) When a political subdivision is interested in establishing a STAR bond district, the political subdivision must first provide notice to the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the Director of Revenue on or before June 1, 2026 of its intention to establish a STAR bond district (or by September 1, 2026 if the political subdivision intends to establish a NOVA district). After filing notice, the political subdivision shall determine whether the area satisfies the statutory criteria to establish a STAR bond district consistent with this Act. The corporate authorities of the political subdivision shall adopt a resolution stating that the political subdivision is considering the establishment of a STAR bond district. The resolution shall:

(1) give notice, in the same manner as set forth in subsection (e) of Section 5-30, that a public hearing will be held to consider the establishment of a STAR bond district and fix the date, hour, and place of the public hearing, which shall be at a location that is within 20 miles of the STAR bond district, in a facility that can accommodate a large crowd, and in a facility that is accessible to persons with disabilities;

(2) describe the proposed general boundaries of the STAR bond district;

(3) describe the STAR bond district plan;

(4) require that a description and map of the proposed STAR bond district are available for inspection at a time and place designated;

(5) identify the master developer for the STAR bond district; and

(6) require that the corporate authorities consider findings necessary for the establishment of a STAR bond district.

(c) Upon the conclusion of the public hearing the corporate authorities of the political subdivision may adopt a resolution to establish the STAR bond district. The corporate authorities of a municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or more may proceed directly to adopt a resolution to establish a NOVA urban district.

(1) A resolution to establish a STAR bond district shall:

(A) make findings that the proposed STAR bond district is to be developed with a STAR bond project;

(B) make findings that the STAR bond district is an eligible area;

(C) contain a STAR bond district plan that identifies in a general manner the buildings and facilities that are proposed to be constructed or improved as part of the STAR bond project and that includes plans for at least one development user;

(D) contain the legal description of the STAR bond district;

(E) appoint the master developer for the STAR bond district, subject to the provisions of Section 5-25, and, if applicable, verify that master developer has a signed project labor agreement for the construction of future improvements within any STAR bond projects;

(F) if applicable, make a finding that the STAR bond district plan demonstrates a reasonable expectation that it will meet the acreage, capital investment, sales, and job creation thresholds necessary to qualify as a NOVA district or NOVA urban district and contains a request for a NOVA district designation or NOVA urban district; and

(G) establish the STAR bond district, contingent upon approval of the State as set forth in subsection (e).

(2) For STAR bond districts other than a NOVA urban district, if If the resolution to establish a STAR bond district is not adopted by the political subdivision within 60 days after the conclusion of the public hearing, then the STAR bond district shall not be established.

(3) Upon adoption of a resolution to establish a STAR bond district, the political subdivision shall send a certified copy of the resolution to the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Director of Revenue, and the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget within 60 days after the adoption of the resolution.

(d) Upon adoption of a resolution to establish a STAR bond district, the STAR bond district and any STAR bond project shall be governed by a master development agreement between the political subdivision and the master developer. A STAR bond district that is partially outside the boundaries of a municipality shall require only one master development agreement, which shall be between the municipality and the master developer. In no event shall there be more than one master development agreement governing the terms and conditions of a STAR bond district. The master development agreement shall require the master developer to ensure compliance with the following requirements to reduce the ecological impact of the STAR bond district development: (i) inclusion of pollution prevention, erosion, and sedimentation control plans during construction; (ii) protection of endangered species' habitat and wetlands mitigation; (iii) preservation of at least 20% of the STAR bond district as green space, including lawns, parks, landscaped areas, paths, lakes, ponds, and other water features or, for a NOVA urban district, inclusion of such green space, including lawns, parks, landscaped areas, paths, lakes, ponds, and other water features, as set forth in the STAR bond project plan; (iv) promotion of the use of renewable energy to the extent commercially feasible; (v) implementation of recycling programs during construction and at completed STAR bond projects; (vi) preservation of water quality and promotion of water conservation through the use of techniques such as reusing storm water and landscaping with native and low-maintenance vegetation to reduce the need for irrigation and fertilization; (vii) inclusion of comprehensive lighting programs that reduce light pollution within the STAR bond district; and (viii) promotion of shared parking between different users and the political subdivision to reduce the impact on project sites.

(e) Upon adoption of a resolution to establish a STAR bond district, the political subdivision shall submit the proposed STAR bond district plan to the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget for consideration. All proposed STAR bond district plans must be submitted on or before January 1, 2027 for consideration (or by June 1, 2027 if the district is a NOVA district). The Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall make a joint recommendation to approve a STAR bond district if the agencies find that: (i) the proposed STAR bond district is an eligible area; (ii) the STAR bond district plan includes a STAR bond project that would entail a projected capital investment of at least $30,000,000 for a STAR bond district that is not proposed to be designated as a NOVA district, or $500,000,000 for a STAR bond district that is proposed to be designated as a NOVA district, or $1,000,000,000 for a STAR bond district that is proposed to be designated as a NOVA urban district; (iii) the STAR bond district plan includes a STAR bond project that is reasonably projected to produce at least $60,000,000 of annual gross sales and at least 300 new jobs or, for a STAR bond district proposed to be designated as a NOVA district, at least $300,000,000 of annual gross sales and 1,500 new jobs or, for a STAR bond district proposed to be designated as a NOVA urban district, at least $450,000,000 of annual gross sales and 3,000 new jobs; (iv) the STAR bond district plan includes potential development users; (v) the creation of the STAR bond district and STAR bond district plan are in accordance with the purpose of this Act and the public interest; and (vi) the STAR bond district and STAR bond district plan meet any other requirement that the State deems appropriate. The agencies shall send a copy of their written findings and recommendation for approval or denial of a STAR bond district to the Office of the Governor for review and final action. In the case of any NOVA district or NOVA urban district, those written findings and recommendations shall be submitted to the Office of the Governor within 60 days following the agencies' receipt of the District Plan proposing the NOVA district or NOVA urban district.

(f) Upon receipt of the written findings and recommendations, the Office of the Governor shall review the submission and issue a final approval or denial of the STAR bond district and send written notice of its approval or denial to the requesting political subdivision and to the agencies. If requested by the political subdivision under paragraph (F) of subsection (c) of this Section, the written notice shall also include a determination as to whether the proposed STAR bond district qualifies for designation as a NOVA district or NOVA urban district and shall be issued within 30 days after the Office of the Governor receives the written findings of the agencies as provided in subsection (e).

(g) Starting on the fifth anniversary of the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the approved STAR bond project in the STAR bond district, or, if the project is in a NOVA district, the earlier of (i) the fifteenth anniversary of that date or (ii) the date requested by the master developer, and continuing each anniversary thereafter, the Director shall, in consultation with the political subdivision and the master developer, determine the total number of new jobs created within the STAR bond district, the total development cost to date, and the master developer's compliance with its obligations under any written agreements with the State. If, on the fifth anniversary of the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the approved STAR bond project in the STAR bond district, or the earlier of (i) the fifteenth anniversary of that date or (ii) the date requested by the master developer if the project is in a NOVA district or NOVA urban district, the Director determines that the total development cost to date is not equal to or greater than (i) $30,000,000 if the project is not in a NOVA district or NOVA urban district, (ii) $500,000,000 if the project is in a NOVA district, or (iii) $1,000,000,000 if the project is in a NOVA urban district, or that the master developer is in breach of any written agreement with the State, then no new STAR bonds may be issued in the STAR bond district until the total development cost exceeds $30,000,000, or $500,000,000, or $1,000,000,000, as applicable, or the breach of agreement is cured, or both. If, on the fifth anniversary of the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the approved STAR bond project in the STAR bond district, or the earlier of (i) the fifteenth anniversary of that date or (ii) the date requested by the master developer if the project is in a NOVA district or a NOVA urban district, there are not at least (i) 300 new jobs existing in the STAR bond district if the project is not in a NOVA district or a NOVA urban district, (ii) 1,500 new jobs existing in the STAR bond district if the project is in a NOVA district, or (iii) 3,000 new jobs existing in the STAR bond district if the project is in a NOVA urban district, the State may require the master developer to pay the State a penalty of $1,500 per job under 300, or 1,500, or 3,000, as applicable, each year until the earlier of (i) the twenty-third anniversary of the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the approved STAR bond project in the STAR bond district, (ii) the date that all STAR bonds issued in the STAR bond district have been paid off, or (iii) the date on which at least 300 jobs, or 1,500 jobs, or 3,000 jobs, as applicable, have been created in the STAR bond district. Upon creation of 300 jobs, or 1,500 jobs, or 3,000 jobs, as applicable, in the STAR bond district, there shall not be an ongoing obligation to maintain those jobs after the fifth anniversary of the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the approved STAR bond project in the STAR bond district, and the master developer shall be relieved of any liability with respect to job creation under this subsection. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, the master developer shall not be liable for the penalties set forth in this subsection if the breach of agreement, failure to reach the required amount in total development costs, or failure to create the required number of jobs is due to delays caused by force majeure, as that term is defined in the master development agreement.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-30)

Sec. 5-30. Approval of STAR bond projects.

(a) The corporate authorities of a political subdivision seeking to establish a STAR bond project in an approved STAR bond district must submit a proposed STAR bond project plan to the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget on or before June 1, 2028. A STAR bond project plan for a NOVA urban district may be submitted to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget concurrent with the process for approval of a STAR bond district in Section 5-20 of this Act. A STAR bond project which is partially outside the boundaries of a municipality must also be approved by the corporate authorities of the county by resolution.

After the establishment of a STAR bond district, the master developer may propose a STAR bond project to a political subdivision, and the master developer shall, in cooperation with the political subdivision, prepare a STAR bond project plan in consultation with the planning commission of the political subdivision, if any. The STAR bond project plan may be implemented in separate development stages.

(b) Any political subdivision considering a STAR bond project within a STAR bond district shall cause to be prepared an independent feasibility study. The feasibility study shall be prepared by a feasibility consultant approved by the Department. The feasibility consultant shall provide certified copies of the feasibility study to the political subdivision, the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. The feasibility study shall include the following:

(1) the estimated amount of pledged STAR revenues expected to be collected in each year through the maturity date of the proposed STAR bonds;

(2) a statement of how the jobs and taxes obtained from the STAR bond project will contribute significantly to the economic development of the State and region;

(3) visitation expectations;

(4) the unique quality of the project;

(5) an economic impact study;

(6) a market study;

(7) current and anticipated infrastructure analysis;

(8) integration and collaboration with other resources or businesses;

(9) the quality of service and experience provided, as measured against national consumer standards for the specific target market;

(10) project accountability, measured according to best industry practices;

(11) the expected return on State and local investment that the STAR bond project is anticipated to produce; and

(12) an anticipated principal and interest payment schedule on the STAR bonds.

The feasibility consultant, along with any other consultants commissioned to perform the studies and other analysis required by the feasibility study, shall be selected by the political subdivision but approved by the Department. The consultants shall be retained by the political subdivision. The political subdivision may seek reimbursement from the master developer.

The failure to include all information enumerated in this subsection in the feasibility study for a STAR bond project shall not affect the validity of STAR bonds issued under this Act. A feasibility study for a NOVA urban district completed for the Office of the Governor and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity within 36 months before or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly shall meet the requirements of this Section.

(c) If the political subdivision determines the STAR bond project is feasible, the STAR bond project plan shall include:

(1) a summary of the feasibility study;

(2) a reference to the STAR bond district plan that identifies the STAR bond project area that is set forth in the STAR bond project plan that is being considered;

(3) a legal description and map of the STAR bond project area to be developed or redeveloped;

(4) a description of the buildings and facilities proposed to be constructed or improved in the STAR bond project area, including development users, as applicable;

(5) a copy of letters of intent to locate within the STAR bond district signed by both the master developer and the appropriate corporate officer of at least one development user for the STAR bond project proposed within the district;

(6) a copy of a project labor agreement entered into by the master developer and a commitment by the master developer, other developers, contractors, and subcontractors to comply with the requirements of Section 30-22 of the Illinois Procurement Code as they apply to responsible bidders; and

(6.5) if applicable, the geographic boundaries of the area within the STAR bond district that constitutes an entertainment user area, as such designated area shall be identified by the master developer; and

(7) any other information the corporate authorities of the political subdivision deems reasonable and necessary to advise the public of the intent of the STAR bond project plan.

(d) Before a political subdivision may hold a public hearing to consider a STAR bond project plan, the political subdivision must apply to the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget for joint review and recommendation and ultimate approval or denial by the Office of the Governor of the STAR bond project plan. The corporate authorities of a political subdivision seeking to establish a STAR bond project in an approved STAR bond district must submit a proposed STAR bond project plan to the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget by June 1, 2028 for consideration.

An application for approval of a STAR bond project plan must not be approved by the State unless all the components of the feasibility study set forth in paragraphs (1) through (12) of subsection (b) have been completed and submitted for review and recommendation for approval or denial. In addition to reviewing all the other elements of the STAR bond project plan required under subsection (c), which must be included in the application and include a letter of intent as required under paragraph (5) of subsection (c) in order to receive State approval, the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget must review the feasibility study and consider all the components of the feasibility study set forth in paragraphs (1) through (12) of subsection (b), including, without limitation, the economic impact study and the financial benefit of the proposed STAR bond project to the local, regional, and State economies, the proposed adverse impacts on similar businesses and projects as well as municipalities within the market area, and the net effect of the proposed STAR bond project on the local, regional, and State economies. In addition to the economic impact study, the political subdivision must also submit to the agencies, as part of its application, the financial and other information that substantiates the basis for the conclusion of the economic impact study, in the form and manner as required by the agencies, so that the agencies can verify the results of the study. In addition to any other criteria in this subsection, the State may not approve the STAR bond project plan unless the agencies are satisfied that the proposed development users are, in fact, true development users and find that the STAR bond project plan is in accordance with the purpose of this Act and the public interest. As part of the review, the agencies shall evaluate the conclusions of the feasibility study as it relates to the projected State and local sales tax increments expected to be generated in the STAR bond district. The Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall jointly recommend the approval of a STAR bond project plan. In making the recommendation, the agencies shall consider the proximity of a proposed STAR bond project to another proposed or existing STAR bond project. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Department, the Department of Revenue, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall not approve any STAR bond project plan that includes as part of the plan the development of any facility, stadium, arena, or other structure if: (1) the purpose of the facility, stadium, arena, or other structure is the holding of professional sports contests; or (2) the facility, stadium, arena, or other structure is within a one-mile radius of any structure that is developed on or after the effective date of this Act and has as one of its purposes the holding of professional sports contests except, in respect of a STAR bond project in a NOVA urban district, for a structure that is within a one-mile radius of an existing stadium that may be redeveloped on or after the effective date of this Act and has as one of its purposes the holding of professional sports contests. As used in this Section, "development of any facility, stadium, arena, or other structure" does not include the construction, development, or maintenance of infrastructure that serves such a facility, stadium, arena, or other structure. The agencies shall send a copy of their written findings and recommended approval or denial of the STAR bond project plan to the Office of the Governor for final action. Upon receipt of the Director's written findings and recommendation, the Office of the Governor shall issue a final approval or denial of the STAR bond project plan based on the criteria in this subsection and Section 5-15 and send a written approval or denial to the requesting political subdivision. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for STAR bond districts designated as NOVA districts or NOVA urban districts, the Office of the Governor shall issue a final approval or denial of the STAR bond project plan based on the criteria in this subsection and Section 5-15 and send written approval or denial to the requesting political subdivision within 180 days or, for a NOVA urban district, 60 days, after the political subdivision applies for approval, as set out in this subsection (d). In granting its approval, the Office of the Governor may require the political subdivision to execute a binding agreement or memorandum of understanding with the State. The terms of the agreement or memorandum may include, among other things, the political subdivision's repayment of the State sales tax increment distributed to it if any violation of the agreement or memorandum or this Act occurs.

(e) Upon a finding by the planning and zoning commission of the political subdivision, if any, that the STAR bond project plan is consistent with the intent of the comprehensive plan for the development of the political subdivision and upon issuance of written approval of the STAR bond project plan from the Office of the Governor under subsection (d) of this Section, the corporate authorities of the political subdivision shall adopt a resolution stating that the political subdivision is considering the adoption of the STAR bond project plan. The resolution shall:

(1) give notice that a public hearing will be held to consider the adoption of the STAR bond project plan and fix the date, hour, and place of the public hearing;

(2) describe the general boundaries of the STAR bond district within which the STAR bond project will be located and the date of establishment of the STAR bond district;

(3) describe the general boundaries of the area proposed to be included within the STAR bond project area;

(4) provide that the STAR bond project plan and map of the area to be redeveloped or developed are available for inspection during regular office hours in the offices of the political subdivision; and

(5) contain a summary of the terms and conditions of any proposed project development agreement with the political subdivision.

(f) A public hearing shall be conducted to consider the adoption of any STAR bond project plan.

(1) The date fixed for the public hearing to consider the adoption of the STAR bond project plan shall be not less than 20 nor more than 90 days following the date of the adoption of the resolution fixing the date of the hearing.

(2) A copy of the political subdivision's resolution providing for the public hearing shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the corporate authorities of the county. A copy of the political subdivision's resolution providing for the public hearing shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each person or persons in whose name the general taxes for the last preceding year were paid on each parcel of land lying within the proposed STAR bond project area within 10 days following the date of the adoption of the resolution. The resolution shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision not less than one week nor more than 3 weeks before the date fixed for the public hearing. A map or aerial photo clearly delineating the area of land proposed to be included within the STAR bond project area shall be published with the resolution.

(3) The hearing shall be held at a location that is within 20 miles of the STAR bond district or, for a NOVA urban district, within 2 miles of the STAR bond district, in a facility that can accommodate a large crowd and is accessible to persons with disabilities.

(4) At the public hearing, a representative of the political subdivision or master developer shall present the STAR bond project plan. Following the presentation of the STAR bond project plan, all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard. The corporate authorities may continue the date and time of the public hearing.

(g) Upon conclusion of the public hearing, the governing body of the political subdivision may adopt the STAR bond project plan by a resolution approving the STAR bond project plan.

(h) After the adoption by the corporate authorities of the political subdivision of a STAR bond project plan, the political subdivision may enter into a project development agreement if the master developer has requested the political subdivision to be a party to the project development agreement under subsection (b) of Section 5-40.

(i) Within 30 days after the adoption by the political subdivision of a STAR bond project plan, the clerk of the political subdivision shall transmit a copy of the legal description of the land and a list of all new and existing mailing addresses within the STAR bond district, a copy of the resolution adopting the STAR bond project plan, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the STAR bond project area and STAR bond district to the clerk, treasurer, and governing body of the county and to the Department and Department of Revenue. Within 30 days of creation of any new mailing address within a STAR bond district, the clerk of the political subdivision shall provide written notice of that new address to the Department and the Department of Revenue.

If a certified copy of the resolution adopting the STAR bond project plan is filed with the Department of Revenue on or before the first day of April, the Department of Revenue, if all other requirements of this subsection are met, shall proceed to collect and allocate any local sales tax increment and any State sales tax increment in accordance with the provisions of this Act on the first day of July next following the adoption and filing. If a certified copy of the resolution adopting the STAR bond project plan is filed with the Department of Revenue after April 1 but on or before the first day of October, the Department of Revenue, if all other requirements of this subsection are met, shall proceed to collect and allocate any local sales tax increment and any State sales tax increment in accordance with the provisions of this Act as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any local hotel taxes and visitor investment surcharges that are designated as pledged STAR revenues pursuant to this Act shall be calculated, collected, and administered by the political subdivision imposing such tax, and shall not be subject to collection or allocation by the Department of Revenue.

Any substantial changes to a STAR bond project plan as adopted shall be subject to a public hearing following publication of notice thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision and approval by resolution of the governing body of the political subdivision.

The Department of Revenue shall not collect or allocate any local sales tax increment or State sales tax increment until the political subdivision also provides, in the manner prescribed by the Department of Revenue, the boundaries of the STAR bond district and each address in the STAR bond district in such a way that the Department of Revenue can determine by its address whether a business is located in the STAR bond district. The political subdivision must provide this boundary and address information to the Department of Revenue, with a copy to the Department, on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement under this Act by the Department of Revenue beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement under this Act by the Department of Revenue beginning on the following January 1. The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce any change made to the boundaries of a STAR bond district or any address change, addition, or deletion until the political subdivision reports the boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department of Revenue, with a copy to the Department, in the manner prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The political subdivision must provide this boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion information to the Department of Revenue, with a copy to the Department, on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of Revenue of the change, addition, or deletion beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of Revenue of the change, addition, or deletion beginning on the following January 1. If a retailer is incorrectly included or excluded from the list of those located in the STAR bond district, the Department of Revenue shall be held harmless if the Department reasonably relied on information provided by the political subdivision.

(j) Any STAR bond project must be approved by the political subdivision within 23 years after the date of the approval of the STAR bond district; however, any amendments to the STAR bond project may occur following that date.

(k) Any developer of a STAR bond project shall commence work on the STAR bond project within 3 years from the date of adoption of the STAR bond project plan. If the developer fails to commence work on the STAR bond project within the 3-year period, funding for the project shall cease and the developer of the project or complex shall have one year to appeal to the political subdivision for a one-time reapproval of the project and funding. If the project is reapproved, the 3-year period for commencement shall begin again on the date of the reapproval. If the project is not reapproved or if the developer again fails to commence work on the STAR bond project within the second 3-year period, the project shall be terminated, and the Department may accept applications for a new STAR bond project in the Economic Development Region.

(l) After the adoption of a STAR bond project plan by the corporate authorities of the political subdivision and approval by the Office of the Governor under subsection (d), the political subdivision may authorize the issuance of STAR bonds in one or more series to finance the STAR bond project or pay or reimburse any eligible project cost within the STAR bond district in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(m) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (n), the maximum maturity of STAR bonds issued to finance a STAR bond project shall not exceed 23 years from the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the STAR bond project to the political subdivision unless the political subdivision extends that maturity by resolution up to a maximum of 35 years from such first distribution date. Any such extension shall require the approval of the Office of the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Directors. In no event shall the maximum maturity date for any STAR bonds exceed that date which is 35 years from the first distribution date of the first STAR bonds issued in a STAR bond district.

(n) The maximum maturity of STAR bonds issued to finance a STAR bond project located within a NOVA district or a NOVA urban district shall not exceed 35 years from the first date of distribution of State sales tax increment from the STAR bond project to the political subdivision.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-35)

Sec. 5-35. Approval of STAR bond projects in NOVA districts and NOVA urban districts. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a STAR bond project may be approved within each STAR bond district designated as a NOVA district and a NOVA urban district. A NOVA urban district may be approved concurrent with the designation of the NOVA urban district. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, approval of a NOVA district shall follow the same procedures applicable to STAR bond district approval as provided in Section 5-20, and that designation shall be determined by the Office of the Governor during the STAR bond district approval process. The NOVA district and NOVA urban district must satisfy the criteria set forth to be considered a NOVA district under Section 5-10. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, establishment of a NOVA district or NOVA urban district shall be construed to have the same application and effect as a STAR bond district.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-45)

Sec. 5-45. STAR bonds; source of payment.

(a) Any political subdivision shall have the power to issue STAR bonds in one or more series to finance the undertaking of any STAR bond project in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Omnibus Bond Acts. Any STAR bond project approved under this Act may be completed in one or more phases, and STAR bonds may be issued, in one or more series, to finance any STAR bond project or phase thereof. STAR bonds may be issued as revenue bonds, alternate bonds, or general obligation bonds as defined in and subject to the procedures provided in the Local Government Debt Reform Act.

STAR bonds may be made payable, both as to principal and interest, from the following revenues, which, to the extent pledged by each respective political subdivision or other public entity for that purpose, shall constitute pledged STAR revenues:

(1) revenues of the political subdivision derived from or held in connection with the undertaking and carrying out of any STAR bond project or projects under this Act;

(2) available private funds and contributions, grants, tax credits, or other financial assistance from the State or federal government;

(3) any taxes created under Section 5-50 and designated as pledged STAR revenues by the political subdivision;

(4) all the local sales tax increment of a municipality, county, or other unit of local government, including an amount equal to the sales tax increment that is received by a municipality from a sales tax securitization corporation based on sales of revenues as of the date of this Act, which amount shall be pledged as a first lien on such receipts;

(5) any special service area taxes collected within the STAR bond district under the Special Service Area Tax Act, which may be used for the purposes of funding project costs or paying debt service on STAR bonds in addition to the purposes contained in the special service area plan;

(6) all the State sales tax increment;

(7) any other revenues appropriated by the political subdivision; and

(8) any combination of these methods.

(b) The political subdivision may pledge the pledged STAR revenues to the repayment of STAR bonds before, simultaneously with, or after the issuance of the STAR bonds.

(c) Bonds issued as revenue bonds shall not be general obligations of the political subdivision, nor, in any event, shall they give rise to a charge against the political subdivision's general credit or taxing powers or be payable out of any funds or properties other than those set forth in subsection (a). The bonds shall so state on their face.

(d) For each STAR bond project financed with STAR bonds payable from the pledged STAR revenues, the political subdivision shall prepare and submit to the Department, the Department of Revenue, the Office of the Governor, and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget by June 1 of each year a report describing the status of the STAR bond project, any expenditures of the proceeds of STAR bonds that have occurred for the preceding calendar year, and any expenditures of the proceeds of the bonds expected to occur in the future, including the amount of pledged STAR revenue, the amount of revenue that has been spent, the projected amount of the revenue, and the anticipated use of the revenue. Each annual report shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the master developer certifying the contents of the report as true to the best of the master developer's knowledge. The Department shall have the right, but not the obligation, to request the Auditor General to review the annual report and the political subdivision's records containing the source information for the report for the purpose of verifying the report's contents. If the Auditor General declines the request for review, the Department shall have the right to select an independent third-party auditor to conduct an audit of the annual report and the political subdivision's records containing the source information for the report. The reasonable cost of the audit shall be paid by the master developer. The master development agreement shall grant the Department and the Auditor General the right to review the records of the political subdivision containing the source information for the report.

(e) As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer, from the General Revenue Fund to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, the State sales tax increment for the second preceding month, less 3% of that amount, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department of Revenue, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department of Revenue in administering this Act. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer, from the Local Government Tax Fund to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, the local sales tax increment for the second preceding month, as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act and from the County and Mass Transit District Fund to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment for the second preceding month, as provided in Section 6z-20 of the State Finance Act. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money out of the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund to named municipalities and counties, the municipalities and counties to be those entitled to distribution of taxes or penalties paid to the Department of Revenue during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality or county shall be the amount of the State sales tax increment and the local sales tax increment (not including credit memoranda or the amount transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund) collected during the second preceding calendar month by the Department of Revenue from retailers and servicepersons on transactions at places of business located within a STAR bond district in that municipality or county, plus an amount the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department of Revenue, and not including any amount which the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts which are payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality or county. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and counties, which shall be given to the Comptroller by the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. When certifying the amount of monthly disbursement to a municipality or county under this subsection, the Department of Revenue shall increase or decrease that amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the 6 months preceding the time a misallocation is discovered.

(f) The corporate authorities of the political subdivision shall deposit the proceeds for the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund into a special fund of the political subdivision called the "[Name of political subdivision] STAR Bond District Revenue Fund" for the purpose of paying or reimbursing STAR bond project costs and obligations incurred in the payment of those costs. If the political subdivision fails to issue STAR bonds within 180 days after the first distribution to the political subdivision from the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, the Department of Revenue shall cease distribution of the State sales tax increment to the political subdivision, shall transfer any State sales tax increment in the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund to the General Revenue Fund, and shall cease deposits of State sales tax increment amounts into the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. The political subdivision shall repay all the State sales tax increment distributed to the political subdivision to date, which amounts shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund. If not repaid within 90 days after notice from the State, the Department of Revenue shall withhold distributions to the political subdivision from the Local Government Tax Fund until the excess amount is repaid, which withheld amounts shall be transferred to the General Revenue Fund. At such time as the political subdivision notifies the Department of Revenue in writing that it has issued STAR Bonds in accordance with this Act and provides the Department with a copy of the political subdivision's official statement, bond purchase agreements, indenture, or other evidence of bond sale, the Department of Revenue shall resume deposits of the State sales tax increment into the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund and distribution of the State sales tax increment to the political subdivision in accordance with this Section.

(g) If at any time after the seventh anniversary of the date of distribution of State sales tax increment from a STAR bond project the Auditor General determines that the percentage of the aggregate proceeds of STAR bonds issued to date that is derived from the State sales tax increment has exceeded 50% of the total development costs of that STAR Bonds project, no additional STAR bonds may be issued for that STAR Bonds project until that percentage is reduced to 50% or below. When the percentage has been reduced to 50% or below, the master developer shall have the right, at its own cost, to obtain a new audit prepared by an independent third-party auditor verifying compliance and shall provide such audit to the Auditor General for review and approval. Upon the Auditor General's determination from the audit that the percentage has been reduced to 50% or below, STAR bonds may again be issued for the STAR bond project.

(h) A new tax increment financing district in a NOVA urban district may be established concurrent with or following the establishment of the NOVA urban district or other arrangement in respect of a property tax assessment freeze and special payment.

(i) The limitation on the rate of tax imposed under Section 8-3-14a of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 5-1300 of the Counties Code does not apply to a tax imposed under those Sections on businesses within a STAR bond district by the corporate authorities of any municipality or county that has established a STAR bond district under this Act.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-50)

Sec. 5-50. STAR bond occupation taxes.

(a) If the corporate authorities of a political subdivision have established a STAR bond district and have elected to impose a tax by ordinance under subsection (b), or (c), or (c-10) of this Section, each year after the date of the adoption of the ordinance and until all STAR bond project costs and all political subdivision obligations financing the STAR bond project costs, if any, have been paid in accordance with the STAR bond project plans, but in no event longer than the maximum maturity date of the last of the STAR bonds issued for projects in the STAR bond district, all amounts generated by the retailers' occupation tax and service occupation tax shall be collected, and the tax shall be enforced, by the Department of Revenue in the same manner as all retailers' occupation taxes and service occupation taxes imposed in the political subdivision imposing the tax. The corporate authorities of the political subdivision shall deposit the proceeds of the taxes imposed under subsections (b), and (c), or (c-10) into either (i) a special fund held by the corporate authorities of the political subdivision called the STAR Bonds Tax Allocation Fund for the purpose of paying STAR bond project costs and obligations incurred in the payment of those costs if such taxes are designated as pledged STAR revenues by resolution or ordinance of the political subdivision or (ii) the political subdivision's general corporate fund if such taxes are not designated as pledged STAR revenues by resolution or ordinance.

The tax imposed under this Section by a municipality may be imposed only on the portion of a STAR bond district that is within the boundaries of the municipality. For any part of a STAR bond district that lies outside the boundaries of that municipality, the municipality in which the other part of the STAR bond district lies (or the county, in cases where a portion of the STAR bond district lies in the unincorporated area of a county) is authorized to impose the tax under this Section on that part of the STAR bond district.

(b) The corporate authorities of a political subdivision that has established a STAR bond district under this Act may, by ordinance or resolution, impose a STAR Bond Retailers' Occupation Tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than an item of tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the STAR bond district at a rate not to exceed 1% of the gross receipts from the sales made in the course of that business, to be imposed only in 0.25% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The tax may not be imposed on aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the political subdivision.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department of Revenue to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this subsection without registering separately with the Department of Revenue under such ordinance or resolution or under this subsection. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of, and compliance with, this subsection, the Department of Revenue and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a through 1o, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c through 2h, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

If a tax is imposed under this subsection (b), a tax shall also be imposed under subsection (c) of this Section.

(c) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (b), a STAR Bond Service Occupation Tax shall also be imposed upon all persons engaged, in the STAR bond district, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within the STAR bond district, either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. The service occupation tax shall be imposed upon all persons engaged in the business of making sales of service at the same rate as the tax imposed in subsection (b) of the selling price of tangible personal property transferred within the STAR bond district by such servicemen as an incident to a sale of service and shall not exceed 1% and shall be imposed only in 0.25% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act. The tax may not be imposed on aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the political subdivision.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department of Revenue to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this subsection without registering separately with the Department of Revenue under that ordinance or resolution or under this subsection. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Act, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of, and compliance with this subsection, the Department of Revenue and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2, 2a through 2d, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the STAR bond district), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the political subdivision), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this tax may not be taken against any State tax), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the political subdivision), the first paragraph of Section 15, and Sections 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

If a tax is imposed under this subsection (c), a tax shall also be imposed under subsection (b) of this Section.

(c-10) The corporate authorities of any political subdivision that has established a STAR bond district under this Act may, by ordinance or resolution, impose a visitor investment surcharge upon all admission and charges from transactions at places of business located within the STAR bond district, at a rate not to exceed 9% of the gross receipts derived from any admission and charge within the STAR bond district, to be imposed only in 0.25% increments to pay for eligible project cost. The charge imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the political subdivision. For purposes of this Section, "visitor investment surcharges" includes, but is not limited to: (1) charges for admission to or rental of any physical space or venue in which attendees gather for entertainment or amusement, including, but not limited to, facilities owned or operated by users, destination hotels, amusement parks, hotels, entertainment venues, or traditional retailers, resorts, golf or pickle ball type facilities, simulator type facilities, music venues, water parks, RV parks, surf parks, ice rinks, family entertainment type facilities, zip line courses, wake boarding courses, miniature golf courses, go-cart tracks or facilities, arcades and other venues designed for the playing of video games, pinball machines, air-hockey, billiards tables, or other games operated by coins or other payment methods, theaters, trade shows and convention centers, and athletic stadiums or venues for the hosting of any athletic contest; and (2) any separate charge for admission or rental to or use of entertainment attractions, rides, or other activities within the aforementioned venues. The provisions of this subsection (c-10) are not subject to subsection (d) of this Section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the visitor investment surcharge under this subsection (c-10) may not be imposed on receipts from transactions that, at the time the surcharge is established, are taxable under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, or the Service Occupation Tax Act.

(d) Persons subject to any tax imposed under this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability under this Section by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State taxes that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department of Revenue determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant the Department of Revenue shall not issue a credit memorandum. The Department of Revenue shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department of Revenue. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the STAR Bond Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the Department of Revenue shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties, and interest collected under this Section for deposit into the STAR Bond Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named political subdivisions from the STAR Bond Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund, the political subdivisions to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section to the Department of Revenue during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each political subdivision shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the Department of Revenue plus an amount the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department of Revenue, less 3% of that amount, which shall be deposited into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department of Revenue, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department of Revenue in administering and enforcing the provisions of this Section, on behalf of such political subdivision, and not including any amount that the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the political subdivision. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the political subdivisions provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. The proceeds of the tax paid to political subdivisions under this Section shall be deposited into either (i) the STAR Bonds Tax Allocation Fund by the political subdivision if the political subdivision has designated them as pledged STAR revenues by resolution or ordinance or (ii) the political subdivision's general corporate fund if the political subdivision has not designated them as pledged STAR revenues.

An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department of Revenue on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department of Revenue, if all other requirements of this Section are met, shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department of Revenue on or before the first day of October, whereupon, if all other requirements of this Section are met, the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce an ordinance imposing, discontinuing, or changing the rate of the tax under this Section until the political subdivision also provides, in the manner prescribed by the Department of Revenue, the boundaries of the STAR bond district and each address in the STAR bond district in such a way that the Department of Revenue can determine by its address whether a business is located in the STAR bond district. The political subdivision must provide this boundary and address information to the Department of Revenue on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this Section by the Department of Revenue beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this Section by the Department of Revenue beginning on the following January 1. The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce any change made to the boundaries of a STAR bond district or any address change, addition, or deletion until the political subdivision reports the boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department of Revenue in the manner prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The political subdivision must provide this boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion information to the Department of Revenue on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of Revenue of the change, addition, or deletion beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of Revenue of the change, addition, or deletion beginning on the following January 1. The retailers in the STAR bond district shall be responsible for charging the tax imposed under this Section. If a retailer is incorrectly included or excluded from the list of those required to collect the tax under this Section, both the Department of Revenue and the retailer shall be held harmless if they reasonably relied on information provided by the political subdivision.

A political subdivision that imposes the tax under this Section must submit to the Department of Revenue any other information as the Department of Revenue may require that is necessary for the administration and enforcement of the tax.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a political subdivision under this Section, the Department of Revenue shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize the political subdivision to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

The provisions of this subsection (d) apply only to taxes imposed under subsection (b) and subsection (c) of this Section.

(e) When STAR bond project costs, including, without limitation, all political subdivision obligations financing STAR bond project costs, have been paid, any surplus funds then remaining in the STAR Bonds Tax Allocation Fund shall be distributed to the treasurer of the political subdivision for deposit into the political subdivision's general corporate fund. Upon payment of all STAR bond project costs and retirement of obligations, but in no event later than the maximum maturity date of the last of the STAR bonds issued in the STAR bond district, the political subdivision shall adopt an ordinance immediately rescinding the taxes imposed under this Section and file a certified copy of the ordinance with the Department of Revenue in the form and manner as described in this Section.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-55)

Sec. 5-55. STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund.

(a) Deposits into the STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund, established under Section 33 of the Innovation Development and Economy Act, shall be made as provided under this Section. Moneys in the Trust Fund shall be used by the Department of Revenue only for the purpose of making payments to regional superintendents of schools to make distributions to school districts in educational service regions that include the STAR bond district. Moneys in the Trust Fund are not subject to appropriation and shall be used solely as provided in this Section. All deposits into the Trust Fund shall be held in the Trust Fund by the State Treasurer as ex officio custodian separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of this State and shall be distributed by the Department of Revenue exclusively for the purposes set forth in this Section. All moneys in the Trust Fund shall be invested and reinvested by the State Treasurer. All interest accruing from these investments shall be deposited into the Trust Fund.

(b) Upon approval of a STAR bond district, the political subdivision shall immediately transmit to the county clerk of the county in which the district is located a certified copy of the ordinance creating the district, a legal description of the district, a map of the district, identification of the year that the county clerk shall use for determining the total initial equalized assessed value of the district consistent with subsection (c), and a list of the parcel or tax identification number of each parcel of property included in the district.

(c) Upon approval of a STAR bond district, the county clerk immediately thereafter shall determine (i) the most recently ascertained equalized assessed value of each lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property within the STAR bond district, from which shall be deducted the homestead exemptions under Article 15 of the Property Tax Code, which value shall be the initial equalized assessed value of each such piece of property, and (ii) the total equalized assessed value of all taxable real property within the district by adding together the most recently ascertained equalized assessed value of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property within the district, from which shall be deducted the homestead exemptions under Article 15 of the Property Tax Code, and shall certify that amount as the total initial equalized assessed value of the taxable real property within the STAR bond district.

(d) In reference to any STAR bond district created within any political subdivision, and in respect to which the county clerk has certified the total initial equalized assessed value of the property in the area, the political subdivision may thereafter request the clerk in writing to adjust the initial equalized value of all taxable real property within the STAR bond district by deducting from it the exemptions under Article 15 of the Property Tax Code applicable to each lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property within the STAR bond district. The county clerk shall immediately, after the written request to adjust the total initial equalized value is received, determine the total homestead exemptions in the STAR bond district as provided under Article 15 of the Property Tax Code by adding together the homestead exemptions provided by Article 15 on each lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property within the STAR bond district and then shall deduct the total of the exemptions from the total initial equalized assessed value. The county clerk shall then promptly certify that amount as the total initial equalized assessed value as adjusted of the taxable real property within the STAR bond district.

(e) The county clerk or other person authorized by law shall compute the tax rates for each taxing district with all or a portion of its equalized assessed value located in the STAR bond district. The rate per cent of tax determined shall be extended to the current equalized assessed value of all property in the district in the same manner as the rate per cent of tax is extended to all other taxable property in the taxing district.

(f) Beginning with the assessment year in which the first development user in the first STAR bond project in a STAR bond district makes its first retail sales and for each assessment year thereafter until final maturity of the last STAR bonds issued in the district, the county clerk or other person authorized by law shall determine the increase in equalized assessed value of all real property within the STAR bond district by subtracting the initial equalized assessed value of all property in the district certified under subsection (c) from the current equalized assessed value of all property in the district. Each year, the property taxes arising from the increase in equalized assessed value in the STAR bond district shall be determined for each taxing district and shall be certified to the county collector.

(g) Except in a NOVA district or in a NOVA urban district, beginning Beginning with the year in which taxes are collected based on the assessment year in which the first development user in the first STAR bond project in a STAR bond district makes its first retail sales and for each year thereafter until final maturity of the last STAR bonds issued in the district, the county collector shall, within 30 days after receipt of property taxes, transmit to the Department of Revenue to be deposited into the STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund 15% of property taxes attributable to the increase in equalized assessed value within the STAR bond district from each taxing district as certified in subsection (f).

(h) The Department of Revenue shall pay to the regional superintendent of schools whose educational service region includes a STAR bond district, for each year for which money is remitted to the Department of Revenue and paid into the STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund, the money in the Fund as provided in this Section. The amount paid to each school district shall be allocated proportionately by the regional superintendent of schools, based on each qualifying school district's fall enrollment for the then-current school year, such that the school district with the largest fall enrollment receives the largest proportionate share of money paid out of the Fund or by any other method or formula that the regional superintendent of schools deems fit, equitable, and in the public interest. The regional superintendent may allocate moneys to school districts that are outside the regional superintendent's educational service region or to other regional superintendents.

The Department of Revenue shall be held harmless for the distributions made under this Section and all distributions shall be final.

(i) In any year that an assessment appeal is filed, the extension of taxes on any assessment so appealed shall not be delayed. In the case of an assessment that is altered, any taxes extended upon the unauthorized assessment or part thereof shall be abated, or, if already paid, shall be refunded with interest as provided in Section 23-20 of the Property Tax Code. In the case of an assessment appeal, the county collector shall notify the Department of Revenue that an assessment appeal has been filed and the amount of the tax that would have been deposited into the STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund. The county collector shall hold that amount in a separate fund until the appeal process is final. After the appeal process is finalized, the county collector shall transmit to the Department of Revenue the amount of tax that remains, if any, after all required refunds are made.

(j) In any year that ad valorem taxes are allocated to the STAR Bonds School Improvement and Operations Trust Fund, that allocation shall not reduce or otherwise impact the school aid provided to any school district under the general State school aid formula provided for in Section 18-8.05 of the School Code or the evidence-based funding formula provided for in Section 18-8.15 of the School Code.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-70)

Sec. 5-70. Restrictions. STAR bond districts may lie within an enterprise zone. During any period of time that STAR bonds are outstanding for a STAR bond district, a developer may not use any land located in the STAR bond district for any retail store whose primary business is the sale of automobiles, including trucks and other automotive vehicles with 4 wheels designed for passenger transportation on public streets and thoroughfares. No STAR bond district, other than a NOVA urban district, may contain more than 900,000 square feet of floor space devoted to traditional retail use, which does not include space devoted to entertainment venues, hotels, warehouse space, storage space, or approved development users.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

(50 ILCS 475/5-75)

Sec. 5-75. Reporting taxes.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the Department of Revenue shall provide a certified report of the State sales tax increment and local sales tax increment from all taxpayers within a STAR bond district to the bond trustee, escrow agent, or paying agent for such bonds upon the written request of the political subdivision on or before the 25th day of each month. Such report shall provide a detailed allocation of State sales tax increment and local sales tax increment from each local sales tax and State sales tax reported to the Department of Revenue.

The bond trustee, escrow agent, or paying agent shall keep such sales and use tax reports and the information contained therein confidential, but may use such information for purposes of allocating and depositing the sales and use tax revenues in connection with the bonds used to finance project costs in such STAR bond district. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the sales and use tax reports received by the bond trustee, escrow agent, or paying agent shall be subject to the confidentiality provisions of Section 11 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, local hotel taxes and visitor investment surcharges that are designated as pledged STAR revenues pursuant to this Act shall not be included in the Department of Revenue's certified report and shall instead be reported to the bond trustee, escrow agent, or paying agent by the political subdivision in such form and manner as may be provided in the applicable bond documents.

(b) The political subdivision shall determine when the amount of sales tax and other revenues that have been collected and distributed to the bond debt service or reserve fund is sufficient to satisfy all principal and interest costs to the maturity date or dates of any STAR bond issued by a political subdivision to finance a STAR bond project and shall give the Department of Revenue written notice of such determination. The notice shall include a date certain on which deposits into the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund for that STAR bond project shall terminate and shall be provided to the Department of Revenue at least 60 days prior to that date. Thereafter, all sales tax and other revenues shall be collected and distributed in accordance with applicable law.

If the political subdivision fails to give timely notice under this subsection (b), the Department of Revenue, upon discovery of this failure, shall cease distribution of the State sales tax increment to the political subdivision, shall transfer any State sales tax increment in the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund to the General Revenue Fund, and shall cease deposits of State sales tax increment amounts into the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Any amount of State sales tax increment distributed to the political subdivision from the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund in excess of the amount sufficient to satisfy all principal and interest costs to the maturity date or dates of any STAR bond issued by the political subdivision to finance a STAR bond project shall be repaid to the Department of Revenue and deposited into the General Revenue Fund. If not repaid within 90 days after notice from the State, the Department of Revenue shall withhold distributions to the political subdivision from the Local Government Tax Fund until the excess amount is repaid, which withheld amounts shall be transferred to the General Revenue Fund.

(Source: P.A. 104-453, eff. 12-12-25.)

Section 10-35. The Counties Code is amended by changing Sections 5-1006, 5-1006.8, 5-1006.9, 5-1007, and 5-1030 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/5-1006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1006)

Sec. 5-1006. Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. Any county that is a home rule unit may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than an item of tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the county on the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of their business. If imposed, this tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the county does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. The county must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the county. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

The tax imposed by a home rule county pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No tax may be imposed by a home rule county pursuant to this Section unless the county also imposes a tax at the same rate pursuant to Section 5-1007.

Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule county retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the county.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named counties, the counties to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such county, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the counties, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the counties and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph, an allocation shall be made in March of each year to each county that received more than $500,000 in disbursements under the preceding paragraph in the preceding calendar year. The allocation shall be in an amount equal to the average monthly distribution made to each such county under the preceding paragraph during the preceding calendar year (excluding the 2 months of highest receipts). The distribution made in March of each year subsequent to the year in which an allocation was made pursuant to this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding calendar year. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.

For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Law.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-1006.8)

Sec. 5-1006.8. County Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law.

(a) This Section may be referred to as the County Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. The corporate authorities of any county may, by ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling cannabis, other than cannabis purchased under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, at retail in the county on the gross receipts from these sales made in the course of that business. If imposed, the tax shall be imposed only in 0.25% increments. The tax rate may not exceed: (i) 3.75% of the gross receipts of sales made in unincorporated areas of the county; and (ii) 3% of the gross receipts of sales made in a municipality located in the county. The tax imposed under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this Section. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department of Revenue and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are described in Sections 1, 1a, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2a, 2b, 2c, 2i, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6bb, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

(b) Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with any State tax that sellers are required to collect.

(c) Whenever the Department of Revenue determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department of Revenue shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department of Revenue.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the The Department of Revenue shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Local Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Trust Fund.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

(e) After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount of money to be disbursed from the Local Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Trust Fund to counties from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section from sales made in the county during the second preceding calendar month, plus an amount the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such county, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the counties, shall prepare and certify the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the counties and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

(f) An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof that is adopted on or after June 25, 2019 (the effective date of Public Act 101-27) and for which a certified copy is filed with the Department on or before April 1, 2020 shall be administered and enforced by the Department beginning on July 1, 2020. For ordinances filed with the Department after April 1, 2020, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

(g) Notwithstanding any provision in this Section to the contrary, if an ordinance or resolution imposing a tax under this Section was adopted on or before October 1, 2020 and a certified copy thereof was filed with the Department of Revenue on or before November 1, 2020, then the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of May 1, 2021 for such ordinances or resolutions.

(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-363, eff. 8-9-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19; 102-2, eff. 4-2-21.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-1006.9)

Sec. 5-1006.9. County Grocery Occupation Tax Law.

(a) The corporate authorities of any county may, by ordinance or resolution that takes effect on or after January 1, 2026, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling groceries at retail in the county, but outside of any municipality, on the gross receipts from those sales made in the course of that business. If imposed, the tax shall be at the rate of 1% of the gross receipts from these sales.

The tax imposed by a county under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this subsection without registering separately with the Department under that ordinance or resolution or under this subsection.

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section and under rules adopted by the Department; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection.

In the administration of, and compliance with, this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax and other than the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and all of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

(b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), then a service occupation tax must also be imposed at the same rate upon all persons engaged, in the county but outside of a municipality, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer groceries, as defined in this Section, as an incident to a sale of service.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this subsection without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this subsection.

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section and under rules adopted by the Department, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty under this subsection.

In the administration of and compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure as are set forth in Sections 2, 2c, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions contained in those Sections other than: (i) the State rate of tax; (ii) the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection; and (iii) the exemption for food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the Service Occupation Tax Act or the Service Use Tax Act by an entity licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act, which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection), 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to any bracketed schedules set forth by the Department.

(c) The Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected under this Section. Those taxes and penalties shall be deposited into the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund, a trust fund created in the State treasury. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, moneys in the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund shall be used to make payments to counties and for the payment of refunds under this Section.

Moneys deposited into the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund under this Section are not subject to appropriation and shall be used as provided in this Section. All deposits into the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund shall be held in the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund by the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of this State.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the County Grocery Tax Trust Fund.

(d) As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, if any, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, if any, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named counties, the counties to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such county, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the counties provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing, or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

(g) When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

(h) As used in this Section, "Department" means the Department of Revenue.

For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (a), "groceries" has the same meaning as "food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption)", as further defined in Section 2-10 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.

For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (b), "groceries" has the same meaning as "food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption)", as further defined in Section 3-10 of the Service Occupation Tax Act.

For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (b), "groceries" also means food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the Service Occupation Tax Act or the Service Use Tax Act by an entity licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act.

(i) This Section may be referred to as the County Grocery Occupation Tax Law.

(Source: P.A. 103-781, eff. 8-5-24; 104-6, eff. 1-1-26.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-1007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1007)

Sec. 5-1007. Home Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law. The corporate authorities of a home rule county may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such county, in the business of making sales of service at the same rate of tax imposed pursuant to Section 5-1006 of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. If imposed, such tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the county does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. The county must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the county. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. The tax imposed by a home rule county pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing county), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing county), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this county tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing county), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No tax may be imposed by a home rule county pursuant to this Section unless such county also imposes a tax at the same rate pursuant to Section 5-1006.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule county retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the county.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named counties, the counties to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such county, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the counties, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the counties and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph, an allocation shall be made in each year to each county which received more than $500,000 in disbursements under the preceding paragraph in the preceding calendar year. The allocation shall be in an amount equal to the average monthly distribution made to each such county under the preceding paragraph during the preceding calendar year (excluding the 2 months of highest receipts). The distribution made in March of each year subsequent to the year in which an allocation was made pursuant to this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding calendar year. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-1030) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1030)

Sec. 5-1030. Hotel rooms, tax on gross rental receipts.

(a) The corporate authorities of any county may by ordinance impose a tax upon all persons engaged in such county in the business of renting, leasing or letting rooms in a hotel which is not located within a city, village, or incorporated town that imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as defined in "The Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act", at a rate not to exceed 5% of the gross rental receipts from such renting, leasing or letting, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of such renting, leasing or letting to permanent residents of that hotel, and may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax, and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the corporate authorities determine to be necessary or practicable for the effective administration of the tax. As provided in subsection (i) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, the limitation on the rate of tax imposed under this subsection does not apply to a tax imposed under this subsection by the corporate authorities of a county on a business located within a STAR bond district established by the corporate authorities of the county under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

(b) With the consent of municipalities representing at least 67% of the population of Winnebago County, as determined by the 2010 federal decennial census and as expressed by resolution of the corporate authorities of those municipalities, the county board of Winnebago County may, by ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the county in the business of renting, leasing, or letting rooms in a hotel that imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, at a rate not to exceed 2% of the gross rental receipts from renting, leasing, or letting, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of the renting, leasing, or letting to permanent residents of that hotel, and may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax, and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the county board determines to be necessary or practicable for the effective administration of the tax. As provided in subsection (i) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, the limitation on the rate of tax imposed under this subsection does not apply to a tax imposed under this subsection by the corporate authorities of a county on a business located within a STAR bond district established by the corporate authorities of the county under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act. The tax shall be instituted on a county-wide basis and shall be in addition to any tax imposed by this or any other provision of law. The revenue generated under this subsection shall be accounted for and segregated from all other funds of the county and shall be utilized solely for either: (1) encouraging, supporting, marketing, constructing, or operating, either directly by the county or through other taxing bodies within the county, sports, arts, or other entertainment or tourism facilities or programs for the purpose of promoting tourism, competitiveness, job growth, and for the general health and well-being of the citizens of the county; or (2) payment towards debt services on bonds issued for the purposes set forth in this subsection.

(b-5) The county board of Sangamon County may, by ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the county in the business of renting, leasing, or letting rooms in a hotel that imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, at a rate not to exceed 3% of the gross rental receipts from renting, leasing, or letting, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of the renting, leasing, or letting to permanent residents of that hotel, and may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax, and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the county board determines to be necessary or practicable for the effective administration of the tax. As provided in subsection (i) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, the limitation on the rate of tax imposed under this subsection does not apply to a tax imposed under this subsection by the corporate authorities of a county on a business located within a STAR bond district established by the corporate authorities of the county under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act. The tax shall be instituted on a county-wide basis and shall be in addition to any tax imposed by this or any other provision of law. The revenue generated under this subsection shall be accounted for and segregated from all other funds of the county and shall be used solely for either: (1) encouraging, supporting, marketing, constructing, or operating, either directly by the county or through other taxing bodies within the county, sports, arts, or other entertainment or tourism facilities or programs for the purpose of promoting tourism, competitiveness, job growth, and for the general health and well-being of the citizens of the county; or (2) payment towards debt services on bonds issued for the purposes set forth in this subsection; or (3) the purposes described in the Capital Area Tourism Authority Act.

(c) A Tourism Facility Board shall be established, comprised of a representative from the county and from each municipality that has approved the imposition of the tax under subsection (b) of this Section.

(1) A Board member's vote is weighted based on the municipality's population relative to the population of the county, with the county representing the population within unincorporated areas of the county. Representatives from the Rockford Park District and Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau shall serve as ex-officio members with no voting rights.

(2) The Board must meet not less frequently than once per year to direct the use of revenues collected from the tax imposed under subsection (b) of this Section that are not already directed for use pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between the county and another entity represented on the Board, including the ex-officio members, and for any other reason the Board deems necessary. Affirmative actions of the Board shall require a weighted vote of Board members representing not less than 67% of the population of the county.

(3) The Board shall not be a separate unit of local government, shall have no paid staff, and members of the Board shall receive no compensation or reimbursement of expenses from proceeds of the tax imposed under subsection (b) of this Section.

(d) Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to authority granted by this Section may reimburse themselves for their tax liability for such tax by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax imposed under "The Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act".

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

An ordinance or resolution imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be effective on the first day of the calendar month next following its passage and required publication.

The amounts collected by any county pursuant to this Section shall be expended to promote tourism; conventions; expositions; theatrical, sports and cultural activities within that county or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the county.

Any county may agree with any unit of local government, including any authority defined as a metropolitan exposition, auditorium and office building authority, fair and exposition authority, exposition and auditorium authority, or civic center authority created pursuant to provisions of Illinois law and the territory of which unit of local government or authority is co-extensive with or wholly within such county, to impose and collect for a period not to exceed 40 years, any portion or all of the tax authorized pursuant to this Section and to transmit such tax so collected to such unit of local government or authority. The amount so paid shall be expended by any such unit of local government or authority for the purposes for which such tax is authorized. Any such agreement must be authorized by resolution or ordinance, as the case may be, of such county and unit of local government or authority, and such agreement may provide for the irrevocable imposition and collection of said tax at such rate, or amount as limited by a given rate, as may be agreed upon for the full period of time set forth in such agreement; and such agreement may further provide for any other terms as deemed necessary or advisable by such county and such unit of local government or authority. Any such agreement shall be binding and enforceable by either party to such agreement. Such agreement entered into pursuant to this Section shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of such county subject to any limitation imposed by statute or otherwise.

(Source: P.A. 103-781, eff. 8-5-24.)

Section 10-40. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Sections 8-3-14a, 8-4-1, 8-11-1, 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4, 8-11-1.6, 8-11-1.7, 8-11-5, 8-11-23, 8-11-24, and 11-74.3-6 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14a)

Sec. 8-3-14a. Municipal hotel use tax.

(a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of renting or leasing rooms in a hotel within the municipality at a rate not to exceed 5% of the rental or lease payment. As provided in subsection (i) of Section 5-45 of the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, the limitation on the rate of tax imposed under this subsection does not apply to a tax imposed under this subsection by the corporate authorities of a municipality on a business located within a STAR bond district established by the corporate authorities of the municipality under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act. The corporate authorities may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the corporate authorities determine to be necessary or practical for the effective administration of the tax.

(b) Each hotel in the municipality shall collect the tax from the person making the rental or lease payment at the time that the payment is tendered to the hotel. The hotel shall, as trustee, remit the tax to the municipality.

(c) The tax authorized under this Section does not apply to any rental or lease payment by a permanent resident of that hotel or to any payment made to any hotel that is subject to the tax imposed under subsection (c) of Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act. A municipality may not impose a tax under this Section if it imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14. Nothing in this Section may be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business that under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Division, the moneys collected by a municipality under this Section may be expended solely to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality. No moneys received under this Section may be used to advertise for or otherwise promote new competition in the hotel business.

(e) As used in this Section, "hotel" has the meaning set forth in Section 2 of the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act.

(Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-1)

Sec. 8-4-1. No bonds shall be issued by the corporate authorities of any municipality until the question of authorizing such bonds has been submitted to the electors of that municipality provided that notice of the bond referendum, if held before July 1, 1999, has been given in accordance with the provisions of Section 12-5 of the Election Code in effect at the time of the bond referendum, at least 10 and not more than 45 days before the date of the election, notwithstanding the time for publication otherwise imposed by Section 12-5, and approved by a majority of the electors voting upon that question. Notices required in connection with the submission of public questions on or after July 1, 1999 shall be as set forth in Section 12-5 of the Election Code. The clerk shall certify the proposition of the corporate authorities to the proper election authority who shall submit the question at an election in accordance with the general election law, subject to the notice provisions set forth in this Section.

Notice of any such election shall contain the amount of the bond issue, purpose for which issued, and maximum rate of interest.

In addition to all other authority to issue bonds, the Village of Indian Head Park is authorized to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the costs of making roadway improvements in an amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of $2,500,000, provided that 60% of the votes cast at the general primary election held on March 18, 2014 are cast in favor of the issuance of the bonds, and the bonds are issued by December 31, 2014.

However, without the submission of the question of issuing bonds to the electors, the corporate authorities of any municipality may authorize the issuance of any of the following bonds:

(1) Bonds to refund any existing bonded indebtedness;

(2) Bonds to fund or refund any existing judgment indebtedness;

(3) In any municipality of less than 500,000 population, bonds to anticipate the collection of installments of special assessments and special taxes against property owned by the municipality and to anticipate the collection of the amount apportioned to the municipality as public benefits under Article 9;

(4) Bonds issued by any municipality under Sections 8-4-15 through 8-4-23, 11-23-1 through 11-23-12, 11-26-1 through 11-26-6, 11-71-1 through 11-71-10, 11-74.3-1 through 11-74.3-7, 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11, 11-74.5-1 through 11-74.5-15, 11-94-1 through 11-94-7, 11-102-1 through 11-102-10, 11-103-11 through 11-103-15, 11-118-1 through 11-118-6, 11-119-1 through 11-119-5, 11-129-1 through 11-129-7, 11-133-1 through 11-133-4, 11-139-1 through 11-139-12, 11-141-1 through 11-141-18 of this Code, or 10-801 through 10-808 of the Illinois Highway Code;

(5) Bonds issued by the board of education of any school district under the provisions of Sections 34-30 through 34-36 of the School Code;

(6) Bonds issued by any municipality under the provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8; and by any municipality under the provisions of Division 7 of this Article 8; or under the provisions of Sections 11-121-4 and 11-121-5;

(7) Bonds to pay for the purchase of voting machines by any municipality that has adopted Article 24 of the Election Code;

(8) Bonds issued by any municipality under Sections 15 and 46 of the Environmental Protection Act;

(9) Bonds issued by the corporate authorities of any municipality under the provisions of Section 8-4-25 of this Article 8;

(10) Bonds issued under Section 8-4-26 of this Article 8 by any municipality having a board of election commissioners;

(11) Bonds issued under the provisions of the Special Service Area Tax Act (repealed);

(12) Bonds issued under Section 8-5-16 of this Code;

(13) Bonds to finance the cost of the acquisition, construction, or improvement of water or wastewater treatment facilities mandated by an enforceable compliance schedule developed in connection with the federal Clean Water Act or a compliance order issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Illinois Pollution Control Board; provided that such bonds are authorized by an ordinance adopted by a three-fifths majority of the corporate authorities of the municipality issuing the bonds which ordinance shall specify that the construction or improvement of such facilities is necessary to alleviate an emergency condition in such municipality;

(14) Bonds issued by any municipality pursuant to Section 11-113.1-1;

(15) Bonds issued under Sections 11-74.6-1 through 11-74.6-45, the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law of this Code;

(16) Bonds issued under the Innovation Development and Economy Act, except as may be required by Section 35 of that Act.

(17) Bonds issued under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, except as may be required by Section 5-60 of that Act.

(Source: P.A. 102-587, eff. 1-1-22; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1)

Sec. 8-11-1. Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than an item of tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the municipality on the gross receipts from these sales made in the course of such business. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. The tax imposed by a home rule municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No tax may be imposed by a home rule municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-5 of this Act.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the State.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph and in order to mitigate delays caused by distribution procedures, an allocation shall, if requested, be made within 10 days after January 14, 1991, and in November of 1991 and each year thereafter, to each municipality that received more than $500,000 during the preceding fiscal year, (July 1 through June 30) whether collected by the municipality or disbursed by the Department as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14, 1991, participating municipalities shall notify the Department in writing of their intent to participate. In addition, for the initial distribution, participating municipalities shall certify to the Department the amounts collected by the municipality for each month under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990. The allocation within 10 days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount equal to the monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for the period of July 1, 1990 through June 30, 1991 will be determined as follows: the amounts collected by the municipality under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period of July 1, 1990 through September 30, 1990, plus amounts collected by the Department and paid to such municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for each subsequent period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount equal to the monthly distribution made to each such municipality under the preceding paragraph during this period, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The distribution made in November 1991 and each year thereafter under this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding period of July 1 through June 30. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.

For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following the adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. However, a municipality located in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000 that elected to become a home rule unit at the general primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution with the Department on or before July 1, 1994. The Department shall then proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of October 1, 1994. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135; and on and after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.

As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town that has superseded a civil township.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.3)

Sec. 8-11-1.3. Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose, by ordinance or resolution adopted in the manner described in Section 8-11-1.1, a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property which is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality. If imposed, the tax shall be imposed on the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of such business. The proceeds of the tax may be used for public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both, as defined in Section 8-11-1.2. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057) and before August 5, 2024 (the effective date of Public Act 103-781), the corporate authorities of the non-home rule municipality may, until January 1, 2031, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. If the tax is approved by an ordinance or resolution adopted on or after August 5, 2024 (the effective date of Public Act 103-781), the corporate authorities of the non-home rule municipality may, until January 1, 2031, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit such retailer to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.4 of this Code.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002.

As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" mean a city, village, or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25; 103-1055, eff. 12-20-24.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.4)

Sec. 8-11-1.4. Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose, by ordinance or resolution adopted in the manner described in Section 8-11-1.1, a tax upon all persons engaged in the municipality in the business of making sales of service. If imposed, the tax shall be imposed on the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen, either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate, as an incident to a sale of service. The proceeds of the tax may be used for public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both, as defined in Section 8-11-1.2. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057) and before August 5, 2024 (the effective date of Public Act 103-781), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until January 1, 2031, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. If the tax is approved by an ordinance or resolution adopted on or after August 5, 2024 (the effective date of Public Act 103-781), the corporate authorities of the non-home rule municipality may, until January 1, 2031, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.3 of this Code.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the municipal retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities, the General Revenue Fund, and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

As used in this Section, "municipal" or "municipality" means or refers to a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act".

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-9, eff. 6-7-23; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25; 103-1055, eff. 12-20-24.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.6)

Sec. 8-11-1.6. Non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax; municipalities between 20,000 and 25,000. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality with a population of more than 20,000 but less than 25,000 that has, prior to January 1, 1987, established a Redevelopment Project Area that has been certified as a State Sales Tax Boundary and has issued bonds or otherwise incurred indebtedness to pay for costs in excess of $5,000,000, which is secured in part by a tax increment allocation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Division 11-74.4 of this Code may, by passage of an ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property that is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality. This tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in .25% increments of the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of business. Any tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. An ordinance imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this Section without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

A tax may not be imposed by a municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.7 of this Act.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant, instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund, which is hereby created or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village, or incorporated town, including an incorporated town that has superseded a civil township.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.7)

Sec. 8-11-1.7. Non-home rule municipal service occupation tax; municipalities between 20,000 and 25,000. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality with a population of more than 20,000 but less than 25,000 as determined by the last preceding decennial census that has, prior to January 1, 1987, established a Redevelopment Project Area that has been certified as a State Sales Tax Boundary and has issued bonds or otherwise incurred indebtedness to pay for costs in excess of $5,000,000, which is secured in part by a tax increment allocation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Division 11-74.4 of this Code may, by passage of an ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the municipality in the business of making sales of service. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in .25% increments of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. This tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. An ordinance imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this Section without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in a manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12, (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

A tax may not be imposed by a municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.6 of this Act.

If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

Persons Person subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their servicemen's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, under such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the Municipality.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities, the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund, and the General Revenue Fund, provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-5)

Sec. 8-11-5. Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such municipality, in the business of making sales of service at the same rate of tax imposed pursuant to Section 8-11-1, of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. If imposed, such tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax may not be imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel shall be excluded from tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exception for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the State. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. The tax imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17 (except that credit memoranda issued hereunder may not be used to discharge any State tax liability), 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

No tax may be imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant to this Section unless such municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate pursuant to Section 8-11-1 of this Act.

Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification.

In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph and in order to mitigate delays caused by distribution procedures, an allocation shall, if requested, be made within 10 days after January 14, 1991, and in November of 1991 and each year thereafter, to each municipality that received more than $500,000 during the preceding fiscal year, (July 1 through June 30) whether collected by the municipality or disbursed by the Department as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14, 1991, participating municipalities shall notify the Department in writing of their intent to participate. In addition, for the initial distribution, participating municipalities shall certify to the Department the amounts collected by the municipality for each month under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990. The allocation within 10 days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount equal to the monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. Monthly average for the period of July 1, 1990 through June 30, 1991 will be determined as follows: the amounts collected by the municipality under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period of July 1, 1990 through September 30, 1990, plus amounts collected by the Department and paid to such municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for each subsequent period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount equal to the monthly distribution made to each such municipality under the preceding paragraph during this period, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The distribution made in November 1991 and each year thereafter under this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding period of July 1 through June 30. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. However, a municipality located in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000 that elected to become a home rule unit at the general primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution with the Department on or before July 1, 1994. The Department shall then proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of October 1, 1994. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund, for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135, and on and after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.

As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township.

This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act.

(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-604, eff. 12-13-19; 102-700, eff. 4-19-22.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-23)

Sec. 8-11-23. Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law.

(a) This Section may be referred to as the Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. The corporate authorities of any municipality may, by ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling cannabis, other than cannabis purchased under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, at retail in the municipality on the gross receipts from these sales made in the course of that business. If imposed, the tax may not exceed 3% of the gross receipts from these sales and shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. The tax imposed under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this Section. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2a, 2b, 2c, 2i, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

(b) Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with any State tax that sellers are required to collect.

(c) Whenever the Department of Revenue determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department of Revenue shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department of Revenue.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the The Department of Revenue shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Local Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Trust Fund.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

(e) After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount of money to be disbursed from the Local Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Trust Fund to municipalities from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section from sales made in the municipality during the second preceding calendar month, plus an amount the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

(f) An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof that is adopted on or after June 25, 2019 (the effective date of Public Act 101-27) and for which a certified copy is filed with the Department on or before April 1, 2020 shall be administered and enforced by the Department beginning on July 1, 2020. For ordinances filed with the Department after April 1, 2020, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-24)

Sec. 8-11-24. Municipal Grocery Occupation Tax Law.

(a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may, by ordinance or resolution that takes effect on or after January 1, 2026, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling groceries at retail in the municipality on the gross receipts from those sales made in the course of that business. If imposed, the tax shall be at the rate of 1% of the gross receipts from these sales.

The tax imposed by a municipality under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this subsection without registering separately with the Department under that ordinance or resolution or under this subsection.

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section and under rules adopted by the Department; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection.

In the administration of, and compliance with, this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax and other than the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and all of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

(b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), then a service occupation tax must also be imposed at the same rate upon all persons engaged, in the municipality, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer groceries, as defined in this Section, as an incident to a sale of service.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this subsection without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this subsection.

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section and under rules adopted by the Department, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty under this subsection.

In the administration of and compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure as are set forth in Sections 2, 2c, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions contained in those Sections other than (i) the State rate of tax; (ii) the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection; and (iii) the exemption for food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the Service Occupation Tax Act or the Service Use Tax Act by an entity licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act, which is authorized to be taxed as provided in this subsection), 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to any bracketed schedules set forth by the Department.

(c) The Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected under this Section. Those taxes and penalties shall be deposited into the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund, a trust fund created in the State treasury. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, moneys in the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund shall be used to make payments to municipalities and for the payment of refunds under this Section.

Moneys deposited into the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund under this Section are not subject to appropriation and shall be used as provided in this Section. All deposits into the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund shall be held in the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund by the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of this State.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Municipal Grocery Tax Trust Fund.

(d) As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, if any, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, if any, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

(g) When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

(h) As used in this Section, "Department" means the Department of Revenue.

For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (a), "groceries" has the same meaning as "food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption)", as further defined in Section 2-10 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.

For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (b), "groceries" has the same meaning as "food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption)", as further defined in Section 3-10 of the Service Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of the tax authorized to be imposed under subsection (b), "groceries" also means food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the Service Occupation Tax Act or the Service Use Tax Act by an entity licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act.

(i) This Section may be referred to as the Municipal Grocery Occupation Tax Law.

(Source: P.A. 103-781, eff. 8-5-24; 104-6, eff. 1-1-26.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-74.3-6)

Sec. 11-74.3-6. Business district revenue and obligations; business district tax allocation fund.

(a) If the corporate authorities of a municipality have approved a business district plan, have designated a business district, and have elected to impose a tax by ordinance pursuant to subsection (10) or (11) of Section 11-74.3-3, then each year after the date of the approval of the ordinance but terminating upon the date all business district project costs and all obligations paying or reimbursing business district project costs, if any, have been paid, but in no event later than the dissolution date, all amounts generated by the retailers' occupation tax and service occupation tax shall be collected and the tax shall be enforced by the Department of Revenue in the same manner as all retailers' occupation taxes and service occupation taxes imposed in the municipality imposing the tax and all amounts generated by the hotel operators' occupation tax shall be collected and the tax shall be enforced by the municipality in the same manner as all hotel operators' occupation taxes imposed in the municipality imposing the tax. The corporate authorities of the municipality shall deposit the proceeds of the taxes imposed under subsections (10) and (11) of Section 11-74.3-3 into a special fund of the municipality called the "[Name of] Business District Tax Allocation Fund" for the purpose of paying or reimbursing business district project costs and obligations incurred in the payment of those costs.

(b) The corporate authorities of a municipality that has designated a business district under this Law may, by ordinance, impose a Business District Retailers' Occupation Tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than an item of tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the business district at a rate not to exceed 1% of the gross receipts from the sales made in the course of such business, to be imposed only in 0.25% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the rate of 1% under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019 and through December 31, 2020, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the District does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. Beginning January 1, 2021, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this subsection without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this subsection. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of, and compliance with, this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a through 1o, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c through 2h, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under this subsection may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability under this subsection by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State taxes that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this subsection to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the business district retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties, and interest collected under this subsection for deposit into the business district retailers' occupation tax fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this subsection during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities from the business district retailers' occupation tax fund, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this subsection to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected under this subsection during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, less 2% of that amount (except the amount collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019), which shall be deposited into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering and enforcing the provisions of this subsection, on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities provided for in this subsection to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. The proceeds of the tax paid to municipalities under this subsection shall be deposited into the Business District Tax Allocation Fund by the municipality.

An ordinance imposing or discontinuing the tax under this subsection or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department, if all other requirements of this subsection are met, shall proceed to administer and enforce this subsection as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon, if all other requirements of this subsection are met, the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this subsection as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce an ordinance imposing, discontinuing, or changing the rate of the tax under this subsection, until the municipality also provides, in the manner prescribed by the Department, the boundaries of the business district and each address in the business district in such a way that the Department can determine by its address whether a business is located in the business district. The municipality must provide this boundary and address information to the Department on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this subsection by the Department beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this subsection by the Department beginning on the following January 1. The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce any change made to the boundaries of a business district or address change, addition, or deletion until the municipality reports the boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department in the manner prescribed by the Department. The municipality must provide this boundary change information or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of the change beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of the change beginning on the following January 1. The retailers in the business district shall be responsible for charging the tax imposed under this subsection. If a retailer is incorrectly included or excluded from the list of those required to collect the tax under this subsection, both the Department of Revenue and the retailer shall be held harmless if they reasonably relied on information provided by the municipality.

A municipality that imposes the tax under this subsection must submit to the Department of Revenue any other information as the Department may require for the administration and enforcement of the tax.

When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this subsection, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize the municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

If a tax is imposed under this subsection (b), a tax shall also be imposed under subsection (c) of this Section.

(c) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (b), a Business District Service Occupation Tax shall also be imposed upon all persons engaged, in the business district, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within the business district, either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. The tax shall be imposed at the same rate as the tax imposed in subsection (b) and shall not exceed 1% of the selling price of tangible personal property so transferred within the business district, to be imposed only in 0.25% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the District does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. Beginning January 1, 2021, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this subsection without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this subsection. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of, and compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2, 2a through 2d, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the business district), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, and Sections 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this subsection to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the business district retailers' occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties, and interest collected under this subsection for deposit into the business district retailers' occupation tax fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this subsection during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities from the business district retailers' occupation tax fund, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties under this subsection to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected under this subsection during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, less 2% of that amount (except the amount collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019), which shall be deposited into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department in administering and enforcing the provisions of this subsection, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities, provided for in this subsection to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. The proceeds of the tax paid to municipalities under this subsection shall be deposited into the Business District Tax Allocation Fund by the municipality.

An ordinance imposing or discontinuing the tax under this subsection or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department, if all other requirements of this subsection are met, shall proceed to administer and enforce this subsection as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon, if all other conditions of this subsection are met, the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this subsection as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.

The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce an ordinance imposing, discontinuing, or changing the rate of the tax under this subsection, until the municipality also provides, in the manner prescribed by the Department, the boundaries of the business district in such a way that the Department can determine by its address whether a business is located in the business district. The municipality must provide this boundary and address information to the Department on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this subsection by the Department beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement of the tax under this subsection by the Department beginning on the following January 1. The Department of Revenue shall not administer or enforce any change made to the boundaries of a business district or address change, addition, or deletion until the municipality reports the boundary change or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department in the manner prescribed by the Department. The municipality must provide this boundary change information or address change, addition, or deletion to the Department on or before April 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of the change beginning on the following July 1 and on or before October 1 for administration and enforcement by the Department of the change beginning on the following January 1. The retailers in the business district shall be responsible for charging the tax imposed under this subsection. If a retailer is incorrectly included or excluded from the list of those required to collect the tax under this subsection, both the Department of Revenue and the retailer shall be held harmless if they reasonably relied on information provided by the municipality.

A municipality that imposes the tax under this subsection must submit to the Department of Revenue any other information as the Department may require for the administration and enforcement of the tax.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize the municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by the State.

If a tax is imposed under this subsection (c), a tax shall also be imposed under subsection (b) of this Section.

(c-5) If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

(d) By ordinance, a municipality that has designated a business district under this Law may impose an occupation tax upon all persons engaged in the business district in the business of renting, leasing, or letting rooms in a hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, at a rate not to exceed 1% of the gross rental receipts from the renting, leasing, or letting of hotel rooms within the business district, to be imposed only in 0.25% increments, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts the proceeds of renting, leasing, or letting to permanent residents of a hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, and proceeds from the tax imposed under subsection (c) of Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act.

The tax imposed by the municipality under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident to that tax shall be collected and enforced by the municipality imposing the tax. The municipality shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this subsection, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of and compliance with this subsection, the municipality and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, shall be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and shall employ the same modes of procedure as are employed with respect to a tax adopted by the municipality under Section 8-3-14 of this Code.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their tax liability for that tax by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State taxes imposed under the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, and with any other tax.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

The proceeds of the tax imposed under this subsection shall be deposited into the Business District Tax Allocation Fund.

(e) Obligations secured by the Business District Tax Allocation Fund may be issued to provide for the payment or reimbursement of business district project costs. Those obligations, when so issued, shall be retired in the manner provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of those obligations by the receipts of taxes imposed pursuant to subsections (10) and (11) of Section 11-74.3-3 and by other revenue designated or pledged by the municipality. A municipality may in the ordinance pledge, for any period of time up to and including the dissolution date, all or any part of the funds in and to be deposited into in the Business District Tax Allocation Fund to the payment of business district project costs and obligations. Whenever a municipality pledges all of the funds to the credit of a business district tax allocation fund to secure obligations issued or to be issued to pay or reimburse business district project costs, the municipality may specifically provide that funds remaining to the credit of such business district tax allocation fund after the payment of such obligations shall be accounted for annually and shall be deemed to be "surplus" funds, and such "surplus" funds shall be expended by the municipality for any business district project cost as approved in the business district plan. Whenever a municipality pledges less than all of the monies to the credit of a business district tax allocation fund to secure obligations issued or to be issued to pay or reimburse business district project costs, the municipality shall provide that monies to the credit of the business district tax allocation fund and not subject to such pledge or otherwise encumbered or required for payment of contractual obligations for specific business district project costs shall be calculated annually and shall be deemed to be "surplus" funds, and such "surplus" funds shall be expended by the municipality for any business district project cost as approved in the business district plan.

No obligation issued pursuant to this Law and secured by a pledge of all or any portion of any revenues received or to be received by the municipality from the imposition of taxes pursuant to subsection (10) of Section 11-74.3-3, shall be deemed to constitute an economic incentive agreement under Section 8-11-20, notwithstanding the fact that such pledge provides for the sharing, rebate, or payment of retailers' occupation taxes or service occupation taxes imposed pursuant to subsection (10) of Section 11-74.3-3 and received or to be received by the municipality from the development or redevelopment of properties in the business district.

Without limiting the foregoing in this Section, the municipality may further secure obligations secured by the business district tax allocation fund with a pledge, for a period not greater than the term of the obligations and in any case not longer than the dissolution date, of any part or any combination of the following: (i) net revenues of all or part of any business district project; (ii) taxes levied or imposed by the municipality on any or all property in the municipality, including, specifically, taxes levied or imposed by the municipality in a special service area pursuant to the Special Service Area Tax Law; (iii) the full faith and credit of the municipality; (iv) a mortgage on part or all of the business district project; or (v) any other taxes or anticipated receipts that the municipality may lawfully pledge.

Such obligations may be issued in one or more series, bear such date or dates, become due at such time or times as therein provided, but in any case not later than (i) 20 years after the date of issue or (ii) the dissolution date, whichever is earlier, bear interest payable at such intervals and at such rate or rates as set forth therein, except as may be limited by applicable law, which rate or rates may be fixed or variable, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon, registered, or book-entry, carry such conversion, registration and exchange privileges, be subject to defeasance upon such terms, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium or payment at such place or places within or without the State, make provision for a corporate trustee within or without the State with respect to such obligations, prescribe the rights, powers, and duties thereof to be exercised for the benefit of the municipality and the benefit of the owners of such obligations, provide for the holding in trust, investment, and use of moneys, funds, and accounts held under an ordinance, provide for assignment of and direct payment of the moneys to pay such obligations or to be deposited into such funds or accounts directly to such trustee, be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium, and be sold at such price, all as the corporate authorities shall determine. No referendum approval of the electors shall be required as a condition to the issuance of obligations pursuant to this Law except as provided in this Section.

In the event the municipality authorizes the issuance of obligations pursuant to the authority of this Law secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality, or pledges ad valorem taxes pursuant to this subsection, which obligations are other than obligations which may be issued under home rule powers provided by Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution or which ad valorem taxes are other than ad valorem taxes which may be pledged under home rule powers provided by Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution or which are levied in a special service area pursuant to the Special Service Area Tax Law, the ordinance authorizing the issuance of those obligations or pledging those taxes shall be published within 10 days after the ordinance has been adopted, in a newspaper having a general circulation within the municipality. The publication of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (i) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of the issuance of the obligations or pledging such ad valorem taxes to be submitted to the electors; (ii) the time within which the petition must be filed; and (iii) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.

If no petition is filed with the municipal clerk, as hereinafter provided in this Section, within 21 days after the publication of the ordinance, the ordinance shall be in effect. However, if within that 21-day period a petition is filed with the municipal clerk, signed by electors numbering not less than 15% of the number of electors voting for the mayor or president at the last general municipal election, asking that the question of issuing obligations using full faith and credit of the municipality as security for the cost of paying or reimbursing business district project costs, or of pledging such ad valorem taxes for the payment of those obligations, or both, be submitted to the electors of the municipality, the municipality shall not be authorized to issue obligations of the municipality using the full faith and credit of the municipality as security or pledging such ad valorem taxes for the payment of those obligations, or both, until the proposition has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition at a regularly scheduled election. The municipality shall certify the proposition to the proper election authorities for submission in accordance with the general election law.

The ordinance authorizing the obligations may provide that the obligations shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this Law, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.

In the event the municipality authorizes issuance of obligations pursuant to this Law secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality, the ordinance authorizing the obligations may provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all taxable property within the municipality sufficient to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon as it matures, which levy may be in addition to and exclusive of the maximum of all other taxes authorized to be levied by the municipality, which levy, however, shall be abated to the extent that monies from other sources are available for payment of the obligations and the municipality certifies the amount of those monies available to the county clerk.

A certified copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of each county in which any portion of the municipality is situated, and shall constitute the authority for the extension and collection of the taxes to be deposited into in the business district tax allocation fund.

A municipality may also issue its obligations to refund, in whole or in part, obligations theretofore issued by the municipality under the authority of this Law, whether at or prior to maturity. However, the last maturity of the refunding obligations shall not be expressed to mature later than the dissolution date.

In the event a municipality issues obligations under home rule powers or other legislative authority, the proceeds of which are pledged to pay or reimburse business district project costs, the municipality may, if it has followed the procedures in conformance with this Law, retire those obligations from funds in the business district tax allocation fund in amounts and in such manner as if those obligations had been issued pursuant to the provisions of this Law.

No obligations issued pursuant to this Law shall be regarded as indebtedness of the municipality issuing those obligations or any other taxing district for the purpose of any limitation imposed by law.

Obligations issued pursuant to this Law shall not be subject to the provisions of the Bond Authorization Act.

(f) When business district project costs, including, without limitation, all obligations paying or reimbursing business district project costs have been paid, any surplus funds then remaining in the Business District Tax Allocation Fund shall be distributed to the municipal treasurer for deposit into the general corporate fund of the municipality. Upon payment of all business district project costs and retirement of all obligations paying or reimbursing business district project costs, but in no event more than 23 years after the date of adoption of the ordinance imposing taxes pursuant to subsection (10) or (11) of Section 11-74.3-3, the municipality shall adopt an ordinance immediately rescinding the taxes imposed pursuant to subsection (10) or (11) of Section 11-74.3-3.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

(70 ILCS 925/Act rep.)

Section 10-43. The Mid-Illinois Medical District Act is repealed.

Section 10-45. The Metro-East Park and Recreation District Act is amended by changing Section 30 as follows:

(70 ILCS 1605/30)

Sec. 30. Taxes.

(a) The board shall impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the District on the gross receipts from the sales made in the course of business. This tax shall be imposed only at the rate of one-tenth of one per cent.

This additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019 and through December 31, 2020, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the District does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel shall be excluded from tax. The board must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. Beginning January 1, 2021, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District. The tax imposed by the Board under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable without registering separately with the Department under an ordinance or resolution under this Section. The Department has full power to administer and enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this Section, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty under this Section. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2, 2-5, 2-5.5, 2-10 (in respect to all provisions contained in those Sections other than the State rate of tax), 2-12, 2-15 through 2-70, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3 (except provisions relating to transaction returns and quarter monthly payments, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their sellers' tax liability by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracketed schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the State Metro-East Park and Recreation District Fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

(b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), a service occupation tax shall also be imposed at the same rate upon all persons engaged, in the District, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within the District as an incident to a sale of service. This tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act (or at the 0% rate imposed under this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly). Beginning December 1, 2019 and through December 31, 2020, this tax may not be imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If the District does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel shall be excluded from tax. The board must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. Beginning January 1, 2021, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District. The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The Department has full power to administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this paragraph shall (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2 (except that the reference to State in the definition of supplier maintaining a place of business in this State shall mean the District), 2a, 2b, 2c, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the District), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the District), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the District), Sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this subsection to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the State Metro-East Park and Recreation District Fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize the board to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by the State.

(b-5) If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under this Section, or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under this Section, then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected under this Section to be deposited into the State Metro-East Park and Recreation District Fund, which shall be an unappropriated trust fund held outside of the State treasury. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019 and through December 31, 2020, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district. The Department shall make this certification only if the Metro East Park and Recreation District imposes a tax on real property as provided in the definition of "local sales taxes" under the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning June 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district. The Department shall make this certification only if the Metro East Park and Recreation District imposes a tax on real property as provided in the definition of "local sales taxes" under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money pursuant to Section 35 of this Act to the District from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to the District shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019 and through December 31, 2020) collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including (i) an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the District, (ii) any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the District, (iii) any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, and (iv) 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the District, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this subsection. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the District and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with directions contained in the certification.

(d) For the purpose of determining whether a tax authorized under this Section is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or another mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or another mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize the board to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business that under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(f) An ordinance imposing a tax under this Section or an ordinance extending the imposition of a tax to an additional county or counties shall be certified by the board and filed with the Department of Revenue either (i) on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of July next following the filing; or (ii) on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of January next following the filing.

(g) When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to the District under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amounts by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.

(Source: P.A. 102-700, eff. 4-19-22; 103-592, eff. 1-1-25.)

Section 10-50. The Local Mass Transit District Act is amended by changing Section 5.01 as follows:

(70 ILCS 3610/5.01) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 355.01)

Sec. 5.01. Metro East Mass Transit District; use and occupation taxes.

(a) The Board of Trustees of any Metro East Mass Transit District may, by ordinance adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of the then trustees, impose throughout the District any or all of the taxes and fees provided in this Section. Except as otherwise provided, all taxes and fees imposed under this Section shall be used only for public mass transportation systems, and the amount used to provide mass transit service to unserved areas of the District shall be in the same proportion to the total proceeds as the number of persons residing in the unserved areas is to the total population of the District. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, taxes imposed under this Section and civil penalties imposed incident thereto shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The Department shall have the power to administer and enforce the taxes and to determine all rights for refunds for erroneous payments of the taxes.

(b) The Board may impose a Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail in the district at a rate of 1/4 of 1%, or as authorized under subsection (d-5) of this Section, of the gross receipts from the sales made in the course of such business within the district, including sales of food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), except that the rate of tax imposed under this Section on sales of aviation fuel on or after December 1, 2019 shall be 0.25% in Madison County unless the Metro-East Mass Transit District in Madison County has an "airport-related purpose" and any additional amount authorized under subsection (d-5) is expended for airport-related purposes. If there is no airport-related purpose to which aviation fuel tax revenue is dedicated, then aviation fuel is excluded from any additional amount authorized under subsection (d-5). The rate in St. Clair County shall be 0.25% unless the Metro-East Mass Transit District in St. Clair County has an "airport-related purpose" and the additional 0.50% of the 0.75% tax on aviation fuel imposed in that County is expended for airport-related purposes. If there is no airport-related purpose to which aviation fuel tax revenue is dedicated, then aviation fuel is excluded from the additional 0.50% of the 0.75% tax.

The Board must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

The tax imposed under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax and other than the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is taxed at the rate as provided in this subsection), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State taxes that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Metro East Mass Transit District tax fund established under paragraph (h) of this Section or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

If a tax is imposed under this subsection (b), a tax shall also be imposed under subsections (c) and (d) of this Section.

For the purpose of determining whether a tax authorized under this Section is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.

No tax shall be imposed or collected under this subsection on the sale of a motor vehicle in this State to a resident of another state if that motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.

Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize the Metro East Mass Transit District to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.

(c) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (b), a Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax shall also be imposed upon all persons engaged, in the district, in the business of making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within the District, either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. The tax rate shall be (1) 1/4%, or as authorized under subsection (d-5) of this Section, of the selling price of tangible personal property so transferred within the district, including food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption); and (2) 1/4%, or as authorized under subsection (d-5) of this Section, of the serviceman's cost price of food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the service occupation tax by an entity that is licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, the ID/DD Community Care Act, or the MC/DD Act, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act. However, the rate of tax imposed in these Counties under this Section on sales of aviation fuel on or after December 1, 2019 shall be 0.25% in Madison County unless the Metro-East Mass Transit District in Madison County has an "airport-related purpose" and any additional amount authorized under subsection (d-5) is expended for airport-related purposes. If there is no airport-related purpose to which aviation fuel tax revenue is dedicated, then aviation fuel is excluded from any additional amount authorized under subsection (d-5). The rate in St. Clair County shall be 0.25% unless the Metro-East Mass Transit District in St. Clair County has an "airport-related purpose" and the additional 0.50% of the 0.75% tax on aviation fuel is expended for airport-related purposes. If there is no airport-related purpose to which aviation fuel tax revenue is dedicated, then aviation fuel is excluded from the additional 0.50% of the 0.75% tax.

The Board must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

The tax imposed under this paragraph and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this paragraph; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with this paragraph, the Department and persons who are subject to this paragraph shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2 (except that the reference to State in the definition of supplier maintaining a place of business in this State shall mean the Authority), 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than (i) the State rate of tax; (ii) the exemption for food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, food consisting of or infused with adult use cannabis, soft drinks, candy, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption), which is taxed at the rate as provided in this subsection; and (iii) the exemption for food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service subject to the service occupation tax by an entity that is licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, the ID/DD Community Care Act, or the MC/DD Act, or the Child Care Act of 1969, or an entity that holds a permit issued pursuant to the Life Care Facilities Act, which is taxed at the rate as provided in this subsection), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the Authority), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the District), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the District), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this paragraph may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this paragraph to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Metro East Mass Transit District tax fund established under paragraph (h) of this Section or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.

Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the District to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by the State.

(d) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (b), a Metro East Mass Transit District Use Tax shall also be imposed upon the privilege of using, in the district, any item of tangible personal property that is purchased outside the district at retail from a retailer, and that is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at a rate of 1/4%, or as authorized under subsection (d-5) of this Section, of the selling price of the tangible personal property within the District, as "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act. The tax shall be collected from persons whose Illinois address for titling or registration purposes is given as being in the District. The tax shall be collected by the Department of Revenue for the Metro East Mass Transit District. The tax must be paid to the State, or an exemption determination must be obtained from the Department of Revenue, before the title or certificate of registration for the property may be issued. The tax or proof of exemption may be transmitted to the Department by way of the State agency with which, or the State officer with whom, the tangible personal property must be titled or registered if the Department and the State agency or State officer determine that this procedure will expedite the processing of applications for title or registration.

The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this paragraph; to collect all taxes, penalties and interest due hereunder; to dispose of taxes, penalties and interest so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda or refunds arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax, penalty or interest hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this paragraph, the Department and persons who are subject to this paragraph shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions and definitions of terms and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 2 (except the definition of "retailer maintaining a place of business in this State"), 3 through 3-80 (except provisions pertaining to the State rate of tax, and except provisions concerning collection or refunding of the tax by retailers), 4, 11, 12, 12a, 14, 15, 19 (except the portions pertaining to claims by retailers and except the last paragraph concerning refunds), 20, 21 and 22 of the Use Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, that are not inconsistent with this paragraph, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.

Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this paragraph to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Metro East Mass Transit District tax fund established under paragraph (h) of this Section.

(d-1) If, on January 1, 2025, a unit of local government has in effect a tax under subsections (b), (c), and (d) or if, after January 1, 2025, a unit of local government imposes a tax under subsections (b), (c), and (d), then that tax applies to leases of tangible personal property in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after that date in the same manner as the tax under this Section and in accordance with the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

(d-5) (A) The county board of any county participating in the Metro East Mass Transit District may authorize, by ordinance, a referendum on the question of whether the tax rates for the Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax, the Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax, and the Metro East Mass Transit District Use Tax for the District should be increased from 0.25% to 0.75%. Upon adopting the ordinance, the county board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition to the voters of the District at the next election, in accordance with the general election law.

The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:

Shall the tax rates for the Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax, the Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax, and the Metro East Mass Transit District Use Tax be increased from 0.25% to 0.75%?

(B) Two thousand five hundred electors of any Metro East Mass Transit District may petition the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court, or any judge of that Circuit designated by the Chief Judge, in which that District is located to cause to be submitted to a vote of the electors the question whether the tax rates for the Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax, the Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax, and the Metro East Mass Transit District Use Tax for the District should be increased from 0.25% to 0.75%.

Upon submission of such petition the court shall set a date not less than 10 nor more than 30 days thereafter for a hearing on the sufficiency thereof. Notice of the filing of such petition and of such date shall be given in writing to the District and the County Clerk at least 7 days before the date of such hearing.

If such petition is found sufficient, the court shall enter an order to submit that proposition at the next election, in accordance with general election law.

The form of the petition shall be in substantially the following form: To the Circuit Court of the County of (name of county):

We, the undersigned electors of the (name of transit district), respectfully petition your honor to submit to a vote of the electors of (name of transit district) the following proposition:

Shall the tax rates for the Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax, the Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax, and the Metro East Mass Transit District Use Tax be increased from 0.25% to 0.75%?

Name Address, with Street and Number.

(C) The votes shall be recorded as "YES" or "NO". If a majority of all votes cast on the proposition are for the increase in the tax rates, the Metro East Mass Transit District shall begin imposing the increased rates in the District, and the Department of Revenue shall begin collecting the increased amounts, as provided under this Section. An ordinance imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing, or on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing.

(D) If the voters have approved a referendum under this subsection, before November 1, 1994, to increase the tax rate under this subsection, the Metro East Mass Transit District Board of Trustees may adopt by a majority vote an ordinance at any time before January 1, 1995 that excludes from the rate increase tangible personal property that is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government. The ordinance excluding titled or registered tangible personal property from the rate increase must be filed with the Department at least 15 days before its effective date. At any time after adopting an ordinance excluding from the rate increase tangible personal property that is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, the Metro East Mass Transit District Board of Trustees may adopt an ordinance applying the rate increase to that tangible personal property. The ordinance shall be adopted, and a certified copy of that ordinance shall be filed with the Department, on or before October 1, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce the rate increase against tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government as of the following January 1. After December 31, 1995, any reimposed rate increase in effect under this subsection shall no longer apply to tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government. Beginning January 1, 1996, the Board of Trustees of any Metro East Mass Transit District may never reimpose a previously excluded tax rate increase on tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government. After July 1, 2004, if the voters have approved a referendum under this subsection to increase the tax rate under this subsection, the Metro East Mass Transit District Board of Trustees may adopt by a majority vote an ordinance that excludes from the rate increase tangible personal property that is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government. The ordinance excluding titled or registered tangible personal property from the rate increase shall be adopted, and a certified copy of that ordinance shall be filed with the Department on or before October 1, whereupon the Department shall administer and enforce this exclusion from the rate increase as of the following January 1, or on or before April 1, whereupon the Department shall administer and enforce this exclusion from the rate increase as of the following July 1. The Board of Trustees of any Metro East Mass Transit District may never reimpose a previously excluded tax rate increase on tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government.

(d-6) If the Board of Trustees of any Metro East Mass Transit District has imposed a rate increase under subsection (d-5) and filed an ordinance with the Department of Revenue excluding titled property from the higher rate, then that Board may, by ordinance adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of the then trustees, impose throughout the District a fee. The fee on the excluded property shall not exceed $20 per retail transaction or an amount equal to the amount of tax excluded, whichever is less, on tangible personal property that is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government. Beginning July 1, 2004, the fee shall apply only to titled property that is subject to either the Metro East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax or the Metro East Mass Transit District Service Occupation Tax. No fee shall be imposed or collected under this subsection on the sale of a motor vehicle in this State to a resident of another state if that motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.

(d-7) Until June 30, 2004, if a fee has been imposed under subsection (d-6), a fee shall also be imposed upon the privilege of using, in the district, any item of tangible personal property that is titled or registered with any agency of this State's government, in an amount equal to the amount of the fee imposed under subsection (d-6).

(d-7.1) Beginning July 1, 2004, any fee imposed by the Board of Trustees of any Metro East Mass Transit District under subsection (d-6) and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the fees shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. Reference to "taxes" in this Section shall be construed to apply to the administration, payment, and remittance of all fees under this Section. For purposes of any fee imposed under subsection (d-6), 4% of the fee, penalty, and interest received by the Department in the first 12 months that the fee is collected and enforced by the Department and 2% of the fee, penalty, and interest following the first 12 months (except the amount collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) shall be deposited into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department. No retailers' discount shall apply to any fee imposed under subsection (d-6).

(d-8) No item of titled property shall be subject to both the higher rate approved by referendum, as authorized under subsection (d-5), and any fee imposed under subsection (d-6) or (d-7).

(d-9) (Blank).

(d-10) (Blank).

(e) A certificate of registration issued by the State Department of Revenue to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxed under the tax imposed under paragraphs (b), (c) or (d) of this Section and no additional registration shall be required under the tax. A certificate issued under the Use Tax Act or the Service Use Tax Act shall be applicable with regard to any tax imposed under paragraph (c) of this Section.

(f) (Blank).

(g) Any ordinance imposing or discontinuing any tax under this Section shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before June 1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of the Metro East Mass Transit District as of September 1 next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, except as provided in subsection (d-5) of this Section, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing, or, beginning January 1, 2004, on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing.

(h) Except as provided in subsection (d-7.1), the State Department of Revenue shall, upon collecting any taxes as provided in this Section, pay the taxes over to the State Treasurer as trustee for the District. The taxes shall be held in a trust fund outside the State treasury. If an airport-related purpose has been certified, taxes and penalties collected in St. Clair County on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019 from the 0.50% of the 0.75% rate shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the District.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district. The Department shall make this certification only if the local mass transit district imposes a tax on real property as provided in the definition of "local sales taxes" under the Innovation Development and Economy Act.

As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning July 1, 2026, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district. The Department shall make this certification only if the local mass transit district imposes a tax on real property as provided in the definition of "local sales taxes" under the Statewide Innovation Development and Economy Act.

After the monthly transfers transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the State Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller of the State of Illinois the amount to be paid to the District, which shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019 that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund) collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including any amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the District, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the District, and less any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the District, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this subsection. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the certification of the amount to be paid to the District and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund, the Comptroller shall cause an order to be drawn for payment for the amount in accordance with the direction in the certification.

(Source: P.A. 103-592, eff. 1-1-25; 104-6, eff. 1-1-26.)

Section 10-55. The Eminent Domain Act is amended by changing Section 15-5-15 as follows:

(735 ILCS 30/15-5-15)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 15-5-15. Eminent domain powers in ILCS Chapters 70 through 75. The following provisions of law may include express grants of the power to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain:

(70 ILCS 5/8.02 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for public airport facilities. (70 ILCS 5/8.05 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 5/8.06 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 10/4); Interstate Airport Authorities Act; interstate airport authorities; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 15/3); Kankakee River Valley Area Airport Authority Act; Kankakee River Valley Area Airport Authority; for acquisition of land for airports. (70 ILCS 200/2-20); Civic Center Code; civic center authorities; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/5-35); Civic Center Code; Aledo Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/10-15); Civic Center Code; Aurora Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/15-40); Civic Center Code; Benton Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/20-15); Civic Center Code; Bloomington Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/35-35); Civic Center Code; Brownstown Park District Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/40-35); Civic Center Code; Carbondale Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/55-60); Civic Center Code; Chicago South Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/60-30); Civic Center Code; Collinsville Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/70-35); Civic Center Code; Crystal Lake Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/75-20); Civic Center Code; Decatur Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/80-15); Civic Center Code; DuPage County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/85-35); Civic Center Code; Elgin Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/95-25); Civic Center Code; Herrin Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/110-35); Civic Center Code; Illinois Valley Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/115-35); Civic Center Code; Jasper County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/120-25); Civic Center Code; Jefferson County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/125-15); Civic Center Code; Jo Daviess County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/130-30); Civic Center Code; Katherine Dunham Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/145-35); Civic Center Code; Marengo Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/150-35); Civic Center Code; Mason County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/155-15); Civic Center Code; Matteson Metropolitan Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/160-35); Civic Center Code; Maywood Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/165-35); Civic Center Code; Melrose Park Metropolitan Exposition Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/170-20); Civic Center Code; certain Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authorities; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 200/180-35); Civic Center Code; Normal Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/185-15); Civic Center Code; Oak Park Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/195-35); Civic Center Code; Ottawa Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/200-15); Civic Center Code; Pekin Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/205-15); Civic Center Code; Peoria Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/210-35); Civic Center Code; Pontiac Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/215-15); Civic Center Code; Illinois Quad City Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/220-30); Civic Center Code; Quincy Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/225-35); Civic Center Code; Randolph County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/230-35); Civic Center Code; River Forest Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/235-40); Civic Center Code; Riverside Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/245-35); Civic Center Code; Salem Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/255-20); Civic Center Code; Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority; for grounds, centers, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/260-35); Civic Center Code; Sterling Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/265-20); Civic Center Code; Vermilion County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/270-35); Civic Center Code; Waukegan Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/275-35); Civic Center Code; West Frankfort Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/280-20); Civic Center Code; Will County Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority; for grounds, centers, and parking. (70 ILCS 210/5); Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act; Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; for general purposes, including quick-take power. (70 ILCS 405/22.04); Soil and Water Conservation Districts Act; soil and water conservation districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 410/10 and 410/12); Conservation District Act; conservation districts; for open space, wildland, scenic roadway, pathway, outdoor recreation, or other conservation benefits. (70 ILCS 503/25); Chanute-Rantoul National Aviation Center Redevelopment Commission Act; Chanute-Rantoul National Aviation Center Redevelopment Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 507/15); Fort Sheridan Redevelopment Commission Act; Fort Sheridan Redevelopment Commission; for general purposes or to carry out comprehensive or redevelopment plans. (70 ILCS 520/8); Southwestern Illinois Development Authority Act; Southwestern Illinois Development Authority; for general purposes, including quick-take power. (70 ILCS 605/4-17 and 605/5-7); Illinois Drainage Code; drainage districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 615/5 and 615/6); Chicago Drainage District Act; corporate authorities; for construction and maintenance of works. (70 ILCS 705/10); Fire Protection District Act; fire protection districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 750/20); Flood Prevention District Act; flood prevention districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 805/6); Downstate Forest Preserve District Act; certain forest preserve districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 805/18.8); Downstate Forest Preserve District Act; certain forest preserve districts; for recreational and cultural facilities. (70 ILCS 810/8); Cook County Forest Preserve District Act; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 810/38); Cook County Forest Preserve District Act; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; for recreational facilities. (70 ILCS 910/15 and 910/16); Hospital District Law; hospital districts; for hospitals or hospital facilities. (70 ILCS 915/3); Illinois Medical District Act; Illinois Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 915/4.5); Illinois Medical District Act; Illinois Medical District Commission; quick-take power for the Illinois State Police Forensic Science Laboratory (obsolete). (70 ILCS 920/5); Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act; tuberculosis sanitarium districts; for tuberculosis sanitariums.

Capital City Downtown Medical District Act; Capital City Downtown Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 925/20); Mid-Illinois Medical District Act; Mid-Illinois Medical District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 930/20); Mid-America Medical District Act; Mid-America Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 935/20); Roseland Community Medical District Act; medical district; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1005/7); Mosquito Abatement District Act; mosquito abatement districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1105/8); Museum District Act; museum districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1205/7-1); Park District Code; park districts; for streets and other purposes. (70 ILCS 1205/8-1); Park District Code; park districts; for parks. (70 ILCS 1205/9-2 and 1205/9-4); Park District Code; park districts; for airports and landing fields. (70 ILCS 1205/11-2 and 1205/11-3); Park District Code; park districts; for State land abutting public water and certain access rights. (70 ILCS 1205/11.1-3); Park District Code; park districts; for harbors. (70 ILCS 1225/2); Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act; park districts; for street widening. (70 ILCS 1230/1 and 1230/1-a); Park Commissioners Water Control Act; park districts; for parks, boulevards, driveways, parkways, viaducts, bridges, or tunnels. (70 ILCS 1250/2); Park Commissioners Street Control (1889) Act; park districts; for boulevards or driveways. (70 ILCS 1290/1); Park District Aquarium and Museum Act; municipalities or park districts; for aquariums or museums. (70 ILCS 1305/2); Park District Airport Zoning Act; park districts; for restriction of the height of structures. (70 ILCS 1310/5); Park District Elevated Highway Act; park districts; for elevated highways. (70 ILCS 1505/15); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for parks and other purposes. (70 ILCS 1505/25.1); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for parking lots or garages. (70 ILCS 1505/26.3); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for harbors. (70 ILCS 1570/5); Lincoln Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act; Lincoln Park Commissioners; for land and interests in land, including riparian rights. (70 ILCS 1801/30); Alexander-Cairo Port District Act; Alexander-Cairo Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1805/8); Havana Regional Port District Act; Havana Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1810/7); Illinois International Port District Act; Illinois International Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1815/13); Illinois Valley Regional Port District Act; Illinois Valley Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1820/4); Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District Act; Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards or reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1820/5); Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District Act; Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1825/4.9); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1825/4.10); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1825/4.18); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for removal of hazards from ports and terminals. (70 ILCS 1825/5); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1830/7.1); Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act; Kaskaskia Regional Port District; for removal of hazards from ports and terminals. (70 ILCS 1830/14); Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act; Kaskaskia Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1831/30); Massac-Metropolis Port District Act; Massac-Metropolis Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1835/5.10); Mt. Carmel Regional Port District Act; Mt. Carmel Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1837/30); Ottawa Port District Act; Ottawa Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1842/30 and 1842/35); Rock Island Regional Port District Act; Rock Island Regional Port District and participating municipalities; for general Port District purposes. (70 ILCS 1845/4.9); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1845/4.10); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1845/5); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1850/4); Shawneetown Regional Port District Act; Shawneetown Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards or reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1850/5); Shawneetown Regional Port District Act; Shawneetown Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1860/4); Tri-City Regional Port District Act; Tri-City Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1860/5); Tri-City Regional Port District Act; Tri-City Regional Port District; for the development of facilities. (70 ILCS 1863/11); Upper Mississippi River International Port District Act; Upper Mississippi River International Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1865/4.9); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1865/4.10); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for restricting the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1865/5); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for the development of facilities. (70 ILCS 1905/16); Railroad Terminal Authority Act; Railroad Terminal Authority (Chicago); for general purposes. (70 ILCS 2105/9b); River Conservancy Districts Act; river conservancy districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 2105/10a); River Conservancy Districts Act; river conservancy districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2205/15); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2205/18); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for improvements and works. (70 ILCS 2205/19); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for access to property. (70 ILCS 2305/8); North Shore Water Reclamation District Act; North Shore Water Reclamation District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2305/15); North Shore Water Reclamation District Act; North Shore Water Reclamation District; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2405/7.9); Sanitary District Act of 1917; Sanitary District of Decatur; for carrying out agreements to sell, convey, or disburse treated wastewater to a private entity. (70 ILCS 2405/8); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2405/15); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2405/16.9 and 2405/16.10); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 2405/17.2); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for public sewer and water utility treatment works. (70 ILCS 2405/18); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for dams or other structures to regulate water flow. (70 ILCS 2605/8); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2605/16); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; quick-take power for improvements. (70 ILCS 2605/17); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for bridges. (70 ILCS 2605/35); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for widening and deepening a navigable stream. (70 ILCS 2805/10); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2805/24); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2805/26i and 2805/26j); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for drainage systems. (70 ILCS 2805/27); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for dams or other structures to regulate water flow. (70 ILCS 2805/32k); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for water supply. (70 ILCS 2805/32l); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 2905/2-7); Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974; Metro-East Sanitary District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2905/2-8); Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974; Metro-East Sanitary District; for access to property. (70 ILCS 3010/10); Sanitary District Revenue Bond Act; sanitary districts; for sewerage systems. (70 ILCS 3205/12); Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act; Illinois Sports Facilities Authority; quick-take power for its corporate purposes (obsolete). (70 ILCS 3405/16); Surface Water Protection District Act; surface water protection districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 3605/7); Metropolitan Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for transportation systems. (70 ILCS 3605/8); Metropolitan Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3605/10); Metropolitan Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for general purposes, including railroad property. (70 ILCS 3610/3 and 3610/5); Local Mass Transit District Act; local mass transit districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3615/2.13); Regional Transportation Authority Act; Regional Transportation Authority; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3705/8 and 3705/12); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 3705/23a); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for sewerage properties. (70 ILCS 3705/23e); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for combined waterworks and sewerage systems. (70 ILCS 3715/6); Water Authorities Act; water authorities; for facilities to ensure adequate water supply. (70 ILCS 3715/27); Water Authorities Act; water authorities; for access to property. (75 ILCS 5/4-7); Illinois Local Library Act; boards of library trustees; for library buildings. (75 ILCS 16/30-55.80); Public Library District Act of 1991; public library districts; for general purposes. (75 ILCS 65/1 and 65/3); Libraries in Parks Act; corporate authorities of city or park district, or board of park commissioners; for free public library buildings.

(Source: 104-435, eff. 11-21-25; 104-454, eff. 12-12-25; revised 1-8-26.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-457)

Sec. 15-5-15. Eminent domain powers in ILCS Chapters 70 through 75. The following provisions of law may include express grants of the power to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain:

(70 ILCS 5/8.02 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for public airport facilities. (70 ILCS 5/8.05 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 5/8.06 and 5/9); Airport Authorities Act; airport authorities; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 10/4); Interstate Airport Authorities Act; interstate airport authorities; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 15/3); Kankakee River Valley Area Airport Authority Act; Kankakee River Valley Area Airport Authority; for acquisition of land for airports. (70 ILCS 200/2-20); Civic Center Code; civic center authorities; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/5-35); Civic Center Code; Aledo Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/10-15); Civic Center Code; Aurora Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/15-40); Civic Center Code; Benton Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/20-15); Civic Center Code; Bloomington Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/35-35); Civic Center Code; Brownstown Park District Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/40-35); Civic Center Code; Carbondale Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/55-60); Civic Center Code; Chicago South Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/60-30); Civic Center Code; Collinsville Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/70-35); Civic Center Code; Crystal Lake Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/75-20); Civic Center Code; Decatur Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/80-15); Civic Center Code; DuPage County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/85-35); Civic Center Code; Elgin Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/95-25); Civic Center Code; Herrin Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/110-35); Civic Center Code; Illinois Valley Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/115-35); Civic Center Code; Jasper County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/120-25); Civic Center Code; Jefferson County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/125-15); Civic Center Code; Jo Daviess County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/130-30); Civic Center Code; Katherine Dunham Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/145-35); Civic Center Code; Marengo Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/150-35); Civic Center Code; Mason County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/155-15); Civic Center Code; Matteson Metropolitan Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/160-35); Civic Center Code; Maywood Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/165-35); Civic Center Code; Melrose Park Metropolitan Exposition Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/170-20); Civic Center Code; certain Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authorities; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 200/180-35); Civic Center Code; Normal Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/185-15); Civic Center Code; Oak Park Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/195-35); Civic Center Code; Ottawa Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/200-15); Civic Center Code; Pekin Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/205-15); Civic Center Code; Peoria Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/210-35); Civic Center Code; Pontiac Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/215-15); Civic Center Code; Illinois Quad City Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/220-30); Civic Center Code; Quincy Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/225-35); Civic Center Code; Randolph County Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/230-35); Civic Center Code; River Forest Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/235-40); Civic Center Code; Riverside Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/245-35); Civic Center Code; Salem Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/255-20); Civic Center Code; Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority; for grounds, centers, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/260-35); Civic Center Code; Sterling Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/265-20); Civic Center Code; Vermilion County Metropolitan Exposition, Auditorium and Office Building Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/270-35); Civic Center Code; Waukegan Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/275-35); Civic Center Code; West Frankfort Civic Center Authority; for grounds, centers, buildings, and parking. (70 ILCS 200/280-20); Civic Center Code; Will County Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority; for grounds, centers, and parking. (70 ILCS 210/5); Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act; Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; for general purposes, including quick-take power. (70 ILCS 405/22.04); Soil and Water Conservation Districts Act; soil and water conservation districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 410/10 and 410/12); Conservation District Act; conservation districts; for open space, wildland, scenic roadway, pathway, outdoor recreation, or other conservation benefits. (70 ILCS 503/25); Chanute-Rantoul National Aviation Center Redevelopment Commission Act; Chanute-Rantoul National Aviation Center Redevelopment Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 507/15); Fort Sheridan Redevelopment Commission Act; Fort Sheridan Redevelopment Commission; for general purposes or to carry out comprehensive or redevelopment plans. (70 ILCS 520/8); Southwestern Illinois Development Authority Act; Southwestern Illinois Development Authority; for general purposes, including quick-take power. (70 ILCS 605/4-17 and 605/5-7); Illinois Drainage Code; drainage districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 615/5 and 615/6); Chicago Drainage District Act; corporate authorities; for construction and maintenance of works. (70 ILCS 705/10); Fire Protection District Act; fire protection districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 750/20); Flood Prevention District Act; flood prevention districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 805/6); Downstate Forest Preserve District Act; certain forest preserve districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 805/18.8); Downstate Forest Preserve District Act; certain forest preserve districts; for recreational and cultural facilities. (70 ILCS 810/8); Cook County Forest Preserve District Act; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 810/38); Cook County Forest Preserve District Act; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; for recreational facilities. (70 ILCS 910/15 and 910/16); Hospital District Law; hospital districts; for hospitals or hospital facilities. (70 ILCS 915/3); Illinois Medical District Act; Illinois Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 915/4.5); Illinois Medical District Act; Illinois Medical District Commission; quick-take power for the Illinois State Police Forensic Science Laboratory (obsolete). (70 ILCS 920/5); Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act; tuberculosis sanitarium districts; for tuberculosis sanitariums.

Capital City Downtown Medical District Act; Capital City Downtown Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 925/20); Mid-Illinois Medical District Act; Mid-Illinois Medical District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 930/20); Mid-America Medical District Act; Mid-America Medical District Commission; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 935/20); Roseland Community Medical District Act; medical district; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1005/7); Mosquito Abatement District Act; mosquito abatement districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1105/8); Museum District Act; museum districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1205/7-1); Park District Code; park districts; for streets and other purposes. (70 ILCS 1205/8-1); Park District Code; park districts; for parks. (70 ILCS 1205/9-2 and 1205/9-4); Park District Code; park districts; for airports and landing fields. (70 ILCS 1205/11-2 and 1205/11-3); Park District Code; park districts; for State land abutting public water and certain access rights. (70 ILCS 1205/11.1-3); Park District Code; park districts; for harbors. (70 ILCS 1225/2); Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act; park districts; for street widening. (70 ILCS 1230/1 and 1230/1-a); Park Commissioners Water Control Act; park districts; for parks, boulevards, driveways, parkways, viaducts, bridges, or tunnels. (70 ILCS 1250/2); Park Commissioners Street Control (1889) Act; park districts; for boulevards or driveways. (70 ILCS 1290/1); Park District Aquarium and Museum Act; municipalities or park districts; for aquariums or museums. (70 ILCS 1305/2); Park District Airport Zoning Act; park districts; for restriction of the height of structures. (70 ILCS 1310/5); Park District Elevated Highway Act; park districts; for elevated highways. (70 ILCS 1505/15); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for parks and other purposes. (70 ILCS 1505/25.1); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for parking lots or garages. (70 ILCS 1505/26.3); Chicago Park District Act; Chicago Park District; for harbors. (70 ILCS 1570/5); Lincoln Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act; Lincoln Park Commissioners; for land and interests in land, including riparian rights. (70 ILCS 1801/30); Alexander-Cairo Port District Act; Alexander-Cairo Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1805/8); Havana Regional Port District Act; Havana Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1810/7); Illinois International Port District Act; Illinois International Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1815/13); Illinois Valley Regional Port District Act; Illinois Valley Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1820/4); Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District Act; Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards or reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1820/5); Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District Act; Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1825/4.9); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1825/4.10); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1825/4.18); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for removal of hazards from ports and terminals. (70 ILCS 1825/5); Joliet Regional Port District Act; Joliet Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1830/7.1); Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act; Kaskaskia Regional Port District; for removal of hazards from ports and terminals. (70 ILCS 1830/14); Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act; Kaskaskia Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1831/30); Massac-Metropolis Port District Act; Massac-Metropolis Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1835/5.10); Mt. Carmel Regional Port District Act; Mt. Carmel Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1837/30); Ottawa Port District Act; Ottawa Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1842/30 and 1842/35); Rock Island Regional Port District Act; Rock Island Regional Port District and participating municipalities; for general Port District purposes. (70 ILCS 1845/4.9); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1845/4.10); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1845/5); Seneca Regional Port District Act; Seneca Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1850/4); Shawneetown Regional Port District Act; Shawneetown Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards or reduction of the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1850/5); Shawneetown Regional Port District Act; Shawneetown Regional Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1860/4); Tri-City Regional Port District Act; Tri-City Regional Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1860/5); Tri-City Regional Port District Act; Tri-City Regional Port District; for the development of facilities. (70 ILCS 1863/11); Upper Mississippi River International Port District Act; Upper Mississippi River International Port District; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 1865/4.9); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for removal of airport hazards. (70 ILCS 1865/4.10); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for restricting the height of objects or structures. (70 ILCS 1865/5); Waukegan Port District Act; Waukegan Port District; for the development of facilities. (70 ILCS 1905/16); Railroad Terminal Authority Act; Railroad Terminal Authority (Chicago); for general purposes. (70 ILCS 2105/9b); River Conservancy Districts Act; river conservancy districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 2105/10a); River Conservancy Districts Act; river conservancy districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2205/15); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2205/18); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for improvements and works. (70 ILCS 2205/19); Sanitary District Act of 1907; sanitary districts; for access to property. (70 ILCS 2305/8); North Shore Water Reclamation District Act; North Shore Water Reclamation District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2305/15); North Shore Water Reclamation District Act; North Shore Water Reclamation District; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2405/7.9); Sanitary District Act of 1917; Sanitary District of Decatur; for carrying out agreements to sell, convey, or disburse treated wastewater to a private entity. (70 ILCS 2405/8); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2405/15); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2405/16.9 and 2405/16.10); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 2405/17.2); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for public sewer and water utility treatment works. (70 ILCS 2405/18); Sanitary District Act of 1917; sanitary districts; for dams or other structures to regulate water flow. (70 ILCS 2605/8); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2605/16); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; quick-take power for improvements. (70 ILCS 2605/17); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for bridges. (70 ILCS 2605/35); Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; for widening and deepening a navigable stream. (70 ILCS 2805/10); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2805/24); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for improvements. (70 ILCS 2805/26i and 2805/26j); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for drainage systems. (70 ILCS 2805/27); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for dams or other structures to regulate water flow. (70 ILCS 2805/32k); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for water supply. (70 ILCS 2805/32l); Sanitary District Act of 1936; sanitary districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 2905/2-7); Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974; Metro-East Sanitary District; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 2905/2-8); Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974; Metro-East Sanitary District; for access to property. (70 ILCS 3010/10); Sanitary District Revenue Bond Act; sanitary districts; for sewerage systems. (70 ILCS 3205/12); Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act; Illinois Sports Facilities Authority; quick-take power for its corporate purposes (obsolete). (70 ILCS 3405/16); Surface Water Protection District Act; surface water protection districts; for corporate purposes. (70 ILCS 3605/7); Chicago Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for transportation systems. (70 ILCS 3605/8); Chicago Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3605/10); Chicago Transit Authority Act; Chicago Transit Authority; for general purposes, including railroad property. (70 ILCS 3610/3 and 3610/5); Local Mass Transit District Act; local mass transit districts; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3615/2.13); Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act; Northern Illinois Transit Authority; for general purposes. (70 ILCS 3705/8 and 3705/12); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for waterworks. (70 ILCS 3705/23a); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for sewerage properties. (70 ILCS 3705/23e); Public Water District Act; public water districts; for combined waterworks and sewerage systems. (70 ILCS 3715/6); Water Authorities Act; water authorities; for facilities to ensure adequate water supply. (70 ILCS 3715/27); Water Authorities Act; water authorities; for access to property. (75 ILCS 5/4-7); Illinois Local Library Act; boards of library trustees; for library buildings. (75 ILCS 16/30-55.80); Public Library District Act of 1991; public library districts; for general purposes. (75 ILCS 65/1 and 65/3); Libraries in Parks Act; corporate authorities of city or park district, or board of park commissioners; for free public library buildings.

(Source: 104-435, eff. 11-21-25; 104-454, eff. 12-12-25; 104-457, Article 5, Section 5-925, eff. 6-1-26; 104-457, Article 10, Section 10-75, eff. 6-1-26; 104-457, Article 15, Section 15-210, eff. 6-1-26; revised 1-8-26.)

ARTICLE 90

Section 90-95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other Public Act.

ARTICLE 97

Section 97-97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.

ARTICLE 99

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