Public Act 094-0417
 		





HB1427 Enrolled
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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

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


 
    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended  by changing 
Section 9-230 as follows:
 
    (35 ILCS 200/9-230)

    Sec. 9-230. Return of township or multi-township 
assessment books. 
    (a) The
township or multi-township assessors in counties 
with less than
600,000
inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal 
decennial census, shall, on or before April 15 of the 
assessment year, return
the assessment books or workbooks to 
the supervisor of
assessments.
The township or multi-township 
assessors in counties with 600,000 or more but
no more than 
700,000 inhabitants, based on the  2000 federal decennial 
census, shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year, 
return the assessment books or
workbooks to the supervisor of 
assessments.
The township or multi-township assessors in 
counties with less than 3,000,000
inhabitants, but more than 
700,000

inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial 
census, shall, on or
before November 15
of the assessment year, 
return the assessment books or workbooks to the
supervisor of 
assessments. If a township or
multi-township assessor in a 
county
with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than

600,000
inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial 
census, does
not return the assessment books or work books 
within the required time, the
supervisor of assessments may 
take possession of the books and complete the
assessments 
pursuant to law. Each of the books shall be verified by 
affidavit
by the assessor substantially as follows:


State of Illinois)

                 )ss.

County of .......)


    I do solemnly swear that the book or books .... in number, 
to which this
affidavit is attached, contains a complete list 
of all of the property in the
township or multi-township or 
assessment district herein described subject to
taxation for 
the year .... so far as I have been able to ascertain, and that

the assessed value set down in the proper column opposite the 
descriptions of
property is a just and equal assessment of the 
property according to law.


    Dated ...............


    (b) If the supervisor of assessments determines that the 
township or
multi-township assessor has not completed the 
assessments as required by law
before returning the assessment 
books under this Section, the county board may
submit a bill to 
the township board of trustees for the reasonable costs

incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing the 
assessments.
The moneys collected under this subsection may be 
used by the supervisor of assessments only for the purpose of 
recouping costs incurred in completing the assessments.


(Source: P.A. 93-761, eff. 1-1-05.)

 

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