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Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr.
Filed: 5/28/2018
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 585
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 585 on page 1, line |
| 3 | | 5, after "Sections" by inserting "21-205,"; and
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| 4 | | on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the |
| 5 | | following:
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| 6 | | "(35 ILCS 200/21-205)
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| 7 | | Sec. 21-205. Tax sale procedures. |
| 8 | | (a) The collector, in person or by deputy,
shall attend, on |
| 9 | | the day and in the place specified in the notice for the sale
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| 10 | | of property for taxes, and shall, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 |
| 11 | | p.m., or later at
the collector's discretion, proceed to offer |
| 12 | | for sale, separately and in
consecutive order, all property in |
| 13 | | the list on which the taxes, special
assessments, interest or |
| 14 | | costs have not been paid. However, in any county with
3,000,000 |
| 15 | | or more inhabitants, the offer for sale shall be made between |
| 16 | | 8:00
a.m. and 8:00 p.m. The collector's office shall be kept |
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| 1 | | open during all hours
in which the sale is in progress. The |
| 2 | | sale shall be continued from day to day,
until all property in |
| 3 | | the delinquent list has been offered for sale. However,
any |
| 4 | | city, village or incorporated town interested in the collection |
| 5 | | of any tax
or special assessment, may, in default of bidders, |
| 6 | | withdraw from collection the
special assessment levied against |
| 7 | | any property by the corporate authorities of
the city, village |
| 8 | | or incorporated town. In case of a withdrawal, there shall be
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| 9 | | no sale of that property on account of the delinquent special |
| 10 | | assessment
thereon.
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| 11 | | (b) Until January 1, 2013, in every sale of property |
| 12 | | pursuant to the provisions of this Code, the collector may |
| 13 | | employ any automated means that the collector deems |
| 14 | | appropriate. Beginning on January 1, 2013, either (i) the |
| 15 | | collector shall employ an automated bidding system that is |
| 16 | | programmed to accept the lowest redemption price bid by an |
| 17 | | eligible tax purchaser, subject to the penalty percentage |
| 18 | | limitation set forth in Section 21-215, or (ii) all tax sales |
| 19 | | shall be digitally recorded with video and audio. All bidders |
| 20 | | are required to personally attend the sale and, if automated |
| 21 | | means are used, all hardware and software used with respect to |
| 22 | | those automated means must be certified by the Department and |
| 23 | | re-certified by the Department every 5 years. If the tax sales |
| 24 | | are digitally recorded and no automated bidding system is used, |
| 25 | | then the recordings shall be maintained by the collector for a |
| 26 | | period of at least 3 years from the date of the tax sale. The |