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                                     LRB093 08607 SJM 11503 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1952

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1952  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  creating  the Naperville Park District Tax Levy
 5    Validation (1997) Act."; and

 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:

 8        "Section  1.  Short  title.  This Act may be cited as the
 9    Naperville Park District Tax Levy Validation (1997) Act.

10        Section 5. The Naperville  Park  District  having  during
11    1997  adopted  an  annual  levy  ordinance  within  the  time
12    required  by  law  for the subject fiscal year, having levied
13    sums of  money  as  required  to  defray  all  the  necessary
14    expenses  and  liabilities  of  the  District for the subject
15    fiscal  year,  and  having  passed  an  annual   budget   and
16    appropriation  and  tax levy ordinance and certified the same
17    to the County Clerks of DuPage and Will  Counties,  Illinois,
18    within  the time required by law, the appropriation ordinance
19    and the tax levy ordinance, together with the taxes assessed,
20    levied,  and  extended  thereunder  are   hereby   validated,
21    ratified,  and  declared  to  be  in  full  force and effect,
 
                            -2-      LRB093 08607 SJM 11503 a
 1    notwithstanding  that  the  notice  published  by  the   Park
 2    District  deviated  from the notice requirements of the Truth
 3    in Taxation Law of the Property Tax Code by: (i) omitting the
 4    words "or abated" in Division II; (ii) omitting a sentence in
 5    Division IV; and (iii) adding the word "Notice" as a title at
 6    the top of the notice.

 7        Section 10. Nothing in this Act  shall  be  construed  as
 8    validating  any  tax  levy  in excess of the rate of taxation
 9    authorized by law for any fiscal year or for any purpose  not
10    permitted by the Illinois Constitution.".