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Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
Filed: 4/5/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1529
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1529, AS AMENDED, by |
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| replacing everything after the enacting clause with the |
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| following:
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| "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing |
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| Section 20-25 as follows:
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| (35 ILCS 200/20-25)
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| Sec. 20-25. Forms of payment.
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| (a) Taxes levied by taxing districts may be
satisfied by |
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| payment in legal money of the United States, cashier's check,
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| certified check, post office money order, bank money order |
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| issued by a national
or state bank that is insured by the |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or
by a personal or |
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| corporate check drawn on such a bank, to the respective
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| collection officers who are entitled by law to receive the tax |
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| payments or by
credit card in accordance with the Local |
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| Governmental Acceptance of Credit
Cards Act. A
county collector |
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| may refuse to accept a personal check within 30 days before a
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| tax sale. |
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| (b) Beginning on January 1, 2008, a county with a |
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| population of
more than 3,000,000 is required to accept payment |
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| by credit card for each installment of property taxes. Nothing |
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| in this subsection requires a county with a population of more |
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| than 3,000,000 to accept payment by credit card for the payment |
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| on any installment of taxes that is delinquent under Section |
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| 21-10, 21-25, or 21-30 of the Property Tax Code or for the |
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| purposes of any tax sale or scavenger sale under Division 3.5, |
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| 4, or 5 of Article 21 of the Property Tax Code.
This subsection |
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| is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section
6 of Article |
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| VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
exercise by |
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| home rule units of powers and functions exercised
by the State.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-518, eff. 8-22-97.)
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| Section 10. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
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| Section 8.31 as follows: |
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.31 new) |
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| Sec. 8.31. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 |
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| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the |
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| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of |
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| the 95th General Assembly. ".
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