Sen. Dave Syverson
Filed: 3/23/2007
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1494 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1494 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing 
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Section 5-1025 as follows:
 



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    (55 ILCS 5/5-1025)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1025)



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    Sec. 5-1025. Tax for expense of conducting elections and

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maintaining system of permanent registration of voters. In 
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counties
of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a county board may 
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levy and collect, in
odd numbered years, a tax of not to exceed 
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.05% of the value, as equalized
or assessed by the Department 
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of Revenue, of all the taxable property in
the county, for the 
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expense of conducting elections and maintaining a
system of 
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permanent registration of voters. Such tax shall not be 
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included
within any statutory limitation of rate or amount for 
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other county
purposes, but shall be excluded therefrom and be 
 


 






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in addition thereto and in
excess thereof;  provided that this 
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tax shall not be levied or collected on
property situated 
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within the jurisdiction of any municipal board of
election 
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commissioners.

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    Beginning with calendar year 1986 and annually thereafter, 
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any county
with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall pay over 
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to any municipal board
of election commissioners in the county, 
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for the expense of conducting
elections and maintaining a 
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system of permanent registration of voters, an
amount at least 
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equal to the proceeds of the tax collected on property
situated 
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within the jurisdiction of that board under this Section during

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calendar year 1985; provided, however, such amount shall be 
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increased or
decreased annually in proportion to any increase 
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or decrease in the
equalized assessed valuation of such 
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municipality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code 
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to the contrary, beginning with the first payment after the 
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effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General 
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Assembly, the amount paid over annually to  the municipal board 
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of election commissioners for the City of Rockford shall be 
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equal to the amount paid over to that municipal board of 
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election commissioners in calendar year 1992. Such amount shall 
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be
payable from the tax levied and collected under Section 
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5-1024.

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(Source: P.A. 86-962.)".