96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1547


 
Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - John E. Bradley
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		







  



35 ILCS 200/9-85










    Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning assessments in Cook County.
















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HB1547

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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

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

 
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    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing 
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Section 9-85 as follows:
 



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    (35 ILCS 200/9-85)



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    Sec. 9-85. 
Revision of assessments by county assessor and

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and board of
review;
Counties of 3,000,000
or more.  In counties 
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with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the county assessor
shall 
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have authority annually to revise the assessment books and 
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correct them
as appears to be just; and on complaint in writing 
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in proper form by any
taxpayer, and after affording the 
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taxpayer an opportunity to be heard thereon,
he or she shall do 
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so at any time, until the assessment is verified. An entry
upon 
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the assessment books does not constitute an assessment until 
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the
assessment is verified. When a notice is to be mailed under 
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Section 12-55 and
the address that appears on the assessor's 
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records is the address of a mortgage
lender or the trustee, 
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where title to the property is held in a land trust, or
in any 
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event whenever the notice is mailed by the assessor to a 
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taxpayer at or
in care of the address of a mortgage lender or a 
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trustee where the title to the
property is held in a land 
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trust, the mortgage lender or the trustee within 15
days of the 
 


 






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mortgage lender's or the trustee's receipt of such notice shall

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mail a copy of the notice to each mortgagor of the property 
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referred to in the
notice at the last known address of each 
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mortgagor as shown on the records of
the mortgage lender, or to 
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each beneficiary as shown on the records of the
trustee. 
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    All changes and alterations pursuant to Section 16-95 or 
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Section 16-120 in
the assessment
of
property shall be subject

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to
revision and entry into the assessment books by the board of 
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appeals (until
the first Monday in December 1998 and the board 
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of review beginning the
first Monday in December 1998 and 
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thereafter) in the same manner
as the original assessments.

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(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 89-671, eff. 
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8-14-96.)