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1 | AN ACT concerning economic development.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Enterprise Zone Act is amended by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 5.3 as follows:
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6 | (20 ILCS 655/5.3) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 608)
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7 | Sec. 5.3. Certification of Enterprise Zones; Effective | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | date.
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9 | (a) Approval of designated Enterprise Zones shall be made | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | by the
Department by certification of the designating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | ordinance. The Department
shall promptly issue a certificate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | for each Enterprise Zone upon its
approval. The certificate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | shall be signed by the Director of the
Department, shall make | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | specific reference to the designating ordinance,
which shall be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | attached thereto, and shall be filed in the office of the
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16 | Secretary of State. A certified copy of the Enterprise Zone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Certificate, or
a duplicate original thereof, shall be recorded | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | in the office of recorder
of deeds of the county in which the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Enterprise Zone lies.
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20 | (b) An Enterprise Zone shall be effective upon its | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | certification. The
Department shall transmit a copy of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | certification to the Department
of Revenue, and to the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | designating municipality or county.
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1 | Upon certification of an Enterprise Zone, the terms and | ||||||
2 | provisions of the
designating ordinance shall be in effect, and | ||||||
3 | may not be amended or repealed
except in accordance with | ||||||
4 | Section 5.4.
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5 | (c) An Enterprise Zone shall be in effect for 30 calendar | ||||||
6 | years, or for
a lesser number of years specified in the | ||||||
7 | certified designating ordinance.
Enterprise Zones shall | ||||||
8 | terminate at midnight of December 31 of the final
calendar year | ||||||
9 | of the certified term, except as provided in Section 5.4.
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10 | (d) No more than 12 Enterprise Zones may be certified by | ||||||
11 | the Department
in calendar year 1984, no more than 12 | ||||||
12 | Enterprise Zones may be certified
by the Department in calendar | ||||||
13 | year 1985, no more than 13 Enterprise
Zones may be certified by | ||||||
14 | the Department in calendar year 1986, no
more than 15 | ||||||
15 | Enterprise Zones may be certified by the Department in
calendar | ||||||
16 | year 1987, and no more than 20 Enterprise Zones may be | ||||||
17 | certified
by the Department in calendar year 1990. In other | ||||||
18 | calendar years, no more
than 13 Enterprise Zones may be | ||||||
19 | certified by the Department.
The Department may also designate | ||||||
20 | up to 8 additional Enterprise Zones
outside the regular | ||||||
21 | application cycle if warranted by the extreme economic
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22 | circumstances as determined by the Department. The Department | ||||||
23 | may also
designate one additional Enterprise Zone outside the | ||||||
24 | regular application
cycle if an aircraft manufacturer agrees to | ||||||
25 | locate
an aircraft manufacturing facility in the proposed | ||||||
26 | Enterprise Zone.
Notwithstanding any
other provision of this |
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1 | Act, no more than 89 Enterprise Zones may be
certified by the | ||||||
2 | Department for the 10 calendar years commencing with 1983.
The | ||||||
3 | 7 additional Enterprise Zones authorized by Public Act
86-15 | ||||||
4 | shall not lie within municipalities or unincorporated areas of
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5 | counties that abut or are contiguous to Enterprise Zones | ||||||
6 | certified pursuant
to this Section prior to June 30, 1989. The | ||||||
7 | 7 additional Enterprise
Zones (excluding the additional | ||||||
8 | Enterprise Zone which may be designated
outside the regular | ||||||
9 | application cycle) authorized by Public Act 86-1030
shall not | ||||||
10 | lie within municipalities or unincorporated areas of counties
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11 | that abut or are contiguous to Enterprise Zones certified | ||||||
12 | pursuant to this
Section prior to February 28, 1990. Beginning | ||||||
13 | in calendar year 2004 and until
December 31, 2008,
one | ||||||
14 | additional enterprise
zone may be certified by the
Department. | ||||||
15 | Beginning in calendar year 2010 and until December 31, 2014, an | ||||||
16 | additional 50 enterprise zones may be certified by the | ||||||
17 | Department. In any calendar year, the
Department
may not | ||||||
18 | certify more than 3 Zones located within the same municipality. | ||||||
19 | The
Department may certify Enterprise Zones in each of the 10 | ||||||
20 | calendar years
commencing with 1983. The Department may not | ||||||
21 | certify more than a total of
18 Enterprise Zones located within | ||||||
22 | the same county (whether within
municipalities or within | ||||||
23 | unincorporated territory) for the 10 calendar years
commencing | ||||||
24 | with 1983. Thereafter, the Department may not certify any
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25 | additional Enterprise Zones, but may amend and rescind | ||||||
26 | certifications of
existing Enterprise Zones in accordance with |
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1 | Section 5.4.
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2 | (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if (i) the | ||||||
3 | county board of
any county in which a current military base is | ||||||
4 | located, in part or in whole, or
in which a military
base that | ||||||
5 | has been closed within 20 years of the effective date of this
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6 | amendatory Act of 1998 is located, in part or in whole, adopts | ||||||
7 | a designating
ordinance in accordance with Section 5 of this | ||||||
8 | Act to designate the military
base in that county as an | ||||||
9 | enterprise zone and (ii) the property otherwise
meets the
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10 | qualifications for an enterprise zone as prescribed in Section | ||||||
11 | 4 of this Act,
then the Department may certify the designating | ||||||
12 | ordinance or ordinances, as the
case may be.
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13 | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-777, eff. 1-1-03; 93-436, | ||||||
14 | eff.
1-1-04.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.
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