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Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Filed: 5/16/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 807
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 807 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 9-5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (35 ILCS 200/9-5)
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| 7 | | Sec. 9-5. Rules. |
| 8 | | (a) Each county assessor, board of appeals, and board of
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| 9 | | review shall make and publish reasonable rules for the guidance |
| 10 | | of persons
doing business with them and for the orderly |
| 11 | | dispatch of business.
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| 12 | | (b) In counties with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants, |
| 13 | | these rules shall not require specific proof to be offered nor |
| 14 | | limit the nature of evidence which may be offered as a |
| 15 | | condition of filing an assessment complaint under Section |
| 16 | | 16-55. |
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| 1 | | (c) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the |
| 2 | | county assessor and board
of appeals (ending the first Monday |
| 3 | | in December 1998 and the board of
review beginning the first |
| 4 | | Monday in December 1998 and thereafter),
jointly shall make and |
| 5 | | prescribe rules for the assessment of
property and the |
| 6 | | preparation of the assessment books by the township assessors
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| 7 | | in their respective townships and for the return of those books |
| 8 | | to the county
assessor.
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| 9 | | (d) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the |
| 10 | | county assessor may make and prescribe rules regulating |
| 11 | | non-attorney taxpayer representatives doing business before |
| 12 | | the assessor's office. The county assessor in a county with |
| 13 | | 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may require the registration of |
| 14 | | non-attorney taxpayer representatives who do business before |
| 15 | | the assessor's office. Those county assessors may charge a |
| 16 | | registration fee. For the purposes of this subsection (d), |
| 17 | | "non-attorney taxpayer representative" means a person who (i) |
| 18 | | is not an attorney licensed to practice law in this State and |
| 19 | | (ii) for compensation, represents a taxpayer, other than |
| 20 | | himself or herself, in doing business before the assessor's |
| 21 | | office. |
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 98-322, eff. 8-12-13.)
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| 23 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 24 | | becoming law.".
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