SB1380ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Jehan A. Gordon-Booth

Filed: 5/26/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1380

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1380, on page 1, by replacing line 5 with the following:

"changing Sections 11-20-15 and 11-20-15.1 and by adding Section 9-2-4.10 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-4.10 new)

Sec. 9-2-4.10. Special assessment for payment of costs associated with unpaid utility bills. In addition to any other method authorized by law, if a lien with respect to any unpaid utility bills has been filed against a property, then those costs associated with the lien may be treated as an existing, judicially-approved special assessment, as though an assessment warrant had been issued and all conditions precedent had been satisfied. The municipality may collect those costs as a special assessment on the property if it complies with the applicable procedures set forth under Section 9-2-80 through Section 9-2-98. In such cases, the county recorder or other officer of the county in which the municipality is located that has the authority to receive State and county taxes and the court rendering judgment and ordering sale of the delinquent special assessment shall exempt the municipality from the otherwise applicable special assessment warrant and certified assessment roll requirements because the same will be deemed to have occurred by operation of law. Upon payment of the costs by the owner of record or persons interested in the property, including any cost incurred by the municipality for collecting the costs under this Section, the lien shall be released by the municipality and the release shall be filed of record in the same manner as the filing of notice of the lien.".