Rep. Dan Reitz

Filed: 4/24/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 282

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 282 as follows:
 
3 on page 1, by replacing line 5 with the following:
4 "Sections 21-355, 22-15, and 22-20 as follows:"; and
 
5 on page 9, immediately below line 3, by inserting the
6 following:
 
7     "(35 ILCS 200/22-20)
8     Sec. 22-20. Proof of service of notice; publication of
9 notice. The sheriff or coroner serving notice under Section
10 22-15 shall endorse his or her return thereon and file it with
11 the Clerk of the Circuit Court and it shall be a part of the
12 court record. A private detective or a special process server
13 appointed under Section 22-15 shall make his or her return by
14 affidavit and shall file it with the Clerk of the Circuit
15 Court, where it shall be a part of the court record. If a

 

 

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1 sheriff, private detective, special process server, or coroner
2 to whom any notice is delivered for service, neglects or
3 refuses to make the return, the purchaser or his or her
4 assignee may petition the court to enter a rule requiring the
5 sheriff, private detective, special process server, or coroner
6 to make return of the notice on a day to be fixed by the court,
7 or to show cause on that day why he or she should not be
8 attached for contempt of the court. The purchaser or assignee
9 shall cause a written notice of the rule to be served upon the
10 sheriff, private detective, special process server, or
11 coroner. If good and sufficient cause to excuse the sheriff,
12 private detective, special process server, or coroner is not
13 shown, the court shall adjudge him or her guilty of a contempt,
14 and shall proceed to punish him as in other cases of contempt.
15     If the property is located in a municipality in a county
16 with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the purchaser or his or
17 her assignee shall also publish a notice as to the owner or
18 party interested, in some newspaper published in the
19 municipality. If the property is not in a municipality in a
20 county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, or if no newspaper
21 is published therein, or if the property is in a county with
22 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the notice shall be published in
23 some newspaper in the county. If no newspaper is published in
24 the county, then the notice shall be published in the newspaper
25 that is published nearest the county seat of the county in
26 which the property is located. If the owners and parties

 

 

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1 interested in the property upon diligent inquiry are unknown to
2 the purchaser or his or her assignee, the publication as to
3 such owner or party interested, may be made to unknown owners
4 or parties interested. Any notice by publication given under
5 this Section shall be given 3 times at any time after filing a
6 petition for tax deed, but not less than 3 months nor more than
7 5 months prior to the expiration of the period of redemption.
8 The publication shall contain (a) notice of the filing of the
9 petition for tax deed, (b) the date on which the petitioner
10 intends to make application for an order on the petition that a
11 tax deed issue, (c) a description of the property, (d) the date
12 upon which the property was sold, (e) the taxes or special
13 assessments for which it was sold and (f) the date on which the
14 period of redemption will expire. The publication shall not
15 include more than one property listed and sold in one
16 description, except as provided in Section 21-90, and except
17 that when more than one property is owned by one person, all of
18 the parcels owned by that person may be included in one notice.
19 (Source: P.A. 91-209, eff. 1-1-00; 91-554, eff. 8-14-99.)".