97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5761

 

Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. Sidney H. Mathias

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/15-60

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that all property owned by the Executive Board of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System that is used for the public purpose of disaster preparedness and response is exempt from the taxes imposed by the Code.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5Section 15-60 as follows:
 
6    (35 ILCS 200/15-60)
7    Sec. 15-60. Taxing district property. All property
8belonging to any county or municipality used exclusively for
9the maintenance of the poor is exempt, as is all property owned
10by a taxing district that is being held for future expansion or
11development, except if leased by the taxing district to lessees
12for use for other than public purposes.
13    Also exempt are:
14        (a) all swamp or overflowed lands belonging to any
15    county;
16        (b) all public buildings belonging to any county,
17    township, or municipality, with the ground on which the
18    buildings are erected;
19        (c) all property owned by any municipality located
20    within its incorporated limits. Any such property leased by
21    a municipality shall remain exempt, and the leasehold
22    interest of the lessee shall be assessed under Section
23    9-195 of this Act, (i) for a lease entered into on or after

 

 

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1    January 1, 1994, unless the lease expressly provides that
2    this exemption shall not apply; (ii) for a lease entered
3    into on or after the effective date of Public Act 87-1280
4    and before January 1, 1994, unless the lease expressly
5    provides that this exemption shall not apply or unless
6    evidence other than the lease itself substantiates the
7    intent of the parties to the lease that this exemption
8    shall not apply; and (iii) for a lease entered into before
9    the effective date of Public Act 87-1280, if the terms of
10    the lease do not bind the lessee to pay the taxes on the
11    leased property or if, notwithstanding the terms of the
12    lease, the municipality has filed or hereafter files a
13    timely exemption petition or complaint with respect to
14    property consisting of or including the leased property for
15    an assessment year which includes part or all of the first
16    12 months of the lease period. The foregoing clause (iii)
17    added by Public Act 87-1280 shall not operate to exempt
18    property for any assessment year as to which no timely
19    exemption petition or complaint has been filed by the
20    municipality or as to which an administrative or court
21    decision denying exemption has become final and
22    nonappealable. For each assessment year or portion thereof
23    that property is made exempt by operation of the foregoing
24    clause (iii), whether such year or portion is before or
25    after the effective date of Public Act 87-1280, the
26    leasehold interest of the lessee shall, if necessary, be

 

 

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1    considered omitted property for purposes of this Act;
2        (c-5) Notwithstanding clause (i) of subsection (c),
3    all property owned by a municipality with a population of
4    over 500,000 that is used for toll road or toll bridge
5    purposes and that is leased for those purposes to another
6    entity whose property is not exempt shall remain exempt,
7    and any leasehold interest in the property shall not be
8    subject to taxation under Section 9-195 of this Act;
9        (d) all property owned by any municipality located
10    outside its incorporated limits but within the same county
11    when used as a tuberculosis sanitarium, farm colony in
12    connection with a house of correction, or nursery, garden,
13    or farm, or for the growing of shrubs, trees, flowers,
14    vegetables, and plants for use in beautifying,
15    maintaining, and operating playgrounds, parks, parkways,
16    public grounds, buildings, and institutions owned or
17    controlled by the municipality; and
18        (e) all property owned by a township and operated as
19    senior citizen housing under Sections 35-50 through
20    35-50.6 of the Township Code; and .
21        (f) all property owned by the Executive Board of the
22    Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS), a unit of
23    intergovernmental cooperation, that is used for the public
24    purpose of disaster preparedness and response for units of
25    local government and the State of Illinois pursuant to
26    Section 10 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution and

 

 

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1    the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
2    All property owned by any municipality outside of its
3corporate limits is exempt if used exclusively for municipal or
4public purposes.
5    For purposes of this Section, "municipality" means a
6municipality, as defined in Section 1-1-2 of the Illinois
7Municipal Code.
8(Source: P.A. 92-844, eff. 8-23-02; 92-846, eff. 8-23-02.)