Rep. Jehan A. Gordon-Booth
Filed: 5/26/2015
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1380
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1380, on page 1, by | ||||||
| 3 | replacing line 5 with the following:
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| 4 | "changing Sections 11-20-15 and 11-20-15.1 and by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 9-2-4.10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/9-2-4.10 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 9-2-4.10. Special assessment for payment of costs | ||||||
| 8 | associated with unpaid utility bills. In addition to any other | ||||||
| 9 | method authorized by law, if a lien with respect to any unpaid | ||||||
| 10 | utility bills has been filed against a property, then those | ||||||
| 11 | costs associated with the lien may be treated as an existing, | ||||||
| 12 | judicially-approved special assessment, as though an | ||||||
| 13 | assessment warrant had been issued and all conditions precedent | ||||||
| 14 | had been satisfied. The municipality may collect those costs as | ||||||
| 15 | a special assessment on the property if it complies with the | ||||||
| 16 | applicable procedures set forth under Section 9-2-80 through | ||||||
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| 1 | Section 9-2-98. In such cases, the county recorder or other | ||||||
| 2 | officer of the county in which the municipality is located that | ||||||
| 3 | has the authority to receive State and county taxes and the | ||||||
| 4 | court rendering judgment and ordering sale of the delinquent | ||||||
| 5 | special assessment shall exempt the municipality from the | ||||||
| 6 | otherwise applicable special assessment warrant and certified | ||||||
| 7 | assessment roll requirements because the same will be deemed to | ||||||
| 8 | have occurred by operation of law. Upon payment of the costs by | ||||||
| 9 | the owner of record or persons interested in the property, | ||||||
| 10 | including any cost incurred by the municipality for collecting | ||||||
| 11 | the costs under this Section, the lien shall be released by the | ||||||
| 12 | municipality and the release shall be filed of record in the | ||||||
| 13 | same manner as the filing of notice of the lien.".
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