SB2140enr 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2140 Enrolled LRB093 14787 SJM 40343 b

AN ACT concerning property taxes.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing Section 9-230 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/9-230)

Sec. 9-230. Return of township or multi-township assessment books. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with less than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial census, shall, on or before April 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with 600,000 or more but no more than 700,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial census, shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than 700,000 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial census, shall, on or before November 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. If a township or multi-township assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial census, does not return the assessment books or work books within the required time, the supervisor of assessments may take possession of the books and complete the assessments pursuant to law. Each of the books shall be verified by affidavit by the assessor substantially as follows:

State of Illinois) )ss. County of .......)

I do solemnly swear that the book or books .... in number, to which this affidavit is attached, contains a complete list of all of the property in the township or multi-township or assessment district herein described subject to taxation for the year .... so far as I have been able to ascertain, and that the assessed value set down in the proper column opposite the descriptions of property is a just and equal assessment of the property according to law.

Dated ...............

If the supervisor of assessments determines that the township or multi-township assessor has not completed the assessments as required by law before returning the assessment books under this Section, the county board may submit a bill to the township board of trustees for the reasonable costs incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing the assessments.

(Source: P.A. 85-1253; 88-455.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2005.