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Full Text of HB2513  103rd General Assembly

HB2513 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB2513

 

Introduced 2/15/2023, by Rep. Kelly M. Burke

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/10-40
35 ILCS 200/10-50

    Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the Historic Residence Assessment Freeze Law, provides that the fair cash value of the property shall be based on the final determination by the assessment officer, board of review, Property Tax Appeal Board, or court. Provides that, after the expiration of the 8-year valuation period, if the current fair cash value is less than the adjusted base year valuation, then the assessment shall be based on the current fair cash value. Provides that those changes are declarative of existing law.


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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
5Sections 10-40 and 10-50 as follows:
 
6    (35 ILCS 200/10-40)
7    Sec. 10-40. Historic Residence Assessment Freeze Law;
8definitions. This Section and Sections 10-45 through 10-85 may
9be cited as the Historic Residence Assessment Freeze Law. As
10used in this Section and Sections 10-45 through 10-85:
11        (a) "Director" means the Director of Historic
12    Preservation.
13        (b) "Approved county or municipal landmark ordinance"
14    means a county or municipal ordinance approved by the
15    Director.
16        (c) "Historic building" means an owner-occupied single
17    family residence or an owner-occupied multi-family
18    residence and the tract, lot or parcel upon which it is
19    located, or a building or buildings owned and operated as
20    a cooperative, if:
21            (1) individually listed on the National Register
22        of Historic Places or the Illinois Register of
23        Historic Places;

 

 

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1            (2) individually designated pursuant to an
2        approved county or municipal landmark ordinance; or
3            (3) within a district listed on the National
4        Register of Historic Places or designated pursuant to
5        an approved county or municipal landmark ordinance, if
6        the Director determines that the building is of
7        historic significance to the district in which it is
8        located.
9    Historic building does not mean an individual unit of a
10    cooperative.
11        (d) "Assessment officer" means the chief county
12    assessment officer.
13        (e) "Certificate of rehabilitation" means the
14    certificate issued by the Director upon the renovation,
15    restoration, preservation or rehabilitation of an historic
16    building under this Code.
17        (f) "Rehabilitation period" means the period of time
18    necessary to renovate, restore, preserve or rehabilitate
19    an historic building as determined by the Director.
20        (g) "Standards for rehabilitation" means the Secretary
21    of Interior's standards for rehabilitation as promulgated
22    by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
23        (h) "Fair cash value" means the fair cash value of the
24    historic building, as finally determined for that year by
25    the assessment officer, board of review, Property Tax
26    Appeal Board, or court on the basis of the assessment

 

 

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1    officer's property record card, representing the value of
2    the property prior to the commencement of rehabilitation
3    without consideration of any reduction reflecting value
4    during the rehabilitation work. The changes made to this
5    Section by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
6    Assembly are declarative of existing law and shall not be
7    construed as a new enactment.
8        (i) "Base year valuation" means the fair cash value of
9    the historic building for the year in which the
10    rehabilitation period begins but prior to the commencement
11    of the rehabilitation and does not include any reduction
12    in value during the rehabilitation work.
13        (j) "Adjustment in value" means the difference for any
14    year between the then current fair cash value and the base
15    year valuation.
16        (k) "Eight-year valuation period" means the 8 years
17    from the date of the issuance of the certificate of
18    rehabilitation.
19        (l) "Adjustment valuation period" means the 4 years
20    following the 8 year valuation period.
21        (m) "Substantial rehabilitation" means interior or
22    exterior rehabilitation work that preserves the historic
23    building in a manner that significantly improves its
24    condition.
25        (n) "Approved local government" means a local
26    government that has been certified by the Director as:

 

 

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1            (1) enforcing appropriate legislation for the
2        designation of historic buildings;
3            (2) having established an adequate and qualified
4        historic review commission;
5            (3) maintaining a system for the survey and
6        inventory of historic properties;
7            (4) providing for adequate public participation in
8        the local historic preservation program; and
9            (5) maintaining a system for reviewing
10        applications under this Section in accordance with
11        rules and regulations promulgated by the Director.
12        (o) "Cooperative" means a building or buildings and
13    the tract, lot, or parcel on which the building or
14    buildings are located, if the building or buildings are
15    devoted to residential uses by the owners and fee title to
16    the land and building or buildings is owned by a
17    corporation or other legal entity in which the
18    shareholders or other co-owners each also have a long-term
19    proprietary lease or other long-term arrangement of
20    exclusive possession for a specific unit of occupancy
21    space located within the same building or buildings.
22        (p) "Owner", in the case of a cooperative, means the
23    Association.
24        (q) "Association", in the case of a cooperative, means
25    the entity responsible for the administration of a
26    cooperative, which entity may be incorporated or

 

 

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1    unincorporated, profit or nonprofit.
2        (r) "Owner-occupied single family residence" means a
3    residence in which the title holder of record (i) holds
4    fee simple ownership and (ii) occupies the property as
5    his, her, or their principal residence.
6        (s) "Owner-occupied multi-family residence" means
7    residential property comprised of not more than 6 living
8    units in which the title holder of record (i) holds fee
9    simple ownership and (ii) occupies one unit as his, her,
10    or their principal residence. The remaining units may be
11    leased.
12    The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of
13the 91st General Assembly are declarative of existing law and
14shall not be construed as a new enactment.
15(Source: P.A. 90-114, eff. 1-1-98; 91-806, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
16    (35 ILCS 200/10-50)
17    Sec. 10-50. Valuation after 8 year valuation period.
18    (a) For the 4 years after the expiration of the 8-year
19valuation period, the valuation for purposes of computing the
20assessed valuation shall not exceed the following be as
21follows:
22        For the first year, the base year valuation plus 25%
23    of the adjustment in value.
24        For the second year, the base year valuation plus 50%
25    of the adjustment in value.

 

 

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1        For the third year, the base year valuation plus 75%
2    of the adjustment in value.
3        For the fourth year, the then current fair cash value.
4    (b) If the current fair cash value during the adjustment
5valuation period is less than the base year valuation with the
6applicable adjustment, the assessment shall be based on the
7current fair cash value. The changes made to this Section by
8this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly are
9declarative of existing law and shall not be construed as a new
10enactment.
11(Source: P.A. 82-1023; 88-455.)