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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 615
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 615 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5 Section 12-55 as follows:
6 (35 ILCS 200/12-55)
7 Sec. 12-55. Notice requirement if assessment is
8 increased; counties of 3,000,000 or more.
9 (a) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, a
10 revision by the county assessor, except where such revision
11 is made on complaint of the owner, shall not increase an
12 assessment without notice to the person to whom the most
13 recent tax bill was mailed and an opportunity to be heard
14 before the assessment is verified. If the revision by the
15 county assessor causes a change in all assessments in a
16 particular major class of property in any township or
17 assessment district within the county, the notice to the
18 person to whom the most recent tax bill was mailed shall
19 include a general statement indicating that all assessments
20 in a particular major class in the township or assessment
21 district have been changed because of an application of a
22 factor and shall state the factor. When a notice is mailed by
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1 the county assessor to the address of a mortgagee, the
2 mortgagee, within 7 business days after the mortgagee
3 receives the notice, shall forward a copy of the notice to
4 each mortgagor of the property referred to in the notice at
5 the last known address of each mortgagor as shown on the
6 records of the mortgagee. There shall be no liability for
7 the failure of the mortgagee to forward the notice to each
8 mortgagor. The assessor may provide for the filing of
9 complaints and make revisions at times other than those dates
10 published under Section 14-35. When the county assessor has
11 completed the revision and correction and entered the changes
12 and revision in the assessment books, an affidavit shall be
13 attached to the assessment books in the form required by law,
14 signed by the county assessor.
15 (b) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, for
16 parcels, other than parcels in the class that includes the
17 majority of the single-family residential parcels under a
18 county ordinance adopted in accordance with Section 4 of
19 Article IX of the Illinois Constitution, located in the
20 assessment district for which the current assessment year is
21 a general assessment year, within 30 days after sending the
22 required notices under this Section, the county assessor
23 shall file with the board of appeals (until the first Monday
24 in December 1998, and the board of review beginning the first
25 Monday in December 1998 and thereafter) a list of the parcels
26 for which the notices under this Section were sent, showing
27 the following information for each such parcel: the parcel
28 index number, the township in which the parcel is located,
29 the class for the current year, the previous year's final
30 total assessed value, the total assessed value proposed by
31 the county assessor, and the name of the person to whom the
32 notice required under this Section was sent. The list shall
33 be available for public inspection at the office of the board
34 during the regular office hours of the board. The list shall
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1 be retained by the board for at least 10 years after the date
2 it is initially filed by the county assessor.
3 (c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this Section
4 shall be applicable beginning with the assessment for the
5 1997 tax year.
6 (Source: P.A. 90-4, eff. 3-7-97; 91-751, eff. 6-2-00.)
7 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8 becoming law.".
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