Full Text of HB5645 95th General Assembly
HB5645 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5645
Introduced , by Rep. Frank J. Mautino SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Property Tax Code concerning tax sale procedures. Provides that the collector may employ only those automated means of conducting a tax sale for which the software and equipment have been certified by the Department of Revenue. Deletes language that a prior enactment was declaratory of existing law. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning revenue.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 21-205 as follows:
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| (35 ILCS 200/21-205)
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| Sec. 21-205. Tax sale procedures. The collector, in person | 8 |
| or by deputy,
shall attend, on the day and in the place | 9 |
| specified in the notice for the sale
of property for taxes, and | 10 |
| shall, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., or later at
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| collector's discretion, proceed to offer for sale, separately | 12 |
| and in
consecutive order, all property in the list on which the | 13 |
| taxes, special
assessments, interest or costs have not been | 14 |
| paid. However, in any county with
3,000,000 or more | 15 |
| inhabitants, the offer for sale shall be made between 8:00
a.m. | 16 |
| and 8:00 p.m. The collector's office shall be kept open during | 17 |
| all hours
in which the sale is in progress. The sale shall be | 18 |
| continued from day to day,
until all property in the delinquent | 19 |
| list has been offered for sale. However,
any city, village or | 20 |
| incorporated town interested in the collection of any tax
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| special assessment, may, in default of bidders, withdraw from | 22 |
| collection the
special assessment levied against any property | 23 |
| by the corporate authorities of
the city, village or |
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| incorporated town. In case of a withdrawal, there shall be
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| sale of that property on account of the delinquent special | 3 |
| assessment
thereon.
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| In every sale of property pursuant to the provisions of | 5 |
| this Code, the collector may employ any automated means for | 6 |
| which the software and equipment have been certified by the | 7 |
| Department of Revenue that the collector deems appropriate , | 8 |
| provided that bidders are required to personally attend the | 9 |
| sale. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 94th | 10 |
| General Assembly are declarative of existing law.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-922, eff. 1-1-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 |
| becoming law.
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