(35 ILCS 200/25-15)
Sec. 25-15.
Knowing failure of local assessment officer to perform
duties. Any local assessment officer or other person whose
duty it is to assess property for taxation or equalize any assessment,
who refuses or knowingly or wilfully neglects any duty required of him
by law, or who consents to or connives at any evasion of this Code whereby any
property required to be assessed is unlawfully exempted in whole or in part, or
the valuation thereof is set down at more or less than is required by law, is
guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. He or she shall also be liable upon his bond
to the party injured for all damages sustained by that party. He or she shall
also be removed from office by the judge of the court before whom he or she is
tried and convicted.
(Source: P.A. 77-2236; 88-455.)
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