(65 ILCS 5/9-2-98) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-98)
Sec. 9-2-98.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, any
municipality interested in the collection of any tax or special assessment,
in default of other bidders, may become a purchaser at any sale of property
to enforce the collection of that tax or special assessment, and by
ordinance may authorize and make it the duty of one or more municipal
officers to attend such sales and bid thereat in behalf of the
municipality. Such a municipality, through its officer or officers, acting
under like authority, in default of bidders, may withdraw from collection
at such a sale any special assessment or installment thereof levied by it
on any lot, parcel of land, or property subject to sale. But such a
withdrawal from collection shall not operate to cancel the assessment or
impair the lien of the municipality so withdrawing it, and the assessment
shall remain delinquent and payable at the office of the municipal
collector or county clerk, with all fees, costs, penalties, interest, and
charges that have accrued thereon. Such a lot, parcel of land, or property,
may be readvertised and resold at any subsequent tax sale for such
delinquent special assessments or installments thereof.
Where suit is instituted by a municipality to foreclose the lien of
special assessments at the request of the owner of real property or his
agent, the corporate authorities shall have the power to provide by
ordinance for the payment by the owner of reasonable costs and expenses
incurred by the municipality in connection with the suit. Any moneys
collected for such purpose shall be expended by the municipality in the
same manner and for the same purposes as provided for in Section 8-1-10.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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