(65 ILCS 5/9-3-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-3-13)
Sec. 9-3-13.
After filing of the petition as provided in Section 9-3-12,
the court shall enter an order setting a date for hearing on the question
of benefits, and direct that notice be given by the committee on local
improvements of the pendency of the proceeding. The notice shall state
generally the nature of the improvement, the pendency of the proceeding,
the time and place of filing the petition therefor, that an assessment roll
has been filed, and the time and place at which an application will be made
for confirmation of the assessment, the same to be not less than 15 days
after the mailing of such notice. Such notice shall be sent by mail,
postpaid, to each person paying the taxes on the respective parcels during
the last preceding year during which taxes were paid, at his residence as
shown in the assessment roll, or if not shown, then to each person so
paying the taxes directed generally to the municipality in which the
improvement is proposed to be made. Such notice shall also state the amount
assessed, the person to whom the same is directed for the improvement
proposed, and the total cost of such improvement, and the total amount
assessed as benefit upon the public, and if the assessment is to be payable
in installments, the number of installments thereof and the rate of
interest it shall bear. An affidavit shall be filed before the final
hearing thereon by the committee on local improvements showing a compliance
with the requirements of this section and also showing that the committee
on local improvements caused to be made under its direction, or that it
made a careful examination of the county collector's books showing the
payments of general taxes during the last preceding year, in which the
taxes were paid thereon, to ascertain the person who last paid the taxes on
the respective parcels, and a diligent search for such person's residence,
and that the assessment roll filed in court correctly states the same as
ascertained by the committee on local improvements, or as ascertained under
its direction. If the report and affidavit shall be found in any respect
wilfully false, the persons making the same shall be guilty of perjury, and
subject to the pains and penalties provided for such offense by the laws of
this State.
In addition to the mailing of the notice, notice shall also be given by
the committee on local improvements at least 15 days prior to the date set
for the hearing by posting notice in at least 4 public places in such
municipality, all of which shall be in the neighborhood of such proposed
improvement, and within the boundaries of the area described as probably
benefited, and as in this Division 3 provided, and by publishing the same
once each week for 2 successive weeks in a daily or weekly newspaper
published in the municipality, the first publication thereof to be at least
15 days prior to the date set for the hearing on benefits, or if there be
no newspaper published and of general circulation in such municipality,
then by publication in a newspaper published in the county and of general
circulation therein. Such notice shall state the pendency of the
proceedings, set forth a brief general description of the nature of the
improvement, refer to the fact that the ordinance for the same is on file
in the office of the municipal clerk for public inspection, together with
plans, specifications and an estimate of cost of the improvements, and that
such municipality has applied to the court, designating the court, for the
levying of a special assessment, that the assessment roll has been filed in
court and stating the date when the hearing thereon will be had, and that
all persons desiring may file objections to the assessment on any
particular lot, parcel or tract before the date set for said hearing, and
may appear at the hearing and make their defense as to the question of
benefits. If the assessment is to be payable in installments, then such
notice shall state the number of installments and the rate of interest the
installment shall bear.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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