(65 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.41)
Sec. 4.
At any time after the effective date of this Act the State's
Attorney of each county may petition the circuit court for judgment against
all tracts of land described in petitions filed under Section 1 of this
Act, wherein shall be set out a description of each tract, together with
the names of the owners or grantees of owners, mediate or immediate,
thereof, and the court shall set the same for hearing on a day not less
than 30 days thereafter. The clerk of the court shall cause notice thereof
by publication to be made in a newspaper published in the county, once in
each week for 2 successive weeks, the first publication thereof to be made
not less than 20 days before the day upon which the petition is set for
hearing. The notice shall declare that the State's Attorney will apply to
the circuit court on the day specified therein for judgment against such
tract or tracts of land for all delinquent special assessments and the
penalties, interest and costs thereon, and for an order to sell such tract
or tracts for the satisfaction thereof. Upon the day specified for the
entry of judgment, or upon such subsequent day as the court may at that
time fix, the court shall hear evidence upon the issues presented in the
petition, and if it appears that the owner of any such real estate, or his or
her grantee, mediate or immediate, has made payment as agreed to be made in the
petition filed by such owner, as provided in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, he
shall enter an order relieving the original owner, his or her grantee or
subsequent grantees, of the payment of sums alleged to be due for the
delinquent special assessments and the penalties, interest and cost thereon,
and divesting the tract or tracts of the lien thereof. If, however, it appears
that the delinquent special assessment against any tract, together with
unremitted penalties, interest and costs thereon, have not been paid as
provided in this Act, judgment shall be rendered against the same for all
delinquent special assessments and penalties, interest and costs thereon, and
the amount thereof shall be entered on the Tax Judgment, Sale, Redemption and
Forfeiture records of the county. The judgment shall be enforceable in the
manner provided for the enforcement of judgments in the Property Tax Code.
The city, village or incorporated town in whose behalf judgment is
sought shall, upon presentation of a statement of the expense incurred by
the clerk of the court in causing the notice to be published, reimburse the
clerk for his expense.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
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