(70 ILCS 2405/22a.53) (from Ch. 42, par. 317d.54)
Sec. 22a.53.
Manner of payment of expenses and costs.
The costs and
expenses of maintaining the committee of local improvements,
for paying salaries of the members of the committee, and the
expense of making and levying special assessments or special
taxes and of letting and executing contracts and also the
entire cost and expense attending the making and return of
the assessment rolls and the necessary estimates,
examinations, advertisements and like matters connected with
the proceedings provided for in this Act, including the
court costs and the fees to commissioners in condemnation
proceedings, which are to be taxed as provided in this Act,
shall be paid by the district out of its general corporate
fund, provided that any district may, in the ordinance
providing for the prescribed assessment, provide that a
certain sum, not to exceed 6% of the amount of this
assessment, shall be applied toward the payment of the
specified and other costs of making and collecting this
assessment. The estimate of cost of the improvement may
also provide an item setting forth a reserve for deficiency
in interest not to exceed 6% of the amount of the
assessment.
The limitation in the preceding paragraph shall not
apply to the costs of engineering and inspection connected
with any local improvement, but these costs may be included
in the cost of the improvement to be defrayed by special
assessment or special tax.
(Source: P.A. 85-1137.)
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