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55 ILCS 90/50

(55 ILCS 90/50) (from Ch. 34, par. 8050)

Sec. 50. Special tax allocation fund.

(a) If a county clerk has certified the "total initial equalized
assessed value" of the taxable real property within an economic development
project area in the manner provided in Section 45, each year
after the date of the certification by the county clerk of the "total
initial equalized assessed value", until economic development project costs
and all county obligations financing economic development
project costs have been paid, the ad valorem taxes, if any, arising from
the levies upon the taxable real property in the economic development
project area by taxing districts and tax rates determined in the manner
provided in subsection (b) of Section 45 shall be divided as follows:

(1) That portion of the taxes levied upon each

taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property that is attributable to the lower of the current equalized assessed value or the initial equalized assessed value of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property existing at the time tax increment financing was adopted shall be allocated to (and when collected shall be paid by the county collector to) the respective affected taxing districts in the manner required by law in the absence of the adoption of tax increment allocation financing.

(2) That portion, if any, of the taxes that is

attributable to the increase in the current equalized assessed valuation of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in the economic development project area, over and above the initial equalized assessed value of each property existing at the time tax increment financing was adopted, shall be allocated to (and when collected shall be paid to) the county treasurer, who shall deposit the taxes into a special fund (called the special tax allocation fund of the county) for the purpose of paying economic development project costs and obligations incurred in the payment of those costs.

(b) The county, by an ordinance adopting tax increment
allocation financing, may pledge the monies in and to be deposited into the
special tax allocation fund for the payment of obligations issued under
this Act and for the payment of economic development project costs.  No
part of the current equalized assessed valuation of each property in the
economic development project area attributable to any increase above the
total initial equalized assessed value of those properties shall be used in
calculating the general State aid formula under Section
18-8 of the School Code or the evidence-based funding formula under Section 18-8.15 of the School Code until all economic development
projects costs have been paid as provided for in this Section.

(c) When the economic development projects costs, including without
limitation all county obligations financing economic
development project costs incurred under this Act, have been paid, all
surplus monies then remaining in the special tax allocation fund shall be
distributed by being paid by the county treasurer to the
county collector, who shall immediately pay the monies to the
taxing districts having taxable property in the economic development
project area in the same manner and proportion as the most recent
distribution by the county collector to those taxing districts of real
property taxes from real property in the economic development project area.

(d) Upon the payment of all economic development project costs,
retirement of obligations, and distribution of any excess monies
under this Section, the county shall adopt an ordinance dissolving the
special tax allocation fund for the economic development project area and
terminating the designation of the economic development project area as an
economic development project area.  Thereafter, the rates of the taxing
districts shall be extended and taxes shall be levied, collected, and
distributed in the manner applicable in the absence of the adoption of tax
increment allocation financing.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed as relieving property in
the economic development project areas from being assessed as provided in
the Property Tax Code or as relieving owners of
that property from paying a uniform rate of taxes as required by Section 4 of
Article IX of the Illinois Constitution.

(Source: P.A. 100-465, eff. 8-31-17.)