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90_HB0648
35 ILCS 200/12-10
35 ILCS 200/12-15
Amends the Property Tax Code. Allows the county board of
Stephenson County to establish, by ordinance, a 3-year pilot
project in which the chief county assessment officer
determines the fee for publishing the assessment list by a
competitive bidding process. Provides that the pilot program
shall allow the assessor to publish information not required
to be published. Requires the list to contain the street name
and street or house number or, if the property does not have
a street name and street house number, then the property
index number. Allows the assessments to be published in a
newspaper circulated in the county rather than published in
the county. Effective January 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Property Tax Code by changing
2 Sections 12-10 and 12-15.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
6 Sections 12-10 and 12-15 as follows:
7 (35 ILCS 200/12-10)
8 Sec. 12-10. Publication of assessments; counties of less
9 than 3,000,000. In counties with less than 3,000,000
10 inhabitants, as soon as the chief county assessment officer
11 has completed the assessment in the county or in the
12 assessment district, he or she shall, in each year of a
13 general assessment, publish for the county or assessment
14 district a complete list of the assessment, by townships if
15 so organized. In years other than years of a general
16 assessment, the chief county assessment officer shall publish
17 a list of property for which assessments have been added or
18 changed since the preceding assessment, together with the
19 amounts of the assessments, except that publication of
20 individual assessment changes shall not be required if the
21 changes result from equalization by the supervisor of
22 assessments under Section 9-210, or Section 10-200, in which
23 case the list shall include a general statement indicating
24 that assessments have been changed because of the application
25 of an equalization factor and shall set forth the percentage
26 of increase or decrease represented by the factor. The
27 publication shall be made on or before December 31 of that
28 year, and shall be printed in some public newspaper or
29 newspapers published in the county, except that a county that
30 has established a pilot project under Section 12-15 may
31 publish in a newspaper circulated in the county. In every
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1 township or assessment district in which there is published
2 one or more newspapers of general circulation, the list of
3 that township shall be published in one of the newspapers.
4 At the top of the list of assessments there shall be a
5 notice in substantially the following form printed in type no
6 smaller than eleven point:
7 "NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
8 Median Level of Assessment--(insert here the median level
9 of assessment for the assessment district)
10 Your property is to be assessed at the above listed
11 median level of assessment for the assessment district. You
12 may check the accuracy of your assessment by dividing your
13 assessment by the median level of assessment. The resulting
14 value should equal the estimated fair cash value of your
15 property. If the resulting value is greater than the
16 estimated fair cash value of your property, you may be
17 over-assessed. If the resulting value is less than the fair
18 cash value of your property, you may be under-assessed. You
19 may appeal your assessment to the Board of Review."
20 The newspaper shall furnish to the local assessment
21 officers as many copies of the paper containing the
22 assessment list as they may require.
23 (Source: P.A. 86-415; 86-1481; 87-1189; 88-455.)
24 (35 ILCS 200/12-15)
25 Sec. 12-15. Publication fee - Counties of less than
26 3,000,000. The newspaper shall be paid a fee for publishing
27 the assessment list according to the following schedule:
28 (a) For a parcel listing including the name of the
29 property owner, a property index number and the total
30 assessment, 80¢ per parcel;
31 (b) For a parcel listing including the name of the
32 property owner, a property index number, the assessed value
33 of improvements and the total assessment, $1.20 per parcel;
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1 (c) For a parcel listing including the name of the
2 property owner, a legal description of the property and the
3 total assessment, $1.20 per parcel;
4 (d) For a parcel listing including the name of the
5 property owner, a property index number, a legal description
6 and the total assessment, $1.60 per parcel;
7 (e) For a parcel listing including the name of the
8 property owner, a legal description, the assessed value of
9 improvements and the total assessment, $1.60 per parcel;
10 (f) For a parcel listing including the name of the
11 property owner, a property index number, a legal description,
12 the assessed value of improvements and the total assessment,
13 $2.00 per parcel; and
14 (g) For the preamble, headings, and any other
15 explanatory matter either required by law, or requested by
16 the supervisor of assessments, to be published, the
17 newspaper's published rate for such advertising.
18 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the
19 county board of Stephenson County may, by ordinance,
20 establish a 3-year pilot project in which the chief county
21 assessment officer determines the fee for publishing the
22 assessment list by a competitive bidding process. The pilot
23 program shall allow the assessor to publish information not
24 required by Section 12-25. The list published by the assessor
25 under a pilot program established under this Section shall
26 include the street name and street or house number. If the
27 property does not have a street name and street or house
28 number, then the property index number shall be used.
29 (Source: P.A. 86-415; 86-1481; 87-1189; 88-455.)
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
31 January 1, 1998.