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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 648
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 648 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Property Tax Code by changing
5 Section 12-10."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
9 Section 12-10 as follows:
10 (35 ILCS 200/12-10)
11 Sec. 12-10. Publication of assessments; counties of less
12 than 3,000,000. In counties with less than 3,000,000
13 inhabitants, as soon as the chief county assessment officer
14 has completed the assessment in the county or in the
15 assessment district, he or she shall, in each year of a
16 general assessment, publish for the county or assessment
17 district a complete list of the assessment, by townships if
18 so organized. In years other than years of a general
19 assessment, the chief county assessment officer shall publish
20 a list of property for which assessments have been added or
21 changed since the preceding assessment, together with the
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1 amounts of the assessments, except that publication of
2 individual assessment changes shall not be required if the
3 changes result from equalization by the supervisor of
4 assessments under Section 9-210, or Section 10-200, in which
5 case the list shall include a general statement indicating
6 that assessments have been changed because of the application
7 of an equalization factor and shall set forth the percentage
8 of increase or decrease represented by the factor. The
9 publication shall be made on or before December 31 of that
10 year, and shall be printed in some public newspaper or
11 newspapers published in the county. In every township or
12 assessment district in which there is published one or more
13 newspapers of general circulation, the list of that township
14 shall be published in one of the newspapers.
15 At the top of the list of assessments there shall be a
16 notice in substantially the following form printed in type no
17 smaller than 11 eleven point:
18 "NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
19 Median Level of Assessment--(insert here the median level
20 of assessment for the assessment district)
21 Your property is to be assessed at the above listed
22 median level of assessment for the assessment district. You
23 may check the accuracy of your assessment by dividing your
24 assessment by the median level of assessment. The resulting
25 value should equal the estimated fair cash value of your
26 property. If the resulting value is greater than the
27 estimated fair cash value of your property, you may be
28 over-assessed. If the resulting value is less than the fair
29 cash value of your property, you may be under-assessed. You
30 may appeal your assessment to the Board of Review."
31 The newspaper shall furnish to the local assessment
32 officers as many copies of the paper containing the
33 assessment list as they may require.
34 (Source: P.A. 86-415; 86-1481; 87-1189; 88-455.)".