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90_HB1120

      35 ILCS 200/1-130
      35 ILCS 515/1             from Ch. 120, par. 1201
          Amends the  Property  Tax  Code  and  Mobile  Home  Local
      Services  Tax Act concerning the definition and taxability of
      mobile homes under those Acts. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT concerning taxes, amending named Acts.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  5.  The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
 5    Section 1-130 as follows:
 6        (35 ILCS 200/1-130)
 7        Sec. 1-130.  Property; real property; real estate;  land;
 8    tract; lot.
 9        (a)  The  land itself, with all things contained therein,
10    and also all  buildings,  structures  and  improvements,  and
11    other  permanent  fixtures  thereon,  including all oil, gas,
12    coal and other minerals in the land and the right  to  remove
13    oil,  gas  and other minerals, excluding coal, from the land,
14    and  all  rights  and  privileges  belonging  or   pertaining
15    thereto, except where otherwise specified by this Code.
16        (b)  Included  therein is any vehicle or similar portable
17    structure used or so constructed as to permit its  use  as  a
18    dwelling  place,  if  the structure is connected to water and
19    sewerage systems, water and septic systems, or  other  public
20    utilities,  except a "mobile home" as defined in Section 1 of
21    the Mobile Home Local Services  Tax  Act.   Those  structures
22    that are not taxable under the Mobile Home Local Services Tax
23    Act (i) are improvements on the real property upon which they
24    are situated and shall be reflected in the assessment of that
25    real  property  and  (ii) shall have the taxes levied on that
26    property extended  and  billed  to  the  owner  of  the  real
27    property is resting in whole on a permanent foundation.
28    (Source: P.A. 86-1481; 87-877; 88-455.)
29        Section  10.   The  Mobile Home Local Services Tax Act is
30    amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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 1        (35 ILCS 515/1) (from Ch. 120, par. 1201)
 2        Sec. 1.  As used in  this  Act,  "mobile  home"  means  a
 3    factory assembled structure designed for permanent habitation
 4    and  so  constructed  as  to  permit its transport on wheels,
 5    temporarily or permanently attached to its  frame,  from  the
 6    place  of  its  construction  to  the location, or subsequent
 7    locations, and placement on a temporary foundation, at  which
 8    it  is intended to be a permanent habitation, and situated so
 9    as to permit the occupancy thereof as a  dwelling  place  for
10    one or more persons, provided that any such structure resting
11    outside  a mobile home park, as defined in Section 2 in whole
12    on a permanent foundation,  with  wheels,  tongue  and  hitch
13    removed at the time of registration provided for in Section 4
14    of  this  Act, shall not be construed as a "mobile home", but
15    shall be assessed and taxed as real property  as  defined  by
16    Section 1-130 of the Property Tax Code. Mobile homes owned by
17    a  corporation  or partnership and on which personal property
18    taxes are paid as required under  the  Revenue  Act  of  1939
19    shall  not  be subject to this tax. Mobile homes located on a
20    dealer's lot for resale purposes or as an office shall not be
21    subject to this tax.
22    (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
23        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
24    becoming law.

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