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92_SB1900

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning local government.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        "Section  5.  The  Township  Code  is amended by changing
 5    Section 235-15 as follows:

 6        (60 ILCS 1/235-15)
 7        Sec. 235-15.  Special tax for sidewalks, street lighting,
 8    or traffic control devices, or drainage ditches.
 9        (a)  The township board of a township in a county with  a
10    population  between 300,000 and 3,000,000 may provide for the
11    construction or installation  and  repair  of  sidewalks,  or
12    street  lighting,  or  traffic  control  devices, or drainage
13    ditches in the township along  or  upon  any  roads  and  may
14    provide  for the payment of the whole or any part of the cost
15    of the  construction,  installation,  or  repair  by  special
16    taxation  of  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts, or parcels of land
17    touching upon the road  near  or  on  which  a  sidewalk,  or
18    device,  or drainage ditch is ordered or otherwise benefiting
19    from the improvement, except that the property is not subject
20    to the tax if it  is  located  within  a  city,  village,  or
21    incorporated  town.   This special taxation may be by levying
22    the whole or any part of the cost  upon  each  of  the  lots,
23    blocks,  tracts, or parcels of land touching upon the road or
24    otherwise  benefiting  from  the   improvement,   pro   rata,
25    according  to  their  respective  values.   The values of the
26    lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land shall be  determined
27    by the last preceding assessment under the Property Tax Code.
28        (b)  Before  a  special  tax  may  be  levied  under this
29    Section, the township board shall by resolution set a day and
30    hour for a public hearing upon the proposed  improvement  for
31    which the tax is to be levied.  The hearing shall be held not
 
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 1    less   than  10  days  after  the  resolution  proposing  the
 2    improvement is adopted.  Notice of the time and place of  the
 3    public  hearing  shall be sent by mail directed to the person
 4    who paid the general taxes for the  last  preceding  year  on
 5    each  lot,  tract,  and  parcel  of real estate that is to be
 6    subject to the tax not less than 5 days before the  date  set
 7    for the public hearing.  The notice, in addition to the time,
 8    date,  and  place  of  the  public  hearing,  shall contain a
 9    general description of the proposed improvement including the
10    estimated cost of the improvement.
11        (c)  At the time and place fixed for the public  hearing,
12    the  township board shall meet and hear anyone desiring to be
13    heard upon the subject of the proposed improvement.   If  any
14    person  objects  to  the  proposed  improvement or any of the
15    elements of it, the corporate authorities  may  adopt  a  new
16    resolution  abandoning  the proposed scheme or adhering to it
17    or changing, altering, or modifying the extent, nature, kind,
18    or character of the proposed  scheme  as  it  considers  most
19    desirable.
20        (d)  If  the owners of 50% or more in number of the lots,
21    tracts, and parcels of real estate that are to be subject  to
22    the tax file written objections with the recording officer of
23    the  township,  the  township  board shall proceed no further
24    with the improvement and the same improvement shall not again
25    be initiated for a period of one year.
26        (e)  The  township  board  shall  proceed  to  prepare  a
27    special tax list  against  those  lots,  blocks,  tracts,  or
28    parcels  of  land subject to the special tax, ascertaining by
29    computation the  amount  of  special  taxes  and  the  annual
30    installments  of  those  taxes  to be charged against each of
31    those lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land on account  of
32    the  installation,  construction,  or repair according to the
33    rule fixed for the levy of that special tax by  the  township
34    board.
 
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 1        (f)  The special tax list shall be filed in the office of
 2    a specified officer or board, and this officer or board shall
 3    thereupon  issue  warrants directed to the township collector
 4    (or to the officer  designated  in  the  ordinance)  for  the
 5    collection  of  the  amount of special tax so ascertained and
 6    appearing from the special  tax  list  to  be  due  from  the
 7    respective  lots,  blocks,  tracts,  or parcels of land.  The
 8    aggregate amount of each special tax shall be divided into  5
 9    annual installments of equal amounts.
10        (g)  The township collector (or the officer designated to
11    collect  the  tax) shall file a copy of the ordinance and the
12    special tax list with the recorder of the county in which the
13    township is situated.  Upon  that  filing,  the  special  tax
14    becomes a lien upon each lot, block, tract, or parcel subject
15    to the special tax until all installments have been paid with
16    respect to the lot, block, tract, or parcel.
17        (h)  The  first  installment  shall be due and payable on
18    the second day of January next after the date  of  the  first
19    voucher  issued  on  account  of  the  work  done, the second
20    installment one year thereafter, and so on annually until all
21    installments are paid.  The specified officer or board  shall
22    file  in the office of the township collector (or the officer
23    designated to collect the tax) a certificate, signed  by  the
24    officer  or secretary of the board preparing the tax list, of
25    the date of the first  voucher  and  of  the  amount  of  the
26    voucher within 30 days after the issuance of the voucher.
27        (i)  All the installments shall bear interest as provided
28    in  the  ordinance  until paid, at a rate of not to exceed 6%
29    annually.  Interest on assessments shall begin  to  run  from
30    the date of the first voucher issued on account of work done.
31        (j)  In all cases, the township collector (or the officer
32    designated  to  collect the tax), whenever payment is made of
33    any installment, shall collect all interest that is due up to
34    the date of that payment, whether the payment is made  at  or
 
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 1    after  maturity.   Any  person  may at any time pay the whole
 2    assessment against any lot, block, tract, or parcel of  land,
 3    or any installment thereof, with interest as provided in this
 4    Section  up  to  the date of payment.  The township collector
 5    (or the officer designated to collect the tax) shall  proceed
 6    to  collect  the  warrants by mailing a written notice to the
 7    address of the party who last paid the general taxes  on  the
 8    respective  lots,  blocks,  tracts, or parcels of land in the
 9    list that the tax list is in his possession  for  collection.
10    All  money  collected  shall be immediately paid over by that
11    officer to the township.
12        (k)  The township collector (or the officer designated to
13    collect the tax) shall maintain as a permanent public  record
14    a list containing at least the following information:
15             (1)  A  description of all lots, blocks, tracts, and
16        parcels subject to the special tax.
17             (2)  The amount of the special tax assessed  against
18        each lot, block, tract, and parcel.
19             (3)  The installments that have been received by the
20        collecting officer.
21        (l)  Upon  failure to collect the special tax as provided
22    in this Section,  the  township  collector  (or  the  officer
23    designated to collect the tax), on or before the first day of
24    August  in  each  year,  shall  make a written report of this
25    special tax to the officer of the county authorized by law to
26    apply for judgment against and  sell  lands  for  taxes  due.
27    This  report shall also contain an enumeration of (i) all the
28    lots, blocks, tracts, or  parcels  of  land  upon  which  the
29    special  tax remains unpaid, (ii) the names of the respective
30    owners of those lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels  so  far  as
31    the  names  are  known  to  the collecting officer, (iii) the
32    amount due and unpaid upon each lot, block, tract, or parcel,
33    and (iv) a copy of the resolution or ordinance  ordering  the
34    installation,  construction,  or repair. This report shall be
 
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 1    accompanied by the oath of the officer that  the  list  is  a
 2    correct  return  of  the  lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of
 3    land on which the special tax  levied  by  authority  of  the
 4    township for the cost or partial cost, as the case may be, of
 5    the  sidewalk  or  device specified in that ordinance remains
 6    due and unpaid and that the amounts stated as due and  unpaid
 7    have  not  been  collected  either  in whole or in part. This
 8    report, when made as required in this  subsection,  is  prima
 9    facie evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law
10    in relation to making that return have been complied with and
11    that  the special tax, as mentioned in the report, is due and
12    unpaid.
13        (m)  When the specified officer of  the  county  receives
14    the  report,  he  or  she  shall  at  once  proceed to obtain
15    judgment against the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land
16    enumerated in the report for the special  tax  remaining  due
17    and  unpaid  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  by  law for
18    obtaining judgment against land  for  taxes  due  and  unpaid
19    under  the  Property  Tax  Code  and in the same manner shall
20    proceed to sell the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels for  the
21    special  tax  due  and unpaid. In obtaining this judgment and
22    making this sale, the specified officer shall be  subject  to
23    applicable  provisions of the Property Tax Code. The Property
24    Tax Code shall also apply to the execution of certificates of
25    sales and deeds and to the force and effect  of  these  sales
26    and  deeds. All other laws in relation to the enforcement and
27    collection of taxes and redemption from tax sales shall apply
28    to proceedings to collect the special tax.
29    (Source: P.A. 88-62; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

30        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
31    becoming law.".

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