100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB0849

 

Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/23-35

    Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning tax objections based on budget or appropriation ordinances, provides that no objection to any property tax levied by any municipality or county (rather than by any municipality) shall be sustained by any court under certain conditions. Removes forest preserve districts having a population of 3,000,000 or more from the definition of "municipality" in those provisions. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5Section 23-35 as follows:
 
6    (35 ILCS 200/23-35)
7    Sec. 23-35. Tax objection based on budget or appropriation
8ordinance. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 23-10, no
9objection to any property tax levied by any municipality or
10county shall be sustained by any court because of the forms of
11any budget or appropriation ordinance, or the degree of
12itemization or classification of items therein, or the
13reasonableness of any amount budgeted or appropriated thereby,
14if:
15        (a) a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance was
16    prepared at the direction of the governing body of the
17    municipality and made conveniently available to public
18    inspection for at least 30 days prior to the public hearing
19    specified below and to final action thereon;
20        (b) at least one public hearing has been held by the
21    governing body as to the tentative budget and appropriation
22    ordinance prior to final action thereon, and notice of the
23    time and place where copies of the tentative budget and

 

 

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1    appropriation ordinances are available for public
2    inspection, and the time and place of the hearing, has been
3    given by publication in a newspaper published in the
4    municipality at least 30 days prior to the time of the
5    hearing, or, if there is no newspaper published in the
6    municipality, notice of the public hearing has been given
7    by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the
8    municipality; and
9        (c) the budget and appropriation ordinance finally
10    adopted is substantially identical, as to the matters to
11    which objection is made, with the tentative budget and
12    appropriation ordinance submitted at the public hearing,
13    unless the taxpayer making the objection has made the same
14    objection in writing and with the same specificity to the
15    governing body of the municipality prior to the adoption of
16    the budget and appropriation ordinance.
17    "Municipality", as used in this Section, means all
18municipal corporations in, and political subdivisions of, this
19State except the following: counties; cities, villages and
20incorporated towns; sanitary districts created under the
21Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; forest preserve
22districts having a population of 3,000,000 or more, created
23under the Cook County Forest Preserve Park District Act; boards
24of education of school districts in cities exceeding 1,000,000
25inhabitants; the Chicago Park District created under the
26Chicago Park District Act; and park districts as defined in

 

 

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1subsection (b) of Section 1-3 of the Park District Code.
2(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.