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| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5075 Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions allowing 2 or more contiguous townships to form a multi-township assessment district, provides that townships without township assessors may be a part in forming such districts.
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| | HB5075 | | LRB101 19350 AWJ 68822 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 2-15 as follows:
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| 6 | | (35 ILCS 200/2-15)
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| 7 | | Sec. 2-15. Voluntary establishment of multi-township |
| 8 | | assessment districts. Any 2 or more contiguous townships, |
| 9 | | including one or more townships without a township assessor, in |
| 10 | | any one county, other than townships
provided for in Sections |
| 11 | | 2-5 and 2-10, may by majority vote
of each board of trustees of
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| 12 | | the townships, form a multi-township assessment district |
| 13 | | comprising those
townships. This determination shall be made no |
| 14 | | later than October 1 of the year
preceding the year in which |
| 15 | | township officials are elected. If one or more of
those |
| 16 | | township assessor's offices is vacant, a determination to form |
| 17 | | a
multi-township assessment district may still be made at the |
| 18 | | time of that
vacancy. The assessor or assessors remaining in |
| 19 | | office in one or more of the
townships comprising the |
| 20 | | multi-township assessment district shall assume the
duties of |
| 21 | | multi-township assessor until a successor is elected or |
| 22 | | appointed and
qualified. If there is no township assessor |
| 23 | | remaining in office at the time or none of the townships have a |