93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4500

 

Introduced 02/03/04, by Robert S. Molaro

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/23-20
35 ILCS 200/23-35

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that there shall be deducted from any refund of taxes that would otherwise be ordered as the result of any rate objections that are sustained an amount equal to 5% of the objector's pro rata share of the refunds that were sought in any rate objections that are overruled. Includes additional situations under which an objection to a tax levied by a municipality shall not be sustained if certain conditions are met. Expands the means by which a municipality may meet those conditions. Provides that, for the purposes of tax objections based on budget or appropriation ordinances, "municipality" means all municipal corporations in, and political subdivisions of, this State (now, excepts from this definition a number of units of local government). Makes other changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning taxes.
 
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 Sections 23-20 and 23-35 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/23-20)
7     Sec. 23-20. Effect of protested payments; refunds. No
8 protest shall prevent or be a cause of delay in the
9 distribution of tax collections to the taxing districts of any
10 taxes collected which were not paid under protest. If the final
11 order of the Property Tax Appeal Board or of a court results in
12 a refund to the taxpayer, refunds shall be made by the
13 collector from funds remaining in the Protest Fund until such
14 funds are exhausted and thereafter from the next funds
15 collected beginning in the second full calendar year after
16 entry of the final order until full payment of the refund and
17 interest thereon has been made. There shall be deducted from
18 any refund of taxes that would otherwise be ordered as a result
19 of any rate objections that are sustained an amount equal to 5%
20 of the objector's pro rata share of the refunds that were
21 sought in any rate objections that are overruled; provided,
22 however, that objections that are voluntarily dismissed shall
23 not be construed as objections that are overruled and provided
24 that the deduction resulting from overruled rate objections
25 shall not exceed the refund that would otherwise have been
26 ordered as a result of rate objections that are sustained.
27 Interest from the date of payment, regardless of whether the
28 payment was made before the effective date of this amendatory
29 Act of 1997, or from the date payment is due, whichever is
30 later, to the date of refund shall also be paid to the taxpayer
31 at the rate of 5% per year. The changes made by this amendatory
32 Act of the 93rd General Assembly apply to all final refund

 

 

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1 orders entered on or after the effective date of this
2 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
3 (Source: P.A. 90-556, eff. 12-12-97.)
 
4     (35 ILCS 200/23-35)
5     Sec. 23-35. Tax objection based on budget or appropriation
6 ordinance. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 23-10, no
7 objection to any property tax levied by any municipality shall
8 be sustained by any court because of (i) the forms of any
9 budget or appropriation ordinance, or the degree of itemization
10 or classification of items therein, or the reasonableness of
11 any amount budgeted or appropriated thereby or (ii) the
12 transfer of assets from one fund or use to another fund or use,
13 or any other matter that is included in the budget or
14 appropriation ordinance and could be cured prior to the
15 adoption of the final budget and appropriation ordinance, if:
16         (a) a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance was
17     prepared at the direction of the governing body of the
18     municipality and made conveniently available to public
19     inspection for at least 30 days prior to the public hearing
20     specified below and to final action thereon, or any other
21     time that may be required by the municipality's enabling
22     act;
23         (b) at least one public hearing has been held by the
24     governing body as to the tentative budget and appropriation
25     ordinance prior to final action thereon, and notice of the
26     time and place where copies of the tentative budget and
27     appropriation ordinances are available for public
28     inspection, and the time and place of the hearing, has been
29     given by publication in a newspaper published in the
30     municipality at least 30 days prior to the time of the
31     hearing, or any other time that may be required by the
32     municipality's enabling act, or, if there is no newspaper
33     published in the municipality, notice of the public hearing
34     has been given by publication in a newspaper of general
35     circulation in the municipality; and

 

 

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1         (c) the budget and appropriation ordinance finally
2     adopted is substantially identical, as to the matters to
3     which objection is made, with the tentative budget and
4     appropriation ordinance submitted for discussion at the
5     public hearing, unless the taxpayer making the objection
6     has made the same objection in writing and with the same
7     specificity to the governing body of the municipality on or
8     prior to the date of the public hearing adoption of the
9     budget and appropriation ordinance.
10     "Municipality", as used in this Section, means all
11 municipal corporations in, and political subdivisions of, this
12 State except the following: counties; cities, villages and
13 incorporated towns; sanitary districts created under the
14 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; forest preserve
15 districts having a population of 3,000,000 or more, created
16 under the Cook County Forest Preserve Park District Act; boards
17 of education of school districts in cities exceeding 1,000,000
18 inhabitants; the Chicago Park District created under the
19 Chicago Park District Act; and park districts as defined in
20 subsection (b) of Section 1-3 of the Park District Code.
21     The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
22 Assembly apply to all property tax levies based on budgets or
23 appropriation ordinances adopted on or after the effective date
24 of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
25 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
26     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
27 becoming law.