93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5014

 

Introduced 2/5/2004, by Lou Lang, Robert S. Molaro

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/12-20

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that if a county assessor revises an assessment after the complete assessment list is published, then the county assessor must publish a subsequent list of all the revised assessments for that year.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

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 Section 12-20 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/12-20)
7     Sec. 12-20. Publication of assessments; counties of
8 3,000,000 or more. In counties with 3,000,000 or more
9 inhabitants, in each year of a general assessment, for each
10 county or assessment district therein if the county is divided
11 into assessment districts as provided in Section 9-220, the
12 county assessor shall publish a complete assessment list as
13 soon as the assessment is completed as required under this
14 Section. If the county assessor revises the assessment after
15 the complete assessment list is published, then the county
16 assessor must publish a subsequent list of all the revised
17 assessments for that year. In years other than years of a
18 general assessment or reassessment, the county assessor shall
19 cause to be published, within the time and in the manner
20 described here, a complete list of assessments in which changes
21 are made together with the changes made in the valuation or
22 assessment of property since the last preceding assessment. The
23 publication shall contain a copy of the land value map for the
24 township, if required by the Department.
25     The publication of the assessments or the changes shall be
26 printed in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation
27 published in the county except that, in every township or
28 incorporated town which has superseded a civil township, in
29 which there is published one or more newspapers of general
30 circulation, the assessment list of each township shall be
31 published in one of the newspapers. In cities of more than
32 2,000,000 inhabitants, the assessment list of the city shall be

 

 

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1 printed in one or more newspapers of general circulation
2 published in the township assessment district within the city
3 or, in the event a newspaper of general circulation is not
4 published within the township assessment district, in one or
5 more newspapers of general circulation published within the
6 city.
7     Any newspaper publishing an assessment list under this
8 Section is entitled to a fee of 40¢ per column line for
9 publishing the list.
10 (Source: P.A. 85-696; 86-1481; 88-455.)