093_HB2204

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to taxation.

 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 16-180 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 200/16-180)
 7        Sec.  16-180.   Procedure  for  determination  of correct
 8    assessment. The Property Tax Appeal Board shall establish  by
 9    rules  an  informal  procedure  for  the determination of the
10    correct assessment of property which is  the  subject  of  an
11    appeal.    The  procedure,  to  the  extent  that  the  Board
12    considers  practicable,  shall  eliminate  formal  rules   of
13    pleading,   practice   and   evidence,  and  except  for  any
14    reasonable filing fee determined by the  Board,  may  provide
15    that costs shall be in the discretion of the Board. A copy of
16    the  appellant's petition shall be mailed by the clerk of the
17    Property Tax Appeal Board to the board of review or board  of
18    appeals  whose decision is being appealed. In all cases where
19    a change in assessed valuation of $100,000 or more is sought,
20    the board of review or board of appeals shall serve a copy of
21    the petition on all taxing districts as  shown  on  the  last
22    available  tax  bill. The chairman of the Property Tax Appeal
23    Board shall provide  for  the  speedy  hearing  of  all  such
24    appeals.   Each appeal shall be limited to the grounds listed
25    in the petition filed with the  Property  Tax  Appeal  Board.
26    All  appeals  shall be considered de novo. Where no complaint
27    has been made to the board of review of the county where  the
28    property  is  located  and  the appeal is based solely on the
29    effect of an equalizing factor assigned to all property or to
30    a class of property by the board of review, the Property  Tax
31    Appeal  Board  shall  not  grant  a  reduction  in assessment
 
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 1    greater than the amount that was added as the result  of  the
 2    equalizing factor.
 3    (Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-671, eff. 8-14-96.)

 4        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 5    becoming law.