SB2140 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2140

Introduced 1/14/2004, by Susan Garrett

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

35 ILCS 200/9-230

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the township or multi-township assessors in counties with 500,000 or more but no more than 700,000 inhabitants shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments (now, counties with less than 600,000 inhabitants must return the books on or before April 15). Effective January 1, 2005.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning property taxes.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing Section 9-230 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/9-230)

Sec. 9-230. Return of township or multi-township assessment books. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with less than 500,000 600,000 inhabitants shall, on or before April 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with 500,000 or more but no more than 700,000 inhabitants shall, on or before before October 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than 700,000 600,000 inhabitants, shall, on or before November 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments. If a township or multi-township assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than 500,000 600,000 inhabitants, does not return the assessment books or work books within the required time, the supervisor of assessments may take possession of the books and complete the assessments pursuant to law. Each of the books shall be verified by affidavit by the assessor substantially as follows: State of Illin ois) )ss. County of .......)

I do solemnly swear that the book or books .... in number, to which this affidavit is attached, conta ins a complete list of all of the property in the township or multi-township or assessment district herein described subje ct to taxation for the year .... so far as I have been able t o ascertain, and that the assessed value set down in the proper column opposite the descriptions of property is a just and equ al assessment of the property according to law. Dated ...............

If the supervisor of assessments determine s that the township or multi-township assessor has not completed the assessments as required by law before retu rning the assessment books under this Section, the county board may submit a bill to the township board of trustees for the rea sonable costs incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing the assessments. (Source: P.A. 85-1253; 88-455. ) Section 99. E ffective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2005.