(65 ILCS 5/11-84-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-1)
Sec. 11-84-1.
In addition to any other manner authorized by law, any
municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the construction and repair of
sidewalks therein, along or upon any streets or part of streets therein.
The corporate authorities, by that ordinance, may provide for the payment
of the whole or any part of the cost thereof by special taxation of the
lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land touching upon the line where such
a sidewalk is ordered. This special taxation may be either by levying the
whole or any part of the cost thereof upon each of the lots, blocks,
tracts, or parcels of land touching upon the line of the sidewalk, pro
rata, according to their respective values. The values of the lots, blocks,
tracts, or parcels of land shall be determined by the last preceding
assessment thereof for the purpose of state and county taxation. Or the
whole or any part of the cost thereof may be levied upon such lots, blocks,
tracts, or parcels of land in proportion to their frontage upon such
sidewalk, or in proportion to their superficial area, as may be provided by
ordinance ordering the laying down of the sidewalk. In case the ordinance
only requires a part of the cost of the sidewalk to be paid by a special
tax as provided in this section, the residue of the cost shall be paid out
of any fund of the municipality raised by general taxation upon the
property in the municipality and not otherwise appropriated. Such a
municipality, by one and the same ordinance, may provide for the
construction or repair of sidewalks under this article on 2 or more
streets, or parts of streets, or on one or both sides of any street or
streets, whenever the sidewalks are so connected, or otherwise related, as
to constitute a single system of improvement. A duplicate copy of the
ordinance, duly certified by law, shall be delivered by the clerk of the
municipality to the recorder of deeds of each county in which any part of
the property is located not less than 30 days before commencement of any
construction by the municipality as specified hereinafter in this Division
84. Each recorder shall record the copy and keep it as part of the
permanent records of the office of such recorder. Such special taxes are a
lien upon the property against which they are charged from the date upon
which a copy of said ordinance is filed or recorded, which lien is
discharged when the tax has been paid or the property has been sold
pursuant to Section 11-84-5 of this Act.
When the tax has been fully paid, the corporate authorities of the
municipality shall execute and record, in the recorder's office of the
county in which the land is located, a release of the lien of the taxes so
paid, and shall deliver a copy of the release to the owner of the property.
(Source: P.A. 85-1252.)
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