100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3085
 
Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Chapin Rose
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



35 ILCS 200/21-135

     Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning notice of application for judgment and sale, provides that, in the case of a drainage or retention basin serving a residential common area, notice shall also be given to each residential homeowner whose property is served by that drainage or retention basin.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning revenue.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 21-135 as follows:
 



6    (35 ILCS 200/21-135)



7    Sec. 21-135. Mailed notice of application for judgment and 
8sale. Not less
than 15 days before the date of application for 
9judgment and sale of delinquent
properties, the county 
10collector shall mail, by registered or certified mail, a
notice 
11of the forthcoming application for judgment and sale to the 
12person shown
by the current collector's warrant book to be the 
13party in whose name the taxes
were last assessed or to the 
14current owner of record and, if applicable, to the party 
15specified under Section
15-170. The notice shall include the 
16intended dates of application for judgment
and sale and 
17commencement of the sale, and a description of the properties. 
18The
county collector must present proof of the mailing to the 
19court along with the
application for judgement.

20    In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, a copy of 
21this notice shall
also be mailed by the county collector by 
22registered or certified mail to any
lienholder of record who 
23annually requests a copy of the notice. The failure of
the 
 
 
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1county collector to mail a notice or its non-delivery to the 
2lienholder
shall not affect the validity of the judgment.

3    In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, notice 
4shall not be mailed to
any person when, under Section 14-15, a 
5certificate of error has been executed
by the county assessor 
6or by both the
county assessor and board of
appeals (until the 
7first Monday in December 1998 and the board of
review
beginning

8the first Monday in December 1998 and thereafter),
except as 
9provided by court order under Section 21-120.

10    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of 
11a drainage or retention basin serving a residential common 
12area, notice shall also be given to each residential homeowner 
13whose property is served by that drainage or retention basin. 
14    The collector shall collect $10 from the proceeds of each 
15sale to cover
the costs of registered or certified mailing and 
16the costs of advertisement
and publication.
If a taxpayer pays 
17the taxes on the property after the notice of the
forthcoming 
18application for judgment and sale is mailed but before the sale 
19is
made, then the collector shall collect $10 from the taxpayer 
20to cover the costs
of registered or certified mailing and the 
21costs of advertisement and
publication.

22(Source: P.A. 93-899, eff. 8-10-04.)