96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1634

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Paul D. Froehlich

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/8-3-13   from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-13

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a hotel tax imposed by municipalities of 500,000 or more population.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 8-3-13 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/8-3-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-13)
7     Sec. 8-3-13. The The corporate authorities of any
8 municipality containing 500,000 or more inhabitants may impose
9 a tax prior to July 1, 1969, upon all persons engaged in the
10 municipality in the business of renting, leasing or letting
11 rooms in a hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation
12 Tax Act, at a rate not to exceed 1% of the gross rental
13 receipts from the renting, leasing or letting, excluding,
14 however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of the
15 renting, leasing or letting to permanent residents of that
16 hotel and proceeds from the tax imposed under subsection (c) of
17 Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
18 Act.
19     The tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and
20 all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof
21 shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of
22 Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the
23 Department to a lessor under the Hotel Operators' Occupation

 

 

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1 Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business
2 that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under
3 this Section without registering separately with the
4 Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this
5 Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and
6 enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due
7 hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in
8 the manner provided in this Section; and to determine all
9 rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous
10 payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of
11 and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons
12 who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights,
13 remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be
14 subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations,
15 penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes
16 of procedure, as are prescribed in the Hotel Operators'
17 Occupation Tax Act and the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as
18 fully as if the provisions contained in those Acts were set
19 forth herein.
20     Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be
21 made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
22 credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State
23 Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the
24 amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification
25 from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State
26 Treasurer out of the Illinois tourism tax fund.

 

 

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1     Persons subject to any tax imposed under authority granted
2 by this Section may reimburse themselves for their tax
3 liability for that tax by separately stating the tax as an
4 additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination,
5 in a single amount, with State tax imposed under the Hotel
6 Operators' Occupation Tax Act.
7     The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State
8 Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties
9 collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar
10 month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the
11 Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named
12 municipalities from which lessors have paid taxes or penalties
13 hereunder to the Department during the second preceding
14 calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality
15 shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected
16 hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the
17 Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of
18 refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the
19 Department on behalf of the municipality, less 4% of the
20 balance, which sum shall be retained by the State Treasurer to
21 cover the costs incurred by the Department in administering and
22 enforcing the provisions of this Section, as provided herein.
23 The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the
24 municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller
25 the amount so retained by the State Treasurer, which shall be
26 paid into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury.

 

 

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1     Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the
2 disbursement certification to the municipalities and the
3 General Revenue Fund provided for in this Section to be given
4 to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall
5 cause the warrants to be drawn for the respective amounts in
6 accordance with the directions contained in the certification.
7     Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
8 municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in
9 any business that, under the Constitution of the United States,
10 may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
11     An ordinance or resolution imposing a tax hereunder or
12 effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be effective on
13 the first day of the calendar month next following the
14 expiration of the publication period provided in Section 1-2-4
15 in respect to municipalities governed by that Section.
16     The corporate authorities of any municipality that levies a
17 tax authorized by this Section shall transmit to the Department
18 of Revenue on or not later than 5 days after the effective date
19 of the ordinance or resolution a certified copy of the
20 ordinance or resolution imposing the tax; whereupon, the
21 Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce
22 this Section on behalf of the municipality as of the effective
23 date of the ordinance or resolution. Upon a change in rate of a
24 tax levied hereunder, or upon the discontinuance of the tax,
25 the corporate authorities of the municipality shall, on or not
26 later than 5 days after the effective date of the ordinance or

 

 

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1 resolution discontinuing the tax or effecting a change in rate,
2 transmit to the Department of Revenue a certified copy of the
3 ordinance or resolution effecting the change or
4 discontinuance. The amounts disbursed to any municipality
5 under this Section shall be expended by the municipality solely
6 to promote tourism, conventions and other special events within
7 that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresidents to visit
8 the municipality.
9     Any municipality receiving and disbursing money under this
10 Section shall report on or before the first Monday in January
11 of each year to the Advisory Committee of the Illinois Tourism
12 Promotion Fund, created by Section 12 of the Illinois Promotion
13 Act. The reports shall specify the purposes for which the
14 disbursements were made and shall contain detailed amounts of
15 all receipts and disbursements under this Section.
16     This Section may be cited as the Tourism, Conventions and
17 Other Special Events Promotion Act of 1967.
18 (Source: P.A. 87-205; 87-733; 87-895.)