96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1908

 

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/12-15
35 ILCS 200/12-20

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that publication fees are not to exceed stated amounts (instead of are stated amounts). Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
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 Sections 12-15 and 12-20 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/12-15)
7     Sec. 12-15. Publication fee - Counties of less than
8 3,000,000. The newspaper shall be paid a fee for publishing the
9 assessment list according to the following schedule:
10     (a) For a parcel listing including the name of the property
11 owner, a property index number and the total assessment, not to
12 exceed 80¢ per parcel;
13     (b) For a parcel listing including the name of the property
14 owner, a property index number, the assessed value of
15 improvements and the total assessment, not to exceed $1.20 per
16 parcel;
17     (c) For a parcel listing including the name of the property
18 owner, a legal description of the property and the total
19 assessment, not to exceed $1.20 per parcel;
20     (d) For a parcel listing including the name of the property
21 owner, a property index number, a legal description and the
22 total assessment, not to exceed $1.60 per parcel;
23     (e) For a parcel listing including the name of the property

 

 

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1 owner, a legal description, the assessed value of improvements
2 and the total assessment, not to exceed $1.60 per parcel;
3     (f) For a parcel listing including the name of the property
4 owner, a property index number, a legal description, the
5 assessed value of improvements and the total assessment, not to
6 exceed $2.00 per parcel; and
7     (g) For the preamble, headings, and any other explanatory
8 matter either required by law, or requested by the supervisor
9 of assessments, to be published, the newspaper's published rate
10 for such advertising.
11 (Source: P.A. 86-415; 86-1481; 87-1189; 88-455.)
 
12     (35 ILCS 200/12-20)
13     Sec. 12-20. Publication of assessments; counties of
14 3,000,000 or more. In counties with 3,000,000 or more
15 inhabitants, in each year of a general assessment, for each
16 county or assessment district therein if the county is divided
17 into assessment districts as provided in Section 9-220, the
18 county assessor shall publish a complete assessment list as
19 soon as the assessment is completed as required under this
20 Section. If the county assessor revises the assessment after
21 the complete assessment list is published, then the county
22 assessor must publish a subsequent list of all the revised
23 assessments for that year. In years other than years of a
24 general assessment or reassessment, the county assessor shall
25 cause to be published, within the time and in the manner

 

 

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1 described here, a complete list of assessments in which changes
2 are made together with the changes made in the valuation or
3 assessment of property since the last preceding assessment. The
4 publication shall contain a copy of the land value map for the
5 township, if required by the Department.
6     The publication of the assessments or the changes shall be
7 printed in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation
8 published in the county except that, in every township or
9 incorporated town which has superseded a civil township, in
10 which there is published one or more newspapers of general
11 circulation, the assessment list of each township shall be
12 published in one of the newspapers. In cities of more than
13 2,000,000 inhabitants, the assessment list of the city shall be
14 printed in one or more newspapers of general circulation
15 published in the township assessment district within the city
16 or, in the event a newspaper of general circulation is not
17 published within the township assessment district, in one or
18 more newspapers of general circulation published within the
19 city.
20     Any newspaper publishing an assessment list under this
21 Section is entitled to a fee not to exceed $0.40 of 40¢ per
22 column line for publishing the list.
23 (Source: P.A. 93-759, eff. 1-1-05.)
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.