(35 ILCS 200/20-35)
Sec. 20-35.
Investments by county collector.
The county collector shall, as
provided in Section 2 of the Public Funds Investment Act, invest and reinvest
the proceeds of the lesser of any taxes paid under protest or funds withheld
from distribution and held in a Protest Fund, as provided in Section 23-20.
The investments shall be obligations of the United States Government maturing
not more than 91 days after the date of purchase, or savings accounts,
including certificates of deposit, investment certificates or time deposit open
accounts, in banks or savings and loan associations insured by the United
States or other federal agency. Investments made in obligations of the United
States Government shall be at then existing market price and in any event not
to exceed par plus accrued interest. The cost price of the obligations and all
savings accounts in banks or savings and loan associations
shall be considered as cash in the custody of the county collector. All
earnings accruing on any Protest Fund investment or bank or savings
and loan association savings account in excess of those amounts paid as
interest on moneys refunded to taxpayers shall be credited to and paid into
the county corporate fund, except as provided in Section 23-20.
No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds under this
Section unless it has complied with Section 6 of the Public Funds Investment
Act.
After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, no additional
funds
shall be deposited into a Protest Fund, other than interest on investments of
funds that were deposited into a Protest Fund prior to this amendatory Act of
1997.
(Source: P.A. 90-556, eff. 12-12-97.)
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