(65 ILCS 5/9-3-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-3-20)
Sec. 9-3-20.
The judgment of the court shall be final as to all issues
involved and the proceedings in such case shall be subject to review by
appeal, as hereinafter provided, and not otherwise. However, by mutual
consent the judgment may be vacated or modified notwithstanding the
expiration of 30 days of the rendition of such judgment, except as
hereinafter provided.
Such judgments shall have the effect of several judgments as to each
tract or parcel of land assessed. No appeal from any such judgment shall
invalidate or delay the judgments except as to the property concerning
which the appeal is taken. Each installment of each judgment, shall have
the effect of several judgments. Foreclosure or sale of the property, to
enforce the collection of any one installment, shall not affect the lien
for any subsequent installment.
Such judgments shall be liens on behalf of the municipality making the
improvements and for the payment of which the special assessment is levied
on the property assessed from the date thereof until paid, to the same
extent and of equal force and validity as a lien for general taxes, or
until the property against which any such judgments or installment thereof
has been entered is sold to pay the same, as provided in this Division 3.
Nothing in this section shall interfere with the right of the petitioner
to abandon the proceedings, and for that purpose to vacate such judgments
at any time before commencing the actual collection of such assessment. The
court in which the judgment is rendered may enter an order vacating or
modifying such order of confirmation on motion of the petitioner entered at
any time after the expiration of 30 days from the rendition of such
judgment of confirmation upon a showing by the petitioner that no contract
was let or entered into for the making of such improvement within the time
fixed by law for the letting of the contract, or that the making of such
improvement under the original proceeding was never commenced, or that the
making of such improvement under the proceedings was abandoned. No judgment
entered in such proceedings so dismissed and vacated, shall be a bar to
another like or different improvement. However, after the contract for the
work is entered into, or bonds herein provided for in this Division 3 are
issued, no judgment shall be vacated or modified or any petition dismissed,
nor the collection of the assessment, in any way stayed or delayed, without
the consent of the contractor and bondholders.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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