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90_SB1867

      35 ILCS 200/2-60
          Amends the Property Tax Code to make a technical change.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Property Tax Code by changing Section
 2    2-60.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
 6    Section 2-60 as follows:
 7        (35 ILCS 200/2-60)
 8        Sec. 2-60.  Vacancies.
 9        (a)  When the voters in any  township  or  multi-township
10    assessment  district  fails  to  elect an assessor or when an
11    assessor's office becomes vacant for any reason specified  in
12    Section   25-2   of   the  Election  Code,  the  township  or
13    multi-township board of trustees shall fill  the  vacancy  in
14    townships   or   multi-township   assessment   districts   by
15    appointing  a person qualified as required under Section 2-45
16    or as revised by the Department under Section 2-52. A  person
17    appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  under this Section must be a
18    member of the same political party as the person vacating the
19    office if the person vacating the office was a member  of  an
20    established  political  party,  as defined in Section 10-2 of
21    the Election Code, that is still in existence at the time the
22    appointment is made.  The appointee shall  establish  his  or
23    her  political  party  affiliation  by  his  or her record of
24    voting in party primary elections or  by  holding  or  having
25    held  an  office in a political party organization before the
26    appointment.
27        (b)  In the alternative,  a  township  or  multi-township
28    assessment district shall contract with a person qualified as
29    required  under  Section 2-45 or as revised by the Department
30    under Section 2-52 to do the assessing at a cost  no  greater
31    than  the  maximum  salary  authorized  for  that township or
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 1    multi-township assessment district under Section 2-70.
 2    (Source: P.A.  88-455;  89-342,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-441,  eff.
 3    6-1-96.)

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