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91_SB0053

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
 2    Sections 11-74.4-3 and 11-74.4-7.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.   The  Illinois  Municipal Code is amended by
 6    changing Sections 11-74.4-3 and 11-74.4-7 as follows:

 7        (65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-3)
 8        Sec.  11-74.4-3.   Definitions.   The  following   terms,
 9    wherever used or referred to in this Division 74.4 shall have
10    the  following  respective  meanings,  unless  in  any case a
11    different meaning clearly appears from the context.
12        (a)  "Blighted area" means any improved  or  vacant  area
13    within the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located
14    within  the  territorial limits of the municipality where, if
15    improved, industrial, commercial and residential buildings or
16    improvements, because of a combination of 5 or  more  of  the
17    following    factors:    age;   dilapidation;   obsolescence;
18    deterioration; illegal use of individual structures; presence
19    of  structures  below  minimum  code   standards;   excessive
20    vacancies;   overcrowding   of   structures   and   community
21    facilities;   lack   of   ventilation,   light   or  sanitary
22    facilities; inadequate utilities;  excessive  land  coverage;
23    deleterious  land  use  or  layout;  depreciation of physical
24    maintenance; lack of community planning,  is  detrimental  to
25    the  public  safety, health, morals or welfare, or if vacant,
26    the sound growth of the taxing districts is impaired by,  (1)
27    a combination of 2 or more of the following factors: obsolete
28    platting  of  the vacant land; diversity of ownership of such
29    land; tax and special assessment delinquencies on such  land;
30    flooding on all or part of such vacant land; deterioration of
31    structures or site improvements in neighboring areas adjacent
 
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 1    to  the  vacant  land,  or  (2) the area immediately prior to
 2    becoming vacant qualified as a blighted improved area, or (3)
 3    the area consists of an unused quarry or unused quarries,  or
 4    (4)  the  area  consists  of unused railyards, rail tracks or
 5    railroad  rights-of-way,  or  (5)  the  area,  prior  to  its
 6    designation, is subject to chronic flooding  which  adversely
 7    impacts  on  real  property  in the area and such flooding is
 8    substantially caused by one or more  improvements  in  or  in
 9    proximity  to  the  area  which  improvements  have  been  in
10    existence  for  at least 5 years, or (6) the area consists of
11    an unused disposal site, containing  earth,  stone,  building
12    debris   or   similar   material,  which  were  removed  from
13    construction, demolition, excavation or dredge sites, or  (7)
14    the  area is not less than 50 nor more than 100 acres and 75%
15    of which is vacant, notwithstanding the fact that  such  area
16    has  been  used for commercial agricultural purposes within 5
17    years prior to the designation of the  redevelopment  project
18    area,  and  which  area  meets  at  least  one of the factors
19    itemized in provision (1) of this  subsection  (a),  and  the
20    area  has  been  designated  as  a  town or village center by
21    ordinance or comprehensive plan adopted prior to  January  1,
22    1982, and the area has not been developed for that designated
23    purpose.
24        (b)  "Conservation  area"  means any improved area within
25    the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located within
26    the territorial limits of the municipality in  which  50%  or
27    more of the structures in the area have an age of 35 years or
28    more.   Such  an  area is not yet a blighted area but because
29    of a combination of 3  or  more  of  the  following  factors:
30    dilapidation;  obsolescence;  deterioration;  illegal  use of
31    individual structures; presence of structures  below  minimum
32    code    standards;    abandonment;    excessive    vacancies;
33    overcrowding  of structures and community facilities; lack of
34    ventilation,  light  or   sanitary   facilities;   inadequate
 
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 1    utilities;  excessive  land coverage; deleterious land use or
 2    layout;  depreciation  of  physical  maintenance;   lack   of
 3    community  planning,  is  detrimental  to  the public safety,
 4    health, morals or welfare and  such  an  area  may  become  a
 5    blighted area.
 6        (c)  "Industrial  park"  means  an  area in a blighted or
 7    conservation area suitable  for  use  by  any  manufacturing,
 8    industrial,   research   or   transportation  enterprise,  of
 9    facilities to include but not be limited to factories, mills,
10    processing   plants,   assembly   plants,   packing   plants,
11    fabricating   plants,   industrial   distribution    centers,
12    warehouses,  repair  overhaul  or service facilities, freight
13    terminals, research facilities, test facilities  or  railroad
14    facilities.
15        (d)  "Industrial  park  conservation  area" means an area
16    within the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located
17    within the territorial limits of a  municipality  that  is  a
18    labor  surplus  municipality  or  within  1  1/2 miles of the
19    territorial limits of a municipality that is a labor  surplus
20    municipality  if  the  area  is  annexed to the municipality;
21    which area is zoned as industrial no later than at  the  time
22    the  municipality  by  ordinance designates the redevelopment
23    project area,  and  which  area  includes  both  vacant  land
24    suitable for use as an industrial park and a blighted area or
25    conservation area contiguous to such vacant land.
26        (e)  "Labor surplus municipality" means a municipality in
27    which,   at   any   time  during  the  6  months  before  the
28    municipality  by  ordinance  designates  an  industrial  park
29    conservation area, the unemployment rate was over 6% and  was
30    also  100%  or more of the national average unemployment rate
31    for  that  same  time  as  published  in  the  United  States
32    Department of Labor Bureau of  Labor  Statistics  publication
33    entitled   "The   Employment   Situation"  or  its  successor
34    publication.  For  the  purpose  of   this   subsection,   if
 
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 1    unemployment  rate  statistics  for  the municipality are not
 2    available, the unemployment rate in the municipality shall be
 3    deemed to be  the  same  as  the  unemployment  rate  in  the
 4    principal county in which the municipality is located.
 5        (f)  "Municipality"   shall   mean  a  city,  village  or
 6    incorporated town.
 7        (g)  "Initial Sales Tax  Amounts"  means  the  amount  of
 8    taxes  paid  under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, Use Tax
 9    Act, Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, the
10    Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act,  and  the  Municipal
11    Service  Occupation  Tax  Act  by retailers and servicemen on
12    transactions at places located in a State Sales Tax  Boundary
13    during the calendar year 1985.
14        (g-1)  "Revised  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts"  means the
15    amount of taxes paid under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act,
16    Use Tax Act, Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation  Tax
17    Act,  the  Municipal  Retailers'  Occupation Tax Act, and the
18    Municipal  Service  Occupation  Tax  Act  by  retailers   and
19    servicemen on transactions at places located within the State
20    Sales  Tax Boundary revised pursuant to Section 11-74.4-8a(9)
21    of this Act.
22        (h)  "Municipal Sales  Tax  Increment"  means  an  amount
23    equal  to  the increase in the aggregate amount of taxes paid
24    to a municipality from the Local Government Tax Fund  arising
25    from   sales   by   retailers   and   servicemen  within  the
26    redevelopment project area or State Sales  Tax  Boundary,  as
27    the  case  may  be,  for as long as the redevelopment project
28    area or State Sales Tax Boundary, as the case may  be,  exist
29    over  and above the aggregate amount of taxes as certified by
30    the  Illinois  Department  of  Revenue  and  paid  under  the
31    Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax  Act  and  the  Municipal
32    Service  Occupation  Tax  Act by retailers and servicemen, on
33    transactions  at  places   of   business   located   in   the
34    redevelopment  project  area  or State Sales Tax Boundary, as
 
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 1    the case may be, during the base  year  which  shall  be  the
 2    calendar  year  immediately  prior  to  the year in which the
 3    municipality adopted tax increment allocation financing.  For
 4    purposes of computing the aggregate amount of such taxes  for
 5    base years occurring prior to 1985, the Department of Revenue
 6    shall  determine the Initial Sales Tax Amounts for such taxes
 7    and deduct therefrom an amount equal to 4% of  the  aggregate
 8    amount of taxes per year for each year the base year is prior
 9    to  1985,  but  not  to exceed a total deduction of 12%.  The
10    amount so determined shall be known as the "Adjusted  Initial
11    Sales   Tax   Amounts".   For  purposes  of  determining  the
12    Municipal Sales Tax  Increment,  the  Department  of  Revenue
13    shall  for  each  period subtract from the amount paid to the
14    municipality from the Local Government Tax Fund arising  from
15    sales  by retailers and servicemen on transactions located in
16    the  redevelopment  project  area  or  the  State  Sales  Tax
17    Boundary, as the case may be, the certified Initial Sales Tax
18    Amounts, the  Adjusted  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts  or  the
19    Revised   Initial   Sales   Tax  Amounts  for  the  Municipal
20    Retailers' Occupation  Tax  Act  and  the  Municipal  Service
21    Occupation  Tax  Act.   For  the State Fiscal Year 1989, this
22    calculation shall be made by utilizing the calendar year 1987
23    to determine the tax amounts received.  For the State  Fiscal
24    Year  1990,  this  calculation shall be made by utilizing the
25    period from January 1, 1988, until  September  30,  1988,  to
26    determine   the  tax  amounts  received  from  retailers  and
27    servicemen pursuant to the  Municipal  Retailers'  Occupation
28    Tax and the Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act, which shall
29    have   deducted  therefrom  nine-twelfths  of  the  certified
30    Initial Sales Tax Amounts, the  Adjusted  Initial  Sales  Tax
31    Amounts   or   the  Revised  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts  as
32    appropriate. For the State Fiscal Year 1991, this calculation
33    shall be made by utilizing the period from October  1,  1988,
34    to  June 30, 1989, to determine the tax amounts received from
 
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 1    retailers and servicemen pursuant to the Municipal Retailers'
 2    Occupation Tax and the Municipal Service Occupation  Tax  Act
 3    which  shall  have  deducted  therefrom  nine-twelfths of the
 4    certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted  Initial  Sales
 5    Tax  Amounts  or  the  Revised  Initial  Sales Tax Amounts as
 6    appropriate. For every  State  Fiscal  Year  thereafter,  the
 7    applicable period shall be the 12 months beginning July 1 and
 8    ending  June  30  to determine the tax amounts received which
 9    shall have deducted therefrom the certified Initial Sales Tax
10    Amounts, the  Adjusted  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts  or  the
11    Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts, as the case may be.
12        (i)  "Net State Sales Tax Increment" means the sum of the
13    following:  (a)  80% of the first $100,000 of State Sales Tax
14    Increment  annually  generated  within  a  State  Sales   Tax
15    Boundary; (b) 60% of the amount in excess of $100,000 but not
16    exceeding  $500,000  of  State  Sales  Tax Increment annually
17    generated within a State Sales Tax Boundary; and (c)  40%  of
18    all  amounts  in  excess  of  $500,000  of  State  Sales  Tax
19    Increment   annually  generated  within  a  State  Sales  Tax
20    Boundary.  If, however,  a  municipality  established  a  tax
21    increment financing district in a county with a population in
22    excess   of   3,000,000  before  January  1,  1986,  and  the
23    municipality entered into a contract or  issued  bonds  after
24    January  1,  1986,  but  before December 31, 1986, to finance
25    redevelopment  project  costs  within  a  State   Sales   Tax
26    Boundary,  then  the Net State Sales Tax Increment means, for
27    the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1990, and  July  1,  1991,
28    100%  of  the  State  Sales  Tax Increment annually generated
29    within a State Sales Tax Boundary;  and  notwithstanding  any
30    other  provision  of  this  Act,  for  those fiscal years the
31    Department   of   Revenue   shall   distribute    to    those
32    municipalities  100%  of  their Net State Sales Tax Increment
33    before  any  distribution  to  any  other  municipality   and
34    regardless  of whether or not those other municipalities will
 
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 1    receive 100% of their Net State  Sales  Tax  Increment.   For
 2    Fiscal  Year  1999,  and every year thereafter until the year
 3    2007, for any  municipality  that  has  not  entered  into  a
 4    contract  or  has  not  issued bonds prior to June 1, 1988 to
 5    finance redevelopment project costs within a State Sales  Tax
 6    Boundary,   the  Net  State  Sales  Tax  Increment  shall  be
 7    calculated as follows: By multiplying the Net State Sales Tax
 8    Increment by 90% in the State Fiscal Year 1999;  80%  in  the
 9    State  Fiscal  Year  2000; 70% in the State Fiscal Year 2001;
10    60% in the State Fiscal Year 2002; 50% in  the  State  Fiscal
11    Year  2003;  40%  in  the  State Fiscal Year 2004; 30% in the
12    State Fiscal Year 2005; 20% in the State  Fiscal  Year  2006;
13    and  10%  in  the State Fiscal Year 2007. No payment shall be
14    made for State Fiscal Year 2008 and thereafter.
15        Municipalities that issued bonds  in  connection  with  a
16    redevelopment  project in a redevelopment project area within
17    the State Sales Tax Boundary prior to July  29,  1991,  shall
18    continue  to receive their proportional share of the Illinois
19    Tax Increment Fund distribution until the date on  which  the
20    redevelopment project is completed or terminated, or the date
21    on  which the bonds are retired, whichever date occurs first.
22    Refunding of any bonds issued prior to July 29,  1991,  shall
23    not alter the Net State Sales Tax Increment.
24        (j)  "State Utility Tax Increment Amount" means an amount
25    equal to the aggregate increase in State electric and gas tax
26    charges imposed on owners and tenants, other than residential
27    customers,  of  properties  located  within the redevelopment
28    project area under Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act,
29    over and above the aggregate of such charges as certified  by
30    the  Department  of  Revenue  and paid by owners and tenants,
31    other than residential customers, of  properties  within  the
32    redevelopment  project area during the base year, which shall
33    be the calendar year immediately prior to  the  year  of  the
34    adoption   of   the   ordinance   authorizing  tax  increment
 
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 1    allocation financing.
 2        (k)  "Net State Utility Tax Increment" means the  sum  of
 3    the following: (a) 80% of the first $100,000 of State Utility
 4    Tax  Increment  annually generated by a redevelopment project
 5    area; (b) 60% of the amount in excess  of  $100,000  but  not
 6    exceeding   $500,000  of  the  State  Utility  Tax  Increment
 7    annually generated by a redevelopment project area;  and  (c)
 8    40% of all amounts in excess of $500,000 of State Utility Tax
 9    Increment annually generated by a redevelopment project area.
10    For  the  State  Fiscal  Year 1999, and every year thereafter
11    until the year  2007,  for  any  municipality  that  has  not
12    entered into a contract or has not issued bonds prior to June
13    1,  1988  to  finance  redevelopment  project  costs within a
14    redevelopment  project  area,  the  Net  State  Utility   Tax
15    Increment  shall be calculated as follows: By multiplying the
16    Net State Utility Tax Increment by 90% in  the  State  Fiscal
17    Year  1999;  80%  in  the  State Fiscal Year 2000; 70% in the
18    State Fiscal Year 2001; 60% in the State  Fiscal  Year  2002;
19    50%  in  the  State Fiscal Year 2003; 40% in the State Fiscal
20    Year 2004; 30% in the State Fiscal  Year  2005;  20%  in  the
21    State  Fiscal  Year  2006;  and  10% in the State Fiscal Year
22    2007. No payment shall be made for the State Fiscal Year 2008
23    and thereafter.
24        Municipalities that issue bonds in  connection  with  the
25    redevelopment  project  during  the  period from June 1, 1988
26    until 3 years after the effective date of this Amendatory Act
27    of 1988 shall receive the Net State  Utility  Tax  Increment,
28    subject to appropriation, for 15 State Fiscal Years after the
29    issuance  of such bonds.  For the 16th through the 20th State
30    Fiscal Years after issuance  of  the  bonds,  the  Net  State
31    Utility  Tax  Increment  shall  be  calculated as follows: By
32    multiplying the Net State Utility Tax  Increment  by  90%  in
33    year  16; 80% in year 17; 70% in year 18; 60% in year 19; and
34    50% in year 20. Refunding of any bonds issued prior  to  June
 
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 1    1,  1988,  shall  not alter the revised Net State Utility Tax
 2    Increment payments set forth above.
 3        (l)  "Obligations" mean bonds, loans, debentures,  notes,
 4    special certificates or other evidence of indebtedness issued
 5    by  the  municipality to carry out a redevelopment project or
 6    to refund outstanding obligations.
 7        (m)  "Payment in lieu of taxes" means those estimated tax
 8    revenues from real property in a redevelopment  project  area
 9    acquired   by   a   municipality   which   according  to  the
10    redevelopment project or plan is to be used for a private use
11    which taxing districts would have received had a municipality
12    not adopted tax  increment  allocation  financing  and  which
13    would  result from levies made after the time of the adoption
14    of tax increment allocation financing to the time the current
15    equalized value of real property in the redevelopment project
16    area exceeds  the  total  initial  equalized  value  of  real
17    property in said area.
18        (n)  "Redevelopment plan" means the comprehensive program
19    of the municipality for development or redevelopment intended
20    by  the  payment  of redevelopment project costs to reduce or
21    eliminate those conditions the existence of  which  qualified
22    the  redevelopment  project  area  as  a  "blighted  area" or
23    "conservation area" or  combination  thereof  or  "industrial
24    park conservation area," and thereby to enhance the tax bases
25    of  the  taxing districts which extend into the redevelopment
26    project area.  Each redevelopment plan  shall  set  forth  in
27    writing  the  program  to  be  undertaken  to  accomplish the
28    objectives  and shall include but not be limited to:
29             (A)  estimated redevelopment project costs;
30             (B)  evidence  indicating  that  the   redevelopment
31        project  area on the whole has not been subject to growth
32        and development through investment by private enterprise;
33             (C)  an assessment of any financial  impact  of  the
34        redevelopment project area on or any increased demand for
 
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 1        services  from  any  taxing district affected by the plan
 2        and any program  to  address  such  financial  impact  or
 3        increased demand;
 4             (D)  the sources of funds to pay costs;
 5             (E)  the  nature  and  term of the obligations to be
 6        issued;
 7             (F)  the most recent equalized assessed valuation of
 8        the redevelopment project area;
 9             (G)  an  estimate  as  to  the  equalized   assessed
10        valuation  after  redevelopment and the general land uses
11        to apply in the redevelopment project area;
12             (H)  a commitment to fair employment  practices  and
13        an affirmative action plan;
14             (I)  if  it concerns an industrial park conservation
15        area, the plan shall also include a  general  description
16        of  any  proposed  developer,  user  and  tenant  of  any
17        property,  a  description  of  the  type,  structure  and
18        general  character  of  the facilities to be developed, a
19        description  of  the  type,  class  and  number  of   new
20        employees   to  be  employed  in  the  operation  of  the
21        facilities to be developed; and
22             (J)  if  property  is   to   be   annexed   to   the
23        municipality,  the  plan  shall  include the terms of the
24        annexation agreement.
25        The provisions of items (B) and (C)  of  this  subsection
26    (n)  shall  not apply to a municipality that before March 14,
27    1994 (the effective date of Public  Act  88-537)  had  fixed,
28    either  by  its  corporate  authorities  or  by  a commission
29    designated under subsection (k) of Section 11-74.4-4, a  time
30    and  place for a public hearing as required by subsection (a)
31    of Section 11-74.4-5. No redevelopment plan shall be  adopted
32    unless  a  municipality  complies  with  all of the following
33    requirements:
34             (1)  The municipality finds that  the  redevelopment
 
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 1        project  area on the whole has not been subject to growth
 2        and development through investment by private  enterprise
 3        and  would  not reasonably be anticipated to be developed
 4        without the adoption of the redevelopment plan.
 5             (2)  The municipality finds that  the  redevelopment
 6        plan  and  project  conform to the comprehensive plan for
 7        the development of the municipality as a whole,  or,  for
 8        municipalities  with  a  population  of  100,000 or more,
 9        regardless of when the redevelopment plan and project was
10        adopted, the redevelopment plan and project  either:  (i)
11        conforms   to   the  strategic  economic  development  or
12        redevelopment plan  issued  by  the  designated  planning
13        authority of the municipality, or (ii) includes land uses
14        that have been approved by the planning commission of the
15        municipality.
16             (3)  The    redevelopment   plan   establishes   the
17        estimated  dates  of  completion  of  the   redevelopment
18        project  and  retirement of obligations issued to finance
19        redevelopment project costs.  Those dates  shall  not  be
20        more  than  23  years  from the adoption of the ordinance
21        approving the redevelopment project area if the ordinance
22        was adopted on or after January 15, 1981,  and  not  more
23        than 35 years if the ordinance was adopted before January
24        15,  1981,  or if the ordinance was adopted in April 1984
25        or July 1985, or if the ordinance was adopted in December
26        1987 and the redevelopment project is located within  one
27        mile of Midway Airport, or if the municipality is subject
28        to   the   Local   Government   Financial   Planning  and
29        Supervision Act, or  if  the  ordinance  was  adopted  on
30        December  31, 1986 by a municipality with a population in
31        1990 of less than 3,600 that is located in a county  with
32        a population in 1990 of less than 34,000 and for which at
33        least  $250,000 of tax increment bonds were authorized on
34        June 17, 1997. However, for redevelopment  project  areas
 
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 1        for  which  bonds  were  issued  before July 29, 1991, in
 2        connection with  a  redevelopment  project  in  the  area
 3        within  the State Sales Tax Boundary, the estimated dates
 4        of completion of the redevelopment project and retirement
 5        of obligations to finance redevelopment project costs may
 6        be  extended by municipal ordinance to December 31, 2013.
 7        The extension allowed by  this  amendatory  Act  of  1993
 8        shall not apply to real property tax increment allocation
 9        financing under Section 11-74.4-8.
10             Those  dates,  for  purposes  of  real  property tax
11        increment  allocation  financing  pursuant   to   Section
12        11-74.4-8  only,  shall  be  not  more  than 35 years for
13        redevelopment project areas that were adopted on or after
14        December 16, 1986 and for which at least $8 million worth
15        of municipal bonds were authorized on or  after  December
16        19,  1989  but  before January 1, 1990; provided that the
17        municipality  elects  to   extend   the   life   of   the
18        redevelopment project area to 35 years by the adoption of
19        an ordinance after at least 14 but not more than 30 days'
20        written notice to the taxing bodies, that would otherwise
21        constitute  the  joint review board for the redevelopment
22        project area, before the adoption of the ordinance.
23             Those dates,  for  purposes  of  real  property  tax
24        increment   allocation   financing  pursuant  to  Section
25        11-74.4-8 only, shall be  not  more  than  35  years  for
26        redevelopment  project  areas that were established on or
27        after December 1, 1981 but before January 1, 1982 and for
28        which at least $1,500,000 worth of tax increment  revenue
29        bonds  were authorized on or after September 30, 1990 but
30        before July  1,  1991;  provided  that  the  municipality
31        elects  to  extend  the life of the redevelopment project
32        area to 35 years by the adoption of an ordinance after at
33        least 14 but not more than 30 days' written notice to the
34        taxing bodies, that would otherwise constitute the  joint
 
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 1        review  board  for the redevelopment project area, before
 2        the adoption of the ordinance.
 3             (4)  The municipality  finds,  in  the  case  of  an
 4        industrial   park   conservation   area,  also  that  the
 5        municipality is a labor surplus municipality and that the
 6        implementation of  the  redevelopment  plan  will  reduce
 7        unemployment, create new jobs and by the provision of new
 8        facilities  enhance  the tax base of the taxing districts
 9        that extend into the redevelopment project area.
10             (5)  If any incremental revenues are being  utilized
11        under   Section   8(a)(1)  or  8(a)(2)  of  this  Act  in
12        redevelopment project areas approved by  ordinance  after
13        January  1,  1986,  the  municipality finds: (a) that the
14        redevelopment  project  area  would  not  reasonably   be
15        developed  without  the use of such incremental revenues,
16        and  (b)  that  such   incremental   revenues   will   be
17        exclusively   utilized   for   the   development  of  the
18        redevelopment project area.
19        (o)  "Redevelopment project" means any public and private
20    development project in furtherance of  the  objectives  of  a
21    redevelopment plan.
22        (p)  "Redevelopment   project   area"   means   an   area
23    designated  by  the  municipality,  which  is not less in the
24    aggregate than 1 1/2  acres  and  in  respect  to  which  the
25    municipality  has  made a finding that there exist conditions
26    which cause the area to be classified as an  industrial  park
27    conservation  area or a blighted area or a conservation area,
28    or a combination of  both  blighted  areas  and  conservation
29    areas.
30        (q)  "Redevelopment  project  costs" mean and include the
31    sum total of all reasonable or necessary  costs  incurred  or
32    estimated  to be incurred, and any such costs incidental to a
33    redevelopment plan and a redevelopment project.   Such  costs
34    include, without limitation, the following:
 
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 1             (1)  Costs   of  studies,  surveys,  development  of
 2        plans,    and    specifications,    implementation    and
 3        administration of the redevelopment  plan  including  but
 4        not  limited  to staff and professional service costs for
 5        architectural, engineering, legal, marketing,  financial,
 6        planning  or  other  services,  provided  however that no
 7        charges for professional  services  may  be  based  on  a
 8        percentage of the tax increment collected;
 9             (2)  Property  assembly  costs,  including  but  not
10        limited  to  acquisition of land and other property, real
11        or personal, or rights or interests  therein,  demolition
12        of buildings, and the clearing and grading of land;
13             (3)  Costs   of  rehabilitation,  reconstruction  or
14        repair  or  remodeling  of  existing  public  or  private
15        buildings and fixtures;
16             (4)  Costs of the construction of  public  works  or
17        improvements;
18             (5)  Costs of job training and retraining projects;
19             (6)  Financing  costs,  including but not limited to
20        all necessary and  incidental  expenses  related  to  the
21        issuance  of obligations and which may include payment of
22        interest on any  obligations  issued  hereunder  accruing
23        during  the  estimated  period  of  construction  of  any
24        redevelopment  project  for  which  such  obligations are
25        issued and for not exceeding  36  months  thereafter  and
26        including reasonable reserves related thereto;
27             (7)  All or a portion of a taxing district's capital
28        costs    resulting   from   the   redevelopment   project
29        necessarily incurred or to be incurred in furtherance  of
30        the  objectives of the redevelopment plan and project, to
31        the extent the municipality by written agreement  accepts
32        and approves such costs;
33             (8)  Relocation   costs   to   the   extent  that  a
34        municipality determines that relocation  costs  shall  be
 
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 1        paid  or  is required to make payment of relocation costs
 2        by federal or State law;
 3             (9)  Payment in lieu of taxes;
 4             (10)  Costs of  job  training,  advanced  vocational
 5        education  or career education, including but not limited
 6        to courses in occupational, semi-technical  or  technical
 7        fields leading directly to employment, incurred by one or
 8        more  taxing  districts, provided that such costs (i) are
 9        related  to  the   establishment   and   maintenance   of
10        additional job training, advanced vocational education or
11        career  education  programs for persons employed or to be
12        employed by employers located in a redevelopment  project
13        area;  and  (ii)  when  incurred  by a taxing district or
14        taxing districts other than  the  municipality,  are  set
15        forth in a written agreement by or among the municipality
16        and  the  taxing  district  or  taxing  districts,  which
17        agreement   describes   the  program  to  be  undertaken,
18        including but not limited to the number of  employees  to
19        be trained, a description of the training and services to
20        be  provided,  the number and type of positions available
21        or to be available, itemized costs  of  the  program  and
22        sources of funds to pay for the same, and the term of the
23        agreement.  Such costs include, specifically, the payment
24        by community  college  districts  of  costs  pursuant  to
25        Sections  3-37,  3-38,  3-40  and  3-40.1  of  the Public
26        Community College Act and by school  districts  of  costs
27        pursuant to Sections 10-22.20a and 10-23.3a of The School
28        Code;
29             (11)  Interest   cost   incurred  by  a  redeveloper
30        related to the construction, renovation or rehabilitation
31        of a redevelopment project provided that:
32                  (A)  such costs are to be  paid  directly  from
33             the special tax allocation fund established pursuant
34             to this Act; and
 
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 1                  (B)  such  payments  in  any  one  year may not
 2             exceed 30% of the annual interest costs incurred  by
 3             the  redeveloper  with  regard  to the redevelopment
 4             project during that year;
 5                  (C)  if  there   are   not   sufficient   funds
 6             available in the special tax allocation fund to make
 7             the payment pursuant to this paragraph (11) then the
 8             amounts  so  due  shall  accrue  and be payable when
 9             sufficient funds are available in  the  special  tax
10             allocation fund; and
11                  (D)  the  total  of such interest payments paid
12             pursuant to this Act may not exceed 30% of the total
13             (i) cost paid or incurred by the redeveloper for the
14             redevelopment  project   plus   (ii)   redevelopment
15             project  costs excluding any property assembly costs
16             and any relocation costs incurred by a  municipality
17             pursuant to this Act.
18             (12)  Unless  explicitly  stated  herein the cost of
19        construction of new privately-owned buildings  shall  not
20        be an eligible redevelopment project cost.
21        If  a  special service area has been established pursuant
22    to the Special Service Area Tax Act, then any  tax  increment
23    revenues derived from the tax imposed pursuant to the Special
24    Service  Area  Tax  Act  may be used within the redevelopment
25    project area for the purposes permitted by that Act  as  well
26    as the purposes permitted by this Act.
27        (r)  "State  Sales  Tax Boundary" means the redevelopment
28    project  area  or  the  amended  redevelopment  project  area
29    boundaries which are determined pursuant to subsection (9) of
30    Section 11-74.4-8a of this Act.  The  Department  of  Revenue
31    shall   certify   pursuant   to  subsection  (9)  of  Section
32    11-74.4-8a  the  appropriate  boundaries  eligible  for   the
33    determination of State Sales Tax Increment.
34        (s)  "State Sales Tax Increment" means an amount equal to
 
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 1    the  increase  in  the  aggregate  amount  of  taxes  paid by
 2    retailers and servicemen, other than retailers and servicemen
 3    subject to the  Public  Utilities  Act,  on  transactions  at
 4    places  of business located within a State Sales Tax Boundary
 5    pursuant to the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act,  the  Use  Tax
 6    Act,  the Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax
 7    Act, except such portion of such increase that is  paid  into
 8    the  State  and  Local  Sales  Tax  Reform  Fund,  the  Local
 9    Government   Distributive   Fund,  the   Local Government Tax
10    Fund and the County and Mass Transit District  Fund,  for  as
11    long  as  State  participation  exists,  over  and  above the
12    Initial Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts
13    or the Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts for  such  taxes  as
14    certified  by  the Department of Revenue and paid under those
15    Acts by retailers and servicemen on transactions at places of
16    business located within the State Sales Tax  Boundary  during
17    the  base  year  which shall be the calendar year immediately
18    prior to the year  in  which  the  municipality  adopted  tax
19    increment  allocation  financing,  less  3.0% of such amounts
20    generated under the Retailers' Occupation Tax  Act,  Use  Tax
21    Act  and  Service  Use Tax Act and the Service Occupation Tax
22    Act, which sum shall be appropriated  to  the  Department  of
23    Revenue  to  cover  its  costs of administering and enforcing
24    this Section. For purposes of computing the aggregate  amount
25    of  such  taxes  for  base years occurring prior to 1985, the
26    Department of Revenue shall compute  the  Initial  Sales  Tax
27    Amount for such taxes and deduct therefrom an amount equal to
28    4%  of  the  aggregate amount of taxes per year for each year
29    the base year is prior to 1985, but not  to  exceed  a  total
30    deduction of 12%.  The amount so determined shall be known as
31    the  "Adjusted  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amount". For purposes of
32    determining the State Sales Tax Increment the  Department  of
33    Revenue  shall  for each period subtract from the tax amounts
34    received  from  retailers  and  servicemen  on   transactions
 
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 1    located  in  the  State  Sales  Tax  Boundary,  the certified
 2    Initial Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts
 3    or Revised Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts  for  the  Retailers'
 4    Occupation  Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act
 5    and the Service Occupation Tax Act.   For  the  State  Fiscal
 6    Year  1989  this  calculation  shall be made by utilizing the
 7    calendar year 1987 to determine the tax amounts received. For
 8    the State Fiscal Year 1990, this calculation shall be made by
 9    utilizing the period from January 1,  1988,  until  September
10    30,   1988,  to  determine  the  tax  amounts  received  from
11    retailers and servicemen, which shall have deducted therefrom
12    nine-twelfths of the certified  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts,
13    Adjusted  Initial  Sales  Tax  Amounts or the Revised Initial
14    Sales Tax Amounts as appropriate. For the State  Fiscal  Year
15    1991,  this calculation shall be made by utilizing the period
16    from October 1, 1988, until June 30, 1989, to  determine  the
17    tax  amounts  received  from  retailers and servicemen, which
18    shall have deducted therefrom nine-twelfths of the  certified
19    Initial  State  Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax
20    Amounts  or  the  Revised  Initial  Sales  Tax   Amounts   as
21    appropriate.  For  every  State  Fiscal  Year thereafter, the
22    applicable period shall be the 12 months beginning July 1 and
23    ending on June 30, to  determine  the  tax  amounts  received
24    which  shall  have  deducted  therefrom the certified Initial
25    Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or  the
26    Revised  Initial Sales Tax Amounts.  Municipalities intending
27    to receive a distribution of State Sales Tax  Increment  must
28    report  a  list  of retailers to the Department of Revenue by
29    October 31, 1988 and by July 31, of each year thereafter.
30        (t)  "Taxing districts" means counties, townships, cities
31    and incorporated towns  and  villages,  school,  road,  park,
32    sanitary, mosquito abatement, forest preserve, public health,
33    fire  protection,  river conservancy, tuberculosis sanitarium
34    and any other municipal corporations or  districts  with  the
 
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 1    power to levy taxes.
 2        (u)  "Taxing  districts' capital costs" means those costs
 3    of taxing districts for capital improvements that  are  found
 4    by  the  municipal  corporate authorities to be necessary and
 5    directly result from the redevelopment project.
 6        (v)  As used in subsection (a) of  Section  11-74.4-3  of
 7    this  Act,  "vacant land" means any  parcel or combination of
 8    parcels of real property without industrial, commercial,  and
 9    residential  buildings which has not been used for commercial
10    agricultural purposes within 5 years prior to the designation
11    of the redevelopment  project  area,  unless  the  parcel  is
12    included  in  an  industrial  park  conservation  area or the
13    parcel has been subdivided; provided that if the  parcel  was
14    part  of  a larger tract that has been divided into 3 or more
15    smaller tracts that were accepted for  recording  during  the
16    period  from 1950 to 1990, then the parcel shall be deemed to
17    have been subdivided, and all proceedings and actions of  the
18    municipality  taken  in  that  connection with respect to any
19    previously approved or designated redevelopment project  area
20    or  amended  redevelopment  project area are hereby validated
21    and hereby declared to be legally sufficient for all purposes
22    of this Act.
23        (w)  "Annual Total  Increment"  means  the  sum  of  each
24    municipality's  annual  Net  Sales  Tax  Increment  and  each
25    municipality's  annual  Net Utility Tax Increment.  The ratio
26    of the Annual Total Increment of  each  municipality  to  the
27    Annual  Total  Increment  for  all  municipalities,  as  most
28    recently  calculated  by  the Department, shall determine the
29    proportional shares of the Illinois Tax Increment Fund to  be
30    distributed to each municipality.
31    (Source: P.A.  89-235,  eff.  8-4-95;  89-705,  eff. 1-31-97;
32    90-379, eff. 8-14-97.)

33        (65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-7)
 
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 1        Sec. 11-74.4-7.  Obligations secured by the  special  tax
 2    allocation  fund  set  forth  in  Section  11-74.4-8  for the
 3    redevelopment project area  may  be  issued  to  provide  for
 4    redevelopment  project  costs.   Such  obligations,  when  so
 5    issued,  shall  be  retired  in  the  manner  provided in the
 6    ordinance authorizing the issuance of such obligations by the
 7    receipts of taxes levied as specified  in  Section  11-74.4-9
 8    against  the  taxable  property  included  in  the  area,  by
 9    revenues as specified by Section 11-74.4-8a and other revenue
10    designated  by  the  municipality.  A municipality may in the
11    ordinance pledge all or any part of the funds in  and  to  be
12    deposited in the special tax allocation fund created pursuant
13    to  Section  11-74.4-8  to  the  payment of the redevelopment
14    project costs and obligations.  Any pledge of  funds  in  the
15    special tax allocation fund shall provide for distribution to
16    the  taxing  districts  and  to  the  Illinois  Department of
17    Revenue of moneys not required for payment  and  securing  of
18    the  obligations  and  redevelopment  project  costs and such
19    excess funds shall be calculated annually and  deemed  to  be
20    "surplus"  funds.  In the event a municipality only pledges a
21    portion of the funds in the special tax allocation  fund  for
22    the  payment  of  redevelopment project costs or obligations,
23    any such funds remaining in the special tax  allocation  fund
24    after  complying  with  the requirements of the pledge, shall
25    also be calculated annually and deemed "surplus"  funds.  All
26    surplus  funds in the special tax allocation fund, subject to
27    the provisions of  (6.1)  of  Section  11-74.4-8a,  shall  be
28    distributed  annually  within 180 days after the close of the
29    municipality's fiscal year by being  paid  by  the  municipal
30    treasurer  to  the  County  Collector,  to  the Department of
31    Revenue and to the municipality in direct proportion  to  the
32    tax  incremental  revenue received as a result of an increase
33    in  the  equalized  assessed  value  of   property   in   the
34    redevelopment  project area, tax incremental revenue received
 
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 1    from the State and tax incremental revenue received from  the
 2    municipality,  but  not  to exceed as to each such source the
 3    total incremental revenue received from that  source.  Except
 4    that  any special tax allocation fund subject to provision in
 5    (6.1) of Section 11-74.4-8a shall comply with the  provisions
 6    in  that  Section. The County Collector shall thereafter make
 7    distribution to the respective taxing districts in  the  same
 8    manner  and proportion as the most recent distribution by the
 9    county collector to the affected districts of  real  property
10    taxes from real property in the redevelopment project area.
11        Without  limiting  the  foregoing  in  this  Section, the
12    municipality may in addition  to obligations secured  by  the
13    special  tax  allocation fund pledge for a period not greater
14    than the term of the  obligations  towards  payment  of  such
15    obligations any part or any combination of the following: (a)
16    net revenues of all or part of any redevelopment project; (b)
17    taxes  levied  and  collected  on  any or all property in the
18    municipality;  (c)  the  full  faith  and   credit   of   the
19    municipality;   (d)   a  mortgage  on  part  or  all  of  the
20    redevelopment project; or (e) any other taxes or  anticipated
21    receipts that the municipality may lawfully pledge.
22        Such  obligations  may  be  issued  in one or more series
23    bearing interest at such  rate  or  rates  as  the  corporate
24    authorities of the municipality shall determine by ordinance.
25    Such  obligations  shall  bear  such date or dates, mature at
26    such  time  or  times  not  exceeding  20  years  from  their
27    respective  dates,  be  in  such  denomination,  carry   such
28    registration  privileges,  be  executed  in  such  manner, be
29    payable in such medium of payment at such  place  or  places,
30    contain  such covenants, terms and conditions, and be subject
31    to redemption as such ordinance shall  provide.   Obligations
32    issued  pursuant to this Act may be sold at public or private
33    sale at such price as shall be determined  by  the  corporate
34    authorities of the municipalities.  No referendum approval of
 
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 1    the electors shall be required as a condition to the issuance
 2    of  obligations  pursuant to this Division except as provided
 3    in this Section.
 4        In the event  the  municipality  authorizes  issuance  of
 5    obligations  pursuant  to  the  authority  of  this  Division
 6    secured  by  the  full  faith and credit of the municipality,
 7    which obligations are other than  obligations  which  may  be
 8    issued  under  home  rule  powers  provided  by  Article VII,
 9    Section 6 of the Illinois  Constitution,   or  pledges  taxes
10    pursuant  to  (b)  or  (c)  of  the  second paragraph of this
11    section, the  ordinance  authorizing  the  issuance  of  such
12    obligations  or pledging such taxes shall be published within
13    10 days after such ordinance has been passed in one  or  more
14    newspapers,    with    general    circulation   within   such
15    municipality. The  publication  of  the  ordinance  shall  be
16    accompanied  by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters
17    required to sign a petition requesting the  question  of  the
18    issuance   of  such  obligations  or  pledging  taxes  to  be
19    submitted to  the  electors;  (2)  the  time  in  which  such
20    petition  must  be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective
21    referendum.  The municipal clerk  shall  provide  a  petition
22    form to any individual requesting one.
23        If  no  petition  is  filed  with the municipal clerk, as
24    hereinafter provided in this Section, within  30  days  after
25    the  publication  of the ordinance, the ordinance shall be in
26    effect.  But, if within that 30  day  period  a  petition  is
27    filed  with  the  municipal  clerk, signed by electors in the
28    municipality  numbering  10%  or  more  of  the   number   of
29    registered  voters  in  the  municipality,  asking  that  the
30    question  of  issuing obligations using full faith and credit
31    of the municipality as security for the cost  of  paying  for
32    redevelopment  project  costs,  or  of pledging taxes for the
33    payment of such obligations, or both,  be  submitted  to  the
34    electors  of  the  municipality, the corporate authorities of
 
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 1    the municipality shall call a special election in the  manner
 2    provided by law to vote upon that question, or, if a general,
 3    State  or municipal election is to be held within a period of
 4    not less than 30 or more than  90 days  from  the  date  such
 5    petition  is  filed,  shall  submit  the question at the next
 6    general, State or municipal election.  If it appears upon the
 7    canvass of the election by the corporate authorities  that  a
 8    majority  of electors voting upon the question voted in favor
 9    thereof, the ordinance shall be in effect, but if a  majority
10    of  the  electors  voting  upon the question are not in favor
11    thereof, the ordinance shall not take effect.
12        The ordinance authorizing  the  obligations  may  provide
13    that  the  obligations  shall contain a recital that they are
14    issued pursuant to this  Division,  which  recital  shall  be
15    conclusive  evidence  of their validity and of the regularity
16    of their issuance.
17        In the event  the  municipality  authorizes  issuance  of
18    obligations  pursuant  to  this  Section  secured by the full
19    faith  and  credit  of  the   municipality,   the   ordinance
20    authorizing  the  obligations  may  provide  for the levy and
21    collection of a direct annual tax upon all  taxable  property
22    within  the  municipality  sufficient  to  pay  the principal
23    thereof and interest thereon as it matures, which levy may be
24    in addition to and exclusive of  the  maximum  of  all  other
25    taxes  authorized  to  be  levied  by the municipality, which
26    levy, however, shall be abated to the extent that monies from
27    other sources are available for payment  of  the  obligations
28    and  the  municipality  certifies  the  amount of said monies
29    available to the county clerk.
30        A certified copy of such ordinance shall  be  filed  with
31    the  county  clerk of each county in which any portion of the
32    municipality is situated, and shall constitute the  authority
33    for the extension and collection of the taxes to be deposited
34    in the special tax allocation fund.
 
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 1        A  municipality  may also issue its obligations to refund
 2    in whole or in part, obligations theretofore issued  by  such
 3    municipality  under  the authority of this Act, whether at or
 4    prior to maturity, provided however, that the  last  maturity
 5    of the refunding obligations shall not be expressed to mature
 6    later  than 23 years from the date of the ordinance approving
 7    the redevelopment project area if the ordinance  was  adopted
 8    on  or  after January 15, 1981, and not more than 35 years if
 9    the ordinance was adopted before January 15, 1981, or if  the
10    ordinance  was  adopted in April, 1984, July, 1985, or if the
11    ordinance was adopted in December, 1987 and the redevelopment
12    project is located within one mile of Midway Airport,  or  if
13    the municipality is subject to the Local Government Financial
14    Planning and Supervision Act, or if the ordinance was adopted
15    on  December  31, 1986 by a municipality with a population in
16    1990 of less than 3,600 that is located in a  county  with  a
17    population in 1990 of less than 34,000 and for which at least
18    $250,000  of  tax increment bonds were authorized on June 17,
19    1997 and, for redevelopment project  areas  for  which  bonds
20    were  issued  before  July  29,  1991,  in  connection with a
21    redevelopment project in the area within the State Sales  Tax
22    Boundary and which were extended by municipal ordinance under
23    subsection  (n)  of  Section 11-74.4-3,  the last maturity of
24    the refunding obligations shall not be  expressed  to  mature
25    later  than  the date on which the redevelopment project area
26    is terminated or December 31,  2013,  whichever  date  occurs
27    first.
28        In the event a municipality issues obligations under home
29    rule  powers  or  other legislative authority the proceeds of
30    which are pledged to pay for redevelopment project costs, the
31    municipality may,  if  it  has  followed  the  procedures  in
32    conformance  with this division, retire said obligations from
33    funds in the special tax allocation fund in  amounts  and  in
34    such  manner  as if such obligations had been issued pursuant
 
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 1    to the provisions of this division.
 2        All obligations heretofore or hereafter  issued  pursuant
 3    to  this  Act  shall  not  be regarded as indebtedness of the
 4    municipality issuing such obligations  or  any  other  taxing
 5    district for the purpose of any limitation imposed by law.
 6    (Source: P.A. 89-357; eff. 8-17-95; 90-379, eff. 8-14-97.)

 7        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 8    becoming law.

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