Bill Text: IL HB0787 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a tax on motor vehicles and motor bicycles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0787 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB0787-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB0787 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/8-11-4 from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-4
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a tax on motor vehicles and motor bicycles.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 8-11-4 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/8-11-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-4)
Sec. 8-11-4. Each owner of a motor vehicle or motor bicycle
may be required by any such city, village, or town within which
he resides to pay a regular tax or license fee for the the use
of such motor vehicle or motor bicycle.
In place of the regular license fee, any city, village or
incorporated town may provide for a motor vehicle tax or
license fee at a reduced rate for residents age 65 or over.
Any city, village or incorporated town of 40,000 or more
inhabitants may appropriate monies annually from such funds,
for the construction, maintenance and operation of testing
stations for the inspection of equipment of motor vehicles as
authorized by Section 11-40-2. The balance of such funds in
cities, villages and incorporated towns of 40,000 or more
inhabitants, and the total of such funds in other cities,
incorporated towns and villages shall be used for the purpose
of improving, paving, repairing or maintaining the streets and
other public roadways within such city, incorporated town or

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village, provided, that the actual cost of the collection of
such fees and the disbursement thereof may be deducted from the
total amount collected and in cities and villages of more than
3,000 inhabitants, not to exceed 35% of such fees may be used
also for payment of salaries and wages of policemen engaged in
the duty of regulating traffic.
This amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit upon any
municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 83-65.)