Bill Text: IL HB1547 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning assessments in Cook County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1547 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB1547-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning revenue.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 9-85 as follows:
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| 6 | (35 ILCS 200/9-85)
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| 7 | Sec. 9-85.
Revision of assessments by county assessor and
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| 8 | and board of
review;
Counties of 3,000,000
or more. In counties | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the county assessor
shall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | have authority annually to revise the assessment books and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | correct them
as appears to be just; and on complaint in writing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | in proper form by any
taxpayer, and after affording the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | taxpayer an opportunity to be heard thereon,
he or she shall do | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | so at any time, until the assessment is verified. An entry
upon | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | the assessment books does not constitute an assessment until | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | the
assessment is verified. When a notice is to be mailed under | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Section 12-55 and
the address that appears on the assessor's | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | records is the address of a mortgage
lender or the trustee, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | where title to the property is held in a land trust, or
in any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | event whenever the notice is mailed by the assessor to a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | taxpayer at or
in care of the address of a mortgage lender or a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | trustee where the title to the
property is held in a land | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | trust, the mortgage lender or the trustee within 15
days of the | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | mortgage lender's or the trustee's receipt of such notice shall
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| 2 | mail a copy of the notice to each mortgagor of the property | ||||||
| 3 | referred to in the
notice at the last known address of each | ||||||
| 4 | mortgagor as shown on the records of
the mortgage lender, or to | ||||||
| 5 | each beneficiary as shown on the records of the
trustee. | ||||||
| 6 | All changes and alterations pursuant to Section 16-95 or | ||||||
| 7 | Section 16-120 in
the assessment
of
property shall be subject
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| 8 | to
revision and entry into the assessment books by the board of | ||||||
| 9 | appeals (until
the first Monday in December 1998 and the board | ||||||
| 10 | of review beginning the
first Monday in December 1998 and | ||||||
| 11 | thereafter) in the same manner
as the original assessments.
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| 12 | (Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 89-671, eff. | ||||||
| 13 | 8-14-96.)
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