Bill Text: IL HB1981 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a municipality may fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost of the service for all emergency services rendered by the municipality against persons, businesses, and other entities who are not residents of the municipality. Specifies that the fee shall be computed at a rate not to exceed $250 per hour for emergency assistance. Provides that no fee shall be imposed for fire and rescue services when the total cost is less than $50. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0857 [HB1981 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB1981-Amended.html

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Sen. John J. Cullerton

Filed: 5/2/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1981
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1981 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding
Section 3-70 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/3-70 new)
Sec. 3-70. Cessation of Township Assessor. If the office of
Township Assessor in a coterminous township ceases as provided
in Section 25-30 of the Township Code, then the coterminous
municipality shall assume the duties of the Township Assessor
under this Code.
Section 10. The Township Code is amended by changing
Section 50-20 and by adding Section 25-30 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/25-30 new)

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Sec. 25-30. Discontinuance of a coterminous township.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 25-10 to the
contrary, the board of trustees of a coterminous township may,
by ordinance, submit a proposition to discontinue township
organization to the electors of the township at a general
election or consolidated election in accordance with general
election law.
The proposition shall be in substantially the following
form:
Shall the township organization be continued in (name
of township)?
The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
If it appears by the returns of the election that a
majority of the votes of the township cast on the question of
the continuance of township organization at the election are
against the proposed option for continuance, then township
organization shall cease in the township on January 1 of the
calendar year immediately following the calendar year that the
proposition was approved by the electors. Upon discontinuance
of township organization, all powers, duties, assets,
property, liabilities, obligations, and responsibilities of
the township shall be assumed by the coterminous municipality.
(b) If it appears by the returns of the election that a
majority of the votes of the township cast on the question of
the continuance of township organization are against
continuance, then the office of Township Supervisor and the

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office of Township Assessor shall cease in the township at the
next January 1 after the proposition was approved. If the
office of Township Supervisor ceases, then the coterminous
municipality shall assume the duties of Township Supervisor. If
the office of Township Assessor ceases, then the coterminous
municipality shall assume the duties of the Township Assessor
under the Property Tax Code and the Public Health District Act.
(c) The coterminous municipality shall assume all taxing
authority of the township abolished under this Section. For
purposes of distribution of revenue, the coterminous
municipality shall assume the powers, duties, and obligations
of the township.
(d) Upon discontinuance of township organization, the
records of the township shall be deposited in the city clerk's
office. The coterminous municipality may close up all
unfinished business of the township and sell and dispose of any
of the property belonging to the township, as fully as might
have been done by the township itself, for benefit of the
inhabitants of the municipality.
(e) Nothing in this Section shall prevent the coterminous
municipality from entering into an intergovernmental agreement
or contract to provide for general assistance or property
assessment duties for services under its jurisdiction.
(60 ILCS 1/50-20)
Sec. 50-20. Counties with no township collector. No

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collector in counties under 100,000.
(a) No collector in counties under 100,000. In counties
under township organization, having a population of less than
100,000, there shall be no township collector elected. The
county collector shall be ex-officio township collector, and
all the duties of the township collector shall devolve upon and
be performed by the county collector.
(b) No collector in counties over 2,000,000. In counties
having a population of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants there
shall be no township collector elected on and after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
Assembly. Upon the completion of the terms of office of
township collectors holding office on the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the township
assessor shall be the ex-officio township collector, and all
the duties of the township collector shall devolve upon and be
performed by the township assessor.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
Section 15. The Public Health District Act is amended by
adding Section 25 as follows:
(70 ILCS 905/25 new)
Sec. 25. Cessation of Township Assessor. If the office of
Township Assessor in a coterminous township ceases as provided
in Section 25-30 of the Township Code, then the city council

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members of the coterminous municipality shall be the board of
health for the public health district under this Act.
Section 20. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
adding Section 12-3.1 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/12-3.1 new)
Sec. 12-3.1. Discontinuance of a coterminous township.
Upon discontinuance of a coterminous township, the coterminous
municipality shall provide funds for and administer the public
aid program provided for under Article VI of this Code.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".