Bill Text: IL HB2740 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the notice of annual application for judgment and sale shall be published in a newspaper circulated (instead of published) in the unit of local government. Provides that, in counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, notice of the expiration of the redemption period shall be published in a newspaper circulated (instead of published) in the county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2740 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB2740-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB2740 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/21-110
35 ILCS 200/22-20
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the notice of annual application for judgment and sale shall be published in a newspaper circulated (instead of published) in the unit of local government. Provides that, in counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, notice of the expiration of the redemption period shall be published in a newspaper circulated (instead of published) in the county.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Sections 21-110 and 22-20 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/21-110)
Sec. 21-110. Published notice of annual application for
judgment and sale; delinquent taxes. At any time after all
taxes have become delinquent in any year, the Collector shall
publish an advertisement, giving notice of the intended
application for judgment and sale of the delinquent properties.
The advertisement may include the street address on file with
the county collector, if available, and shall include the PIN
number of each delinquent property. Except as provided below,
the advertisement shall be in a newspaper circulated published
in the township or road district in which the properties are
located. If there is no newspaper circulated published in the
township or road district, then the notice shall be published
in some newspaper circulated in the same county as the township
or road district, to be selected by the county collector. When
the property is in a city with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants,
the advertisement may be in any newspaper circulated published
in the same county. When the property is in an incorporated

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town which has superseded a civil township, the advertisement
shall be in a newspaper circulated published in the
incorporated town or if there is no such newspaper, then in a
newspaper circulated published in the county.
The provisions of this Section relating to the time when
the Collector shall advertise intended application for
judgment for sale are subject to modification by the governing
authority of a county in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (c) of Section 21-40.
(Source: P.A. 97-557, eff. 7-1-12.)
(35 ILCS 200/22-20)
Sec. 22-20. Proof of service of notice; publication of
notice. The sheriff or coroner serving notice under Section
22-15 shall endorse his or her return thereon and file it with
the Clerk of the Circuit Court and it shall be a part of the
court record. A private detective or a special process server
appointed under Section 22-15 shall make his or her return by
affidavit and shall file it with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court, where it shall be a part of the court record. If a
sheriff, private detective, special process server, or coroner
to whom any notice is delivered for service, neglects or
refuses to make the return, the purchaser or his or her
assignee may petition the court to enter a rule requiring the
sheriff, private detective, special process server, or coroner
to make return of the notice on a day to be fixed by the court,

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or to show cause on that day why he or she should not be
attached for contempt of the court. The purchaser or assignee
shall cause a written notice of the rule to be served upon the
sheriff, private detective, special process server, or
coroner. If good and sufficient cause to excuse the sheriff,
private detective, special process server, or coroner is not
shown, the court shall adjudge him or her guilty of a contempt,
and shall proceed to punish him as in other cases of contempt.
If the property is located in a municipality in a county
with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the purchaser or his or
her assignee shall also publish a notice as to the owner or
party interested, in some newspaper circulated published in the
municipality. If the property is not in a municipality in a
county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, or if no newspaper
is circulated published therein, or if the property is in a
county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the notice shall be
published in some newspaper in the county. If the property is
located in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, if If
no newspaper is circulated published in the county, then the
notice shall be published in the newspaper that is circulated
published nearest the county seat of the county in which the
property is located. If the property is located in a county
with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, if no newspaper is
published in the county, then the notice shall be published in
the newspaper that is published nearest the county seat of the
county in which the property is located. If the owners and

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parties interested in the property upon diligent inquiry are
unknown to the purchaser or his or her assignee, the
publication as to such owner or party interested, may be made
to unknown owners or parties interested. Any notice by
publication given under this Section shall be given 3 times at
any time after filing a petition for tax deed, but not less
than 3 months nor more than 6 months prior to the expiration of
the period of redemption. The publication shall contain (a)
notice of the filing of the petition for tax deed, (b) the date
on which the petitioner intends to make application for an
order on the petition that a tax deed issue, (c) a description
of the property, (d) the date upon which the property was sold,
(e) the taxes or special assessments for which it was sold and
(f) the date on which the period of redemption will expire. The
publication shall not include more than one property listed and
sold in one description, except as provided in Section 21-90,
and except that when more than one property is owned by one
person, all of the parcels owned by that person may be included
in one notice.
The changes to this Section made by Public Act 95-477 apply
only to matters in which a petition for tax deed is filed on or
after June 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-477).
(Source: P.A. 95-195, eff. 1-1-08; 95-477, eff. 6-1-08; 95-876,
eff. 8-21-08.)