Bill Text: IL HB4634 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the notice of judgment and sale shall also be sent by first class mail (currently, registered or certified mail only). Provides that, if any notice is returned as undeliverable and includes an updated mailing address, the county collector shall mail a second notice to the new address. Provides that the collector shall collect $30 (currently, $10) from each tax purchaser prior to the issuance of any certificate of purchase to cover the costs of mailing. Effective January 1, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4634 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4634-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4634 Introduced , by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/21-135
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the notice of judgment and sale shall also be sent by first class mail (currently, registered or certified mail only). Provides that, if any notice is returned as undeliverable and includes an updated mailing address, the county collector shall mail a second notice to the new address. Provides that the collector shall collect $30 (currently, $10) from each tax purchaser prior to the issuance of any certificate of purchase to cover the costs of mailing. Effective January 1, 2021.
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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
Section 21-135 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/21-135)
Sec. 21-135. Mailed notice of application for judgment and
sale. Not less than 15 days before the date of application for
judgment and sale of delinquent properties, the county
collector shall mail, by registered or certified mail and by
first class mail, a notice of the forthcoming application for
judgment and sale to the person shown by the current
collector's warrant book to be the party in whose name the
taxes were last assessed or to the current owner of record and,
if applicable, to the party specified under Section 15-170. The
notice shall include the intended dates of application for
judgment and sale and commencement of the sale, and a
description of the properties. If any notice is returned as
undeliverable and includes an updated mailing address, the
county collector shall mail a second notice to the new address
by registered or certified mail and by first class mail. The
second notice does not change the date of application for
judgment and sale stated in the original notice. The county

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collector must present proof of the mailing or mailings and any
returned mail to the court along with the application for
judgement.
In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, a copy of
this notice shall also be mailed by the county collector by
registered or certified mail to any lienholder of record who
annually requests a copy of the notice. The failure of the
county collector to mail a notice or its non-delivery to the
lienholder shall not affect the validity of the judgment.
In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, notice
shall not be mailed to any person when, under Section 14-15, a
certificate of error has been executed by the county assessor
or by both the county assessor and board of appeals (until the
first Monday in December 1998 and the board of review beginning
the first Monday in December 1998 and thereafter), except as
provided by court order under Section 21-120.
The collector shall collect $30 from each person purchasing
any property at a sale under this Code prior to the issuance of
any certificate of purchase $10 from the proceeds of each sale
to cover the costs of registered or certified mailing and the
costs of advertisement and publication. If a taxpayer pays the
taxes on the property after the notice of the forthcoming
application for judgment and sale is mailed but before the sale
is made, then the collector shall collect $10 from the taxpayer
to cover the costs of registered or certified mailing and the
costs of advertisement and publication.

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(Source: P.A. 93-899, eff. 8-10-04.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2021.