Bill Text: IL HB4835 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Repeals provisions concerning additional performance-based compensation for assessors.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4835 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4835-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4835 Introduced , by Rep. Chris Bos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/4-20 rep.
35 ILCS 200/2-55
Amends the Property Tax Code. Repeals provisions concerning additional performance-based compensation for assessors.
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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:
(35 ILCS 200/4-20 rep.)
Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by repealing
Section 4-20.
Section 10. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Section 2-55 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/2-55)
Sec. 2-55. Role as ex-officio deputy assessors. In all
townships in counties of 3,000,000 or more, in which township
assessors are elected, the township assessors shall be
ex-officio deputy assessors to make the assessments in the
townships wherein they are elected but those ex-officio deputy
assessors shall be under the direction and control of the
county assessor in the same manner as other deputy assessors,
subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the county
assessor and the board of appeals. The compensation and
expenses of the township assessors shall be determined and
paid as provided in Sections 2-70, 2-75, 2-80, 4-10, and 4-15
and 4-20. If in any township the ex-officio deputy assessor is
not able, within the time allowed by law or set by rules and

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regulations prescribed by the county assessor and the board of
appeals, to make the assessment in the township, any
additional deputy assessor or deputy assessors required to
make the assessment shall be residents and legal voters of the
township and may be appointed by the county assessor. For
failure to complete the assessment and return the assessment
books within the time prescribed by law or set by the rules and
regulations of the county assessor and board of appeals, any
township assessor may be removed from office by the order of
the county assessor. All clerks and deputies shall take and
subscribe an oath of office to honestly and faithfully perform
all the duties of their respective offices under the direction
of the county assessor. The county assessor, the clerks and
deputy assessors, may administer oaths authorized by law to be
administered by assessors. The number and compensation of the
clerks and the deputies (other than the ex-officio deputies)
shall be determined annually by the county board and shall be
paid from the county treasury.
(Source: P.A. 83-121; 88-455.)