Bill Text: IL HB5061 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "33 1/3%".

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5061 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB5061-Amended.html

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Rep. Jeanne M Ives

Filed: 4/2/2014

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5061
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5061 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Sections 27-30 and 27-55 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/27-30)
Sec. 27-30. Manner of notice. Prior to or within 60 days
after the adoption of the ordinance proposing the establishment
of a special service area the municipality or county shall fix
a time and a place for a public hearing. The public hearing
shall be held not less than 60 days after the adoption of the
ordinance proposing the establishment of a special service
area. Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication and
mailing, except that notice of a public hearing to propose the
establishment of a special service area for weather
modification purposes may be given by publication only. Notice

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by publication shall be given by publication at least once not
less than 15 days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of
general circulation within the municipality or county. Notice
by mailing shall be given by depositing the notice in the
United States mails addressed to the person or persons in whose
name the general taxes for the last preceding year were paid on
each property lying within the special service area. A notice
shall be mailed not less than 10 days prior to the time set for
the public hearing. In the event taxes for the last preceding
year were not paid, the notice shall be sent to the person last
listed on the tax rolls prior to that year as the owner of the
property. A list of the names and addresses of the individuals
and entities to whom the notice will be sent by mail shall be
published at the time notice is given and shall be available at
the public hearing.
(Source: P.A. 97-1053, eff. 1-1-13.)
(35 ILCS 200/27-55)
Sec. 27-55. Authorization Objection petition.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
Assembly, no special service area may be created or enlarged;
no special service area tax may be levied, imposed, or
increased; and no bonds may be issued for the provision of
special services within the area, unless If a petition signed
by at least 51% of the taxpayers of record of all property

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electors residing within the special service area or and by at
least 51% of the taxpayers owners of record of the land
included within the boundaries of the special service area is
filed with the municipal clerk or county clerk, as the case may
be, authorizing within 60 days following the final adjournment
of the public hearing, objecting to the creation of the special
service district, the enlargement of the area, the levy or
imposition of a tax or the issuance of bonds for the provision
of special services to the area, or to a proposed increase in
the tax rate, as the case may be. The petition must be filed
within 60 days following the final adjournment of the public
hearing. Only one taxpayer of record may sign an authorization
petition for any single property index number within the
proposed special service area. For the purposes of signing the
petition, "taxpayer of record" means either (i) any person in
whose name the general taxes for the last preceding year were
paid, as demonstrated by a copy of the tax bill or
documentation from the assessor or clerk, or (ii) any person in
whose name title is held, as demonstrated by a copy of the last
recorded deed to the property. Any authorized agent may sign a
petition on behalf of an entity, and that person's
certification of his or her authority to sign shall be
presumptive evidence of his or her authority to sign. A
beneficiary of a land trust may sign the petition with respect
to the property held by that land trust, and that person's
certification that he or she is a beneficiary shall be

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presumptive evidence of his or her authorization to sign.
Taxpayers , the district shall not be created or enlarged, or
the tax shall not be levied or imposed nor the rate increased,
or no bonds may be issued. The subject matter of the petition
shall not be proposed relative to any signatories of the
petition within the next 2 years. Each resident of the special
service area registered to vote at the time of the public
hearing held with regard to the special service area shall be
considered an elector. Each person in whose name legal title to
land included within the boundaries of the special service area
is held according to the records of the county in which the
land is located shall be considered an owner of record. Owners
of record shall be determined at the time of the public hearing
held with regard to a special service area. Land owned in the
name of a land trust, corporation, estate or partnership shall
be considered to have a single owner of record.
(Source: P.A. 82-640; 88-455.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".