Bill Text: IL SB1555 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning a public hearing held prior to the establishment of a special service area, provides that a list of the names and addresses of the individuals and entities to whom notice of the public hearing was sent by mail shall be made available at the public hearing. Provides that, if a person who is registered to vote has died or has permanently moved from the special service area, and if certified documentation is submitted along with an objection petition, then that person shall not be counted as an elector for purposes of determining whether or not at least 51% of the electors residing within the special service area have signed the objection petition.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-16 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [SB1555 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB1555-Engrossed.html

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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 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. 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 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

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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 by mail was sent shall be made available at the public
hearing.
(Source: P.A. 82-282; 88-455.)
(35 ILCS 200/27-55)
Sec. 27-55. Objection petition. If a petition signed by at
least 51% of the electors residing within the special service
area and by at least 51% of the 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, 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, 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. However, if certified documentation or a

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sworn affidavit is submitted along with an objection petition
filed pursuant to this Section evidencing that an individual
who is registered to vote has died or has permanently moved
from the special service area and is no longer a resident of
the special service area, then that individual shall not be
counted as an elector for purposes of determining whether or
not at least 51% of the electors residing within the special
service area have signed the objection petition. 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.)