Bill Amendment: IL SB0484 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: PTELL-EXTENSION LIMITATION
Status: 2017-09-28 - Rule 19(b) / Motion Referred to Rules Committee [SB0484 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0484-Senate_Amendment_002.html
Bill Title: PTELL-EXTENSION LIMITATION
Status: 2017-09-28 - Rule 19(b) / Motion Referred to Rules Committee [SB0484 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0484-Senate_Amendment_002.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 484
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 484 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Sections 18-185, 18-205, 18-213, and 18-214 as follows:
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6 | (35 ILCS 200/18-185)
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7 | (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 99-521 ) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 18-185. Short title; definitions. This Division 5 may | ||||||
9 | be cited as the
Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. As used | ||||||
10 | in this Division 5:
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11 | "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for | ||||||
12 | All Urban
Consumers for all items published by the United | ||||||
13 | States Department of Labor.
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14 | "Extension limitation" , except as otherwise provided in | ||||||
15 | this paragraph, means (a) the lesser of 5% or the percentage | ||||||
16 | increase
in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month |
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1 | calendar year preceding the
levy year or (b) the rate of | ||||||
2 | increase approved by voters under Section 18-205.
For levy | ||||||
3 | years 2017 and 2018 only, for school districts other than the | ||||||
4 | City of Chicago School District #299 and qualified school | ||||||
5 | districts, "extension limitation" means 0% or the rate of | ||||||
6 | increase approved by the voters under Section 18-205. For levy | ||||||
7 | years 2017 and 2018, if a special purpose extension (i) made | ||||||
8 | for the payment of principal and interest on bonds or other | ||||||
9 | evidences of indebtedness issued by the taxing district or (ii) | ||||||
10 | made for contributions to a pension fund created under the | ||||||
11 | Illinois Pension Code was required to be included in a school | ||||||
12 | district's aggregate extension for the 2016 levy year, then the | ||||||
13 | extension limitation for those extensions for levy years 2017 | ||||||
14 | and 2018 shall be (1) the lesser of 5% or the percentage | ||||||
15 | increase
in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month | ||||||
16 | calendar year preceding the
levy year or (2) the rate of | ||||||
17 | increase approved by voters under Section 18-205. For levy | ||||||
18 | years 2017 and 2018, for the City of Chicago School District | ||||||
19 | #299 and qualified school districts that were subject to this | ||||||
20 | Law in the 2016 levy year, "extension limitation" means (1) the | ||||||
21 | lesser of 5% or the percentage increase
in the Consumer Price | ||||||
22 | Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the
levy year | ||||||
23 | or (2) the rate of increase approved by voters under Section | ||||||
24 | 18-205.
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25 | "Affected county" means a county of 3,000,000 or more | ||||||
26 | inhabitants or a
county contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or |
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1 | more inhabitants.
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2 | "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section | ||||||
3 | 1-150, except as
otherwise provided in this Section. For the | ||||||
4 | 1991 through 1994 levy years only,
"taxing district" includes | ||||||
5 | only each non-home rule taxing district having the
majority of | ||||||
6 | its
1990 equalized assessed value within any county or counties | ||||||
7 | contiguous to a
county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants. | ||||||
8 | Beginning with the 1995 levy
year, "taxing district" includes | ||||||
9 | only each non-home rule taxing district
subject to this Law | ||||||
10 | before the 1995 levy year and each non-home rule
taxing | ||||||
11 | district not subject to this Law before the 1995 levy year | ||||||
12 | having the
majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value in an | ||||||
13 | affected county or
counties. Beginning with the levy year in
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14 | which this Law becomes applicable to a taxing district as
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15 | provided in Section 18-213, "taxing district" also includes | ||||||
16 | those taxing
districts made subject to this Law as provided in | ||||||
17 | Section 18-213.
For levy years 2017 and 2018, "taxing district" | ||||||
18 | also includes each school district in the State, but does not | ||||||
19 | include a qualified school district that was not subject to | ||||||
20 | this Law in the 2016 levy year.
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21 | "Aggregate extension" for taxing districts to which this | ||||||
22 | Law applied before
the 1995 levy year means , except with | ||||||
23 | respect to levy years 2017 and 2018, the annual corporate | ||||||
24 | extension for the taxing
district and those special purpose | ||||||
25 | extensions that are made annually for
the taxing district, | ||||||
26 | excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for the
taxing |
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1 | district to pay interest or principal on general obligation | ||||||
2 | bonds
that were approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing | ||||||
3 | district to pay
interest or principal on general obligation | ||||||
4 | bonds issued before October 1,
1991; (c) made for any taxing | ||||||
5 | district to pay interest or principal on bonds
issued to refund | ||||||
6 | or continue to refund those bonds issued before October 1,
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7 | 1991; (d)
made for any taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
8 | principal on bonds
issued to refund or continue to refund bonds | ||||||
9 | issued after October 1, 1991 that
were approved by referendum; | ||||||
10 | (e)
made for any taxing district to pay interest
or principal | ||||||
11 | on revenue bonds issued before October 1, 1991 for payment of
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12 | which a property tax levy or the full faith and credit of the | ||||||
13 | unit of local
government is pledged; however, a tax for the | ||||||
14 | payment of interest or principal
on those bonds shall be made | ||||||
15 | only after the governing body of the unit of local
government | ||||||
16 | finds that all other sources for payment are insufficient to | ||||||
17 | make
those payments; (f) made for payments under a building | ||||||
18 | commission lease when
the lease payments are for the retirement | ||||||
19 | of bonds issued by the commission
before October 1, 1991, to | ||||||
20 | pay for the building project; (g) made for payments
due under | ||||||
21 | installment contracts entered into before October 1, 1991;
(h) | ||||||
22 | made for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued | ||||||
23 | under the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act to | ||||||
24 | finance construction projects
initiated before October 1, | ||||||
25 | 1991; (i) made for payments of principal and
interest on | ||||||
26 | limited bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government |
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1 | Debt
Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt service | ||||||
2 | extension base less
the amount in items (b), (c), (e), and (h) | ||||||
3 | of this definition for
non-referendum obligations, except | ||||||
4 | obligations initially issued pursuant to
referendum; (j) made | ||||||
5 | for payments of principal and interest on bonds
issued under | ||||||
6 | Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (k)
made
by | ||||||
7 | a school district that participates in the Special Education | ||||||
8 | District of
Lake County, created by special education joint | ||||||
9 | agreement under Section
10-22.31 of the School Code, for | ||||||
10 | payment of the school district's share of the
amounts required | ||||||
11 | to be contributed by the Special Education District of Lake
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12 | County to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under Article | ||||||
13 | 7 of the
Illinois Pension Code; the amount of any extension | ||||||
14 | under this item (k) shall be
certified by the school district | ||||||
15 | to the county clerk; (l) made to fund
expenses of providing | ||||||
16 | joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities | ||||||
17 | under
Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 | ||||||
18 | of the Illinois Municipal Code; (m) made for temporary | ||||||
19 | relocation loan repayment purposes pursuant to Sections 2-3.77 | ||||||
20 | and 17-2.2d of the School Code; (n) made for payment of | ||||||
21 | principal and interest on any bonds issued under the authority | ||||||
22 | of Section 17-2.2d of the School Code; (o) made for | ||||||
23 | contributions to a firefighter's pension fund created under | ||||||
24 | Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the | ||||||
25 | amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the | ||||||
26 | Illinois Pension Code; and (p) made for road purposes in the |
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1 | first year after a township assumes the rights, powers, duties, | ||||||
2 | assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and
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3 | responsibilities of a road district abolished under the | ||||||
4 | provisions of Section 6-133 of the Illinois Highway Code.
For | ||||||
5 | levy years 2017 and 2018, this definition of "aggregate | ||||||
6 | extension" applies to each qualified school district that was | ||||||
7 | subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" for the | ||||||
8 | 2016 levy year.
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9 | "Aggregate extension" for the taxing districts to which | ||||||
10 | this Law did not
apply before the 1995 levy year (except taxing | ||||||
11 | districts subject to this Law
in
accordance with Section | ||||||
12 | 18-213) means , except with respect to levy years 2017 and 2018, | ||||||
13 | the annual corporate extension for the
taxing district and | ||||||
14 | those special purpose extensions that are made annually for
the | ||||||
15 | taxing district, excluding special purpose extensions: (a) | ||||||
16 | made for the
taxing district to pay interest or principal on | ||||||
17 | general obligation bonds that
were approved by referendum; (b) | ||||||
18 | made for any taxing district to pay interest
or principal on | ||||||
19 | general obligation bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (c) made
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20 | for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds | ||||||
21 | issued to refund
or continue to refund those bonds issued | ||||||
22 | before March 1, 1995; (d) made for any
taxing district to pay | ||||||
23 | interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or
continue to | ||||||
24 | refund bonds issued after March 1, 1995 that were approved by
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25 | referendum; (e) made for any taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
26 | principal on
revenue bonds issued before March 1, 1995 for |
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1 | payment of which a property tax
levy or the full faith and | ||||||
2 | credit of the unit of local government is pledged;
however, a | ||||||
3 | tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds | ||||||
4 | shall be
made only after the governing body of the unit of | ||||||
5 | local government finds that
all other sources for payment are | ||||||
6 | insufficient to make those payments; (f) made
for payments | ||||||
7 | under a building commission lease when the lease payments are | ||||||
8 | for
the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before | ||||||
9 | March 1, 1995 to
pay for the building project; (g) made for | ||||||
10 | payments due under installment
contracts entered into before | ||||||
11 | March 1, 1995; (h) made for payments of
principal and interest | ||||||
12 | on bonds issued under the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
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13 | District Act to finance construction projects initiated before | ||||||
14 | October 1,
1991; (h-4) made for stormwater management purposes | ||||||
15 | by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater | ||||||
16 | Chicago under Section 12 of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation | ||||||
17 | District Act; (i) made for payments of principal and interest | ||||||
18 | on limited bonds,
as defined in Section 3 of the Local | ||||||
19 | Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount
not to exceed the debt | ||||||
20 | service extension base less the amount in items (b),
(c), and | ||||||
21 | (e) of this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
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22 | obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum and bonds | ||||||
23 | described in
subsection (h) of this definition; (j) made for | ||||||
24 | payments of
principal and interest on bonds issued under | ||||||
25 | Section 15 of the Local Government
Debt Reform Act; (k) made | ||||||
26 | for payments of principal and interest on bonds
authorized by |
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1 | Public Act 88-503 and issued under Section 20a of the Chicago
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2 | Park District Act for aquarium or
museum projects; (l) made for | ||||||
3 | payments of principal and interest on
bonds
authorized by | ||||||
4 | Public Act 87-1191 or 93-601 and (i) issued pursuant to Section | ||||||
5 | 21.2 of the Cook County Forest
Preserve District Act, (ii) | ||||||
6 | issued under Section 42 of the Cook County
Forest Preserve | ||||||
7 | District Act for zoological park projects, or (iii) issued
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8 | under Section 44.1 of the Cook County Forest Preserve District | ||||||
9 | Act for
botanical gardens projects; (m) made
pursuant
to | ||||||
10 | Section 34-53.5 of the School Code, whether levied annually or | ||||||
11 | not;
(n) made to fund expenses of providing joint recreational | ||||||
12 | programs for persons with disabilities under Section 5-8 of the | ||||||
13 | Park
District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the Illinois | ||||||
14 | Municipal Code;
(o) made by the
Chicago Park
District for | ||||||
15 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
16 | subsection (c) of
Section
7.06 of the Chicago Park District | ||||||
17 | Act; (p) made for contributions to a firefighter's pension fund | ||||||
18 | created under Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the | ||||||
19 | extent of the amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 | ||||||
20 | of the Illinois Pension Code; and (q) made by Ford Heights | ||||||
21 | School District 169 under Section 17-9.02 of the School Code.
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22 | Notwithstanding the provisions of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
23 | 100th General Assembly, for the 2017 and 2018 levy years, this | ||||||
24 | definition of "aggregate extension" applies to the City of | ||||||
25 | Chicago School District #299 and each qualified school district | ||||||
26 | that was subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" |
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1 | for the 2016 levy year.
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2 | "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which | ||||||
3 | this Law applies in
accordance with Section 18-213, except for | ||||||
4 | those taxing districts subject to
paragraph (2) of subsection | ||||||
5 | (e) of Section 18-213, means , except with respect to levy years | ||||||
6 | 2017 and 2018, the annual corporate
extension for the
taxing | ||||||
7 | district and those special purpose extensions that are made | ||||||
8 | annually for
the taxing district, excluding special purpose | ||||||
9 | extensions: (a) made for the
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
10 | principal on general obligation bonds that
were approved by | ||||||
11 | referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest
or | ||||||
12 | principal on general obligation bonds issued before the date on | ||||||
13 | which the
referendum making this
Law applicable to the taxing | ||||||
14 | district is held; (c) made
for any taxing district to pay | ||||||
15 | interest or principal on bonds issued to refund
or continue to | ||||||
16 | refund those bonds issued before the date on which the
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17 | referendum making this Law
applicable to the taxing district is | ||||||
18 | held;
(d) made for any
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
19 | principal on bonds issued to refund or
continue to refund bonds | ||||||
20 | issued after the date on which the referendum making
this Law
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21 | applicable to the taxing district is held if the bonds were | ||||||
22 | approved by
referendum after the date on which the referendum | ||||||
23 | making this Law
applicable to the taxing district is held; (e) | ||||||
24 | made for any
taxing district to pay interest or principal on
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25 | revenue bonds issued before the date on which the referendum | ||||||
26 | making this Law
applicable to the
taxing district is held for |
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1 | payment of which a property tax
levy or the full faith and | ||||||
2 | credit of the unit of local government is pledged;
however, a | ||||||
3 | tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds | ||||||
4 | shall be
made only after the governing body of the unit of | ||||||
5 | local government finds that
all other sources for payment are | ||||||
6 | insufficient to make those payments; (f) made
for payments | ||||||
7 | under a building commission lease when the lease payments are | ||||||
8 | for
the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before the | ||||||
9 | date on which the
referendum making this
Law applicable to the | ||||||
10 | taxing district is held to
pay for the building project; (g) | ||||||
11 | made for payments due under installment
contracts entered into | ||||||
12 | before the date on which the referendum making this Law
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13 | applicable to
the taxing district is held;
(h) made for | ||||||
14 | payments
of principal and interest on limited bonds,
as defined | ||||||
15 | in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an | ||||||
16 | amount
not to exceed the debt service extension base less the | ||||||
17 | amount in items (b),
(c), and (e) of this definition for | ||||||
18 | non-referendum obligations, except
obligations initially | ||||||
19 | issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made for payments
of
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20 | principal and interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the | ||||||
21 | Local Government
Debt Reform Act;
(j)
made for a qualified | ||||||
22 | airport authority to pay interest or principal on
general | ||||||
23 | obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying obligations | ||||||
24 | due
under, or financing airport facilities required to be | ||||||
25 | acquired, constructed,
installed or equipped pursuant to, | ||||||
26 | contracts entered into before March
1, 1996 (but not including |
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1 | any amendments to such a contract taking effect on
or after | ||||||
2 | that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing joint
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3 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
4 | Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of | ||||||
5 | the Illinois Municipal Code; (l) made for contributions to a | ||||||
6 | firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the | ||||||
7 | Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified | ||||||
8 | under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code; | ||||||
9 | and (m) made for the taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
10 | principal on general obligation bonds issued pursuant to | ||||||
11 | Section 19-3.10 of the School Code.
For levy years 2017 and | ||||||
12 | 2018, this definition of "aggregate extension" applies to each | ||||||
13 | qualified school district that was subject to this definition | ||||||
14 | of "aggregate extension" for the 2016 levy year.
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15 | "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which | ||||||
16 | this Law applies in
accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection | ||||||
17 | (e) of Section 18-213 means , except with respect to levy years | ||||||
18 | 2017 and 2018, the
annual corporate extension for the
taxing | ||||||
19 | district and those special purpose extensions that are made | ||||||
20 | annually for
the taxing district, excluding special purpose | ||||||
21 | extensions: (a) made for the
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
22 | principal on general obligation bonds that
were approved by | ||||||
23 | referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest
or | ||||||
24 | principal on general obligation bonds issued before the | ||||||
25 | effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1997;
(c) made
for any | ||||||
26 | taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to |
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1 | refund
or continue to refund those bonds issued before the | ||||||
2 | effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1997;
(d) made for any
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3 | taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to | ||||||
4 | refund or
continue to refund bonds issued after the effective | ||||||
5 | date of this amendatory Act
of 1997 if the bonds were approved | ||||||
6 | by referendum after the effective date of
this amendatory Act | ||||||
7 | of 1997;
(e) made for any
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
8 | principal on
revenue bonds issued before the effective date of | ||||||
9 | this amendatory Act of 1997
for payment of which a property tax
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10 | levy or the full faith and credit of the unit of local | ||||||
11 | government is pledged;
however, a tax for the payment of | ||||||
12 | interest or principal on those bonds shall be
made only after | ||||||
13 | the governing body of the unit of local government finds that
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14 | all other sources for payment are insufficient to make those | ||||||
15 | payments; (f) made
for payments under a building commission | ||||||
16 | lease when the lease payments are for
the retirement of bonds | ||||||
17 | issued by the commission before the effective date
of this | ||||||
18 | amendatory Act of 1997
to
pay for the building project; (g) | ||||||
19 | made for payments due under installment
contracts entered into | ||||||
20 | before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997;
(h) | ||||||
21 | made for payments
of principal and interest on limited bonds,
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22 | as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform | ||||||
23 | Act, in an amount
not to exceed the debt service extension base | ||||||
24 | less the amount in items (b),
(c), and (e) of this definition | ||||||
25 | for non-referendum obligations, except
obligations initially | ||||||
26 | issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made for payments
of
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1 | principal and interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the | ||||||
2 | Local Government
Debt Reform Act;
(j)
made for a qualified | ||||||
3 | airport authority to pay interest or principal on
general | ||||||
4 | obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying obligations | ||||||
5 | due
under, or financing airport facilities required to be | ||||||
6 | acquired, constructed,
installed or equipped pursuant to, | ||||||
7 | contracts entered into before March
1, 1996 (but not including | ||||||
8 | any amendments to such a contract taking effect on
or after | ||||||
9 | that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing joint
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10 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
11 | Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of | ||||||
12 | the Illinois Municipal Code; and (l) made for contributions to | ||||||
13 | a firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the | ||||||
14 | Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified | ||||||
15 | under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code.
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16 | For levy years 2017 and 2018, this definition of "aggregate | ||||||
17 | extension" applies to each qualified school district that was | ||||||
18 | subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" for the | ||||||
19 | 2016 levy year.
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20 | "Aggregate extension", except with respect to the City of | ||||||
21 | Chicago School District #299 or a qualified school district, | ||||||
22 | for levy years 2017 and 2018, means the annual corporate | ||||||
23 | extension for the taxing district and those special purpose | ||||||
24 | extensions that are made annually for the taxing district, | ||||||
25 | excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for the payment | ||||||
26 | of principal and interest on bonds or other evidences of |
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1 | indebtedness issued by the taxing district; or (b) made for | ||||||
2 | contributions to a pension fund created under the Illinois | ||||||
3 | Pension Code. Notwithstanding the provisions of this | ||||||
4 | definition of "aggregate extension", if a special purpose | ||||||
5 | extension (i) made for the payment of principal and interest on | ||||||
6 | bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the taxing | ||||||
7 | district or (ii) made for contributions to a pension fund | ||||||
8 | created under the Illinois Pension Code was required to be | ||||||
9 | included in a taxing district's aggregate extension for the | ||||||
10 | 2016 levy year, then that special purpose extension is also | ||||||
11 | included in the taxing district's aggregate extension for levy | ||||||
12 | years 2017 and 2018; provided that the extension limitation for | ||||||
13 | those extensions for levy years 2017 and 2018 shall be (1) the | ||||||
14 | lesser of 5% or the percentage increase
in the Consumer Price | ||||||
15 | Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the
levy year | ||||||
16 | or (2) the rate of increase approved by voters under Section | ||||||
17 | 18-205. | ||||||
18 | "Debt service extension base" means an amount equal to that | ||||||
19 | portion of the
extension for a taxing district for the 1994 | ||||||
20 | levy year, or for those taxing
districts subject to this Law in | ||||||
21 | accordance with Section 18-213, except for
those subject to | ||||||
22 | paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of Section 18-213, for the
levy
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23 | year in which the referendum making this Law applicable to the | ||||||
24 | taxing district
is held, or for those taxing districts subject | ||||||
25 | to this Law in accordance with
paragraph (2) of subsection (e) | ||||||
26 | of Section 18-213 for the 1996 levy year , or for those school
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1 | districts that become subject to this Law as a result of this | ||||||
2 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly for the 2016 levy | ||||||
3 | year ,
constituting an
extension for payment of principal and | ||||||
4 | interest on bonds issued by the taxing
district without | ||||||
5 | referendum, but not including excluded non-referendum bonds. | ||||||
6 | For park districts (i) that were first
subject to this Law in | ||||||
7 | 1991 or 1995 and (ii) whose extension for the 1994 levy
year | ||||||
8 | for the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by | ||||||
9 | the park
district without referendum (but not including | ||||||
10 | excluded non-referendum bonds)
was less than 51% of the amount | ||||||
11 | for the 1991 levy year constituting an
extension for payment of | ||||||
12 | principal and interest on bonds issued by the park
district | ||||||
13 | without referendum (but not including excluded non-referendum | ||||||
14 | bonds),
"debt service extension base" means an amount equal to | ||||||
15 | that portion of the
extension for the 1991 levy year | ||||||
16 | constituting an extension for payment of
principal and interest | ||||||
17 | on bonds issued by the park district without referendum
(but | ||||||
18 | not including excluded non-referendum bonds). A debt service | ||||||
19 | extension base established or increased at any time pursuant to | ||||||
20 | any provision of this Law, except Section 18-212, shall be | ||||||
21 | increased each year commencing with the later of (i) the 2009 | ||||||
22 | levy year or (ii) the first levy year in which this Law becomes | ||||||
23 | applicable to the taxing district, by the lesser of 5% or the | ||||||
24 | percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the | ||||||
25 | 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year. The debt | ||||||
26 | service extension
base may be established or increased as |
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1 | provided under Section 18-212.
"Excluded non-referendum bonds" | ||||||
2 | means (i) bonds authorized by Public
Act 88-503 and issued | ||||||
3 | under Section 20a of the Chicago Park District Act for
aquarium | ||||||
4 | and museum projects; (ii) bonds issued under Section 15 of the
| ||||||
5 | Local Government Debt Reform Act; or (iii) refunding | ||||||
6 | obligations issued
to refund or to continue to refund | ||||||
7 | obligations initially issued pursuant to
referendum.
| ||||||
8 | "Special purpose extensions" include, but are not limited | ||||||
9 | to, extensions
for levies made on an annual basis for | ||||||
10 | unemployment and workers'
compensation, self-insurance, | ||||||
11 | contributions to pension plans, and extensions
made pursuant to | ||||||
12 | Section 6-601 of the Illinois Highway Code for a road
| ||||||
13 | district's permanent road fund whether levied annually or not. | ||||||
14 | The
extension for a special service area is not included in the
| ||||||
15 | aggregate extension.
| ||||||
16 | "Aggregate extension base" means the taxing district's | ||||||
17 | last preceding
aggregate extension as adjusted under Sections | ||||||
18 | 18-135, 18-215,
and 18-230.
An adjustment under Section 18-135 | ||||||
19 | shall be made for the 2007 levy year and all subsequent levy | ||||||
20 | years whenever one or more counties within which a taxing | ||||||
21 | district is located (i) used estimated valuations or rates when | ||||||
22 | extending taxes in the taxing district for the last preceding | ||||||
23 | levy year that resulted in the over or under extension of | ||||||
24 | taxes, or (ii) increased or decreased the tax extension for the | ||||||
25 | last preceding levy year as required by Section 18-135(c). | ||||||
26 | Whenever an adjustment is required under Section 18-135, the |
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| |||||||
1 | aggregate extension base of the taxing district shall be equal | ||||||
2 | to the amount that the aggregate extension of the taxing | ||||||
3 | district would have been for the last preceding levy year if | ||||||
4 | either or both (i) actual, rather than estimated, valuations or | ||||||
5 | rates had been used to calculate the extension of taxes for the | ||||||
6 | last levy year, or (ii) the tax extension for the last | ||||||
7 | preceding levy year had not been adjusted as required by | ||||||
8 | subsection (c) of Section 18-135.
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9 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for levy year | ||||||
10 | 2012, the aggregate extension base for West Northfield School | ||||||
11 | District No. 31 in Cook County shall be $12,654,592. | ||||||
12 | "Levy year" has the same meaning as "year" under Section
| ||||||
13 | 1-155.
| ||||||
14 | "New property" means (i) the assessed value, after final | ||||||
15 | board of review or
board of appeals action, of new improvements | ||||||
16 | or additions to existing
improvements on any parcel of real | ||||||
17 | property that increase the assessed value of
that real property | ||||||
18 | during the levy year multiplied by the equalization factor
| ||||||
19 | issued by the Department under Section 17-30, (ii) the assessed | ||||||
20 | value, after
final board of review or board of appeals action, | ||||||
21 | of real property not exempt
from real estate taxation, which | ||||||
22 | real property was exempt from real estate
taxation for any | ||||||
23 | portion of the immediately preceding levy year, multiplied by
| ||||||
24 | the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section | ||||||
25 | 17-30, including the assessed value, upon final stabilization | ||||||
26 | of occupancy after new construction is complete, of any real |
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| |||||||
1 | property located within the boundaries of an otherwise or | ||||||
2 | previously exempt military reservation that is intended for | ||||||
3 | residential use and owned by or leased to a private corporation | ||||||
4 | or other entity,
(iii) in counties that classify in accordance | ||||||
5 | with Section 4 of Article
IX of the
Illinois Constitution, an | ||||||
6 | incentive property's additional assessed value
resulting from | ||||||
7 | a
scheduled increase in the level of assessment as applied to | ||||||
8 | the first year
final board of
review market value, and (iv) any | ||||||
9 | increase in assessed value due to oil or gas production from an | ||||||
10 | oil or gas well required to be permitted under the Hydraulic | ||||||
11 | Fracturing Regulatory Act that was not produced in or accounted | ||||||
12 | for during the previous levy year.
In addition, the county | ||||||
13 | clerk in a county containing a population of
3,000,000 or more | ||||||
14 | shall include in the 1997
recovered tax increment value for any | ||||||
15 | school district, any recovered tax
increment value that was | ||||||
16 | applicable to the 1995 tax year calculations.
| ||||||
17 | "Qualified airport authority" means an airport authority | ||||||
18 | organized under
the Airport Authorities Act and located in a | ||||||
19 | county bordering on the State of
Wisconsin and having a | ||||||
20 | population in excess of 200,000 and not greater than
500,000.
| ||||||
21 | "Recovered tax increment value" means, except as otherwise | ||||||
22 | provided in this
paragraph, the amount of the current year's | ||||||
23 | equalized assessed value, in the
first year after a | ||||||
24 | municipality terminates
the designation of an area as a | ||||||
25 | redevelopment project area previously
established under the | ||||||
26 | Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the Illinois
|
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| |||||||
1 | Municipal Code, previously established under the Industrial | ||||||
2 | Jobs Recovery Law
in the Illinois Municipal Code, previously | ||||||
3 | established under the Economic Development Project Area Tax | ||||||
4 | Increment Act of 1995, or previously established under the | ||||||
5 | Economic
Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, of each | ||||||
6 | taxable lot, block,
tract, or parcel of real property in the | ||||||
7 | redevelopment project area over and
above the initial equalized | ||||||
8 | assessed value of each property in the
redevelopment project | ||||||
9 | area.
For the taxes which are extended for the 1997 levy year, | ||||||
10 | the recovered tax
increment value for a non-home rule taxing | ||||||
11 | district that first became subject
to this Law for the 1995 | ||||||
12 | levy year because a majority of its 1994 equalized
assessed | ||||||
13 | value was in an affected county or counties shall be increased | ||||||
14 | if a
municipality terminated the designation of an area in 1993 | ||||||
15 | as a redevelopment
project area previously established under | ||||||
16 | the Tax Increment Allocation
Development Act in the Illinois | ||||||
17 | Municipal Code, previously established under
the Industrial | ||||||
18 | Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, or previously
| ||||||
19 | established under the Economic Development Area Tax Increment | ||||||
20 | Allocation Act,
by an amount equal to the 1994 equalized | ||||||
21 | assessed value of each taxable lot,
block, tract, or parcel of | ||||||
22 | real property in the redevelopment project area over
and above | ||||||
23 | the initial equalized assessed value of each property in the
| ||||||
24 | redevelopment project area.
In the first year after a | ||||||
25 | municipality
removes a taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of | ||||||
26 | real property from a
redevelopment project area established |
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1 | under the Tax Increment Allocation
Development Act in the | ||||||
2 | Illinois
Municipal Code, the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law
in | ||||||
3 | the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Economic
Development Area | ||||||
4 | Tax Increment Allocation Act, "recovered tax increment value"
| ||||||
5 | means the amount of the current year's equalized assessed value | ||||||
6 | of each taxable
lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property | ||||||
7 | removed from the redevelopment
project area over and above the | ||||||
8 | initial equalized assessed value of that real
property before | ||||||
9 | removal from the redevelopment project area.
| ||||||
10 | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, "limiting | ||||||
11 | rate" means a
fraction the numerator of which is the last
| ||||||
12 | preceding aggregate extension base times an amount equal to one | ||||||
13 | plus the
extension limitation defined in this Section and the | ||||||
14 | denominator of which
is the current year's equalized assessed | ||||||
15 | value of all real property in the
territory under the | ||||||
16 | jurisdiction of the taxing district during the prior
levy year. | ||||||
17 | For those taxing districts that reduced their aggregate
| ||||||
18 | extension for the last preceding levy year, the highest | ||||||
19 | aggregate extension
in any of the last 3 preceding levy years | ||||||
20 | shall be used for the purpose of
computing the limiting rate. | ||||||
21 | The denominator shall not include new
property or the recovered | ||||||
22 | tax increment
value.
If a new rate, a rate decrease, or a | ||||||
23 | limiting rate increase has been approved at an election held | ||||||
24 | after March 21, 2006, then (i) the otherwise applicable | ||||||
25 | limiting rate shall be increased by the amount of the new rate | ||||||
26 | or shall be reduced by the amount of the rate decrease, as the |
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| |||||||
1 | case may be, or (ii) in the case of a limiting rate increase, | ||||||
2 | the limiting rate shall be equal to the rate set forth
in the | ||||||
3 | proposition approved by the voters for each of the years | ||||||
4 | specified in the proposition, after
which the limiting rate of | ||||||
5 | the taxing district shall be calculated as otherwise provided. | ||||||
6 | In the case of a taxing district that obtained referendum | ||||||
7 | approval for an increased limiting rate on March 20, 2012, the | ||||||
8 | limiting rate for tax year 2012 shall be the rate that | ||||||
9 | generates the approximate total amount of taxes extendable for | ||||||
10 | that tax year, as set forth in the proposition approved by the | ||||||
11 | voters; this rate shall be the final rate applied by the county | ||||||
12 | clerk for the aggregate of all capped funds of the district for | ||||||
13 | tax year 2012.
| ||||||
14 | "Qualified school district" means, for levy years 2017 and | ||||||
15 | 2018, a school district that has been granted a financial | ||||||
16 | hardship exemption from this amendatory Act of the 100th | ||||||
17 | General Assembly by the State Superintendent of Education; to | ||||||
18 | be eligible for such an exemption, one or more of the following | ||||||
19 | criteria must apply: | ||||||
20 | (1) the district meets the conditions described in | ||||||
21 | subsection (a) of Section 1A-8 of the School Code or in | ||||||
22 | paragraph (3) or (5) of subsection (b) of Section 1A-8 of | ||||||
23 | the School Code; to determine if a school district meets | ||||||
24 | this criteria, the State Superintendent of Education may | ||||||
25 | require a school district, including any district subject | ||||||
26 | to Article 34A of this Code, to share financial information |
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| |||||||
1 | relevant to a proper investigation of the district's | ||||||
2 | financial condition; | ||||||
3 | (2) the equalized assessed valuation used in | ||||||
4 | calculating the district's general State aid claim under | ||||||
5 | Section 18-8.05 of the School Code, or the district's | ||||||
6 | evidence-based funding claim under Section 18-8.15 of the | ||||||
7 | School Code, as applicable, for the year in which the | ||||||
8 | district is applying has decreased by 10% or more compared | ||||||
9 | to equalized assessed valuation used for such calculations | ||||||
10 | in the previous school year; | ||||||
11 | (3) the average daily attendance used in calculating | ||||||
12 | the district's general State aid claim, under Section | ||||||
13 | 18-8.05 of the School Code, or the district's | ||||||
14 | evidence-based funding claim under Section 18-8.15 of the | ||||||
15 | School Code, as applicable, for the year in which the | ||||||
16 | district is applying has decreased by 5% or more compared | ||||||
17 | to the average daily attendance used for such calculations | ||||||
18 | in the previous school year; | ||||||
19 | (4) fifty percent or more of the pupils enrolled in the | ||||||
20 | district qualify for free or reduced lunch; | ||||||
21 | (5) twenty percent or more of the pupils enrolled in | ||||||
22 | the district have an individualized education plan (IEP); | ||||||
23 | (6) the district is a Tier 1 district, as defined in | ||||||
24 | subparagraph (A) of subsection (g) of Section 18-8.15 of | ||||||
25 | the School Code; OR | ||||||
26 | (7) the district has been designated, through the State |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Board of Education's School District Financial Profile | ||||||
2 | System, as on financial watch status for fiscal year 2016. | ||||||
3 | After independently verifying that a district meets one or | ||||||
4 | more of the criteria set forth in items (1) through (7), the | ||||||
5 | State Superintendent shall notify the appropriate taxing | ||||||
6 | authorities that the district is to be exempt from the | ||||||
7 | provisions of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly | ||||||
8 | for the next appropriate levy year. The exemption shall be for | ||||||
9 | a period of one levy year. School districts may reapply on an | ||||||
10 | annual basis to be exempt from the provisions of this | ||||||
11 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. | ||||||
12 | (Source: P.A. 98-6, eff. 3-29-13; 98-23, eff. 6-17-13; 99-143, | ||||||
13 | eff. 7-27-15.)
| ||||||
14 | (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 99-521 ) | ||||||
15 | Sec. 18-185. Short title; definitions. This Division 5 may | ||||||
16 | be cited as the
Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. As used | ||||||
17 | in this Division 5:
| ||||||
18 | "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for | ||||||
19 | All Urban
Consumers for all items published by the United | ||||||
20 | States Department of Labor.
| ||||||
21 | "Extension limitation" , except as otherwise provided in | ||||||
22 | this paragraph, means (a) the lesser of 5% or the percentage | ||||||
23 | increase
in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month | ||||||
24 | calendar year preceding the
levy year or (b) the rate of | ||||||
25 | increase approved by voters under Section 18-205.
For levy |
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| |||||||
1 | years 2017 and 2018 only, for school districts other than the | ||||||
2 | City of Chicago School District #299 and qualified school | ||||||
3 | districts, "extension limitation" means 0% or the rate of | ||||||
4 | increase approved by the voters under Section 18-205. For levy | ||||||
5 | years 2017 and 2018, if a special purpose extension (i) made | ||||||
6 | for the payment of principal and interest on bonds or other | ||||||
7 | evidences of indebtedness issued by the taxing district or (ii) | ||||||
8 | made for contributions to a pension fund created under the | ||||||
9 | Illinois Pension Code was required to be included in a school | ||||||
10 | district's aggregate extension for the 2016 levy year, then the | ||||||
11 | extension limitation for those extensions for levy years 2017 | ||||||
12 | and 2018 shall be (1) the lesser of 5% or the percentage | ||||||
13 | increase
in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month | ||||||
14 | calendar year preceding the
levy year or (2) the rate of | ||||||
15 | increase approved by voters under Section 18-205. For levy | ||||||
16 | years 2017 and 2018, for the City of Chicago School District | ||||||
17 | #299 and qualified school districts that were subject to this | ||||||
18 | Law in the 2016 levy year, "extension limitation" means (1) the | ||||||
19 | lesser of 5% or the percentage increase
in the Consumer Price | ||||||
20 | Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the
levy year | ||||||
21 | or (2) the rate of increase approved by voters under Section | ||||||
22 | 18-205.
| ||||||
23 | "Affected county" means a county of 3,000,000 or more | ||||||
24 | inhabitants or a
county contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or | ||||||
25 | more inhabitants.
| ||||||
26 | "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | 1-150, except as
otherwise provided in this Section. For the | ||||||
2 | 1991 through 1994 levy years only,
"taxing district" includes | ||||||
3 | only each non-home rule taxing district having the
majority of | ||||||
4 | its
1990 equalized assessed value within any county or counties | ||||||
5 | contiguous to a
county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants. | ||||||
6 | Beginning with the 1995 levy
year, "taxing district" includes | ||||||
7 | only each non-home rule taxing district
subject to this Law | ||||||
8 | before the 1995 levy year and each non-home rule
taxing | ||||||
9 | district not subject to this Law before the 1995 levy year | ||||||
10 | having the
majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value in an | ||||||
11 | affected county or
counties. Beginning with the levy year in
| ||||||
12 | which this Law becomes applicable to a taxing district as
| ||||||
13 | provided in Section 18-213, "taxing district" also includes | ||||||
14 | those taxing
districts made subject to this Law as provided in | ||||||
15 | Section 18-213.
For levy years 2017 and 2018, "taxing district" | ||||||
16 | also includes each school district in the State, but does not | ||||||
17 | include a qualified school district that was not subject to | ||||||
18 | this Law in the 2016 levy year.
| ||||||
19 | "Aggregate extension" for taxing districts to which this | ||||||
20 | Law applied before
the 1995 levy year means , except with | ||||||
21 | respect to levy years 2017 and 2018, the annual corporate | ||||||
22 | extension for the taxing
district and those special purpose | ||||||
23 | extensions that are made annually for
the taxing district, | ||||||
24 | excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for the
taxing | ||||||
25 | district to pay interest or principal on general obligation | ||||||
26 | bonds
that were approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing |
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| |||||||
1 | district to pay
interest or principal on general obligation | ||||||
2 | bonds issued before October 1,
1991; (c) made for any taxing | ||||||
3 | district to pay interest or principal on bonds
issued to refund | ||||||
4 | or continue to refund those bonds issued before October 1,
| ||||||
5 | 1991; (d)
made for any taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
6 | principal on bonds
issued to refund or continue to refund bonds | ||||||
7 | issued after October 1, 1991 that
were approved by referendum; | ||||||
8 | (e)
made for any taxing district to pay interest
or principal | ||||||
9 | on revenue bonds issued before October 1, 1991 for payment of
| ||||||
10 | which a property tax levy or the full faith and credit of the | ||||||
11 | unit of local
government is pledged; however, a tax for the | ||||||
12 | payment of interest or principal
on those bonds shall be made | ||||||
13 | only after the governing body of the unit of local
government | ||||||
14 | finds that all other sources for payment are insufficient to | ||||||
15 | make
those payments; (f) made for payments under a building | ||||||
16 | commission lease when
the lease payments are for the retirement | ||||||
17 | of bonds issued by the commission
before October 1, 1991, to | ||||||
18 | pay for the building project; (g) made for payments
due under | ||||||
19 | installment contracts entered into before October 1, 1991;
(h) | ||||||
20 | made for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued | ||||||
21 | under the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act to | ||||||
22 | finance construction projects
initiated before October 1, | ||||||
23 | 1991; (i) made for payments of principal and
interest on | ||||||
24 | limited bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government | ||||||
25 | Debt
Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt service | ||||||
26 | extension base less
the amount in items (b), (c), (e), and (h) |
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| |||||||
1 | of this definition for
non-referendum obligations, except | ||||||
2 | obligations initially issued pursuant to
referendum; (j) made | ||||||
3 | for payments of principal and interest on bonds
issued under | ||||||
4 | Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (k)
made
by | ||||||
5 | a school district that participates in the Special Education | ||||||
6 | District of
Lake County, created by special education joint | ||||||
7 | agreement under Section
10-22.31 of the School Code, for | ||||||
8 | payment of the school district's share of the
amounts required | ||||||
9 | to be contributed by the Special Education District of Lake
| ||||||
10 | County to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under Article | ||||||
11 | 7 of the
Illinois Pension Code; the amount of any extension | ||||||
12 | under this item (k) shall be
certified by the school district | ||||||
13 | to the county clerk; (l) made to fund
expenses of providing | ||||||
14 | joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities | ||||||
15 | under
Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 | ||||||
16 | of the Illinois Municipal Code; (m) made for temporary | ||||||
17 | relocation loan repayment purposes pursuant to Sections 2-3.77 | ||||||
18 | and 17-2.2d of the School Code; (n) made for payment of | ||||||
19 | principal and interest on any bonds issued under the authority | ||||||
20 | of Section 17-2.2d of the School Code; (o) made for | ||||||
21 | contributions to a firefighter's pension fund created under | ||||||
22 | Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the | ||||||
23 | amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the | ||||||
24 | Illinois Pension Code; and (p) made for road purposes in the | ||||||
25 | first year after a township assumes the rights, powers, duties, | ||||||
26 | assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and
|
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1 | responsibilities of a road district abolished under the | ||||||
2 | provisions of Section 6-133 of the Illinois Highway Code.
For | ||||||
3 | levy years 2017 and 2018, this definition of "aggregate | ||||||
4 | extension" applies to each qualified school district that was | ||||||
5 | subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" for the | ||||||
6 | 2016 levy year.
| ||||||
7 | "Aggregate extension" for the taxing districts to which | ||||||
8 | this Law did not
apply before the 1995 levy year (except taxing | ||||||
9 | districts subject to this Law
in
accordance with Section | ||||||
10 | 18-213) means , except with respect to levy years 2017 and 2018, | ||||||
11 | the annual corporate extension for the
taxing district and | ||||||
12 | those special purpose extensions that are made annually for
the | ||||||
13 | taxing district, excluding special purpose extensions: (a) | ||||||
14 | made for the
taxing district to pay interest or principal on | ||||||
15 | general obligation bonds that
were approved by referendum; (b) | ||||||
16 | made for any taxing district to pay interest
or principal on | ||||||
17 | general obligation bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (c) made
| ||||||
18 | for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds | ||||||
19 | issued to refund
or continue to refund those bonds issued | ||||||
20 | before March 1, 1995; (d) made for any
taxing district to pay | ||||||
21 | interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or
continue to | ||||||
22 | refund bonds issued after March 1, 1995 that were approved by
| ||||||
23 | referendum; (e) made for any taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
24 | principal on
revenue bonds issued before March 1, 1995 for | ||||||
25 | payment of which a property tax
levy or the full faith and | ||||||
26 | credit of the unit of local government is pledged;
however, a |
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| |||||||
1 | tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds | ||||||
2 | shall be
made only after the governing body of the unit of | ||||||
3 | local government finds that
all other sources for payment are | ||||||
4 | insufficient to make those payments; (f) made
for payments | ||||||
5 | under a building commission lease when the lease payments are | ||||||
6 | for
the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before | ||||||
7 | March 1, 1995 to
pay for the building project; (g) made for | ||||||
8 | payments due under installment
contracts entered into before | ||||||
9 | March 1, 1995; (h) made for payments of
principal and interest | ||||||
10 | on bonds issued under the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
| ||||||
11 | District Act to finance construction projects initiated before | ||||||
12 | October 1,
1991; (h-4) made for stormwater management purposes | ||||||
13 | by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater | ||||||
14 | Chicago under Section 12 of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation | ||||||
15 | District Act; (i) made for payments of principal and interest | ||||||
16 | on limited bonds,
as defined in Section 3 of the Local | ||||||
17 | Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount
not to exceed the debt | ||||||
18 | service extension base less the amount in items (b),
(c), and | ||||||
19 | (e) of this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
| ||||||
20 | obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum and bonds | ||||||
21 | described in
subsection (h) of this definition; (j) made for | ||||||
22 | payments of
principal and interest on bonds issued under | ||||||
23 | Section 15 of the Local Government
Debt Reform Act; (k) made | ||||||
24 | for payments of principal and interest on bonds
authorized by | ||||||
25 | Public Act 88-503 and issued under Section 20a of the Chicago
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26 | Park District Act for aquarium or
museum projects; (l) made for |
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1 | payments of principal and interest on
bonds
authorized by | ||||||
2 | Public Act 87-1191 or 93-601 and (i) issued pursuant to Section | ||||||
3 | 21.2 of the Cook County Forest
Preserve District Act, (ii) | ||||||
4 | issued under Section 42 of the Cook County
Forest Preserve | ||||||
5 | District Act for zoological park projects, or (iii) issued
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6 | under Section 44.1 of the Cook County Forest Preserve District | ||||||
7 | Act for
botanical gardens projects; (m) made
pursuant
to | ||||||
8 | Section 34-53.5 of the School Code, whether levied annually or | ||||||
9 | not;
(n) made to fund expenses of providing joint recreational | ||||||
10 | programs for persons with disabilities under Section 5-8 of the | ||||||
11 | Park
District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the Illinois | ||||||
12 | Municipal Code;
(o) made by the
Chicago Park
District for | ||||||
13 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
14 | subsection (c) of
Section
7.06 of the Chicago Park District | ||||||
15 | Act; (p) made for contributions to a firefighter's pension fund | ||||||
16 | created under Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the | ||||||
17 | extent of the amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 | ||||||
18 | of the Illinois Pension Code; (q) made by Ford Heights School | ||||||
19 | District 169 under Section 17-9.02 of the School Code; and (r) | ||||||
20 | made for the purpose of making employer contributions to the | ||||||
21 | Public School Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago | ||||||
22 | under Section 34-53 of the School Code.
Notwithstanding the | ||||||
23 | provisions of this amendatory Act of the 100th General | ||||||
24 | Assembly, for levy years 2017 and 2018, this definition of | ||||||
25 | "aggregate extension" applies to the City of Chicago School | ||||||
26 | District #299 and each qualified school district that was |
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1 | subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" for the | ||||||
2 | 2016 levy year.
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3 | "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which | ||||||
4 | this Law applies in
accordance with Section 18-213, except for | ||||||
5 | those taxing districts subject to
paragraph (2) of subsection | ||||||
6 | (e) of Section 18-213, means , except with respect to levy years | ||||||
7 | 2017 and 2018, the annual corporate
extension for the
taxing | ||||||
8 | district and those special purpose extensions that are made | ||||||
9 | annually for
the taxing district, excluding special purpose | ||||||
10 | extensions: (a) made for the
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
11 | principal on general obligation bonds that
were approved by | ||||||
12 | referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest
or | ||||||
13 | principal on general obligation bonds issued before the date on | ||||||
14 | which the
referendum making this
Law applicable to the taxing | ||||||
15 | district is held; (c) made
for any taxing district to pay | ||||||
16 | interest or principal on bonds issued to refund
or continue to | ||||||
17 | refund those bonds issued before the date on which the
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18 | referendum making this Law
applicable to the taxing district is | ||||||
19 | held;
(d) made for any
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
20 | principal on bonds issued to refund or
continue to refund bonds | ||||||
21 | issued after the date on which the referendum making
this Law
| ||||||
22 | applicable to the taxing district is held if the bonds were | ||||||
23 | approved by
referendum after the date on which the referendum | ||||||
24 | making this Law
applicable to the taxing district is held; (e) | ||||||
25 | made for any
taxing district to pay interest or principal on
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26 | revenue bonds issued before the date on which the referendum |
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1 | making this Law
applicable to the
taxing district is held for | ||||||
2 | payment of which a property tax
levy or the full faith and | ||||||
3 | credit of the unit of local government is pledged;
however, a | ||||||
4 | tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds | ||||||
5 | shall be
made only after the governing body of the unit of | ||||||
6 | local government finds that
all other sources for payment are | ||||||
7 | insufficient to make those payments; (f) made
for payments | ||||||
8 | under a building commission lease when the lease payments are | ||||||
9 | for
the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before the | ||||||
10 | date on which the
referendum making this
Law applicable to the | ||||||
11 | taxing district is held to
pay for the building project; (g) | ||||||
12 | made for payments due under installment
contracts entered into | ||||||
13 | before the date on which the referendum making this Law
| ||||||
14 | applicable to
the taxing district is held;
(h) made for | ||||||
15 | payments
of principal and interest on limited bonds,
as defined | ||||||
16 | in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an | ||||||
17 | amount
not to exceed the debt service extension base less the | ||||||
18 | amount in items (b),
(c), and (e) of this definition for | ||||||
19 | non-referendum obligations, except
obligations initially | ||||||
20 | issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made for payments
of
| ||||||
21 | principal and interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the | ||||||
22 | Local Government
Debt Reform Act;
(j)
made for a qualified | ||||||
23 | airport authority to pay interest or principal on
general | ||||||
24 | obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying obligations | ||||||
25 | due
under, or financing airport facilities required to be | ||||||
26 | acquired, constructed,
installed or equipped pursuant to, |
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1 | contracts entered into before March
1, 1996 (but not including | ||||||
2 | any amendments to such a contract taking effect on
or after | ||||||
3 | that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing joint
| ||||||
4 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
5 | Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of | ||||||
6 | the Illinois Municipal Code; (l) made for contributions to a | ||||||
7 | firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the | ||||||
8 | Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified | ||||||
9 | under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code; | ||||||
10 | and (m) made for the taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
11 | principal on general obligation bonds issued pursuant to | ||||||
12 | Section 19-3.10 of the School Code.
For levy years 2017 and | ||||||
13 | 2018, this definition of "aggregate extension" applies to each | ||||||
14 | qualified school district that was subject to this definition | ||||||
15 | of "aggregate extension" for the 2016 levy year.
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16 | "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which | ||||||
17 | this Law applies in
accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection | ||||||
18 | (e) of Section 18-213 means , except with respect to levy years | ||||||
19 | 2017 and 2018, the
annual corporate extension for the
taxing | ||||||
20 | district and those special purpose extensions that are made | ||||||
21 | annually for
the taxing district, excluding special purpose | ||||||
22 | extensions: (a) made for the
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
23 | principal on general obligation bonds that
were approved by | ||||||
24 | referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest
or | ||||||
25 | principal on general obligation bonds issued before the | ||||||
26 | effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1997;
(c) made
for any |
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1 | taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to | ||||||
2 | refund
or continue to refund those bonds issued before the | ||||||
3 | effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1997;
(d) made for any
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4 | taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to | ||||||
5 | refund or
continue to refund bonds issued after the effective | ||||||
6 | date of this amendatory Act
of 1997 if the bonds were approved | ||||||
7 | by referendum after the effective date of
this amendatory Act | ||||||
8 | of 1997;
(e) made for any
taxing district to pay interest or | ||||||
9 | principal on
revenue bonds issued before the effective date of | ||||||
10 | this amendatory Act of 1997
for payment of which a property tax
| ||||||
11 | levy or the full faith and credit of the unit of local | ||||||
12 | government is pledged;
however, a tax for the payment of | ||||||
13 | interest or principal on those bonds shall be
made only after | ||||||
14 | the governing body of the unit of local government finds that
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15 | all other sources for payment are insufficient to make those | ||||||
16 | payments; (f) made
for payments under a building commission | ||||||
17 | lease when the lease payments are for
the retirement of bonds | ||||||
18 | issued by the commission before the effective date
of this | ||||||
19 | amendatory Act of 1997
to
pay for the building project; (g) | ||||||
20 | made for payments due under installment
contracts entered into | ||||||
21 | before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997;
(h) | ||||||
22 | made for payments
of principal and interest on limited bonds,
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23 | as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform | ||||||
24 | Act, in an amount
not to exceed the debt service extension base | ||||||
25 | less the amount in items (b),
(c), and (e) of this definition | ||||||
26 | for non-referendum obligations, except
obligations initially |
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1 | issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made for payments
of
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2 | principal and interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the | ||||||
3 | Local Government
Debt Reform Act;
(j)
made for a qualified | ||||||
4 | airport authority to pay interest or principal on
general | ||||||
5 | obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying obligations | ||||||
6 | due
under, or financing airport facilities required to be | ||||||
7 | acquired, constructed,
installed or equipped pursuant to, | ||||||
8 | contracts entered into before March
1, 1996 (but not including | ||||||
9 | any amendments to such a contract taking effect on
or after | ||||||
10 | that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing joint
| ||||||
11 | recreational programs for persons with disabilities under | ||||||
12 | Section 5-8 of
the
Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of | ||||||
13 | the Illinois Municipal Code; and (l) made for contributions to | ||||||
14 | a firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the | ||||||
15 | Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified | ||||||
16 | under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code.
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17 | For levy years 2017 and 2018, this definition of "aggregate | ||||||
18 | extension" applies to each qualified school district that was | ||||||
19 | subject to this definition of "aggregate extension" for the | ||||||
20 | 2016 levy year.
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21 | "Aggregate extension", except with respect to the City of | ||||||
22 | Chicago School District #299 or a qualified school district, | ||||||
23 | for levy years 2017 and 2018, means the annual corporate | ||||||
24 | extension for the taxing district and those special purpose | ||||||
25 | extensions that are made annually for the taxing district, | ||||||
26 | excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for the payment |
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1 | of principal and interest on bonds or other evidences of | ||||||
2 | indebtedness issued by the taxing district; or (b) made for | ||||||
3 | contributions to a pension fund created under the Illinois | ||||||
4 | Pension Code. Notwithstanding the provisions of this | ||||||
5 | definition of "aggregate extension", if a special purpose | ||||||
6 | extension (i) made for the payment of principal and interest on | ||||||
7 | bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the taxing | ||||||
8 | district or (ii) made for contributions to a pension fund | ||||||
9 | created under the Illinois Pension Code was required to be | ||||||
10 | included in a taxing district's aggregate extension for the | ||||||
11 | 2016 levy year, then that special purpose extension is also | ||||||
12 | included in the taxing district's aggregate extension for levy | ||||||
13 | years 2017 and 2018; provided that the extension limitation for | ||||||
14 | those extensions for levy years 2017 and 2018 shall be (1) the | ||||||
15 | lesser of 5% or the percentage increase
in the Consumer Price | ||||||
16 | Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the
levy year | ||||||
17 | or (2) the rate of increase approved by voters under Section | ||||||
18 | 18-205. | ||||||
19 | "Debt service extension base" means an amount equal to that | ||||||
20 | portion of the
extension for a taxing district for the 1994 | ||||||
21 | levy year, or for those taxing
districts subject to this Law in | ||||||
22 | accordance with Section 18-213, except for
those subject to | ||||||
23 | paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of Section 18-213, for the
levy
| ||||||
24 | year in which the referendum making this Law applicable to the | ||||||
25 | taxing district
is held, or for those taxing districts subject | ||||||
26 | to this Law in accordance with
paragraph (2) of subsection (e) |
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1 | of Section 18-213 for the 1996 levy year , or for those taxing
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2 | districts that become subject to this Law as a result of this | ||||||
3 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly for the 2016 levy | ||||||
4 | year ,
constituting an
extension for payment of principal and | ||||||
5 | interest on bonds issued by the taxing
district without | ||||||
6 | referendum, but not including excluded non-referendum bonds. | ||||||
7 | For park districts (i) that were first
subject to this Law in | ||||||
8 | 1991 or 1995 and (ii) whose extension for the 1994 levy
year | ||||||
9 | for the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by | ||||||
10 | the park
district without referendum (but not including | ||||||
11 | excluded non-referendum bonds)
was less than 51% of the amount | ||||||
12 | for the 1991 levy year constituting an
extension for payment of | ||||||
13 | principal and interest on bonds issued by the park
district | ||||||
14 | without referendum (but not including excluded non-referendum | ||||||
15 | bonds),
"debt service extension base" means an amount equal to | ||||||
16 | that portion of the
extension for the 1991 levy year | ||||||
17 | constituting an extension for payment of
principal and interest | ||||||
18 | on bonds issued by the park district without referendum
(but | ||||||
19 | not including excluded non-referendum bonds). A debt service | ||||||
20 | extension base established or increased at any time pursuant to | ||||||
21 | any provision of this Law, except Section 18-212, shall be | ||||||
22 | increased each year commencing with the later of (i) the 2009 | ||||||
23 | levy year or (ii) the first levy year in which this Law becomes | ||||||
24 | applicable to the taxing district, by the lesser of 5% or the | ||||||
25 | percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the | ||||||
26 | 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year. The debt |
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1 | service extension
base may be established or increased as | ||||||
2 | provided under Section 18-212.
"Excluded non-referendum bonds" | ||||||
3 | means (i) bonds authorized by Public
Act 88-503 and issued | ||||||
4 | under Section 20a of the Chicago Park District Act for
aquarium | ||||||
5 | and museum projects; (ii) bonds issued under Section 15 of the
| ||||||
6 | Local Government Debt Reform Act; or (iii) refunding | ||||||
7 | obligations issued
to refund or to continue to refund | ||||||
8 | obligations initially issued pursuant to
referendum.
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9 | "Special purpose extensions" include, but are not limited | ||||||
10 | to, extensions
for levies made on an annual basis for | ||||||
11 | unemployment and workers'
compensation, self-insurance, | ||||||
12 | contributions to pension plans, and extensions
made pursuant to | ||||||
13 | Section 6-601 of the Illinois Highway Code for a road
| ||||||
14 | district's permanent road fund whether levied annually or not. | ||||||
15 | The
extension for a special service area is not included in the
| ||||||
16 | aggregate extension.
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17 | "Aggregate extension base" means the taxing district's | ||||||
18 | last preceding
aggregate extension as adjusted under Sections | ||||||
19 | 18-135, 18-215,
and 18-230.
An adjustment under Section 18-135 | ||||||
20 | shall be made for the 2007 levy year and all subsequent levy | ||||||
21 | years whenever one or more counties within which a taxing | ||||||
22 | district is located (i) used estimated valuations or rates when | ||||||
23 | extending taxes in the taxing district for the last preceding | ||||||
24 | levy year that resulted in the over or under extension of | ||||||
25 | taxes, or (ii) increased or decreased the tax extension for the | ||||||
26 | last preceding levy year as required by Section 18-135(c). |
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1 | Whenever an adjustment is required under Section 18-135, the | ||||||
2 | aggregate extension base of the taxing district shall be equal | ||||||
3 | to the amount that the aggregate extension of the taxing | ||||||
4 | district would have been for the last preceding levy year if | ||||||
5 | either or both (i) actual, rather than estimated, valuations or | ||||||
6 | rates had been used to calculate the extension of taxes for the | ||||||
7 | last levy year, or (ii) the tax extension for the last | ||||||
8 | preceding levy year had not been adjusted as required by | ||||||
9 | subsection (c) of Section 18-135.
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10 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for levy year | ||||||
11 | 2012, the aggregate extension base for West Northfield School | ||||||
12 | District No. 31 in Cook County shall be $12,654,592. | ||||||
13 | "Levy year" has the same meaning as "year" under Section
| ||||||
14 | 1-155.
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15 | "New property" means (i) the assessed value, after final | ||||||
16 | board of review or
board of appeals action, of new improvements | ||||||
17 | or additions to existing
improvements on any parcel of real | ||||||
18 | property that increase the assessed value of
that real property | ||||||
19 | during the levy year multiplied by the equalization factor
| ||||||
20 | issued by the Department under Section 17-30, (ii) the assessed | ||||||
21 | value, after
final board of review or board of appeals action, | ||||||
22 | of real property not exempt
from real estate taxation, which | ||||||
23 | real property was exempt from real estate
taxation for any | ||||||
24 | portion of the immediately preceding levy year, multiplied by
| ||||||
25 | the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section | ||||||
26 | 17-30, including the assessed value, upon final stabilization |
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1 | of occupancy after new construction is complete, of any real | ||||||
2 | property located within the boundaries of an otherwise or | ||||||
3 | previously exempt military reservation that is intended for | ||||||
4 | residential use and owned by or leased to a private corporation | ||||||
5 | or other entity,
(iii) in counties that classify in accordance | ||||||
6 | with Section 4 of Article
IX of the
Illinois Constitution, an | ||||||
7 | incentive property's additional assessed value
resulting from | ||||||
8 | a
scheduled increase in the level of assessment as applied to | ||||||
9 | the first year
final board of
review market value, and (iv) any | ||||||
10 | increase in assessed value due to oil or gas production from an | ||||||
11 | oil or gas well required to be permitted under the Hydraulic | ||||||
12 | Fracturing Regulatory Act that was not produced in or accounted | ||||||
13 | for during the previous levy year.
In addition, the county | ||||||
14 | clerk in a county containing a population of
3,000,000 or more | ||||||
15 | shall include in the 1997
recovered tax increment value for any | ||||||
16 | school district, any recovered tax
increment value that was | ||||||
17 | applicable to the 1995 tax year calculations.
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18 | "Qualified airport authority" means an airport authority | ||||||
19 | organized under
the Airport Authorities Act and located in a | ||||||
20 | county bordering on the State of
Wisconsin and having a | ||||||
21 | population in excess of 200,000 and not greater than
500,000.
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22 | "Recovered tax increment value" means, except as otherwise | ||||||
23 | provided in this
paragraph, the amount of the current year's | ||||||
24 | equalized assessed value, in the
first year after a | ||||||
25 | municipality terminates
the designation of an area as a | ||||||
26 | redevelopment project area previously
established under the |
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1 | Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the Illinois
| ||||||
2 | Municipal Code, previously established under the Industrial | ||||||
3 | Jobs Recovery Law
in the Illinois Municipal Code, previously | ||||||
4 | established under the Economic Development Project Area Tax | ||||||
5 | Increment Act of 1995, or previously established under the | ||||||
6 | Economic
Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, of each | ||||||
7 | taxable lot, block,
tract, or parcel of real property in the | ||||||
8 | redevelopment project area over and
above the initial equalized | ||||||
9 | assessed value of each property in the
redevelopment project | ||||||
10 | area.
For the taxes which are extended for the 1997 levy year, | ||||||
11 | the recovered tax
increment value for a non-home rule taxing | ||||||
12 | district that first became subject
to this Law for the 1995 | ||||||
13 | levy year because a majority of its 1994 equalized
assessed | ||||||
14 | value was in an affected county or counties shall be increased | ||||||
15 | if a
municipality terminated the designation of an area in 1993 | ||||||
16 | as a redevelopment
project area previously established under | ||||||
17 | the Tax Increment Allocation
Development Act in the Illinois | ||||||
18 | Municipal Code, previously established under
the Industrial | ||||||
19 | Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, or previously
| ||||||
20 | established under the Economic Development Area Tax Increment | ||||||
21 | Allocation Act,
by an amount equal to the 1994 equalized | ||||||
22 | assessed value of each taxable lot,
block, tract, or parcel of | ||||||
23 | real property in the redevelopment project area over
and above | ||||||
24 | the initial equalized assessed value of each property in the
| ||||||
25 | redevelopment project area.
In the first year after a | ||||||
26 | municipality
removes a taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of |
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| |||||||
1 | real property from a
redevelopment project area established | ||||||
2 | under the Tax Increment Allocation
Development Act in the | ||||||
3 | Illinois
Municipal Code, the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law
in | ||||||
4 | the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Economic
Development Area | ||||||
5 | Tax Increment Allocation Act, "recovered tax increment value"
| ||||||
6 | means the amount of the current year's equalized assessed value | ||||||
7 | of each taxable
lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property | ||||||
8 | removed from the redevelopment
project area over and above the | ||||||
9 | initial equalized assessed value of that real
property before | ||||||
10 | removal from the redevelopment project area.
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11 | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, "limiting | ||||||
12 | rate" means a
fraction the numerator of which is the last
| ||||||
13 | preceding aggregate extension base times an amount equal to one | ||||||
14 | plus the
extension limitation defined in this Section and the | ||||||
15 | denominator of which
is the current year's equalized assessed | ||||||
16 | value of all real property in the
territory under the | ||||||
17 | jurisdiction of the taxing district during the prior
levy year. | ||||||
18 | For those taxing districts that reduced their aggregate
| ||||||
19 | extension for the last preceding levy year, the highest | ||||||
20 | aggregate extension
in any of the last 3 preceding levy years | ||||||
21 | shall be used for the purpose of
computing the limiting rate. | ||||||
22 | The denominator shall not include new
property or the recovered | ||||||
23 | tax increment
value.
If a new rate, a rate decrease, or a | ||||||
24 | limiting rate increase has been approved at an election held | ||||||
25 | after March 21, 2006, then (i) the otherwise applicable | ||||||
26 | limiting rate shall be increased by the amount of the new rate |
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1 | or shall be reduced by the amount of the rate decrease, as the | ||||||
2 | case may be, or (ii) in the case of a limiting rate increase, | ||||||
3 | the limiting rate shall be equal to the rate set forth
in the | ||||||
4 | proposition approved by the voters for each of the years | ||||||
5 | specified in the proposition, after
which the limiting rate of | ||||||
6 | the taxing district shall be calculated as otherwise provided. | ||||||
7 | In the case of a taxing district that obtained referendum | ||||||
8 | approval for an increased limiting rate on March 20, 2012, the | ||||||
9 | limiting rate for tax year 2012 shall be the rate that | ||||||
10 | generates the approximate total amount of taxes extendable for | ||||||
11 | that tax year, as set forth in the proposition approved by the | ||||||
12 | voters; this rate shall be the final rate applied by the county | ||||||
13 | clerk for the aggregate of all capped funds of the district for | ||||||
14 | tax year 2012.
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15 | "Qualified school district" means, for levy years 2017 and | ||||||
16 | 2018, a school district that has been granted a financial | ||||||
17 | hardship exemption from this amendatory Act of the 100th | ||||||
18 | General Assembly by the State Superintendent of Education; to | ||||||
19 | be eligible for such an exemption, one or more of the following | ||||||
20 | criteria must apply: | ||||||
21 | (1) the district meets the conditions described in | ||||||
22 | subsection (a) of Section 1A-8 of the School Code or in | ||||||
23 | paragraph (3) or (5) of subsection (b) of Section 1A-8 of | ||||||
24 | the School Code; to determine if a school district meets | ||||||
25 | this criteria, the State Superintendent of Education may | ||||||
26 | require a school district, including any district subject |
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1 | to Article 34A of this Code, to share financial information | ||||||
2 | relevant to a proper investigation of the district's | ||||||
3 | financial condition; | ||||||
4 | (2) the equalized assessed valuation used in | ||||||
5 | calculating the district's general State aid claim under | ||||||
6 | Section 18-8.05 of the School Code, or the district's | ||||||
7 | evidence-based funding claim under Section 18-8.15 of the | ||||||
8 | School Code, as applicable, for the year in which the | ||||||
9 | district is applying has decreased by 10% or more compared | ||||||
10 | to equalized assessed valuation used for such calculations | ||||||
11 | in the previous school year; | ||||||
12 | (3) the average daily attendance used in calculating | ||||||
13 | the district's general State aid claim, under Section | ||||||
14 | 18-8.05 of the School Code, or the district's | ||||||
15 | evidence-based funding claim under Section 18-8.15 of the | ||||||
16 | School Code, as applicable, for the year in which the | ||||||
17 | district is applying has decreased by 5% or more compared | ||||||
18 | to the average daily attendance used for such calculations | ||||||
19 | in the previous school year; | ||||||
20 | (4) fifty percent or more of the pupils enrolled in the | ||||||
21 | district qualify for free or reduced lunch; | ||||||
22 | (5) twenty percent or more of the pupils enrolled in | ||||||
23 | the district have an individualized education plan (IEP); | ||||||
24 | (6) the district is a Tier 1 district, as defined in | ||||||
25 | subparagraph (A) of subsection (g) of Section 18-8.15 of | ||||||
26 | the School Code; or |
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1 | (7) the district has been designated, through the State | ||||||
2 | Board of Education's School District Financial Profile | ||||||
3 | System, as on financial watch status for fiscal year 2016. | ||||||
4 | After independently verifying that a district meets one or | ||||||
5 | more of the criteria set forth in items (1) through (7), the | ||||||
6 | State Superintendent shall notify the appropriate taxing | ||||||
7 | authorities that the district is to be exempt from the | ||||||
8 | provisions of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly | ||||||
9 | for the next appropriate levy year. The exemption shall be for | ||||||
10 | a period of one levy year. School districts may reapply on an | ||||||
11 | annual basis to be exempt from the provisions of this | ||||||
12 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. | ||||||
13 | (Source: P.A. 98-6, eff. 3-29-13; 98-23, eff. 6-17-13; 99-143, | ||||||
14 | eff. 7-27-15; 99-521, eff. 6-1-17.)
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15 | (35 ILCS 200/18-205)
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16 | Sec. 18-205. Referendum to increase the extension | ||||||
17 | limitation. | ||||||
18 | (a) A taxing
district is limited to an extension limitation | ||||||
19 | as defined in Section 18-185 of 5% or the percentage increase
| ||||||
20 | in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month calendar year | ||||||
21 | preceding the
levy year, whichever is less . A taxing district | ||||||
22 | may increase its extension
limitation for one or more levy | ||||||
23 | years if that taxing district holds a referendum
before the | ||||||
24 | levy date for the first levy year at which a majority of voters | ||||||
25 | voting on the issue approves
adoption of a higher extension |
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1 | limitation. Referenda shall be conducted at a
regularly | ||||||
2 | scheduled election in accordance with the Election Code. | ||||||
3 | (b) The question shall be presented in
substantially the | ||||||
4 | following manner for all elections held after March 21, 2006 :
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5 | Shall the extension limitation under the Property Tax | ||||||
6 | Extension Limitation Law for (insert the legal name, | ||||||
7 | number, if any, and county or counties of the taxing | ||||||
8 | district and geographic or other common name by which a | ||||||
9 | school or community college district is known and referred | ||||||
10 | to), Illinois, be increased from (applicable extension | ||||||
11 | limitation set forth in Section 18-185) the lesser of 5% or | ||||||
12 | the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index over | ||||||
13 | the prior levy year to (insert the percentage of the | ||||||
14 | proposed increase)% per year for (insert each levy year for | ||||||
15 | which the increased extension limitation will apply)? | ||||||
16 | (c) The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
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17 | If a majority of voters voting on the issue approves the | ||||||
18 | adoption of
the increase, the increase shall be applicable for | ||||||
19 | each
levy year specified.
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20 | (d) The ballot for any question submitted pursuant to this | ||||||
21 | Section shall have printed thereon, but not as a part of the | ||||||
22 | question submitted, only the following supplemental | ||||||
23 | information (which shall be supplied to the election authority | ||||||
24 | by the taxing district) in substantially the following form: | ||||||
25 | (1) For the (insert the first levy year for which the | ||||||
26 | increased extension
limitation will be applicable) levy |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | year the approximate amount of the additional tax
| ||||||
2 | extendable against property containing a single family | ||||||
3 | residence and having a fair market
value at the time of the | ||||||
4 | referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $.... | ||||||
5 | (2) Based upon an average annual percentage increase | ||||||
6 | (or decrease) in the
market value of such property of ...% | ||||||
7 | (insert percentage equal to the average
annual percentage | ||||||
8 | increase or decrease for the prior 3 levy years, at the | ||||||
9 | time the
submission of the question is initiated by the | ||||||
10 | taxing district, in the amount of (A) the
equalized | ||||||
11 | assessed value of the taxable property in the taxing | ||||||
12 | district less (B) the new
property included in the | ||||||
13 | equalized assessed value), the approximate amount of the
| ||||||
14 | additional tax extendable against such property for the ... | ||||||
15 | levy year is estimated to be
$... and for the ... levy year | ||||||
16 | is estimated to be $.... | ||||||
17 | Paragraph (2) shall be included only if the increased | ||||||
18 | extension limitation will be applicable for more than one year | ||||||
19 | and shall list each levy year for which the increased extension | ||||||
20 | limitation will be applicable. The additional tax shown for | ||||||
21 | each levy year shall be the approximate dollar amount of the | ||||||
22 | increase over the amount of the most recently completed | ||||||
23 | extension at the time the submission of the question is | ||||||
24 | initiated by the taxing district. The approximate amount of the | ||||||
25 | additional tax extendable shown in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall | ||||||
26 | be calculated by multiplying $100,000 (the fair market value of |
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| |||||||
1 | the property without regard to any property tax exemptions) by | ||||||
2 | (i) the percentage level of assessment prescribed for that | ||||||
3 | property by statute, or by ordinance of the county board in | ||||||
4 | counties that classify property for purposes of taxation in | ||||||
5 | accordance with Section 4 of Article IX of the Illinois | ||||||
6 | Constitution; (ii) the most recent final equalization factor | ||||||
7 | certified to the county clerk by the Department of Revenue at | ||||||
8 | the time the taxing district initiates the submission of the | ||||||
9 | proposition to the electors; (iii) the last known aggregate | ||||||
10 | extension base of the taxing district at the time the | ||||||
11 | submission of the question is initiated by the taxing district; | ||||||
12 | and (iv) the difference between the percentage increase | ||||||
13 | proposed in the question and the otherwise applicable extension | ||||||
14 | limitation under Section 18-185 the lesser of 5% or the | ||||||
15 | percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior | ||||||
16 | levy year (or an estimate of the percentage increase for the | ||||||
17 | prior levy year if the increase is unavailable at the time the | ||||||
18 | submission of the question is initiated by the taxing | ||||||
19 | district) ; and dividing the result by the last known equalized | ||||||
20 | assessed value of the taxing district at the time the | ||||||
21 | submission of the question is initiated by the taxing district. | ||||||
22 | This amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly is intended to | ||||||
23 | clarify the existing requirements of this Section, and shall | ||||||
24 | not be construed to validate any prior non-compliant referendum | ||||||
25 | language. Any notice required to be published in connection | ||||||
26 | with the submission of the question shall also contain this |
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1 | supplemental information and shall not contain any other | ||||||
2 | supplemental information. Any error, miscalculation, or | ||||||
3 | inaccuracy in computing any amount set forth on the ballot or | ||||||
4 | in the notice that is not deliberate shall not invalidate or | ||||||
5 | affect the validity of any proposition approved. Notice of the | ||||||
6 | referendum shall be published and posted as otherwise required | ||||||
7 | by law, and the submission of the question shall be initiated | ||||||
8 | as provided by law.
| ||||||
9 | (Source: P.A. 97-1087, eff. 8-24-12.)
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10 | (35 ILCS 200/18-213)
| ||||||
11 | Sec. 18-213.
Referenda on applicability of the Property Tax | ||||||
12 | Extension
Limitation Law.
| ||||||
13 | (a) The provisions of this Section do not apply to a taxing | ||||||
14 | district
subject
to this Law because a majority of its 1990 | ||||||
15 | equalized assessed value is in a
county or counties contiguous | ||||||
16 | to a county of 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, or
because a | ||||||
17 | majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value is in an affected
| ||||||
18 | county and the taxing district was not subject to this Law | ||||||
19 | before the 1995 levy
year.
| ||||||
20 | (b) The county board of a county that is not subject to | ||||||
21 | this Law
may, by ordinance or resolution, submit to the voters | ||||||
22 | of the
county the question of whether to
make all non-home rule | ||||||
23 | taxing districts
that
have all or a portion of their equalized | ||||||
24 | assessed valuation
situated in the county subject to this Law | ||||||
25 | in the manner set forth in this
Section.
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1 | For purposes of this Section only:
| ||||||
2 | "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section | ||||||
3 | 1-150.
| ||||||
4 | "Equalized
assessed valuation" means the equalized | ||||||
5 | assessed valuation for a taxing
district for the immediately | ||||||
6 | preceding levy year.
| ||||||
7 | (c) The ordinance or resolution shall request the | ||||||
8 | submission of
the
proposition at any election, except a | ||||||
9 | consolidated primary election, for the
purpose of voting for or | ||||||
10 | against making the Property
Tax Extension Limitation Law | ||||||
11 | applicable to all non-home rule taxing districts
that have all
| ||||||
12 | or a
portion of their equalized assessed valuation situated in | ||||||
13 | the county.
| ||||||
14 | The question shall be placed on a separate
ballot and shall | ||||||
15 | be in substantially the following form:
| ||||||
16 | Shall the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (35 | ||||||
17 | ILCS 200/18-185 through
18-245), which
limits annual | ||||||
18 | property tax extension increases, apply to non-home
rule | ||||||
19 | taxing
districts with all or a portion of their equalized | ||||||
20 | assessed valuation located
in
(name of county)?
| ||||||
21 | Votes on the question shall be recorded as "yes" or "no".
| ||||||
22 | (d) The county clerk
shall order the proposition submitted | ||||||
23 | to the electors of the county
at the election specified in the | ||||||
24 | ordinance or resolution.
If part of the county is under the | ||||||
25 | jurisdiction of
a board or boards of election commissioners, | ||||||
26 | the county clerk
shall submit a certified copy of
the ordinance |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | or resolution to each board of election commissioners,
which | ||||||
2 | shall order the
proposition submitted to the electors of the | ||||||
3 | taxing district within its
jurisdiction at the election | ||||||
4 | specified in the ordinance or resolution.
| ||||||
5 | (e) (1) With respect to taxing districts having all of | ||||||
6 | their equalized
assessed
valuation located in the county, | ||||||
7 | if a majority of the votes cast on the
proposition are in | ||||||
8 | favor of the proposition, then this Law becomes applicable
| ||||||
9 | to the taxing district beginning on January 1 of the year | ||||||
10 | following the date of
the referendum.
| ||||||
11 | (2) With respect to taxing districts that meet all the | ||||||
12 | following
conditions this Law shall become applicable to | ||||||
13 | the taxing district beginning
on January 1, 1997. The | ||||||
14 | districts to which this paragraph (2) is applicable
| ||||||
15 | (A) do not have all of their equalized assessed | ||||||
16 | valuation located in a
single county,
| ||||||
17 | (B) have equalized assessed valuation in an | ||||||
18 | affected county,
| ||||||
19 | (C) meet the condition that each county, other than | ||||||
20 | an affected county,
in which any of the equalized | ||||||
21 | assessed valuation of the taxing district is
located | ||||||
22 | has held a referendum under this Section at any | ||||||
23 | election, except a
consolidated primary election, held | ||||||
24 | prior to the effective date of this
amendatory Act of | ||||||
25 | 1997, and
| ||||||
26 | (D) have a majority of the district's equalized |
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| |||||||
1 | assessed valuation
located in one or more counties in | ||||||
2 | each of which the voters have approved a
referendum | ||||||
3 | under this Section prior to the effective date of this | ||||||
4 | amendatory
Act of 1997.
For purposes of this Section, | ||||||
5 | in determining whether a majority of the
equalized | ||||||
6 | assessed valuation of the taxing district is located in | ||||||
7 | one or more
counties in which the voters have approved | ||||||
8 | a referendum under this Section, the
equalized | ||||||
9 | assessed valuation of the taxing district in any | ||||||
10 | affected county
shall be included with the equalized | ||||||
11 | assessed value of the taxing district in
counties in | ||||||
12 | which the voters have approved the referendum.
| ||||||
13 | (3) With respect to taxing districts that do not have | ||||||
14 | all of
their equalized
assessed valuation located in a | ||||||
15 | single county and to which paragraph (2) of
subsection (e) | ||||||
16 | is not applicable, if each county other than an
affected | ||||||
17 | county in which any of
the equalized assessed valuation of | ||||||
18 | the taxing
district is located has held a referendum under | ||||||
19 | this Section at any election,
except a consolidated primary | ||||||
20 | election, held in any year and if a majority of
the | ||||||
21 | equalized
assessed valuation of the taxing district is | ||||||
22 | located in one or more counties
that have each approved a | ||||||
23 | referendum under this Section,
then this Law shall become | ||||||
24 | applicable to the taxing district on
January 1 of the year | ||||||
25 | following the year in which the last referendum in a
county | ||||||
26 | in which the taxing district has any equalized assessed |
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| |||||||
1 | valuation is
held.
For the purposes of this Law, the last | ||||||
2 | referendum shall be deemed to be the
referendum making this | ||||||
3 | Law applicable to the taxing district. For purposes
of this | ||||||
4 | Section, in determining whether a majority of the equalized | ||||||
5 | assessed
valuation of the taxing district is located in one | ||||||
6 | or more counties that have
approved a referendum under this | ||||||
7 | Section, the equalized assessed valuation of
the taxing | ||||||
8 | district in any affected county shall be included with the | ||||||
9 | equalized
assessed value of the taxing district in counties | ||||||
10 | that have approved the
referendum.
| ||||||
11 | (f) Immediately after a referendum is held under this | ||||||
12 | Section, the county
clerk of the
county holding the referendum | ||||||
13 | shall give notice of the referendum having been
held and its | ||||||
14 | results to all taxing districts that have all
or a portion of | ||||||
15 | their equalized assessed valuation located in the county, the
| ||||||
16 | county clerk of any other county in which any of the equalized | ||||||
17 | assessed
valuation of any taxing district is located, and the | ||||||
18 | Department of Revenue.
After the last referendum affecting a | ||||||
19 | multi-county taxing district is held, the
Department of Revenue
| ||||||
20 | shall determine whether the taxing district is subject to this | ||||||
21 | Law
and, if so, shall notify the taxing district and the county | ||||||
22 | clerks of all of
the
counties in which a portion of the | ||||||
23 | equalized assessed valuation of the
taxing district is located | ||||||
24 | that, beginning the following January 1, the
taxing
district is | ||||||
25 | subject to this Law.
For each taxing district subject to | ||||||
26 | paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of this
Section, the Department |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | of Revenue shall notify the taxing district and the
county | ||||||
2 | clerks of all of the counties in which a portion of the | ||||||
3 | equalized
assessed valuation of the taxing district is located | ||||||
4 | that, beginning January 1,
1997, the taxing district is subject | ||||||
5 | to this Law.
| ||||||
6 | (g) Referenda held under this Section shall be conducted in | ||||||
7 | accordance with
the Election Code.
| ||||||
8 | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no | ||||||
9 | referenda may be held under this Section with respect to levy | ||||||
10 | years 2017 and 2018. | ||||||
11 | (Source: P.A. 89-510, eff. 7-11-96; 89-718, eff. 3-7-97.)
| ||||||
12 | (35 ILCS 200/18-214)
| ||||||
13 | Sec. 18-214.
Referenda on removal of the applicability of | ||||||
14 | the Property Tax
Extension Limitation Law to non-home rule | ||||||
15 | taxing districts.
| ||||||
16 | (a) The provisions of this Section do not apply to a taxing | ||||||
17 | district that is
subject to this Law because a majority of its | ||||||
18 | 1990 equalized assessed value is
in a county or counties | ||||||
19 | contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or more
inhabitants, or | ||||||
20 | because a majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value is in
| ||||||
21 | an
affected county and the taxing district was not subject to | ||||||
22 | this Law before the
1995 levy year.
| ||||||
23 | (b) For purposes of this Section only:
| ||||||
24 | "Taxing district" means any non-home rule taxing district | ||||||
25 | that became subject
to this Law under Section 18-213 of this |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Law.
| ||||||
2 | "Equalized assessed valuation" means the equalized | ||||||
3 | assessed valuation for a
taxing district for the immediately | ||||||
4 | preceding levy year.
| ||||||
5 | (c) The county board of a county that became subject to | ||||||
6 | this Law by a
referendum approved by the voters of the county | ||||||
7 | under Section 18-213 may, by
ordinance or resolution, in the | ||||||
8 | manner set forth in this Section, submit to the
voters of the | ||||||
9 | county the question of whether this Law applies to all non-home
| ||||||
10 | rule taxing
districts that have all or a portion of their | ||||||
11 | equalized assessed valuation
situated in the county in the | ||||||
12 | manner set forth in this Section.
| ||||||
13 | (d) The ordinance or resolution shall request the | ||||||
14 | submission of the
proposition at any election, except a | ||||||
15 | consolidated primary election, for the
purpose of voting for or | ||||||
16 | against the continued application of the Property Tax
Extension | ||||||
17 | Limitation Law to all non-home rule taxing districts that have | ||||||
18 | all or
a portion of their equalized assessed valuation situated | ||||||
19 | in the county.
| ||||||
20 | The question shall be placed on a separate ballot and shall | ||||||
21 | be in
substantially the following form:
| ||||||
22 | Shall
the Property Tax
Extension Limitation Law (35 | ||||||
23 | ILCS 200/18-185 through 35 ILCS 200/18-245), which
limits | ||||||
24 | annual property tax extension increases, apply to non-home | ||||||
25 | rule taxing
districts with all or a portion of their | ||||||
26 | equalized assessed valuation located
in (name of county)?
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| |||||||
1 | Votes on the question shall be recorded as "yes" or "no".
| ||||||
2 | (e) The county clerk shall order the proposition submitted | ||||||
3 | to the electors
of the county at the election specified in the | ||||||
4 | ordinance or resolution. If
part of the county is under the | ||||||
5 | jurisdiction of a board or boards of election
commissioners, | ||||||
6 | the county clerk shall submit a certified copy of the ordinance
| ||||||
7 | or resolution to each board of election commissioners, which | ||||||
8 | shall order the
proposition submitted to the electors of the | ||||||
9 | taxing district within its
jurisdiction at the election | ||||||
10 | specified in the ordinance or resolution.
| ||||||
11 | (f) With respect to taxing districts having all of their | ||||||
12 | equalized assessed
valuation located in one county, if a | ||||||
13 | majority of the votes cast on the
proposition are against the | ||||||
14 | proposition, then this Law shall not apply to the
taxing | ||||||
15 | district beginning on January 1 of the year following the date | ||||||
16 | of
the referendum.
| ||||||
17 | (g) With respect to taxing districts that do not have all | ||||||
18 | of their
equalized assessed valuation located in a single | ||||||
19 | county, if both of the
following conditions are met, then this | ||||||
20 | Law shall no longer apply to the taxing
district beginning on | ||||||
21 | January 1 of the year following the date of the
referendum.
| ||||||
22 | (1) Each county in which the district has any equalized | ||||||
23 | assessed valuation
must either, (i) have held a referendum | ||||||
24 | under this Section, (ii) be an affected
county, or (iii) | ||||||
25 | have held a referendum under Section 18-213 at which the
| ||||||
26 | voters rejected the proposition at the most recent election |
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| |||||||
1 | at which the
question was on the ballot in the county.
| ||||||
2 | (2) The majority of the equalized assessed valuation of | ||||||
3 | the taxing
district,
other than any equalized assessed | ||||||
4 | valuation in an affected county, is in one or
more counties | ||||||
5 | in which the voters rejected the proposition. For purposes | ||||||
6 | of
this
Section, in determining whether a majority of the | ||||||
7 | equalized assessed valuation
of the taxing district is | ||||||
8 | located in one or more counties in which the voters
have | ||||||
9 | rejected the proposition under this Section, the equalized | ||||||
10 | assessed
valuation of any taxing district in a county which | ||||||
11 | has held a referendum under
Section 18-213 at which the | ||||||
12 | voters rejected that proposition, at the most
recent | ||||||
13 | election at which the question was on the ballot in the | ||||||
14 | county, will be
included with the equalized assessed value | ||||||
15 | of the taxing district in counties
in
which the voters have | ||||||
16 | rejected the referendum held under this Section.
| ||||||
17 | (h) Immediately after a referendum is held under this | ||||||
18 | Section, the county
clerk of the county holding the referendum | ||||||
19 | shall give notice of the referendum
having been held and its | ||||||
20 | results to all taxing districts that have all or a
portion of | ||||||
21 | their equalized assessed valuation located in the county, the | ||||||
22 | county
clerk of any other county in which any of the equalized | ||||||
23 | assessed valuation of
any such taxing district is located, and | ||||||
24 | the Department of Revenue. After the
last
referendum affecting | ||||||
25 | a multi-county taxing district is held, the Department of
| ||||||
26 | Revenue shall determine whether the taxing district is no |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | longer subject to
this Law and, if the taxing district is no | ||||||
2 | longer subject to this Law, the
Department of Revenue shall | ||||||
3 | notify the taxing district and the county clerks of
all of the | ||||||
4 | counties in which a portion of the equalized assessed valuation | ||||||
5 | of
the taxing district is located that, beginning on January 1 | ||||||
6 | of the
year following the date of the last
referendum, the | ||||||
7 | taxing district is no longer subject to this Law.
| ||||||
8 | (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no | ||||||
9 | referenda may be held under this Section with respect to levy | ||||||
10 | years 2017 and 2018. | ||||||
11 | (Source: P.A. 89-718, eff. 3-7-97.)
| ||||||
12 | Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes | ||||||
13 | changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text | ||||||
14 | that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section | ||||||
15 | represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does | ||||||
16 | not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes | ||||||
17 | made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other | ||||||
18 | Public Act.
| ||||||
19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.".
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