Bill Text: IL HB0231 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Extends the estimated dates of completion of redevelopment projects and the retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs for various ordinances adopted by the City of Chicago, the Village of Elkhart, the City of Robinson, the Village of Valmeyer, and the City of McHenry. Creates tax increment allocation financing extensions to the 47th year (currently, the 35th year) for ordinances adopted by the City of Pontiac if the City of Pontiac adopts a specified ordinance and provides notice to the taxing bodies that would otherwise constitute the joint review board of each redevelopment project area. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-01-01 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [HB0231 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0231-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Sections 2-3001 and 6-31002 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3001)
Sec. 2-3001. Definitions. As used in this Division, unless
the context otherwise requires:
a. "District" means a county board district established as
provided in this Division.
b. "County apportionment commission" or "commission" means
the county clerk, the State's Attorney, the Attorney General
or his designated representative and the chairmen of the
county central committees of the first leading political party
and the second leading political party as defined in Section
1-3 of The Election Code.
c. "Population" means the total number of inhabitants
according to as determined by the last preceding federal
decennial census.
d. "Member" or "board member" means a person elected to
serve on the county board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

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(55 ILCS 5/6-31002) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-31002)
Sec. 6-31002. Definitions. As used in this Division,
unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of
Illinois;
2. (Blank);
3. "Funds and accounts" means all funds of a county
derived from property taxes and all funds and accounts derived
from sources other than property taxes, including the receipts
and expenditures of the fee earnings of each county fee
officer;
4. "Audit report" means the written report of the auditor
or auditors and all appended statements and schedules relating
thereto, presenting or recording the findings of an
examination or audit of the financial transactions, affairs
and condition of a county;
5. "Population" means the total number of inhabitants
persons residing in a county according to the last preceding
federal decennial census;
6. "Auditor" means a licensed certified public accountant,
as that term is defined in Section 0.03 of the Illinois Public
Accounting Act, or the substantial equivalent of a licensed
CPA, as provided under Section 5.2 of the Illinois Public
Accounting Act, who performs an audit of county financial
statements and records and expresses an assurance or disclaims
an opinion on the audited financial statements; "auditor" does

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not include a county auditor elected or appointed under
Division 3-1 of the Counties Code.
7. "Generally accepted accounting principles" means
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
8. "Generally accepted auditing standards" means auditing
standards generally accepted in the United States.
(Source: P.A. 100-837, eff. 8-13-18; 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)
Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 1-1-2 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/1-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2)
Sec. 1-1-2. Definitions. In this Code:
(1) "Municipal" or "municipality" means a city, village,
or incorporated town in the State of Illinois, but, unless the
context otherwise provides, "municipal" or "municipality" does
not include a township, town when used as the equivalent of a
township, incorporated town that has superseded a civil
township, county, school district, park district, sanitary
district, or any other similar governmental district. If
"municipal" or "municipality" is given a different definition
in any particular Division or Section of this Act, that
definition shall control in that division or Section only.
(2) "Corporate authorities" means (a) the mayor and
aldermen or similar body when the reference is to cities, (b)
the president and trustees or similar body when the reference

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is to villages or incorporated towns, and (c) the council when
the reference is to municipalities under the commission form
of municipal government.
(3) "Electors" means persons qualified to vote for
elective officers at municipal elections.
(4) "Person" means any individual, partnership,
corporation, joint stock association, or the State of Illinois
or any subdivision of the State; and includes any trustee,
receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of those
entities.
(5) Except as otherwise provided by ordinance, "fiscal
year" in all municipalities with fewer than 500,000
inhabitants, and "municipal year" in all municipalities, means
the period elapsing (a) between general municipal elections in
succeeding calendar years, or (b) if general municipal
elections are held biennially, then between a general
municipal election and the same day of the same month of the
following calendar year, and between that day and the next
succeeding general municipal election, or (c) if general
municipal elections are held quadrennially, then between a
general municipal election and the same day of the same month
of the following calendar year, and between that day and the
same day of the same month of the next following calendar year,
and between the last mentioned day and the same day of the same
month of the next following calendar year, and between the
last mentioned day and the next succeeding general municipal

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election. The fiscal year of each municipality with 500,000 or
more inhabitants shall commence on January 1.
(6) Where reference is made to a county within which a
municipality, district, area, or territory is situated, the
reference is to the county within which is situated the major
part of the area of that municipality, district, area, or
territory, in case the municipality, district, area, or
territory is situated in 2 or more counties.
(7) Where reference is made for any purpose to any other
Act, either specifically or generally, the reference shall be
to that Act and to all amendments to that Act now in force or
that may be hereafter enacted.
(8) Wherever the words "city council", "aldermen",
"commissioners", or "mayor" occur, the provisions containing
these words shall apply to the board of trustees, trustees,
and president, respectively, of villages and incorporated
towns and councilmen in cities, so far as those provisions are
applicable to them.
(9) The terms "special charter" and "special Act" are
synonymous.
(10) "General municipal election" means the biennial
regularly scheduled election for the election of officers of
cities, villages, and incorporated towns, as prescribed by the
general election law; in the case of municipalities that elect
officers annually, "general municipal election" means each
regularly scheduled election for the election of officers of

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cities, villages, and incorporated towns.
(11) "Population" means the total number of inhabitants
according to the last preceding federal decennial census.
(Source: P.A. 87-1119.)