Bill Text: IL HB4596 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that an entity that collects a tax or license fee rendered to the treasurer of the foreign fire insurance board or a fire protection district secretary must publish to its website by August 1 of each year certain information regarding the taxes and fees from the previous year. Prohibits an entity from charging an administrative fee in excess of 1% of the gross amount collected in each municipality or fire protection district. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4596 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4596-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4596 Introduced , by Rep. Robert Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-10-1 from Ch. 24, par. 11-10-1
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that an entity that collects a tax or license fee rendered to the treasurer of the foreign fire insurance board or a fire protection district secretary must publish to its website by August 1 of each year certain information regarding the taxes and fees from the previous year. Prohibits an entity from charging an administrative fee in excess of 1% of the gross amount collected in each municipality or fire protection district. Effective immediately.
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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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 11-10-1 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-10-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-10-1)
Sec. 11-10-1. In each municipality or fire protection
district, whether incorporated under a general or special law,
which has a fire department established and maintained by
municipal or fire protection district ordinances, every
corporation, company, and association which is not
incorporated under the laws of this state and which is engaged
in effecting fire insurance in the municipality or fire
protection district, shall pay to the foreign fire insurance
board or to the secretary of the fire protection district for
the maintenance, use, and benefit of the fire department
thereof, a sum not exceeding 2% of the gross receipts received
from fire insurance upon property situated within the
municipality or district.
Each municipality and fire protection district may
prescribe by ordinance the rate of the tax or license fee to be
paid, but this rate shall not exceed the rate specified in this
section. Each designated corporation, company, and association

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shall pay at the rate so prescribed, upon the amount of all
premiums which have been received during the year ending on
every first day of July for all fire insurance effected or
agreed to be effected on property situated within the
municipality or fire protection district, by that corporation,
company, or association respectively.
Every person who acts in any specified municipality or fire
protection district as agent, or otherwise, on behalf of a
designated corporation, company, or association, shall render
to the treasurer of the foreign fire insurance board or
secretary of the fire protection district, on or before the
fifteenth day of July of each year, a full and true account,
verified by his oath, of all of the premiums which, during the
year ending on the first day of July preceding the report, were
received by him, or by any other person for him on behalf of
that corporation, company, or association. He shall specify in
this report the amounts received for fire insurance, and he
shall pay to the treasurer of the foreign fire insurance board,
or to the secretary of the fire protection district, at the
time of rendering this report, the amount as determined by the
rate fixed by the ordinance of the municipality or fire
protection district for which his corporation, company, or
association is accountable under this section and the
ordinance.
If this account is not rendered on or before the fifteenth
day of July of each year, or if the sum due remains unpaid

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after that day, it shall be unlawful for any corporation,
company, or association, so in default, to transact any
business in the municipality or fire protection district until
the sum due has been fully paid. But this provision shall not
relieve any corporation, company, or association from the
payment of any loss upon any risk that may be taken in
violation of this requirement.
Any entity that maintains a website and that is charged
with the collection of a tax or license fee and the rendering
of the tax or license fee to the treasurer of the foreign fire
insurance board or fire protection district secretary must
publish to its website by August 1 of each year the following
information for the year ending on the preceding July 1:
(1) the total amount of the tax or license fee
collected on behalf of each municipal fire department or
fire protection district;
(2) the total administrative fees, if any, charged to
each municipal fire department or fire protection
district;
(3) the aggregate amount of taxes or license fees
collected on behalf of all municipal fire departments or
fire protection districts; and
(4) the aggregate amount of administrative fees, if
any, charged to all municipal fire departments or fire
protection districts.
Any entity charged with the collection of the tax or

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license fee and the rendering of the tax or license fee to the
treasurer of the foreign fire insurance board or fire
protection district secretary shall not charge an
administrative fee in excess of 1% of the gross amount
collected in each municipality or fire protection district.
The amount of this tax or license fee may be recovered from
the corporation, company, or association which owes it, or from
its agent, by an action in the name and for the use of the
municipality or fire protection district as for money had and
received.
The municipal comptroller, if any, and if not, then the
municipal clerk or the secretary of the fire protection
district, may examine the books, records, and other papers and
documents of a designated agent, corporation, company, or
association for the purpose of verifying the correctness of the
report of the amounts received for fire insurance.
This section shall not be applicable to receipts from
contracts of marine insurance, even though they include
insurance against fire, where the premium for the fire
insurance is not separately specified.
(Source: P.A. 95-807, eff. 8-12-08.)