Bill Text: IL HB5048 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, as an alternative to mailing a copy of the bill, the collector may send tax bills via e-mail at the request of the taxpayer.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5048 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5048-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5048 Introduced 2/7/2012, by Rep. Jim Watson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/20-5
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, as an alternative to mailing a copy of the bill, the collector may send tax bills via e-mail at the request of the taxpayer.
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Section 20-5 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/20-5)
Sec. 20-5. Mailing tax bill to owner. Every township
collector, and every county collector in cases where there is
no township collector, upon receiving the tax book or books,
shall prepare tax bills showing each installment of property
taxes assessed, which shall be filled out in accordance with
Section 20-40. A copy of the bill shall be mailed by the
collector, at least 30 days prior to the date upon which unpaid
taxes become delinquent, to the owner of the property taxed or
to the person in whose name the property is taxed. As an
alternative to mailing a copy of the bill, the collector may
send the tax bill via e-mail at the request of the taxpayer. If
the taxpayer makes such a request, then the taxpayer shall
notify the collector of any change in his or her e-mail address
as soon as possible after the address is changed.
(Source: P.A. 86-957; 87-818; 88-455.)