Bill Text: IL HB5168 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that provisions that allow service of notice by a person who is licensed or registered as a private detective also apply in Cook County. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5168 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5168-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5168 Introduced 1/27/2022, by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/22-15
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that provisions that allow service of notice by a person who is licensed or registered as a private detective also apply in Cook County. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 22-15 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/22-15)
Sec. 22-15. Service of notice. The purchaser or his or her
assignee shall give the notice required by Section 22-10 by
causing it to be published in a newspaper as set forth in
Section 22-20. In addition, the notice shall be served by a
sheriff (or if he or she is disqualified, by a coroner) of the
county in which the property, or any part thereof, is located
or, except in Cook County, by a person who is licensed or
registered as a private detective under the Private Detective,
Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and
Locksmith Act of 2004 upon owners who reside on any part of the
property sold by leaving a copy of the notice with those owners
personally.
In counties of 3,000,000 or more inhabitants where a
taxing district is a petitioner for tax deed pursuant to
Section 21-90, in lieu of service by the sheriff or coroner the
notice may be served by a special process server appointed by
the circuit court as provided in this Section. The taxing

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district may move prior to filing one or more petitions for tax
deed for appointment of such a special process server. The
court, upon being satisfied that the person named in the
motion is at least 18 years of age and is capable of serving
notice as required under this Code, shall enter an order
appointing such person as a special process server for a
period of one year. The appointment may be renewed for
successive periods of one year each by motion and order, and a
copy of the original and any subsequent order shall be filed in
each tax deed case in which a notice is served by the appointed
person. Delivery of the notice to and service of the notice by
the special process server shall have the same force and
effect as its delivery to and service by the sheriff or
coroner.
The same form of notice shall also be served, in the manner
set forth under Sections 2-203, 2-204, 2-205, 2-205.1, and
2-211 of the Code of Civil Procedure, upon all other owners and
parties interested in the property, if upon diligent inquiry
they can be found in the county, and upon the occupants of the
property.
If the property sold has more than 4 dwellings or other
rental units, and has a managing agent or party who collects
rents, that person shall be deemed the occupant and shall be
served with notice instead of the occupants of the individual
units. If the property has no dwellings or rental units, but
economic or recreational activities are carried on therein,

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the person directing such activities shall be deemed the
occupant. Holders of rights of entry and possibilities of
reverter shall not be deemed parties interested in the
property.
When a party interested in the property is a trustee,
notice served upon the trustee shall be deemed to have been
served upon any beneficiary or note holder thereunder unless
the holder of the note is disclosed of record.
When a judgment is a lien upon the property sold, the
holder of the lien shall be served with notice if the name of
the judgment debtor as shown in the transcript, certified copy
or memorandum of judgment filed of record is identical, as to
given name and surname, with the name of the party interested
as it appears of record.
If any owner or party interested, upon diligent inquiry
and effort, cannot be found or served with notice in the county
as provided in this Section, and the person in actual
occupancy and possession is tenant to, or in possession under
the owners or the parties interested in the property, then
service of notice upon the tenant, occupant or person in
possession shall be deemed service upon the owners or parties
interested.
If any owner or party interested, upon diligent inquiry
and effort cannot be found or served with notice in the county,
then the person making the service shall cause a copy of the
notice to be sent by registered or certified mail, return

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receipt requested, to that party at his or her residence, if
ascertainable.
The changes to this Section made by Public Act 95-477
apply only to matters in which a petition for tax deed is filed
on or after June 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act
95-477).
(Source: P.A. 95-195, eff. 1-1-08; 95-477, eff. 6-1-08;
95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.