Bill Text: IL HB5185 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the list of delinquent taxes. Rquires the sheriff, on or before May 15 of each year, to present the delinquent lists to the county treasurer or county collector for examination. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB5185 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5185-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning revenue.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 21-110 as follows:
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| 6 | (35 ILCS 200/21-110) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 21-110. Published notice of annual application for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | judgment and sale; delinquent taxes. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (a) The sheriff shall, on or before May 15 of each year, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | present the delinquent lists to the county treasurer or county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | collector for examination. The county treasurer or county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | collector, having become satisfied that the lists are correct | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | or having corrected them if the lists are erroneous, shall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | direct the county clerk to certify a copy of each list | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | pertaining to real property, to the auditor not later than | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | June 1 of each year. The original lists shall be preserved by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | the clerk in the clerk's office, and the list of delinquent | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | real property shall be recorded in a permanent book to be kept | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | by him or her for that purpose. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (b) At any time after all taxes have become delinquent in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | any year, the Collector shall publish an advertisement, giving | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | notice of the intended application for judgment and sale of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | the delinquent properties. The advertisement may include the | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | street address on file with the county collector, if | ||||||
| 2 | available, and shall include the PIN number of each delinquent | ||||||
| 3 | property. Except as provided below, the advertisement shall be | ||||||
| 4 | in a newspaper published in the township or road district in | ||||||
| 5 | which the properties are located. If there is no newspaper | ||||||
| 6 | published in the township or road district, then the notice | ||||||
| 7 | shall be published in some newspaper in the same county as the | ||||||
| 8 | township or road district, to be selected by the county | ||||||
| 9 | collector. When the property is in a city with more than | ||||||
| 10 | 1,000,000 inhabitants, the advertisement may be in any | ||||||
| 11 | newspaper published in the same county. When the property is | ||||||
| 12 | in an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township, | ||||||
| 13 | the advertisement shall be in a newspaper published in the | ||||||
| 14 | incorporated town or if there is no such newspaper, then in a | ||||||
| 15 | newspaper published in the county. | ||||||
| 16 | (c) The provisions of this Section relating to the time | ||||||
| 17 | when the Collector shall advertise intended application for | ||||||
| 18 | judgment for sale are subject to modification by the governing | ||||||
| 19 | authority of a county in accordance with the provisions of | ||||||
| 20 | subsection (c) of Section 21-40. | ||||||
| 21 | (Source: P.A. 97-557, eff. 7-1-12.)
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