Public Act 093-0761
 
SB2140 Enrolled LRB093 14787 SJM 40343 b

    AN ACT concerning property taxes.
 
    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 9-230 as follows:
 
    (35 ILCS 200/9-230)
    Sec. 9-230. Return of township or multi-township
assessment books. The township or multi-township assessors in
counties with less than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000
federal decennial census, shall, on or before April 15 of the
assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to
the supervisor of assessments. The township or multi-township
assessors in counties with 600,000 or more but no more than
700,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal decennial
census, shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year,
return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of
assessments. The township or multi-township assessors in
counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but more than
700,000 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal
decennial census, shall, on or before November 15 of the
assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to
the supervisor of assessments. If a township or multi-township
assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, but
more than 600,000 inhabitants, based on the 2000 federal
decennial census, does not return the assessment books or work
books within the required time, the supervisor of assessments
may take possession of the books and complete the assessments
pursuant to law. Each of the books shall be verified by
affidavit by the assessor substantially as follows:
State of Illinois)
                 )ss.
County of .......)
    I do solemnly swear that the book or books .... in number,
to which this affidavit is attached, contains a complete list
of all of the property in the township or multi-township or
assessment district herein described subject to taxation for
the year .... so far as I have been able to ascertain, and that
the assessed value set down in the proper column opposite the
descriptions of property is a just and equal assessment of the
property according to law.
    Dated ...............
    If the supervisor of assessments determines that the
township or multi-township assessor has not completed the
assessments as required by law before returning the assessment
books under this Section, the county board may submit a bill to
the township board of trustees for the reasonable costs
incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing the
assessments.
(Source: P.A. 85-1253; 88-455.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2005.