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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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 3-5 as follows:
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| 6 | (35 ILCS 200/3-5)
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| 7 | Sec. 3-5. Supervisor of assessments. In counties with less | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | than 3,000,000
inhabitants and in which no county assessor has | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | been elected under Section
3-45, there shall be a county | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | supervisor of assessments, either appointed as
provided in this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Section, or elected.
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| 12 | In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants and not | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | having an elected
county assessor or an elected supervisor of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | assessments, the office of
supervisor of assessments shall be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | filled by appointment by the presiding
officer of the county | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | board with the advice and consent of the county board.
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| 17 | To be eligible for appointment or to be eligible to file | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | nomination
papers or participate as a candidate in any primary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | or general election
for, or be elected to, the office of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | supervisor of assessments, or to enter
upon the duties of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | office, a person must possess one of the following
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| 22 | qualifications as certified by the individual to the county | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | clerk:
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| 1 | (1) A Certified Illinois Assessing Official | ||||||
| 2 | certificate from the Illinois
Property Assessment | ||||||
| 3 | Institute, plus the additional training required for
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| 4 | additional compensation under Section 4-10.
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| 5 | (2) A Certified Assessment Evaluator certificate from | ||||||
| 6 | the International
Association of Assessing Officers.
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| 7 | (3) A Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI), | ||||||
| 8 | Residential Member (RM),
Senior Real Estate Analyst | ||||||
| 9 | (SREA), Senior Real Property Analyst (SRPA) or
Senior | ||||||
| 10 | Residential Analyst (SRA) certificate from the Appraisal | ||||||
| 11 | Institute or
its predecessor organizations.
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| 12 | (4) If the person has served as a supervisor of | ||||||
| 13 | assessments for 12
years or more, a Certified Illinois | ||||||
| 14 | Assessing Official certificate
from the Illinois Property | ||||||
| 15 | Assessment Institute with a minimum of 360
additional hours | ||||||
| 16 | of
successfully completed courses approved by the | ||||||
| 17 | Department if at least 180 of
the course hours
required a | ||||||
| 18 | written examination.
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| 19 | In addition, a person must have had at least 2 years' | ||||||
| 20 | experience in the field
of property sales, assessments, finance | ||||||
| 21 | or appraisals and must have passed an
examination conducted by | ||||||
| 22 | the Department to determine his or her competence to
hold the | ||||||
| 23 | office. The examination may be conducted by the Department at a
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| 24 | convenient location in the county or region. Notice of the time | ||||||
| 25 | and place
shall be given by publication in a newspaper of | ||||||
| 26 | general circulation in the
counties, at least one week prior to | ||||||
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| 1 | the exam. The Department shall certify to
the county board a | ||||||
| 2 | list of the names and scores of persons who pass the
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| 3 | examination. The Department may provide by rule the maximum | ||||||
| 4 | time that the name
of a person who has passed the examination | ||||||
| 5 | will be included on a list of
persons eligible for appointment | ||||||
| 6 | or election. The term of office shall be 4
years from the date | ||||||
| 7 | of appointment and until a successor is appointed and
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| 8 | qualified.
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| 9 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a county | ||||||
| 10 | with a population of more than 500,000 that does not have an | ||||||
| 11 | elected county board chairman or executive and has an appointed | ||||||
| 12 | supervisor of assessments, the office of
supervisor of | ||||||
| 13 | assessments shall be an elected position beginning with the | ||||||
| 14 | general election held in 2020. The supervisor of assessments | ||||||
| 15 | serving on the date of the election shall continue to serve | ||||||
| 16 | until his or her successor is elected and qualified. | ||||||
| 17 | (Source: P.A. 92-667, eff. 7-16-02.)
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