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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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