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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 12-55 as follows:
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| 6 | | (35 ILCS 200/12-55) |
| 7 | | Sec. 12-55. Notice requirement if assessment is increased; |
| 8 | | counties of 3,000,000 or more. |
| 9 | | (a) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, a |
| 10 | | revision by the county assessor, except where such revision is |
| 11 | | made on complaint of the owner, shall not increase an |
| 12 | | assessment without notice to the person to whom the most |
| 13 | | recent tax bill was mailed and an opportunity to be heard |
| 14 | | before the assessment is verified. The county assessor shall |
| 15 | | continue to accept appeals from the taxpayer for a period of |
| 16 | | not less than 30 business days from the later of the date the |
| 17 | | assessment notice is mailed as provided in this subsection or |
| 18 | | is published on the assessor's website. When a notice is |
| 19 | | mailed by the county assessor to the address of a mortgagee, |
| 20 | | the mortgagee, within 7 business days after the mortgagee |
| 21 | | receives the notice, shall forward a copy of the notice to each |
| 22 | | mortgagor of the property referred to in the notice at the last |
| 23 | | known address of each mortgagor as shown on the records of the |
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| 1 | | mortgagee. There shall be no liability for the failure of the |
| 2 | | mortgagee to forward the notice to each mortgagor. The |
| 3 | | assessor may provide for the filing of complaints and make |
| 4 | | revisions at times other than those dates published under |
| 5 | | Section 14-35. When the county assessor has completed the |
| 6 | | revision and correction and entered the changes and revision |
| 7 | | in the assessment books, an affidavit shall be attached to the |
| 8 | | assessment books in the form required by law, signed by the |
| 9 | | county assessor. |
| 10 | | (b) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, for |
| 11 | | parcels, other than parcels in the class that includes the |
| 12 | | majority of the single-family residential parcels under a |
| 13 | | county ordinance adopted in accordance with Section 4 of |
| 14 | | Article IX of the Illinois Constitution, located in the |
| 15 | | assessment district for which the current assessment year is a |
| 16 | | general assessment year, within 30 days after sending the |
| 17 | | required notices under this Section, the county assessor shall |
| 18 | | file with the board of appeals (until the first Monday in |
| 19 | | December 1998, and the board of review beginning the first |
| 20 | | Monday in December 1998 and thereafter) a list of the parcels |
| 21 | | for which the notices under this Section were sent, showing |
| 22 | | the following information for each such parcel: the parcel |
| 23 | | index number, the township in which the parcel is located, the |
| 24 | | class for the current year, the previous year's final total |
| 25 | | assessed value, the total assessed value proposed by the |
| 26 | | county assessor, and the name of the person to whom the notice |
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| 1 | | required under this Section was sent. The list shall be |
| 2 | | available for public inspection at the office of the board |
| 3 | | during the regular office hours of the board. The list shall be |
| 4 | | retained by the board for at least 10 years after the date it |
| 5 | | is initially filed by the county assessor. |
| 6 | | (c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this Section shall |
| 7 | | be applicable beginning with the assessment for the 1997 tax |
| 8 | | year. |
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 90-4, eff. 3-7-97; 91-751, eff. 6-2-00.) |