95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1261


 
Introduced 2/9/2007, by Sen. Mike Jacobs
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














35 ILCS 200/20-160









    Amends the Property Tax Code. Deletes a provision that the county board may declare the office of county collector vacant if the county collector fails to account for and pay over taxes and provides that the office may be declared vacant by the circuit court of the judicial circuit in which the county seat is located and in which suit is brought on the collector's official bond.  Effective immediately.
















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SB1261

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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended  by changing 
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Section 20-160 as follows:
 



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    (35 ILCS 200/20-160)



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    Sec. 20-160. Office may be declared vacant. If any county 
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collector
fails to account and pay over as required in Sections 
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20-140 and
20-150, the office may be declared vacant by the 
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circuit
county board, or by any court of the judicial circuit 
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in which the county seat is located and
in which suit is 
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brought on his or her official bond.

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(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.