Sen. Kwame Raoul
Filed: 3/23/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1514
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1514 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding | ||||||
5 | Section 18-178 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (35 ILCS 200/18-178 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 18-178. Abatement for the residence of a surviving | ||||||
8 | spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue worker. | ||||||
9 | (a) The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality | ||||||
10 | may, by ordinance, order the county clerk to abate any | ||||||
11 | percentage of the taxes levied by the municipality and any | ||||||
12 | other taxing district on each parcel of qualified property | ||||||
13 | within the corporate limits of the municipality that is owned | ||||||
14 | by the surviving spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue | ||||||
15 | worker. | ||||||
16 | (b) The corporate authorities may provide, by ordinance, |
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1 | for the percentage amount and duration of an abatement under | ||||||
2 | this Section and for any other provision necessary to carry out | ||||||
3 | the provisions of this Section. Upon passing an ordinance under | ||||||
4 | this Section, the municipality must deliver a certified copy of | ||||||
5 | the ordinance to the county clerk and to each affected taxing | ||||||
6 | district. | ||||||
7 | (c) As used in this Section: | ||||||
8 | "Fallen police officer or rescue worker" means an | ||||||
9 | individual who dies: | ||||||
10 | (1) as a result of or in the course of employment as a | ||||||
11 | police officer; or | ||||||
12 | (2) while in the active service of a fire, rescue, or | ||||||
13 | emergency medical service. | ||||||
14 | "Fallen police officer or rescue worker", however, does not | ||||||
15 | include any individual whose death was the result of that | ||||||
16 | individual's own willful misconduct or abuse of alcohol or | ||||||
17 | drugs.
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18 | "Qualified property" means a parcel of real property that | ||||||
19 | is occupied by not more than 2 families, that is used as the | ||||||
20 | principle residence by a surviving spouse, and that: | ||||||
21 | (1) was owned by the fallen police officer or rescue | ||||||
22 | worker or surviving spouse at the time of the police | ||||||
23 | officer's or rescue worker's death; | ||||||
24 | (2) was acquired by the surviving spouse within 2 years | ||||||
25 | after the police officer's or rescue worker's death if the | ||||||
26 | surviving spouse was domiciled in the State at the time of |
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1 | that death; or | ||||||
2 | (3) was acquired more than 2 years after the police | ||||||
3 | officer's or rescue worker's death if surviving spouse | ||||||
4 | qualified for an abatement for a former qualified property | ||||||
5 | located in that municipality. | ||||||
6 | "Surviving spouse" means a spouse, who has not remarried, | ||||||
7 | of a fallen police officer or rescue worker.
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8 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
9 | becoming law.".
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