96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0145


 
Introduced 1/14/2009, by Rep. Marlow H. Colvin
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














35 ILCS 200/21-205









    Amends the Property Tax Code.  In a Section concerning tax sale procedures, removes a requirement that bidders must personally attend the sale.  Effective immediately.
















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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 21-205 as follows:
 



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    (35 ILCS 200/21-205)



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    Sec. 21-205. Tax sale procedures. The collector, in person 
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or by deputy,
shall attend, on the day and in the place 
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specified in the notice for the sale
of property for taxes, and 
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shall, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., or later at
the 
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collector's discretion, proceed to offer for sale, separately 
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and in
consecutive order, all property in the list on which the 
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taxes, special
assessments, interest or costs have not been 
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paid. However, in any county with
3,000,000 or more 
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inhabitants, the offer for sale shall be made between 8:00
a.m. 
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and 8:00 p.m. The collector's office shall be kept open during 
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all hours
in which the sale is in progress. The sale shall be 
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continued from day to day,
until all property in the delinquent 
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list has been offered for sale. However,
any city, village or 
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incorporated town interested in the collection of any tax
or 
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special assessment, may, in default of bidders, withdraw from 
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collection the
special assessment levied against any property 
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by the corporate authorities of
the city, village or 
 


 






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incorporated town. In case of a withdrawal, there shall be
no 
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sale of that property on account of the delinquent special 
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assessment
thereon.

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    In every sale of property pursuant to the provisions of 
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this Code, the collector may employ any automated means that 
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the collector deems appropriate, provided that bidders are 
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required to personally attend the sale. The changes made by 
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this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly are 
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declarative of existing law.

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(Source: P.A. 94-922, eff. 1-1-07.)

 

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