HB4947eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4947 Engrossed LRB096 15626 HLH 30857 b

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing Section 28-5 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/28-5)

Sec. 28-5. Apportionment upon subdivision.

(a) If a special assessment that is payable in installments has been made by any corporate authority, for supplying water, or other corporate purpose, and if all or some of the owner or owners of any parcel of land so assessed desire to subdivide the parcel, and to apportion the assessment and the several installments so that each parcel of the proposed subdivision will bear its just and equitable proportion, it may be done as provided in this Article.

(b) In lieu of using this Article, the apportionment of the assessment and the several installments may be done as provided under Section 80 of the Special Assessment Supplemental Bond and Procedures Act.

(Source: P.A. 83-345; 88-455.)

Section 10. The Special Assessment Supplemental Bond and Procedures Act is amended by adding Section 80 as follows:

(50 ILCS 460/80 new)

Sec. 80. Apportionment upon division.

(a) If a special assessment that is payable in installments has been made by any corporate authority, and if all of the owners of the original assessed parcel of land desire to divide the parcel, and to apportion the assessment and the several installments so that each of the divided portions of the original assessed parcel will bear its just and equitable proportion of the assessment against the original assessed parcel, it may be done as provided in this Section.

(b) The owner or owners of record of the original assessed parcel to be further apportioned must present to the board of local improvements a petition to divide. The petition must include the signatures of all the owners of record of the original assessed parcel or their respective agents. Upon receipt of a petition to divide, the board of local improvements shall review the apportionment to determine whether it appears to be just and equitable.

(c) If the board of local improvements approves the proposed apportionment of the original assessed parcel, the board's president and secretary shall sign the petition to divide and shall file the petition with the court in which the original special assessment proceeding was heard.

(d) Upon the filing of the petition to divide with the court, unless the court finds the proposed apportionment to be unjust or inequitable, the court shall enter an order apportioning the original assessment. A certified copy of the order shall be recorded with the recorder of deeds of the county in which the original assessment roll and report was recorded.

(e) A petition to divide the assessment against an original assessed parcel may be processed, and an order approving the apportionment may be entered by the court, as referenced above, even if the order confirming the certificate of final cost and completion has already been entered by the court.

(f) Once an assessment has been apportioned as provided for in this Section, the apportioned assessment may be further apportioned, by following the procedures set forth herein.

(g) This Section applies only to the apportionment of a special assessment after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, and nothing in this Section affects the validity of any court order entered before that effective date to apportion any special assessment.

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