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1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Conservation District Act is amended by |
5 | | changing Section 13 as follows:
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6 | | (70 ILCS 410/13) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7114)
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7 | | Sec. 13.
The fiscal year of each district shall commence |
8 | | April 1 and
extend through the following March 31. |
9 | | The board shall, within the first quarter of each fiscal |
10 | | year,
adopt a combined annual budget and appropriation
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11 | | ordinance as provided in the Illinois Municipal Budget Law.
In |
12 | | a district located entirely within a county with a population |
13 | | of less than 750,000 that is contiguous to a county with a |
14 | | population of more than
2,000,000, the district's combined |
15 | | annual budget and appropriation ordinance
shall not be |
16 | | considered to be adopted until it is also adopted by resolution |
17 | | of
the county
board of the county in which the district is |
18 | | located.
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19 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Act, a district may |
20 | | annually
levy taxes upon all the taxable property therein at |
21 | | the value thereof,
as equalized or assessed by the Department |
22 | | of Revenue, to be extended at
not more than the rates and for |
23 | | the purposes specified hereinafter:
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1 | | (1) 0.025% for the general purposes of the district, |
2 | | including
acquisition and development of real property |
3 | | which may be in excess of
current requirements and allowed |
4 | | to accumulate from year to year, and for
any purposes |
5 | | specified by the district; however, no tax may be extended
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6 | | at a rate that will result in accumulation of any amount |
7 | | representing
more than 0.075% of the equalized assessed |
8 | | valuation of the district.
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9 | | (2) 0.075% for acquisition of real property, which may |
10 | | be in excess
of current requirements and allowed to |
11 | | accumulate from year to year, and for
any purposes |
12 | | specified by the district; however, no tax may be extended
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13 | | at a rate that will result in accumulation of any amount |
14 | | representing
more than 0.25% of the equalized assessed |
15 | | valuation of the district.
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16 | | (3) 0.1%, in lieu of the two rates specified in (1) and |
17 | | (2) above, for
the general purposes of the district, |
18 | | including the acquisition,
development, operation and |
19 | | maintenance of real property which may be in
excess of |
20 | | current requirements and allowed to accumulate from year to |
21 | | year,
and for any purposes specified by the district; |
22 | | however, no tax may be
extended at a rate that will result |
23 | | in accumulation of any amount representing
more than 0.325% |
24 | | of the equalized assessed valuation of the district.
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25 | | (4) 0.15%, in lieu of the two rates specified in (1) |
26 | | and (2) above, and in lieu of (3) above, for the general |
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1 | | purposes of a district located wholly within McHenry |
2 | | County, including the acquisition, development, operation |
3 | | and maintenance of real property which may be in excess of |
4 | | current requirements and allowed to accumulate from year to |
5 | | year, and for any purposes specified by the district; |
6 | | however, no tax may be extended at a rate that will result |
7 | | in accumulation of any amount representing more than 0.325% |
8 | | of the equalized assessed valuation of the district. |
9 | | A district located wholly within McHenry County may not |
10 | | levy a rate that exceeds 0.1% without first submitting the |
11 | | question to the voters of the district. The question shall |
12 | | be submitted in accordance with the Election Code. The |
13 | | governing body of the district shall certify the question |
14 | | to the proper election authorities who shall submit the |
15 | | question to the electors of the district in substantially |
16 | | the following form: |
17 | | Shall (name of district) be permitted to levy a |
18 | | rate of (insert rate) beginning with levy year (year) |
19 | | for the general purposes of the district, including the |
20 | | acquisition, development, operation and maintenance of |
21 | | real property, which may be in excess of current |
22 | | requirements and allowed to accumulate from year to |
23 | | year, and for any purposes specified by the district? |
24 | | The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No". |
25 | | If a majority of voters voting on the increase |
26 | | approve its adoption, the increase shall take effect |
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1 | | beginning with the levy year specified in the question. |
2 | | If the district is seeking to levy a rate that |
3 | | exceeds its limiting rate under the Property Tax Extension |
4 | | Limitation Law, then the district shall submit the question |
5 | | to the voters of the district in accordance with Section |
6 | | 18-190 of the Property Tax Code in lieu of the requirements |
7 | | set forth in this paragraph (4). |
8 | | Except as provided in some other Act, a district may not |
9 | | levy annual
taxes, for all its purposes in the aggregate, in |
10 | | excess of 0.1% of the
value , or 0.15% of the value for a |
11 | | district located wholly within McHenry County , as equalized or |
12 | | assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the
taxable property |
13 | | therein.
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14 | | After the adoption of the combined budget and appropriation |
15 | | ordinance
and within the second quarter of each fiscal year, |
16 | | the board shall ascertain
the total amount of the |
17 | | appropriations legally made which are to be
provided for from |
18 | | tax levies for the current year. Then, by an ordinance
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19 | | specifying in detail the purposes for which such appropriations |
20 | | have
been made and the amounts appropriated for such purposes, |
21 | | the board
shall levy not to exceed the total amount so |
22 | | ascertained upon all the
property subject to taxation within |
23 | | the district as the same is assessed
and equalized for state |
24 | | and county purposes for the current year. A
certified copy of |
25 | | such ordinance shall be filed on or before the first
Tuesday in |
26 | | October with the clerk of each county wherein the district or
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