94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4805

 

Introduced 1/18/2006, by Rep. Roger Jenisch - Ed Sullivan, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/2-85 new
35 ILCS 200/3-35

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Prohibits township assessors, multi-township assessors, and supervisors of assessments and their deputies and employees from having an interest, directly or indirectly, in any business concern that provides assistance to any taxpayer to challenge the assessment or valuation of any real property that is located in the county in which the assessor or supervisor of assessments serves in his or her office. Provides that a violation of this prohibition is a petty offense and violators may not serve as an assessor, supervisor of assessments, or deputy or employee of an assessor or supervisor of assessments.


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CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5 Section 3-35 and by adding Section 2-85 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/2-85 new)
7     Sec. 2-85. Prohibited activities. A township or
8 multi-township assessor or any deputy or employee of the
9 assessor may not have an interest, directly or indirectly, in
10 any business concern that provides assistance to any taxpayer
11 to challenge the assessment or valuation of any real property
12 that is located in the county in which the assessor serves in
13 his or her office.
14     Any person who violates the provisions of this Section is
15 guilty of a petty offense and is subject to a fine of not less
16 than $501 and not more than $1,000. If a person is convicted of
17 a petty offense for a violation of the provisions of this
18 Section, then that person may not serve as a township or
19 multi-township assessor or any deputy or employee of the
20 assessor.
 
21     (35 ILCS 200/3-35)
22     Sec. 3-35. Outside employment; prohibited activities.
23     (a) Except as provided below, any person appointed under
24 Section 3-5 shall hold no other lucrative public office or
25 public employment. In counties with less than 100,000
26 inhabitants, he or she may hold public employment if the duties
27 are not incompatible with his or her duties as supervisor of
28 assessments as assigned by the county board. The duties of a
29 person administering a county zoning ordinance shall not be
30 considered incompatible with the duties of a supervisor of
31 assessments.

 

 

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1     (b) A supervisor of assessments or any deputy or employee
2 of the supervisor of assessments may not have an interest,
3 directly or indirectly, in any business concern that provides
4 assistance to any taxpayer to challenge the assessment or
5 valuation of any real property that is located in the county in
6 which the supervisor of assessments serves in his or her
7 office.
8     Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection
9 (b) is guilty of a petty offense and is subject to a fine of not
10 less than $501 and not more than $1,000. If a person is
11 convicted of a petty offense for a violation of the provisions
12 of this subsection (b), then that person may not serve as a
13 supervisor of assessments or any deputy or employee of the
14 supervisor of assessments.
15 (Source: P.A. 86-482; 86-1475; 88-455.)