Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr.

Filed: 2/28/2006

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4805

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4805 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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 a direct interest in any business concern
10 that provides assistance to any taxpayer to challenge the
11 assessment or valuation of any real property that is located in
12 the county in which the assessor serves in his or her office.
13     Any person who violates the provisions of this Section is
14 guilty of a business offense and is subject to a fine of not
15 less than $1,001 and not more than $2,000. If a person is
16 convicted of an offense for a violation of the provisions of
17 this Section, then the court must enter an order removing that
18 person from office as a township or multi-township assessor or
19 as a deputy or employee of the assessor.
 
20     (35 ILCS 200/3-35)
21     Sec. 3-35. Outside employment; prohibited activities.
22     (a) Except as provided below, any person appointed under
23 Section 3-5 shall hold no other lucrative public office or

 

 

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1 public employment. In counties with less than 100,000
2 inhabitants, he or she may hold public employment if the duties
3 are not incompatible with his or her duties as supervisor of
4 assessments as assigned by the county board. The duties of a
5 person administering a county zoning ordinance shall not be
6 considered incompatible with the duties of a supervisor of
7 assessments.
8     (b) A supervisor of assessments or any deputy or employee
9 of the supervisor of assessments may not have a direct interest
10 in any business concern that provides assistance to any
11 taxpayer to challenge the assessment or valuation of any real
12 property that is located in the county in which the supervisor
13 of assessments serves in his or her office.
14     Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection
15 (b) is guilty of a business offense and is subject to a fine of
16 not less than $1,001 and not more than $2,000. If a person is
17 convicted of an offense for a violation of the provisions of
18 this subsection (b), then the court must enter an order
19 removing that person from office as a supervisor of assessments
20 or as a deputy or employee of the supervisor of assessments.
21 (Source: P.A. 86-482; 86-1475; 88-455.)".