94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2036

 

Introduced 2/25/2005, by Sen. Chris Lauzen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Creates the School Land and Capital Facilities Assessment Act. Provides for the assessment of land and capital facilities assessment fees by a school district against the owners of dwelling units that are constructed within new developments that are constructed in the school district. Provides that the assessment, imposition, and collection of these fees pursuant to the Act shall be the sole and exclusive means by which units of local government and school districts may assess, impose, and collect fees against new development for purposes of satisfying and financing the costs of acquiring and improving school lands and of constructing school capital facilities to meet the demands and needs of new development. Provides for the undertaking of a land and capital facilities needs assessment by a school district, a school district's adoption of a land and capital facilities plan, and the right of a fee payer to contest the school district's adoption of a land and capital facilities plan or the school district's assessment, collection, or use of land and capital facilities assessment fees. Provides that only school districts situated in whole or in part in counties having a population in excess of 250,000 have the authority to adopt a land and capital facilities plan and assess and collect land and capital facilities assessment fees. Provides that the Act does not apply to the Chicago school district. Provides that no unit of local government other than these school districts has the authority to adopt a land and capital facilities plan and assess land and capital facilities assessment fees. Provides that any unit of local government that has adopted an ordinance that provides for the assessment and payment of fees to satisfy land acquisition and improvement costs or capital facilities costs for school districts operating within its boundaries shall repeal the ordinance to the extent such school districts adopt a land and capital facilities plan and establish a land and capital facilities assessment fee. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Amends the Property Tax Code, the Counties Code, and the Illinois Municipal Code to provide that certain provisions are subject to the Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
MAY APPLY

 

 

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1     AN ACT concerning schools.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4
Article 1. General Provisions

 
5     Section 1-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 School Land and Capital Facilities Assessment Act.
 
7     Section 1-5. Statement of purpose and intent.
8     (a) The General Assembly declares that the purposes of this
9 Act are to establish a mechanism for Illinois school districts
10 to pay or finance costs they anticipate incurring in acquiring
11 and improving school lands and in constructing school
12 facilities to serve new development, to ensure that the burden
13 of paying for needed school lands and school facilities is
14 determined and allocated in a fair and equitable manner among
15 the owners of newly constructed homes so that such owners carry
16 no more than their fair share of the burden of providing such
17 lands and facilities, and to maintain the affordability of
18 housing opportunities in the State.
19     (b) The General Assembly further finds that it is the
20 General Assembly's intent:
21         (1) to promote orderly economic growth and development
22     throughout the State while ensuring that owners of newly
23     constructed homes pay their fair share, but no more than
24     their fair share, of the cost of acquiring and improving
25     needed school lands and of constructing needed school
26     facilities;
27         (2) to ensure that the owners of newly constructed
28     homes who pay their fair share of the costs are able to pay
29     such costs over time so that the cost of constructing their
30     homes remains affordable;
31         (3) to ensure that adequate school lands and school

 

 

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1     facilities are available to serve the student populations
2     that will be generated by the construction of new homes;
3         (4) to establish fair and equitable procedures and
4     standards for school districts to employ in creating and
5     implementing school land and capital facilities plans and
6     in assessing and expending school land and capital
7     facilities assessment fees; and
8         (5) to prevent the assessment of unfair and
9     inconsistent fees for the acquisition and improvement of
10     school lands and the construction of new school facilities.
 
11     Section 1-10. Definitions.
12     "Assessment period" means a 10-year period that is to
13 commence not later than 12 months following the date of
14 adoption of a land and capital facilities plan. A school
15 district that adopts a land and capital facilities plan shall
16 have the right to extend an assessment period for an additional
17 10-year period if the school district makes specific findings
18 of fact, after public hearing, to the effect that market
19 conditions have precluded the school district from achieving
20 the objectives of the plan within the initial 10-year period.
21     "Bonds or other evidence of indebtedness" means bonds or
22 other evidence of indebtedness as defined in Section 1 of the
23 Bond Authorization Act.
24     "Capital facilities costs" means the reasonable costs
25 incurred by a school district in constructing school capital
26 facilities and in acquiring buildings that are to be devoted to
27 use as school buildings. Capital facilities costs may include
28 the reasonable planning, design, engineering, architectural,
29 and legal costs incurred by a school district in connection
30 with the preparation and consideration of a capital facilities
31 needs assessment, the formulation and adoption of a land and
32 capital facilities plan, and the construction of school capital
33 facilities, except that not more than 10% of the total costs
34 anticipated to be incurred in constructing the school capital
35 facilities shall be used to pay such planning, design,

 

 

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1 engineering, architectural, and legal costs and further that,
2 if the construction or acquisition of the school capital
3 facilities for which architectural, engineering, and legal
4 costs were incurred is not commenced or consummated within 6
5 years after the date those costs were incurred, the school
6 district shall reimburse the applicable assessment fee fund for
7 the costs so incurred from other revenue sources. "Capital
8 facilities costs" does not include any costs that are incurred
9 or to be incurred as land acquisition and improvement costs.
10     "Capital facilities needs assessment" means an assessment
11 of a school district's need for new school capital facilities
12 as described in Section 5-10 of this Act.
13     "Dwelling unit" means an attached or detached
14 single-family or multiple-family residence, apartment, or
15 condominium. Residences within new developments that are
16 nursing homes, congregate care facilities, assisted living
17 facilities, housing that is intended for and solely occupied by
18 persons 62 years of age or older under 42 U.S.C. 3607
19 (b)(2)(B), and housing intended for and occupied by persons 55
20 years of age and older under 42 U.S.C. 3607 (b)(2)(C) shall not
21 be deemed dwelling units under this Act.
22     "Encumber" means to use or commit to use collected land and
23 capital facilities assessment fees by legal obligation,
24 appropriation, or other official action by a school district.
25     "Fee payer" means an owner of a dwelling unit that is
26 required to pay or that does pay a land and capital facilities
27 assessment fee.
28     "Land and capital facilities plan" means a plan adopted by
29 a school district pursuant to Article 10 of this Act.
30     "Land acquisition and improvement costs" means the
31 reasonable costs a school district incurs in acquiring or
32 improving needed school lands. "Land acquisition and
33 improvement costs" may include the reasonable planning,
34 design, title, survey, brokerage, environmental investigation,
35 and legal costs incurred or to be incurred by a school district
36 in preparing and considering a land needs assessment, in

 

 

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1 formulating and adopting a land and capital facilities plan,
2 and in acquiring and improving school lands, except that not
3 more than 10% of the total costs anticipated to be incurred in
4 preparing and considering a land needs assessment, in
5 formulating and adopting a land and capital facilities plan,
6 and in acquiring and improving school lands shall be used to
7 pay such planning, design, engineering, architectural, title,
8 survey, brokerage, environmental investigation, and legal
9 costs and further that, if the school lands for which
10 architectural, engineering, title, survey, brokerage,
11 environmental investigation, and legal costs were incurred are
12 not acquired or improved within 6 years after the date adoption
13 of the land and capital facilities plan for which such costs
14 were incurred, the school district shall reimburse the
15 applicable assessment fee fund for the costs so incurred from
16 other revenue sources. For purposes of this definition, the
17 word "improving" or "improvement" means the reasonable costs a
18 school district incurs or anticipates it will incur: (i) in
19 constructing sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water, sidewalk, and
20 roadway improvements to school lands or on lands that are
21 adjacent to school lands to meet the demands of new
22 development; (ii) in undertaking grading and landscaping
23 improvements on school lands and adjacent ways; (iii) in
24 constructing parking lot improvements on school lands; (iv) in
25 constructing athletic fields and tennis courts in conjunction
26 with the construction of new school buildings or permanent
27 additions to existing school buildings; (v) in furnishing and
28 installing for the first time fixed playground apparatus; and
29 (vi) in undertaking required demolition work. Land acquisition
30 and improvement costs shall not include any costs that are
31 incurred or to be incurred as capital facilities costs.
32     "Land and capital facilities assessment fee" means a fee
33 established by a school district pursuant to a land and capital
34 facilities plan.
35     "Land needs assessment" means an assessment of a school
36 district's need for new school lands as described in Section

 

 

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1 5-5 of this Act.
2     "New development" means development containing dwelling
3 units that is being newly constructed or that is projected to
4 be constructed.
5     "Proportionate share" means that portion of the land
6 acquisition and improvement costs and capital facilities costs
7 that is specifically and uniquely attributable to new
8 development.
9     "School buildings" means roofed and walled structures
10 built for permanent use that are: (i) leased or owned or to be
11 leased or owned by a school district; and (ii) used or to be
12 used for public school purposes. A classification of school
13 buildings means elementary, junior high, or high school
14 buildings.
15     "School capacity" means the maximum student enrollment
16 capacity of an existing school building determined on the basis
17 of the space and physical standards recommended by the regional
18 superintendent of schools and taking into account the then
19 current State and federal special education and accessibility
20 facility mandates.
21     "School capital facilities" means and is limited to the
22 following improvements to school lands: newly constructed
23 school buildings; newly constructed structural improvements to
24 school buildings and permanent additions to school buildings;
25 systems that are being installed within newly constructed
26 school buildings or within permanent additions to school
27 buildings, including without limitation electrical systems,
28 plumbing systems, fire protection systems, and heating,
29 ventilation, and air conditioning systems; and additions to or
30 replacements of systems within existing school buildings to the
31 extent necessary to meet the demands of new development.
32     "School district" means any public elementary, high
33 school, or unit school district.
34     "School lands" means lands that are: (i) leased or owned or
35 to be leased or owned by a school district; and (ii) used, to
36 be used, or capable of being used for school purposes.

 

 

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1     "Unit of local government" means a unit of local government
2 included in the definition of "units of local government" under
3 Article VII, Section 1 of the Illinois Constitution, including
4 all home rule units.
 
5     Section 1-15. Authorization.
6     (a) Only school districts situated in whole or in part in
7 counties having a population in excess of 250,000 have the
8 authority to adopt a land and capital facilities plan and
9 assess and collect land and capital facilities assessment fees.
10 The provisions of this Act do not apply to school districts
11 situated in municipalities having a population in excess of
12 1,000,000.
13     (b) Only school districts that have undertaken a land needs
14 assessment and concluded that they will need to acquire and
15 improve new school lands over an assessment period are
16 authorized to include within a proposed land and capital
17 facilities assessment fee a component for land acquisition and
18 improvement costs.
19     (c) Only school districts that have undertaken a capital
20 facilities needs assessment and concluded that they will need
21 to construct new school capital facilities are authorized to
22 include within a proposed land and capital facilities
23 assessment fee a component for capital facilities costs.
 
24     Section 1-20. Limitations.
25     (a) No unit of local government other than the school
26 districts described in subsection (a) of Section 1-15 of this
27 Act has the authority to adopt a land and capital facilities
28 plan and assess land and capital facilities assessment fees.
29     (b) The assessment, imposition, and collection of land and
30 capital facilities assessment fees pursuant to this Act shall
31 be the sole and exclusive means by which units of local
32 government and school districts may assess, impose, and collect
33 fees against new development for purposes of satisfying and
34 financing the costs of acquiring and improving school lands and

 

 

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1 of constructing school capital facilities to meet the demands
2 and needs of new development.
3     (c) No school district authorized by this Act to assess and
4 impose land and capital facilities assessment fees may impose
5 fees for the acquisition and improvement of school lands or for
6 the construction of school capital facilities in a manner that
7 is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
8     (d) No annexation agreement entered into by a unit of local
9 government pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 of Division
10 15.1 of the Illinois Municipal Code may require payment of fees
11 for the acquisition and improvement of school lands or for the
12 construction of school capital facilities other than land and
13 capital facilities assessment fees that have been established
14 by a school district pursuant to the provisions of this Act. If
15 a unit of local government seeks to enter into an annexation
16 agreement with a developer of a new development, such
17 annexation agreement shall provide for the payment of land and
18 capital facilities assessment fees as and to the extent the
19 school districts within whose jurisdiction the new development
20 is to be constructed have adopted a land and capital facilities
21 plan and established a land and capital facilities assessment
22 fee schedule.
23     (e) A home rule until may not regulate subjects governed
24 under this Act in a manner more restrictive than the regulation
25 by the State of those subjects under this Act. This Act is a
26 limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
27 the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
28 rule units of local government of powers and functions
29 exercised by the State.
 
30
Article 5. Needs Assessment

 
31     Section 5-5. Land needs assessment.
32     (a) No school district may adopt a land and capital
33 facilities plan that provides for the acquisition or
34 improvement of new school lands or for the incurring of any

 

 

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1 land acquisition and improvement costs to meet the needs of new
2 development unless it first undertakes a land needs assessment
3 that concludes that new school lands will need to be acquired
4 or improved over the planned for assessment period to meet the
5 needs of new development. The land needs assessment shall set
6 forth with particularity the proportionate share of the new
7 school lands or of the land acquisition and improvement costs
8 that is attributable to the new development. A land needs
9 assessment must not be more than one year old at the time of
10 adoption of a land and capital facilities plan.
11     (b) A land needs assessment shall contain the following for
12 each classification of school building that exists within the
13 school district:
14         (1) a description of the existing school lands within
15     the school district;
16         (2) an identification of the school capacity of each
17     school building within the school district and of the
18     number of students then enrolled in each school building;
19         (3) a projection of the character and location of new
20     development that is expected to occur within the school
21     district over the succeeding 2-year, 5-year, and 10-year
22     periods;
23         (4) an estimate of the amount of school lands that will
24     be needed over the then planned for assessment period to
25     accommodate the demands of the projected new development;
26         (5) a projection of the land acquisition and
27     improvement costs that the school district will incur in
28     improving already owned school lands and in improving and
29     acquiring new school lands; and
30         (6) a projected timetable for the acquisition or
31     improvement of the school lands.
32     (c) If a land needs assessment is not undertaken for a
33 given classification of school lands, then the school district
34 may not include within a proposed land and capital facilities
35 plan and proposed land and capital facilities assessment fee a
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1 lands or for the incurring of any land acquisition and
2 improvement costs for such classification of school buildings.
3 Once a school district has satisfied its need for school lands
4 for a given classification of school buildings, as established
5 by the approved land needs assessment, it may not impose
6 further land and capital facilities assessment fees against new
7 development for school lands or for land acquisition and
8 improvement costs for that classification of school buildings.
 
9     Section 5-10. Capital facilities needs assessment.
10     (a) No school district may adopt a land and capital
11 facilities plan that provides for the construction or
12 acquisition of new school capital facilities or for the
13 incurring of any capital facilities costs to meet the needs of
14 new development unless it first undertakes a capital facilities
15 needs assessment that concludes that new school capital
16 facilities will need to be constructed or acquired over the
17 planned for assessment period to meet the needs of new
18 development. The capital facilities needs assessment shall set
19 forth with particularity the proportionate share of the capital
20 facilities costs that is attributable to the new development. A
21 capital facilities needs assessment must not be more than one
22 year old at the time of adoption of a land and capital
23 facilities plan.
24     (b) A capital facilities needs assessment shall contain all
25 of the following for each classification of school building
26 that exists within the school district:
27         (1) A description of the existing school buildings
28     within the school district.
29         (2) An identification of the school capacity of each
30     school building within the school district and of the
31     number of students then enrolled in each school building.
32         (3) A projection of the character and location of new
33     development that is expected to occur within the school
34     district over the succeeding 10-year period.
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1     facilities that will be needed over the then planned for
2     assessment period to accommodate the demands of the
3     projected new development.
4         (5) a projection of the capital facilities costs that
5     the school district will incur in acquiring or constructing
6     the school capital facilities.
7         (6) a projected timetable for the acquisition or
8     construction of the school capital facilities.
9     (c) If a capital facilities needs assessment is not
10 undertaken for a given classification of school buildings, then
11 the school district may not include within a proposed land and
12 capital facilities plan and proposed land and capital
13 facilities assessment fee a component for the acquisition or
14 construction of new school buildings or for the incurring of
15 any capital facilities costs for the classification of school
16 buildings. Once a school district has satisfied its need for
17 school buildings for a given classification of school
18 buildings, as established by the approved capital facilities
19 needs assessment, it shall not impose further land and capital
20 facilities assessment fees against new development for school
21 buildings or for capital facilities costs for that
22 classification of school buildings.
 
23
Article 10. Adoption of Plan; Public Hearing

 
24     Section 10-5. Requirement to adopt plan; passage of
25 resolution. A school district that seeks to assess land and
26 capital facilities assessment fees against new development
27 shall first adopt a land and capital facilities plan in the
28 manner provided by this Act. Adoption of such a plan shall be
29 effected by the passage of a resolution by a two-thirds vote of
30 the school district's board members then holding office. No
31 school board may consider and act on such a resolution unless
32 it has first received the report and recommendations of the
33 school district's superintendent as provided for in Section
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1     Section 10-10. Preparation of superintendent's report and
2 recommendations. Before a school district adopts a land and
3 capital facilities plan, its superintendent shall prepare a
4 report that contains all of the following:
5         (1) A land needs assessment for the school district.
6         (2) A capital facilities needs assessment for the
7     school district.
8         (3) The funding sources available to the school
9     district to pay the land acquisition and improvement costs
10     and capital facilities costs the school district will incur
11     in acquiring or improving needed school lands and in
12     acquiring or constructing needed school capital
13     facilities.
14         (4) A recommended land and capital facilities plan.
15         (5) A recommended schedule of land and capital
16     facilities assessment fees that are to be paid by the
17     owners of dwelling units within the new developments that
18     are projected to be constructed within the school district
19     over the planned for assessment period.
20     The report shall divide the school district into
21 sub-districts for analysis and planning purposes. The
22 boundaries of such sub-districts shall be consistent with the
23 boundaries of the areas being served by the various school
24 buildings existing or planned for within the school district.
25 The report shall identify a school district's need for new
26 school lands and new school capital facilities for each
27 separate classification of school buildings.
 
28     Section 10-15. Public hearings by superintendent. The
29 school district superintendent shall conduct a public hearing
30 on his or her report and recommendations and, after taking into
31 account the testimony he or she receives at the public hearing,
32 issue a final report and set of recommendations to the school
33 board. The superintendent shall issue the report and
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1 hearing. Notice of the public hearing shall be published at
2 least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the
3 school district not less than 21 days and not more than 45 days
4 prior to the date scheduled for the public hearing. The
5 superintendent shall also give notice of the public hearing by
6 certified mail, within the same time period, to any person or
7 entity that has registered with the school district in
8 accordance with the school district's adopted procedures as
9 desiring to receive such notice.
 
10     Section 10-20. Public hearing by the school board. After
11 the school board receives the superintendent's report and
12 recommendations, it shall conduct its own public hearing on the
13 report and recommendations. The public hearing shall be
14 conducted in the same manner as the public hearing on the
15 superintendent's report and recommendations. At the conclusion
16 of the public hearing, the school board shall either accept the
17 superintendent's report and recommendations in their entirety
18 or accept and modify the superintendent's report and
19 recommendations and proceed to adopt a land and capital
20 facilities plan and establish a land and capital facilities
21 assessment fee schedule, as provided in Section 10-5 of this
22 Act, or it shall reject the superintendent's report and
23 recommendations, in which event no land and capital facilities
24 plan shall be adopted and no land and capital facilities
25 assessment fee schedule shall be established. If the school
26 board seeks to adopt a land and capital facilities plan or
27 establish a land and capital facilities assessment fee schedule
28 that is materially inconsistent with the conclusions of the
29 superintendent's report or the superintendent's
30 recommendations, it shall remand the superintendent's report
31 and recommendations back to the superintendent for additional
32 consideration at a newly convened public hearing held in the
33 manner required for the initially conducted public hearing.
 
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1     Section 15-5. Assessment of land and capital facilities
2 assessment fees. Once a school district has adopted a land and
3 capital facilities plan and established a land and capital
4 facilities assessment fee schedule, it shall have the authority
5 and obligation to assess the fees against the owners of all
6 dwelling units that are thereafter constructed within new
7 developments that are constructed in the school district. Land
8 and capital facilities assessment fees for dwelling units
9 constructed with a new development shall be due and payable
10 from and after the date of issuance of a certificate of
11 occupancy for the dwelling unit.
 
12     Section 15-10. Standard for assessment of land and capital
13 facilities assessment fees. A new development that is required
14 to pay land and capital facilities assessment fees pursuant to
15 this Act must not be required to pay more than the new
16 development's proportionate share of the land acquisition and
17 improvement costs and capital facilities costs that a school
18 district anticipates incurring over the planned for assessment
19 period, as set forth in the approved land needs assessment and
20 capital facilities needs assessments, which proportionate
21 share shall take into account the donation of any lands that
22 the developer of that new development may have theretofore
23 donated to the school district.
 
24     Section 15-15. Exclusion of new development increases in
25 assessed value and from certain property tax extensions. If a
26 school district adopts a land and capital facilities plan and
27 establishes a land and capital facilities assessment fee
28 schedule, the tax rates for the school district's existing or
29 subsequently issued bonds or other evidence of indebtedness, to
30 the extent issued to cover the school district's land
31 acquisition and improvement costs or capital facilities costs,
32 and the school district's tax rate for capital improvements
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1 Code must not be extended to new development increases in the
2 assessed value of property within the school district for the
3 assessment period set forth in the plan, notwithstanding the
4 provisions of Section 18-115 and Section 18-140 of the Property
5 Tax Code.
 
6     Section 15-20. Issuance of assessment fee anticipation
7 warrants, notes, bonds, and other evidence of indebtedness.
8     (a) A school district that has adopted a land and capital
9 facilities plan may issue assessment fee anticipation
10 warrants, notes, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness to
11 defray land acquisition and improvement costs and capital
12 facilities costs that the school district anticipates
13 incurring to meet the needs of new development to the extent of
14 85% of the amount of land and capital facilities assessment
15 fees that it anticipates collecting over the planned for
16 assessment period. Moneys borrowed by a school district in this
17 manner shall be applied to the purposes for which they were
18 obtained and no other purpose. All moneys so borrowed shall be
19 repaid exclusively from land and capital facilities assessment
20 fees within 60 days after the assessment fees have been
21 received by the school district.
22     (b) Borrowing authorized under this Section shall bear
23 interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by
24 the Bond Authorization Act from the date of issuance until
25 paid.
26     (c) Prior to the school district borrowing or establishing
27 a line of credit under this Section, the school board shall
28 authorize, by resolution, the borrowing or line of credit. The
29 resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the need for the
30 borrowing or line of credit, state the amount to be borrowed,
31 establish a maximum interest rate limit not to exceed that set
32 forth in subsection (b) of this Section, and provide a date by
33 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution shall
34 direct the relevant officials to make arrangements to set apart
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1 borrowing. In addition, the resolution may authorize the
2 relevant officials to make partial repayments of the borrowing
3 as the fees become available and may contain any other terms,
4 restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the
5 provisions of this Section.
 
6     Section 15-25. Collection of land and capital facilities
7 assessment fees. A school district assessing land acquisition
8 and capital facilities assessment fees against the owners of
9 newly constructed dwelling units pursuant to this Act shall
10 bill all fee payers for the payment of the fees on a twice a
11 year basis in a manner similarly to that employed by the county
12 collector in the collection of property taxes under the
13 Property Tax Code.
 
14     Section 15-30. Collection; lien rights. The school
15 district shall have the right to place a lien on the property
16 of any fee payer that is subject to the payment of a land and
17 capital facilities assessment fee if the fee payer fails to pay
18 the fee as and when required by the adopted land and capital
19 facilities plan and by law. The school district shall have the
20 right to foreclose such lien in the same manner as is provided
21 by law for the foreclosure of mortgage liens.
 
22     Section 15-35. Annual certification by superintendent. The
23 school district superintendent shall annually submit to the
24 school district school board and to the regional superintendent
25 of schools, within 30 days after expiration of the school
26 district's fiscal year, a certification made under oath to the
27 effect that, to the best of his or her knowledge and after
28 undertaking a good faith investigation, land and capital
29 facilities assessment fees imposed pursuant to the school
30 district's adopted land and capital facilities plan have been
31 imposed, held, and used in the manner required by this Act and
32 by the adopted land and capital facilities plan.
 

 

 

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1
Article 20. Contests

 
2     Section 20-5. Right to contest. A fee payer or any other
3 party whose property is or will be subject to the assessment of
4 a land and capital facilities assessment fee shall have the
5 right to contest the school district's adoption of a land and
6 capital facilities plan or the school district's assessment,
7 collection, or use of land and capital facilities assessment
8 fees. The resolution adopting a land and capital facilities
9 plan shall provide for the consideration of such contest by the
10 regional superintendent of schools and for the prevailing party
11 in such challenge to recover from the non-prevailing party the
12 attorney's fees and costs that the prevailing party has
13 reasonably incurred in pursuing or defending the contest. The
14 regional superintendent of schools shall have the authority to
15 determine whether a school district's adopted land and capital
16 facilities plan and established schedule of land and capital
17 facilities assessment fees are consistent with the manifest
18 weight of the evidence presented at the public hearings
19 required under Sections 10-15 and 10-20 of this Act or are
20 otherwise contrary to law and whether the school district has
21 imposed, collected, and used land and capital facilities
22 assessment fees in accordance with the adopted land and capital
23 facilities plan and the requirements of law. The ruling of the
24 regional superintendent of schools is subject to judicial
25 review in the circuit court under the provisions of the
26 Administrative Review Law.
 
27     Section 20-10. Limitation on challenges.
28     (a) No proceeding to contest an adopted land and capital
29 facilities plan or an established land and capital facilities
30 assessment fee schedule shall be commenced by a fee payer or
31 any other party later than one year after the date of adoption
32 of the plan and the establishment of the schedule.
33     (b) No proceeding to contest the use of collected land and
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1 one year after the date of payment of the fees, except that an
2 action seeking the refund of a land and capital facilities
3 assessment fee that has not been encumbered by a school
4 district as and when required by the adopted plan and by this
5 Act may be commenced by a fee payer more than one year after
6 the date of its payment provided it is commenced by the fee
7 payer no later than one year after the expiration of the period
8 within which the fee was to have been encumbered.
 
9
Article 25. Transition

 
10     Section 25-5. Repeal of existing ordinances. Any unit of
11 local government that has adopted an ordinance that provides
12 for the assessment and payment of fees to satisfy land
13 acquisition and improvement costs or capital facilities costs
14 for school districts operating within its boundaries shall
15 repeal the ordinance to the extent such school districts adopt
16 a land and capital facilities plan and establish a land and
17 capital facilities assessment fee. The unit of local government
18 shall undertake such repeal within 120 days after the date of
19 adoption of the land and capital facilities plan.
 
20     Section 25-10. Exemption of new developments. New
21 developments that, as of the date of a school district's
22 passage of a resolution adopting a land and capital facilities,
23 are the subject of an agreement with the school district or
24 unit of local government that provides for the payment of fees
25 to the school district or unit of local government to pay land
26 acquisition and improvement costs or capital facilities costs
27 the school district anticipates incurring to meet the needs of
28 new development must not be included within the school
29 district's plan or subject to the school district's subsequent
30 imposition of land and capital facilities assessment fees.
 
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1     Section 90-5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
2 Sections 18-115 and 18-140 as follows:
 
3     (35 ILCS 200/18-115)
4     Sec. 18-115. Use of equalized assessed valuation. The
5 equalized assessed value of all property, as determined under
6 this Code, after equalization by the Department, shall be the
7 assessed valuation for all purposes of taxation, limitation of
8 taxation, and limitation of indebtedness prescribed in any
9 statute. This Section is subject to the School Land and Capital
10 Facilities Assessment Act.
11 (Source: P.A. 86-233; 86-953; 86-957; 86-1475; 87-17; 87-477;
12 87-895; 88-455.)
 
13     (35 ILCS 200/18-140)
14     Sec. 18-140. Extension upon equalized assessment of
15 current levy year. All taxes shall be extended by each county
16 clerk upon the valuation produced by the equalization and
17 assessment of property by the Department for the levy year. In
18 the computation of rates, a fraction of a mill shall be
19 extended as the next higher mill. Each installment of taxes
20 shall be extended in a separate column. Installments shall be
21 equal and as to each installment a fraction of a cent shall be
22 extended as one cent. This Section is subject to the School
23 Land and Capital Facilities Assessment Act.
24 (Source: P.A. 87-17; 88-455.)
 
25     Section 90-10. The Counties Code is amended by changing
26 Section 5-1041.1 as follows:
 
27     (55 ILCS 5/5-1041.1)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1041.1)
28     Sec. 5-1041.1. School land donations. The governing board
29 of a school district that is located in a county having a
30 population of less than 3,000,000 may submit to the county
31 board a written request that a meeting be held to discuss
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1 resubdivision of land included within the area served by the
2 school district. For the purposes of this Section, "school land
3 donation" means a donation of land for public school purposes
4 or a cash contribution in lieu thereof, or a combination of
5 both. This Section is subject to the School Land and Capital
6 Facilities Assessment Act.
7 (Source: P.A. 86-1039.)
 
8     Section 90-15. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
9 changing Section 11-12-5.1 and by adding Section 11-15.1-6 as
10 follows:
 
11     (65 ILCS 5/11-12-5.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5.1)
12     Sec. 11-12-5.1. School land donations. The governing board
13 of a school district may submit to the corporate authorities of
14 a municipality having a population of less than 500,000 which
15 is served by the school district a written request that a
16 meeting be held to discuss school land donations from a
17 developer of a subdivision or resubdivision of land included
18 within the area served by the school district. For the purposes
19 of this Section, "school land donation" means a donation of
20 land for public school purposes or a cash contribution in lieu
21 thereof, or a combination of both. This Section is subject to
22 the School Land and Capital Facilities Assessment Act.
23 (Source: P.A. 86-1023; 86-1039.)
 
24     (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-6 new)
25     Sec. 11-15.1-6. This Division is subject to the School Land
26 and Capital Facilities Assessment Act.
 
27     Section 90-90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
28 Section 8.29 as follows:
 
29     (30 ILCS 805/8.29 new)
30     Sec. 8.29. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
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1 implementation of any mandate created by the School Land and
2 Capital Facilities Assessment Act.
 
3
Article 99. Effective Date

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

 

 

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3     New Act
4     35 ILCS 200/18-115
5     35 ILCS 200/18-140
6     55 ILCS 5/5-1041.1 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1041.1
7     65 ILCS 5/11-12-5.1 from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5.1
8     65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-6 new
9     30 ILCS 805/8.29 new