95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1482

 

Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. David R. Leitch - Jerry L. Mitchell - Roger L. Eddy - Michael K. Smith - Cynthia Soto

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/18-185
105 ILCS 5/17-2.7 new

    Amends the School Code. Allows the school board of any district (other than the Chicago school district) to cause a proposition to levy an annual tax for gas and electric utility expenses to be submitted to the voters of the district at a regular scheduled election. Provides that if a majority of the votes cast on the question is in favor thereof, then the school board may levy the tax annually thereafter. Provides that any funds received from the imposition of the tax must be deposited into the utility fund of the school district. Provides that any surplus moneys in the utility fund may be rolled over to cover expenses for the following fiscal year. Provides that an extension made for gas and electric utility expense purposes is excluded from the definition of "aggregate extension" under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law of the Property Tax Code.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
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 18-185 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/18-185)
7     Sec. 18-185. Short title; definitions. This Division 5 may
8 be cited as the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. As used
9 in this Division 5:
10     "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for
11 All Urban Consumers for all items published by the United
12 States Department of Labor.
13     "Extension limitation" means (a) the lesser of 5% or the
14 percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the
15 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year or (b) the rate
16 of increase approved by voters under Section 18-205.
17     "Affected county" means a county of 3,000,000 or more
18 inhabitants or a county contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or
19 more inhabitants.
20     "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section
21 1-150, except as otherwise provided in this Section. For the
22 1991 through 1994 levy years only, "taxing district" includes
23 only each non-home rule taxing district having the majority of

 

 

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1 its 1990 equalized assessed value within any county or counties
2 contiguous to a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants.
3 Beginning with the 1995 levy year, "taxing district" includes
4 only each non-home rule taxing district subject to this Law
5 before the 1995 levy year and each non-home rule taxing
6 district not subject to this Law before the 1995 levy year
7 having the majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value in an
8 affected county or counties. Beginning with the levy year in
9 which this Law becomes applicable to a taxing district as
10 provided in Section 18-213, "taxing district" also includes
11 those taxing districts made subject to this Law as provided in
12 Section 18-213.
13     "Aggregate extension" for taxing districts to which this
14 Law applied before the 1995 levy year means the annual
15 corporate extension for the taxing district and those special
16 purpose extensions that are made annually for the taxing
17 district, excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for
18 the taxing district to pay interest or principal on general
19 obligation bonds that were approved by referendum; (b) made for
20 any taxing district to pay interest or principal on general
21 obligation bonds issued before October 1, 1991; (c) made for
22 any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds
23 issued to refund or continue to refund those bonds issued
24 before October 1, 1991; (d) made for any taxing district to pay
25 interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to
26 refund bonds issued after October 1, 1991 that were approved by

 

 

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1 referendum; (e) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
2 principal on revenue bonds issued before October 1, 1991 for
3 payment of which a property tax levy or the full faith and
4 credit of the unit of local government is pledged; however, a
5 tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds
6 shall be made only after the governing body of the unit of
7 local government finds that all other sources for payment are
8 insufficient to make those payments; (f) made for payments
9 under a building commission lease when the lease payments are
10 for the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before
11 October 1, 1991, to pay for the building project; (g) made for
12 payments due under installment contracts entered into before
13 October 1, 1991; (h) made for payments of principal and
14 interest on bonds issued under the Metropolitan Water
15 Reclamation District Act to finance construction projects
16 initiated before October 1, 1991; (i) made for payments of
17 principal and interest on limited bonds, as defined in Section
18 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount not to
19 exceed the debt service extension base less the amount in items
20 (b), (c), (e), and (h) of this definition for non-referendum
21 obligations, except obligations initially issued pursuant to
22 referendum; (j) made for payments of principal and interest on
23 bonds issued under Section 15 of the Local Government Debt
24 Reform Act; (k) made by a school district that participates in
25 the Special Education District of Lake County, created by
26 special education joint agreement under Section 10-22.31 of the

 

 

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1 School Code, for payment of the school district's share of the
2 amounts required to be contributed by the Special Education
3 District of Lake County to the Illinois Municipal Retirement
4 Fund under Article 7 of the Illinois Pension Code; the amount
5 of any extension under this item (k) shall be certified by the
6 school district to the county clerk; (l) made to fund expenses
7 of providing joint recreational programs for the handicapped
8 under Section 5-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14
9 of the Illinois Municipal Code; (m) made for temporary
10 relocation loan repayment purposes pursuant to Sections 2-3.77
11 and 17-2.2d of the School Code; (n) made for payment of
12 principal and interest on any bonds issued under the authority
13 of Section 17-2.2d of the School Code; and (o) made for
14 contributions to a firefighter's pension fund created under
15 Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the
16 amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the
17 Illinois Pension Code; and (p) made for gas and electric
18 utility expense purposes pursuant to Section 17-2.7 of the
19 School Code.
20     "Aggregate extension" for the taxing districts to which
21 this Law did not apply before the 1995 levy year (except taxing
22 districts subject to this Law in accordance with Section
23 18-213) means the annual corporate extension for the taxing
24 district and those special purpose extensions that are made
25 annually for the taxing district, excluding special purpose
26 extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay interest or

 

 

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1 principal on general obligation bonds that were approved by
2 referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
3 principal on general obligation bonds issued before March 1,
4 1995; (c) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
5 principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to refund those
6 bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (d) made for any taxing
7 district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund
8 or continue to refund bonds issued after March 1, 1995 that
9 were approved by referendum; (e) made for any taxing district
10 to pay interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before
11 March 1, 1995 for payment of which a property tax levy or the
12 full faith and credit of the unit of local government is
13 pledged; however, a tax for the payment of interest or
14 principal on those bonds shall be made only after the governing
15 body of the unit of local government finds that all other
16 sources for payment are insufficient to make those payments;
17 (f) made for payments under a building commission lease when
18 the lease payments are for the retirement of bonds issued by
19 the commission before March 1, 1995 to pay for the building
20 project; (g) made for payments due under installment contracts
21 entered into before March 1, 1995; (h) made for payments of
22 principal and interest on bonds issued under the Metropolitan
23 Water Reclamation District Act to finance construction
24 projects initiated before October 1, 1991; (h-4) made for
25 stormwater management purposes by the Metropolitan Water
26 Reclamation District of Greater Chicago under Section 12 of the

 

 

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1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; (i) made for
2 payments of principal and interest on limited bonds, as defined
3 in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an
4 amount not to exceed the debt service extension base less the
5 amount in items (b), (c), and (e) of this definition for
6 non-referendum obligations, except obligations initially
7 issued pursuant to referendum and bonds described in subsection
8 (h) of this definition; (j) made for payments of principal and
9 interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the Local
10 Government Debt Reform Act; (k) made for payments of principal
11 and interest on bonds authorized by Public Act 88-503 and
12 issued under Section 20a of the Chicago Park District Act for
13 aquarium or museum projects; (l) made for payments of principal
14 and interest on bonds authorized by Public Act 87-1191 or
15 93-601 and (i) issued pursuant to Section 21.2 of the Cook
16 County Forest Preserve District Act, (ii) issued under Section
17 42 of the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act for
18 zoological park projects, or (iii) issued under Section 44.1 of
19 the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act for botanical
20 gardens projects; (m) made pursuant to Section 34-53.5 of the
21 School Code, whether levied annually or not; (n) made to fund
22 expenses of providing joint recreational programs for the
23 handicapped under Section 5-8 of the Park District Code or
24 Section 11-95-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code; (o) made by
25 the Chicago Park District for recreational programs for the
26 handicapped under subsection (c) of Section 7.06 of the Chicago

 

 

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1 Park District Act; (p) made for contributions to a
2 firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
3 Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
4 under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;
5 and (q) made by Ford Heights School District 169 under Section
6 17-9.02 of the School Code.
7     "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which
8 this Law applies in accordance with Section 18-213, except for
9 those taxing districts subject to paragraph (2) of subsection
10 (e) of Section 18-213, means the annual corporate extension for
11 the taxing district and those special purpose extensions that
12 are made annually for the taxing district, excluding special
13 purpose extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay
14 interest or principal on general obligation bonds that were
15 approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay
16 interest or principal on general obligation bonds issued before
17 the date on which the referendum making this Law applicable to
18 the taxing district is held; (c) made for any taxing district
19 to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or
20 continue to refund those bonds issued before the date on which
21 the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
22 district is held; (d) made for any taxing district to pay
23 interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to
24 refund bonds issued after the date on which the referendum
25 making this Law applicable to the taxing district is held if
26 the bonds were approved by referendum after the date on which

 

 

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1 the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
2 district is held; (e) made for any taxing district to pay
3 interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before the date
4 on which the referendum making this Law applicable to the
5 taxing district is held for payment of which a property tax
6 levy or the full faith and credit of the unit of local
7 government is pledged; however, a tax for the payment of
8 interest or principal on those bonds shall be made only after
9 the governing body of the unit of local government finds that
10 all other sources for payment are insufficient to make those
11 payments; (f) made for payments under a building commission
12 lease when the lease payments are for the retirement of bonds
13 issued by the commission before the date on which the
14 referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing district is
15 held to pay for the building project; (g) made for payments due
16 under installment contracts entered into before the date on
17 which the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
18 district is held; (h) made for payments of principal and
19 interest on limited bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local
20 Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt
21 service extension base less the amount in items (b), (c), and
22 (e) of this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
23 obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made
24 for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued under
25 Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (j) made
26 for a qualified airport authority to pay interest or principal

 

 

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1 on general obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying
2 obligations due under, or financing airport facilities
3 required to be acquired, constructed, installed or equipped
4 pursuant to, contracts entered into before March 1, 1996 (but
5 not including any amendments to such a contract taking effect
6 on or after that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing
7 joint recreational programs for the handicapped under Section
8 5-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the
9 Illinois Municipal Code; and (l) made for contributions to a
10 firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
11 Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
12 under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;
13 and (m) made for gas and electric utility expense purposes
14 pursuant to Section 17-2.7 of the School Code.
15     "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which
16 this Law applies in accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection
17 (e) of Section 18-213 means the annual corporate extension for
18 the taxing district and those special purpose extensions that
19 are made annually for the taxing district, excluding special
20 purpose extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay
21 interest or principal on general obligation bonds that were
22 approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay
23 interest or principal on general obligation bonds issued before
24 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997; (c) made for
25 any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds
26 issued to refund or continue to refund those bonds issued

 

 

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1 before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997; (d)
2 made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on
3 bonds issued to refund or continue to refund bonds issued after
4 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 if the bonds
5 were approved by referendum after the effective date of this
6 amendatory Act of 1997; (e) made for any taxing district to pay
7 interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before the
8 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 for payment of
9 which a property tax levy or the full faith and credit of the
10 unit of local government is pledged; however, a tax for the
11 payment of interest or principal on those bonds shall be made
12 only after the governing body of the unit of local government
13 finds that all other sources for payment are insufficient to
14 make those payments; (f) made for payments under a building
15 commission lease when the lease payments are for the retirement
16 of bonds issued by the commission before the effective date of
17 this amendatory Act of 1997 to pay for the building project;
18 (g) made for payments due under installment contracts entered
19 into before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997;
20 (h) made for payments of principal and interest on limited
21 bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt
22 Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt service
23 extension base less the amount in items (b), (c), and (e) of
24 this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
25 obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made
26 for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued under

 

 

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1 Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (j) made
2 for a qualified airport authority to pay interest or principal
3 on general obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying
4 obligations due under, or financing airport facilities
5 required to be acquired, constructed, installed or equipped
6 pursuant to, contracts entered into before March 1, 1996 (but
7 not including any amendments to such a contract taking effect
8 on or after that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing
9 joint recreational programs for the handicapped under Section
10 5-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the
11 Illinois Municipal Code; and (l) made for contributions to a
12 firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
13 Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
14 under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;
15 and (m) made for gas and electric utility expense purposes
16 pursuant to Section 17-2.7 of the School Code.
17     "Debt service extension base" means an amount equal to that
18 portion of the extension for a taxing district for the 1994
19 levy year, or for those taxing districts subject to this Law in
20 accordance with Section 18-213, except for those subject to
21 paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of Section 18-213, for the levy
22 year in which the referendum making this Law applicable to the
23 taxing district is held, or for those taxing districts subject
24 to this Law in accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection (e)
25 of Section 18-213 for the 1996 levy year, constituting an
26 extension for payment of principal and interest on bonds issued

 

 

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1 by the taxing district without referendum, but not including
2 excluded non-referendum bonds. For park districts (i) that were
3 first subject to this Law in 1991 or 1995 and (ii) whose
4 extension for the 1994 levy year for the payment of principal
5 and interest on bonds issued by the park district without
6 referendum (but not including excluded non-referendum bonds)
7 was less than 51% of the amount for the 1991 levy year
8 constituting an extension for payment of principal and interest
9 on bonds issued by the park district without referendum (but
10 not including excluded non-referendum bonds), "debt service
11 extension base" means an amount equal to that portion of the
12 extension for the 1991 levy year constituting an extension for
13 payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by the park
14 district without referendum (but not including excluded
15 non-referendum bonds). The debt service extension base may be
16 established or increased as provided under Section 18-212.
17 "Excluded non-referendum bonds" means (i) bonds authorized by
18 Public Act 88-503 and issued under Section 20a of the Chicago
19 Park District Act for aquarium and museum projects; (ii) bonds
20 issued under Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform
21 Act; or (iii) refunding obligations issued to refund or to
22 continue to refund obligations initially issued pursuant to
23 referendum.
24     "Special purpose extensions" include, but are not limited
25 to, extensions for levies made on an annual basis for
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1 contributions to pension plans, and extensions made pursuant to
2 Section 6-601 of the Illinois Highway Code for a road
3 district's permanent road fund whether levied annually or not.
4 The extension for a special service area is not included in the
5 aggregate extension.
6     "Aggregate extension base" means the taxing district's
7 last preceding aggregate extension as adjusted under Sections
8 18-215 through 18-230.
9     "Levy year" has the same meaning as "year" under Section
10 1-155.
11     "New property" means (i) the assessed value, after final
12 board of review or board of appeals action, of new improvements
13 or additions to existing improvements on any parcel of real
14 property that increase the assessed value of that real property
15 during the levy year multiplied by the equalization factor
16 issued by the Department under Section 17-30, (ii) the assessed
17 value, after final board of review or board of appeals action,
18 of real property not exempt from real estate taxation, which
19 real property was exempt from real estate taxation for any
20 portion of the immediately preceding levy year, multiplied by
21 the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section
22 17-30, including the assessed value, upon final stabilization
23 of occupancy after new construction is complete, of any real
24 property located within the boundaries of an otherwise or
25 previously exempt military reservation that is intended for
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1 or other entity, and (iii) in counties that classify in
2 accordance with Section 4 of Article IX of the Illinois
3 Constitution, an incentive property's additional assessed
4 value resulting from a scheduled increase in the level of
5 assessment as applied to the first year final board of review
6 market value. In addition, the county clerk in a county
7 containing a population of 3,000,000 or more shall include in
8 the 1997 recovered tax increment value for any school district,
9 any recovered tax increment value that was applicable to the
10 1995 tax year calculations.
11     "Qualified airport authority" means an airport authority
12 organized under the Airport Authorities Act and located in a
13 county bordering on the State of Wisconsin and having a
14 population in excess of 200,000 and not greater than 500,000.
15     "Recovered tax increment value" means, except as otherwise
16 provided in this paragraph, the amount of the current year's
17 equalized assessed value, in the first year after a
18 municipality terminates the designation of an area as a
19 redevelopment project area previously established under the
20 Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the Illinois
21 Municipal Code, previously established under the Industrial
22 Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, or previously
23 established under the Economic Development Area Tax Increment
24 Allocation Act, of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of
25 real property in the redevelopment project area over and above
26 the initial equalized assessed value of each property in the

 

 

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1 redevelopment project area. For the taxes which are extended
2 for the 1997 levy year, the recovered tax increment value for a
3 non-home rule taxing district that first became subject to this
4 Law for the 1995 levy year because a majority of its 1994
5 equalized assessed value was in an affected county or counties
6 shall be increased if a municipality terminated the designation
7 of an area in 1993 as a redevelopment project area previously
8 established under the Tax Increment Allocation Development Act
9 in the Illinois Municipal Code, previously established under
10 the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal
11 Code, or previously established under the Economic Development
12 Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, by an amount equal to the
13 1994 equalized assessed value of each taxable lot, block,
14 tract, or parcel of real property in the redevelopment project
15 area over and above the initial equalized assessed value of
16 each property in the redevelopment project area. In the first
17 year after a municipality removes a taxable lot, block, tract,
18 or parcel of real property from a redevelopment project area
19 established under the Tax Increment Allocation Development Act
20 in the Illinois Municipal Code, the Industrial Jobs Recovery
21 Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Economic Development
22 Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, "recovered tax increment
23 value" means the amount of the current year's equalized
24 assessed value of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of
25 real property removed from the redevelopment project area over
26 and above the initial equalized assessed value of that real

 

 

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1 property before removal from the redevelopment project area.
2     Except as otherwise provided in this Section, "limiting
3 rate" means a fraction the numerator of which is the last
4 preceding aggregate extension base times an amount equal to one
5 plus the extension limitation defined in this Section and the
6 denominator of which is the current year's equalized assessed
7 value of all real property in the territory under the
8 jurisdiction of the taxing district during the prior levy year.
9 For those taxing districts that reduced their aggregate
10 extension for the last preceding levy year, the highest
11 aggregate extension in any of the last 3 preceding levy years
12 shall be used for the purpose of computing the limiting rate.
13 The denominator shall not include new property or the recovered
14 tax increment value. If a new rate, a rate decrease, or a
15 limiting rate increase has been approved at an election held
16 after March 21, 2006, then (i) the otherwise applicable
17 limiting rate shall be increased by the amount of the new rate
18 or shall be reduced by the amount of the rate decrease, as the
19 case may be, or (ii) in the case of a limiting rate increase,
20 the limiting rate shall be equal to the rate set forth in the
21 proposition approved by the voters for each of the years
22 specified in the proposition, after which the limiting rate of
23 the taxing district shall be calculated as otherwise provided.
24 (Source: P.A. 93-601, eff. 1-1-04; 93-606, eff. 11-18-03;
25 93-612, eff. 11-18-03; 93-689, eff. 7-1-04; 93-690, eff.
26 7-1-04; 93-1049, eff. 11-17-04; 94-974, eff. 6-30-06; 94-976,

 

 

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1 eff. 6-30-06; 94-1078, eff. 1-9-07; revised 1-11-07.)
 
2     Section 10. The School Code is amended by adding Section
3 17-2.7 as follows:
 
4     (105 ILCS 5/17-2.7 new)
5     Sec. 17-2.7. Tax for utility expenses. The school board of
6 any district having a population of less than 500,000
7 inhabitants may, by proper resolution, cause a proposition to
8 levy an annual tax for gas and electric utility expenses to be
9 submitted to the voters of the district at a regular scheduled
10 election. The tax, to be levied upon the value of the taxable
11 property within the territory of the school district as
12 equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, must be at
13 a rate that will produce a sum sufficient to pay the cost of
14 gas and electric utility expenses. The school board shall
15 certify the proposition to the proper election authority for
16 submission in accordance with the general election law. If at
17 such election a majority of the votes cast on the question is
18 in favor thereof, then the school board may levy the tax
19 annually thereafter until such authority is revoked in like
20 manner.
21     Any funds received from the imposition of a tax under this
22 Section must be deposited into the utility fund of the school
23 district. Any surplus moneys in the utility fund may be rolled
24 over to cover expenses for the following fiscal year.