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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
5 General Assembly becomes law, then the Flood Prevention
6 District Act is amended by changing Sections 5, 10, 20, 25, 30,
7 35, 40, 45, and 50 as follows:
 
8     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 5)
9     Sec. 5. Creation; purpose.
10     (a) Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair Counties may each be
11 designated independently and separately as a flood prevention
12 district for the purpose of performing emergency levee repair
13 and flood prevention in order to prevent the loss of life or
14 property. The county board of any such county may declare an
15 emergency and create a flood prevention district by the
16 affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the county
17 board.
18     (b) Two or more flood prevention districts may join
19 together through an intergovernmental agreement to provide any
20 services described in this Act, to construct, reconstruct,
21 repair, or otherwise provide any facilities described in this
22 Act either within or outside of any district's corporate
23 limits, to issue bonds, notes, or other evidences of

 

 

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1 indebtedness, to pledge the taxes authorized to be imposed
2 pursuant to Section 25 of this Act to the obligations of any
3 other district, and to exercise any other power authorized in
4 this Act, pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
5     (c) Any district created under this Act shall be dissolved
6 upon the later of (i) 25 years after the date the district is
7 created or (ii) the payment of all obligations of the district
8 issued under Section 20 of this Act and the payment of any
9 federal reimbursement moneys to the county treasurer under
10 Section 30 of this Act. A district may be dissolved earlier by
11 its board of commissioners if all federal reimbursement moneys
12 have been paid to the county treasurer and all obligations of
13 the district have been paid, including its obligations related
14 to bonds issued under Section 20 of this Act and any
15 obligations incurred pursuant to an intergovernmental
16 agreement.
17 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
18     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 10)
19     Sec. 10. Commissioners. The affairs of the district shall
20 be managed by a board of 3 commissioners who shall be appointed
21 by the chairman of the county board of the county in which the
22 district is situated. All initial appointments under this
23 Section must be made within 90 days after the district is
24 organized. Of the initial appointments, one commissioner shall
25 serve for a one-year term, one commissioner shall serve for a

 

 

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1 2-year term, and one commissioner shall serve for a 3-year
2 term, as determined by lot. Their successors shall be appointed
3 for 3-year terms. A commissioner shall continue to serve as
4 commissioner until his or her successor is duly appointed. No
5 commissioner may serve for more than 20 years. All appointments
6 must be made so that no more than 2 commissioners are from the
7 same political party at the time of the appointment. With
8 respect to appointments representing the minority party in the
9 county, the minority party members of the county board may
10 submit names for consideration to the chairman of the county
11 board. Each commissioner must be a legal voter in the district,
12 and at least one commissioner shall reside or own property that
13 is located within a floodplain situated in the territory of the
14 flood protection district. Commissioners shall serve without
15 compensation, but may be reimbursed for reasonable expenses
16 incurred in the performance of their duties.
17 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
18     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 20)
19     Sec. 20. Powers of the district. A district formed under
20 this Act shall have the following powers:
21         (1) To sue or be sued.
22         (2) To apply for and accept gifts, grants, and loans
23     from any public agency or private entity.
24         (3) To enter into intergovernmental agreements to
25     further ensure levee repair, levee construction or

 

 

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1     reconstruction, and flood prevention, within or outside of
2     the district's corporate limits, including agreements with
3     the United States Army Corps of Engineers or any other
4     agency or department of the federal government.
5         (4) To undertake evaluation, planning, design,
6     construction, and related activities that are determined
7     to be urgently needed to stabilize, repair, restore,
8     improve, or replace existing levees and other flood control
9     systems located within or outside of the district's
10     corporate limits.
11         (5) To address underseepage problems and old and
12     deteriorating pumps, gates, pipes, electrical controls,
13     and other infrastructure within or outside of the
14     district's corporate limits.
15         (6) To conduct evaluations of levees and other flood
16     control facilities that protect urban areas, including the
17     performance of floodplain mapping studies.
18         (7) To provide capital moneys for levee or
19     river-related scientific studies, within or outside of the
20     district's corporate limits, including the construction of
21     facilities for such purposes.
22         (8) To borrow money or receive money from the United
23     States Government or any agency thereof, or from any other
24     public or private source, for the purposes of the District
25     and to issue indebtedness, including bonds, notes, or other
26     evidences of indebtedness to evidence such borrowing, and

 

 

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1     to pledge and use some or all of the taxes imposed pursuant
2     to Section 25 of this Act for the repayment of the
3     indebtedness of the District or any other flood prevention
4     districts. The District shall direct the county to use
5     moneys in the County Flood Prevention Occupation Tax Fund
6     to pay such indebtedness.
7         (9) To enter into agreements with private property
8     owners.
9         (10) To issue revenue bonds, notes, or other evidences
10     of indebtedness payable from revenue received from a
11     retailers' occupation tax imposed under Section 25 of this
12     Act, and from any other revenue sources available to the
13     flood prevention district. These bonds may be issued with
14     maturities not exceeding 25 years from the date of the
15     bonds, and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide
16     sufficient funds, together with interest, for the purposes
17     of the District. These bonds shall bear interest at a rate
18     of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond
19     Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of
20     the contract of sale, payable semi-annually, may be made
21     registerable as to principal, and may be made payable and
22     callable as provided on any date at a price of par and
23     accrued interest under such terms and conditions as may be
24     fixed by the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the
25     bonds. Bonds issued under this Section are negotiable
26     instruments. In case any officer whose signature appears on

 

 

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1     the bonds or coupons ceases to hold that office before the
2     bonds are delivered, such officer's signature shall
3     nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the
4     same as though such officer had remained in office until
5     the bonds were delivered. The bonds shall be sold in such
6     manner and upon such terms as the board of commissioners
7     shall determine, except that the selling price shall be
8     such that the interest cost to the District on of the
9     proceeds of the bonds shall not exceed the maximum rate
10     authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the
11     time of the making of the contract of sale, payable
12     semi-annually, computed to maturity according to the
13     standard table of bond values. Bonds issued by the District
14     shall not be considered indebtedness for purposes of any
15     statutory limitation and may be issued in an amount or
16     amounts, including existing indebtedness, in excess of any
17     heretofore or hereafter imposed statutory limitation as to
18     indebtedness. A request to issue revenue bonds by the
19     District Commission must be submitted for approval to the
20     county board of the county in which the district is
21     situated. The county board has 30 calendar days to approve
22     the issuance of such bonds. If the county board does not
23     approve or disapprove the issuance of the bonds within 30
24     calendar days after the receipt of such request, the
25     request shall be deemed approved. The District shall direct
26     the county to use moneys in the County Flood Prevention

 

 

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1     Occupation Tax Fund to pay for bonds issued.
2         (11) To acquire property by gift, grant, or eminent
3     domain, in accordance with the Eminent Domain Act. Any
4     action by the District to acquire property by eminent
5     domain requires the express approval of the county board.
6         (12) To retain professional staff to carry out the
7     functions of the District. Any flood prevention district
8     shall employ a Chief Supervisor of Construction and the
9     Works with appropriate professional qualifications,
10     including a degree in engineering, construction,
11     hydrology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination
12     of education and experience. The Chief Supervisor of
13     Construction and the Works shall be vested with the
14     authority to carry out the duties and mission of the Flood
15     Prevention District, pursuant to the direction and
16     supervision of the Board of Commissioners. The Chief
17     Supervisor of Construction and the Works may hire
18     additional staff as necessary to carry out the duties and
19     mission of the district, including administrative support
20     personnel. Two or more districts may, through an
21     intergovernmental agreement, share the services of a Chief
22     Supervisor of Construction and the Works, support staff, or
23     both. If 2 districts are adjoining and share a common
24     federal levee, they must retain the services of the same
25     person as Chief Supervisor of Construction and the Works.
26         (13) To conduct an audit of any drainage, levee, or

 

 

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1     sanitary district within the territory of the flood
2     prevention district.    
3         (14) To reimburse any county for costs advanced by the
4     county for expenses that would have otherwise been paid out
5     of the County Flood Prevention Occupation Tax Fund, had
6     such fund been established at the time of the expenditure.
7     Nothing in this Section shall be construed to permit a
8     county to seek reimbursement from a flood prevention
9     district for any expense related to levee maintenance,
10     repair, improvement, construction, staff, operating
11     expenses, levee or river-related scientific studies, the
12     construction of facilities for any such purpose, or any
13     other non-emergency levee related expense that occurred
14     prior to an emergency situation involving the levees within
15     such county.
16 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
17     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 25)
18     Sec. 25. Flood prevention retailers' and service
19 occupation taxes Retailers' occupation tax.
20     (a) If the Board of Commissioners of a flood prevention
21 district determines that an emergency situation exists
22 regarding levee repair or flood prevention, and upon an
23 ordinance confirming the determination or resolution adopted
24 by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the
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1 the county it may impose a flood prevention retailers'
2 occupation tax upon all persons engaged in the business of
3 selling tangible personal property at retail within the
4 territory of the district to provide revenue to pay the costs
5 of providing emergency levee repair and flood prevention and to
6 secure the payment of bonds, notes, and other evidences of
7 indebtedness issued under this Act for a period not to exceed
8 25 years or as required to repay the bonds, notes, and other
9 evidences of indebtedness issued under this Act issued pursuant
10 to Section 20 of this Act. The tax rate shall be 0.25% of the
11 gross receipts from all taxable sales made in the course of
12 that business. The tax imposed under this Section and all civil
13 penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be
14 collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The
15 Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this
16 Section; to collect all taxes and penalties so collected in the
17 manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to
18 credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of
19 tax or penalty hereunder.
20     In the administration of and compliance with this
21 subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this
22 subsection (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges,
23 immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) are subject to the same
24 conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and
25 definitions of terms, and (iii) shall employ the same modes of
26 procedure as are set forth in Sections 1 through 1o, 2 through

 

 

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1 2-70 (in respect to all provisions contained in those Sections
2 other than the State rate of tax), 2a through 2h, 3 (except as
3 to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a,
4 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10,
5 11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and
6 all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as if
7 those provisions were set forth in this subsection.
8     Persons subject to any tax imposed under this Section may
9 reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability
10 hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional
11 charge, which charge may be stated in combination in a single
12 amount with State taxes that sellers are required to collect
13 under the Use Tax Act, under any bracket schedules the
14 Department may prescribe.
15     If a tax is imposed under this subsection (a), a tax shall
16 also be imposed under subsection (b) of this Section.
17     (b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), a flood
18 prevention service occupation tax shall also be imposed upon
19 all persons engaged within the territory of the district
20 engaged in the business of making sales of service, who, as an
21 incident to making the sales of service, transfer tangible
22 personal property within the territory of the district, either
23 in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of
24 real estate as an incident to a sale of service to provide
25 revenue to pay the costs of providing emergency levee repair
26 and flood prevention and to secure the payment of bonds, notes,

 

 

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1 and other evidences of indebtedness issued under this Act for a
2 period not to exceed 25 years or as required to repay the
3 bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness. The tax rate
4 shall be 0.25% of the selling price of all tangible personal
5 property transferred.
6     The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil
7 penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be
8 collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The
9 Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this
10 subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder;
11 to dispose of taxes and penalties collected in the manner
12 hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit
13 memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or
14 penalty hereunder.
15     In the administration of and compliance with this
16 subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this
17 subsection shall (i) have the same rights, remedies,
18 privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) be subject to
19 the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and
20 definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of
21 procedure as are set forth in Sections 2 (except that the that
22 reference to State in the definition of supplier maintaining a
23 place of business in this State means the district), 2a through
24 2d, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions contained in
25 those Sections other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except
26 that the reference to the State shall be to the district), 5,

 

 

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1 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax is a debt
2 to the extent indicated in that Section 8 is the district), 9
3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties
4 collected), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section
5 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any
6 reference to the State means the district), Section 15, 16, 17,
7 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all
8 provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as
9 if those provisions were set forth herein.
10     Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
11 granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
12 serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the
13 tax as an additional charge, that charge may be stated in
14 combination in a single amount with State tax that servicemen
15 are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, under
16 any bracket schedules the Department may prescribe.
17     (c) The taxes This additional tax imposed in subsections
18 (a) and (b) may not be imposed on personal property titled or
19 registered with an agency of the State; food for human
20 consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is
21 sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food
22 that has been prepared for immediate consumption);
23 prescription and non-prescription medicines, drugs, and
24 medical appliances; modifications to a motor vehicle for the
25 purpose of rendering it usable by a disabled person; or
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1 by diabetics.
2     (d) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize
3 the district to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in
4 any business that under the Constitution of the United States
5 may not be made the subject of taxation by the State.
6     (e) The certificate of registration that is issued by the
7 Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax
8 Act or a serviceman under the Service Occupation Tax Act
9 permits the retailer or serviceman to engage in a business that
10 is taxable without registering separately with the Department
11 under an ordinance or resolution under this Section.
12     (f) The Department shall immediately pay over to the State
13 Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties
14 collected under this Section to be deposited into the Flood
15 Prevention Occupation Tax Fund, which shall be an
16 unappropriated trust fund held outside the State treasury.
17     On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the
18 Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the
19 that disbursement of stated sums of money to the counties from
20 which retailers or servicemen have paid taxes or penalties to
21 the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The
22 amount to be paid to each county is equal to the amount (not
23 including credit memoranda) collected from the county under
24 this Section during the second preceding calendar month by the
25 Department, (i) less 2% of that amount, which shall be
26 deposited into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund and

 

 

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1 shall be used by the Department in administering and enforcing
2 the provisions of this Section on behalf of the county, (ii)
3 plus an amount that the Department determines is necessary to
4 offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different
5 taxing body; (iii) less an amount equal to the amount of
6 refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the
7 Department on behalf of the county; and (iv) less any amount
8 that the Department determines is necessary to offset any
9 amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were
10 erroneously paid to the county. When certifying the amount of a
11 monthly disbursement to a county under this Section, the
12 Department shall increase or decrease the amounts by an amount
13 necessary to offset any miscalculation of previous
14 disbursements within the previous 6 months from the time a
15 miscalculation is discovered.
16     Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller from the
17 Department of the disbursement certification to the counties
18 provided for in this Section, the Comptroller shall cause the
19 orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance
20 with directions contained in the certification.
21     If the Department determines that a refund should be made
22 under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit
23 memorandum, then the Department shall notify the Comptroller,
24 who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified
25 and to the person named in the notification from the
26 Department. The refund shall be paid by the Treasurer out of

 

 

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1 the Flood Prevention Occupation Tax Fund.
2     (g) If a county flood prevention district board imposes a
3 tax under this Section, then the county board shall, by
4 ordinance, discontinue the tax upon the payment of all bonded
5 indebtedness of the flood prevention district District. The tax
6 shall not be discontinued until all bonded indebtedness of the
7 District has been paid.
8     (h) Any ordinance imposing the tax under this Section, or
9 any ordinance that discontinues the tax, must be certified by
10 the county clerk and filed with the Illinois Department of
11 Revenue either (i) on or before the first day of April,
12 whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and
13 enforce the tax or change in the rate as of the first day of
14 July next following the filing; or (ii) on or before the first
15 day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to
16 administer and enforce the tax or change in the rate as of the
17 first day of January next following the filing.
18     (j) County Flood Prevention Occupation Tax Fund. All
19 proceeds received by a county from a tax distribution under
20 this Section must be maintained in a special fund known as the
21 [name of county] flood prevention occupation tax fund. The
22 county shall, at the direction of the flood prevention
23 district, use moneys in the fund to pay the costs of providing
24 emergency levee repair and flood prevention and to pay bonds,
25 notes, and other evidences of indebtedness issued under this
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1     (k) (j) This Section may be cited as the Flood Prevention
2 Occupation Tax Law.
3 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
4     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 30)
5     Sec. 30. Disbursement of federal funds.
6     (a) Any reimbursements for the construction of flood
7 protection facilities shall be appropriated to each county
8 flood prevention district in accordance with the location of
9 the specific facility for which the federal appropriation is
10 made.
11     (b) If there are federal reimbursements to a county flood
12 prevention district for construction of flood protection
13 facilities that were built using the proceeds of bonds, notes,
14 or other evidences of indebtedness revenues authorized by this
15 Act, those funds shall be used for early retirement of such
16 bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued in
17 accordance with this Act.
18     (c) When all bonds, notes, or other evidences of
19 indebtedness bond obligations of the District have been paid,
20 any remaining federal reimbursement moneys shall be remitted to
21 the county treasurer for deposit into a special fund for the
22 continued long-term maintenance of federal levees and flood
23 protection facilities, pursuant to the direction of the county
24 board.
25 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 

 

 

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1     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 35)
2     Sec. 35. Financial audit of the District Commission. A
3 financial audit of the District Commission shall be conducted
4 annually by a certified public accountant (CPA) that is
5 licensed at the time of the audit by the Illinois Department of
6 Financial and Professional Regulation. The CPA shall meet all
7 of the general standards concerning qualifications,
8 independence, due professional care, and quality control as
9 required by the Government Auditing Standards, 1994 Revision,
10 Chapter 3, including the requirements for continuing
11 professional education and external peer review. The financial
12 audit is to be performed in accordance with generally accepted
13 auditing standards issued by the American Institute of
14 Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for field work and
15 reporting, generally accepted government auditing standards
16 (GAGAS) and AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS)
17 current at the time the audit is commenced. The audit shall be
18 made publicly available and sent to the county board chairman
19 of the county in which the district is situated and to the
20 Illinois Secretary of State.
21 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
22     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 40)
23     Sec. 40. Budget of the District Commission. The District
24 Commission shall adopt an annual budget by August 31 of each

 

 

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1 year for the fiscal year beginning October 1. Such budget shall
2 include expected revenues by source and expenditures by project
3 or by function for the following year. The budget must be
4 approved by the county board of the county in which the
5 district is situated prior to any expenditure by the District
6 Commission for the fiscal year beginning October 1. The county
7 board must approve or disapprove the budget of the District
8 commission within 30 calendar days after the budget is received
9 by the county board. If the county board does not act to
10 approve or disapprove the budget within 30 calendar days of
11 receipt, it shall stand as approved.
12     In addition, the District Commission shall submit an annual
13 report to the county board by August 31 of each year detailing
14 the activities of the district. This report must also include
15 any information submitted to the flood prevention district by a
16 drainage, levee, or sanitary district in accordance with
17 Section 4-45 of the Illinois Drainage Code or Section 2-2 of
18 the Metro-East Sanitary District Act.
19 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
20     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 45)
21     Sec. 45. Procurement. The District Commission shall
22 conduct all procurements in accordance with the requirements of
23 the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act and
24 any competitive bid requirements contained in Section 5-1022 of
25 the Counties Code.

 

 

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1 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
2     (S.B. 2052eng, 95th G.A., Sec. 50)
3     Sec. 50. Contracts for construction. A request for any
4 construction contract of more than $10,000 by the District
5 Commission must be submitted for approval to the county board
6 of the county in which the district is situated. The county
7 board has 30 calendar days to approve the construction
8 contract. If the county board does not approve or disapprove
9 the construction contract within 30 calendar days after the
10 receipt of such request, the request shall be deemed approved.
11 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
12     Section 10. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
13 General Assembly becomes law, then the Intergovernmental
14 Cooperation Act is amended by changing Section 3.9 as follows:
 
15     (5 ILCS 220/3.9)
16     Sec. 3.9. Flood prevention. Two or more county flood
17 prevention districts may enter into an intergovernmental
18 agreement to provide any services authorized in the Flood
19 Prevention District Act, to construct, reconstruct, repair, or
20 otherwise provide any facilities described in that Act either
21 within or outside of any district's corporate limits, to issue
22 bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, to pledge the
23 taxes authorized to be imposed pursuant to Section 25 of that

 

 

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1 Act to the obligations of any other district, and to exercise
2 any other power authorized in that Act.
3 (Source: 95SB2052eng.)
 
4     Section 20. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
5 General Assembly becomes law, then the Use Tax Act is amended
6 by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
7     (35 ILCS 105/2)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.2)
8     Sec. 2. "Use" means the exercise by any person of any right
9 or power over tangible personal property incident to the
10 ownership of that property, except that it does not include the
11 sale of such property in any form as tangible personal property
12 in the regular course of business to the extent that such
13 property is not first subjected to a use for which it was
14 purchased, and does not include the use of such property by its
15 owner for demonstration purposes: Provided that the property
16 purchased is deemed to be purchased for the purpose of resale,
17 despite first being used, to the extent to which it is resold
18 as an ingredient of an intentionally produced product or
19 by-product of manufacturing. "Use" does not mean the
20 demonstration use or interim use of tangible personal property
21 by a retailer before he sells that tangible personal property.
22 For watercraft or aircraft, if the period of demonstration use
23 or interim use by the retailer exceeds 18 months, the retailer
24 shall pay on the retailers' original cost price the tax imposed

 

 

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1 by this Act, and no credit for that tax is permitted if the
2 watercraft or aircraft is subsequently sold by the retailer.
3 "Use" does not mean the physical incorporation of tangible
4 personal property, to the extent not first subjected to a use
5 for which it was purchased, as an ingredient or constituent,
6 into other tangible personal property (a) which is sold in the
7 regular course of business or (b) which the person
8 incorporating such ingredient or constituent therein has
9 undertaken at the time of such purchase to cause to be
10 transported in interstate commerce to destinations outside the
11 State of Illinois: Provided that the property purchased is
12 deemed to be purchased for the purpose of resale, despite first
13 being used, to the extent to which it is resold as an
14 ingredient of an intentionally produced product or by-product
15 of manufacturing.
16     "Watercraft" means a Class 2, Class 3, or Class 4
17 watercraft as defined in Section 3-2 of the Boat Registration
18 and Safety Act, a personal watercraft, or any boat equipped
19 with an inboard motor.
20     "Purchase at retail" means the acquisition of the ownership
21 of or title to tangible personal property through a sale at
22 retail.
23     "Purchaser" means anyone who, through a sale at retail,
24 acquires the ownership of tangible personal property for a
25 valuable consideration.
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1 title to tangible personal property to a purchaser, for the
2 purpose of use, and not for the purpose of resale in any form
3 as tangible personal property to the extent not first subjected
4 to a use for which it was purchased, for a valuable
5 consideration: Provided that the property purchased is deemed
6 to be purchased for the purpose of resale, despite first being
7 used, to the extent to which it is resold as an ingredient of
8 an intentionally produced product or by-product of
9 manufacturing. For this purpose, slag produced as an incident
10 to manufacturing pig iron or steel and sold is considered to be
11 an intentionally produced by-product of manufacturing. "Sale
12 at retail" includes any such transfer made for resale unless
13 made in compliance with Section 2c of the Retailers' Occupation
14 Tax Act, as incorporated by reference into Section 12 of this
15 Act. Transactions whereby the possession of the property is
16 transferred but the seller retains the title as security for
17 payment of the selling price are sales.
18     "Sale at retail" shall also be construed to include any
19 Illinois florist's sales transaction in which the purchase
20 order is received in Illinois by a florist and the sale is for
21 use or consumption, but the Illinois florist has a florist in
22 another state deliver the property to the purchaser or the
23 purchaser's donee in such other state.
24     Nonreusable tangible personal property that is used by
25 persons engaged in the business of operating a restaurant,
26 cafeteria, or drive-in is a sale for resale when it is

 

 

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1 transferred to customers in the ordinary course of business as
2 part of the sale of food or beverages and is used to deliver,
3 package, or consume food or beverages, regardless of where
4 consumption of the food or beverages occurs. Examples of those
5 items include, but are not limited to nonreusable, paper and
6 plastic cups, plates, baskets, boxes, sleeves, buckets or other
7 containers, utensils, straws, placemats, napkins, doggie bags,
8 and wrapping or packaging materials that are transferred to
9 customers as part of the sale of food or beverages in the
10 ordinary course of business.
11     The purchase, employment and transfer of such tangible
12 personal property as newsprint and ink for the primary purpose
13 of conveying news (with or without other information) is not a
14 purchase, use or sale of tangible personal property.
15     "Selling price" means the consideration for a sale valued
16 in money whether received in money or otherwise, including
17 cash, credits, property other than as hereinafter provided, and
18 services, but not including the value of or credit given for
19 traded-in tangible personal property where the item that is
20 traded-in is of like kind and character as that which is being
21 sold, and shall be determined without any deduction on account
22 of the cost of the property sold, the cost of materials used,
23 labor or service cost or any other expense whatsoever, but does
24 not include interest or finance charges which appear as
25 separate items on the bill of sale or sales contract nor
26 charges that are added to prices by sellers on account of the

 

 

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1 seller's tax liability under the "Retailers' Occupation Tax
2 Act", or on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the
3 purchaser, the tax that is imposed by this Act, or, except as
4 otherwise provided with respect to any cigarette tax imposed by
5 a home rule unit, on account of the seller's tax liability
6 under any local occupation tax administered by the Department,
7 or, except as otherwise provided with respect to any cigarette
8 tax imposed by a home rule unit on account of the seller's duty
9 to collect, from the purchasers, the tax that is imposed under
10 any local use tax administered by the Department or on account
11 of the seller's tax liability under Section 8-11-1 of the
12 Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended,
13 or on account of the seller's tax liability under the "County
14 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". Effective December 1, 1985,
15 "selling price" shall include charges that are added to prices
16 by sellers on account of the seller's tax liability under the
17 Cigarette Tax Act, on account of the seller's duty to collect,
18 from the purchaser, the tax imposed under the Cigarette Use Tax
19 Act, and on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the
20 purchaser, any cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit.
21     The phrase "like kind and character" shall be liberally
22 construed (including but not limited to any form of motor
23 vehicle for any form of motor vehicle, or any kind of farm or
24 agricultural implement for any other kind of farm or
25 agricultural implement), while not including a kind of item
26 which, if sold at retail by that retailer, would be exempt from

 

 

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1 retailers' occupation tax and use tax as an isolated or
2 occasional sale.
3     "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
4     "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership,
5 association, joint stock company, joint adventure, public or
6 private corporation, limited liability company, or a receiver,
7 executor, trustee, guardian or other representative appointed
8 by order of any court.
9     "Retailer" means and includes every person engaged in the
10 business of making sales at retail as defined in this Section.
11     A person who holds himself or herself out as being engaged
12 (or who habitually engages) in selling tangible personal
13 property at retail is a retailer hereunder with respect to such
14 sales (and not primarily in a service occupation)
15 notwithstanding the fact that such person designs and produces
16 such tangible personal property on special order for the
17 purchaser and in such a way as to render the property of value
18 only to such purchaser, if such tangible personal property so
19 produced on special order serves substantially the same
20 function as stock or standard items of tangible personal
21 property that are sold at retail.
22     A person whose activities are organized and conducted
23 primarily as a not-for-profit service enterprise, and who
24 engages in selling tangible personal property at retail
25 (whether to the public or merely to members and their guests)
26 is a retailer with respect to such transactions, excepting only

 

 

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1 a person organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
2 religious or educational purposes either (1), to the extent of
3 sales by such person to its members, students, patients or
4 inmates of tangible personal property to be used primarily for
5 the purposes of such person, or (2), to the extent of sales by
6 such person of tangible personal property which is not sold or
7 offered for sale by persons organized for profit. The selling
8 of school books and school supplies by schools at retail to
9 students is not "primarily for the purposes of" the school
10 which does such selling. This paragraph does not apply to nor
11 subject to taxation occasional dinners, social or similar
12 activities of a person organized and operated exclusively for
13 charitable, religious or educational purposes, whether or not
14 such activities are open to the public.
15     A person who is the recipient of a grant or contract under
16 Title VII of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (P.L. 92-258) and
17 serves meals to participants in the federal Nutrition Program
18 for the Elderly in return for contributions established in
19 amount by the individual participant pursuant to a schedule of
20 suggested fees as provided for in the federal Act is not a
21 retailer under this Act with respect to such transactions.
22     Persons who engage in the business of transferring tangible
23 personal property upon the redemption of trading stamps are
24 retailers hereunder when engaged in such business.
25     The isolated or occasional sale of tangible personal
26 property at retail by a person who does not hold himself out as

 

 

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1 being engaged (or who does not habitually engage) in selling
2 such tangible personal property at retail or a sale through a
3 bulk vending machine does not make such person a retailer
4 hereunder. However, any person who is engaged in a business
5 which is not subject to the tax imposed by the "Retailers'
6 Occupation Tax Act" because of involving the sale of or a
7 contract to sell real estate or a construction contract to
8 improve real estate, but who, in the course of conducting such
9 business, transfers tangible personal property to users or
10 consumers in the finished form in which it was purchased, and
11 which does not become real estate, under any provision of a
12 construction contract or real estate sale or real estate sales
13 agreement entered into with some other person arising out of or
14 because of such nontaxable business, is a retailer to the
15 extent of the value of the tangible personal property so
16 transferred. If, in such transaction, a separate charge is made
17 for the tangible personal property so transferred, the value of
18 such property, for the purposes of this Act, is the amount so
19 separately charged, but not less than the cost of such property
20 to the transferor; if no separate charge is made, the value of
21 such property, for the purposes of this Act, is the cost to the
22 transferor of such tangible personal property.
23     "Retailer maintaining a place of business in this State",
24 or any like term, means and includes any of the following
25 retailers:
26         1. A retailer having or maintaining within this State,

 

 

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1     directly or by a subsidiary, an office, distribution house,
2     sales house, warehouse or other place of business, or any
3     agent or other representative operating within this State
4     under the authority of the retailer or its subsidiary,
5     irrespective of whether such place of business or agent or
6     other representative is located here permanently or
7     temporarily, or whether such retailer or subsidiary is
8     licensed to do business in this State. However, the
9     ownership of property that is located at the premises of a
10     printer with which the retailer has contracted for printing
11     and that consists of the final printed product, property
12     that becomes a part of the final printed product, or copy
13     from which the printed product is produced shall not result
14     in the retailer being deemed to have or maintain an office,
15     distribution house, sales house, warehouse, or other place
16     of business within this State.
17         2. A retailer soliciting orders for tangible personal
18     property by means of a telecommunication or television
19     shopping system (which utilizes toll free numbers) which is
20     intended by the retailer to be broadcast by cable
21     television or other means of broadcasting, to consumers
22     located in this State.
23         3. A retailer, pursuant to a contract with a
24     broadcaster or publisher located in this State, soliciting
25     orders for tangible personal property by means of
26     advertising which is disseminated primarily to consumers

 

 

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1     located in this State and only secondarily to bordering
2     jurisdictions.
3         4. A retailer soliciting orders for tangible personal
4     property by mail if the solicitations are substantial and
5     recurring and if the retailer benefits from any banking,
6     financing, debt collection, telecommunication, or
7     marketing activities occurring in this State or benefits
8     from the location in this State of authorized installation,
9     servicing, or repair facilities.
10         5. A retailer that is owned or controlled by the same
11     interests that own or control any retailer engaging in
12     business in the same or similar line of business in this
13     State.
14         6. A retailer having a franchisee or licensee operating
15     under its trade name if the franchisee or licensee is
16     required to collect the tax under this Section.
17         7. A retailer, pursuant to a contract with a cable
18     television operator located in this State, soliciting
19     orders for tangible personal property by means of
20     advertising which is transmitted or distributed over a
21     cable television system in this State.
22         8. A retailer engaging in activities in Illinois, which
23     activities in the state in which the retail business
24     engaging in such activities is located would constitute
25     maintaining a place of business in that state.
26     "Bulk vending machine" means a vending machine, containing

 

 

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1 unsorted confections, nuts, toys, or other items designed
2 primarily to be used or played with by children which, when a
3 coin or coins of a denomination not larger than $0.50 are
4 inserted, are dispensed in equal portions, at random and
5 without selection by the customer.
6 (Source: P.A. 94-1074, eff. 12-26-06.)
 
7     Section 30. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
8 General Assembly becomes law, then the Retailers' Occupation
9 Tax Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
10     (35 ILCS 120/1)  (from Ch. 120, par. 440)
11     Sec. 1. Definitions. "Sale at retail" means any transfer of
12 the ownership of or title to tangible personal property to a
13 purchaser, for the purpose of use or consumption, and not for
14 the purpose of resale in any form as tangible personal property
15 to the extent not first subjected to a use for which it was
16 purchased, for a valuable consideration: Provided that the
17 property purchased is deemed to be purchased for the purpose of
18 resale, despite first being used, to the extent to which it is
19 resold as an ingredient of an intentionally produced product or
20 byproduct of manufacturing. For this purpose, slag produced as
21 an incident to manufacturing pig iron or steel and sold is
22 considered to be an intentionally produced byproduct of
23 manufacturing. Transactions whereby the possession of the
24 property is transferred but the seller retains the title as

 

 

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1 security for payment of the selling price shall be deemed to be
2 sales.
3     "Sale at retail" shall be construed to include any transfer
4 of the ownership of or title to tangible personal property to a
5 purchaser, for use or consumption by any other person to whom
6 such purchaser may transfer the tangible personal property
7 without a valuable consideration, and to include any transfer,
8 whether made for or without a valuable consideration, for
9 resale in any form as tangible personal property unless made in
10 compliance with Section 2c of this Act.
11     Sales of tangible personal property, which property, to the
12 extent not first subjected to a use for which it was purchased,
13 as an ingredient or constituent, goes into and forms a part of
14 tangible personal property subsequently the subject of a "Sale
15 at retail", are not sales at retail as defined in this Act:
16 Provided that the property purchased is deemed to be purchased
17 for the purpose of resale, despite first being used, to the
18 extent to which it is resold as an ingredient of an
19 intentionally produced product or byproduct of manufacturing.
20     "Sale at retail" shall be construed to include any Illinois
21 florist's sales transaction in which the purchase order is
22 received in Illinois by a florist and the sale is for use or
23 consumption, but the Illinois florist has a florist in another
24 state deliver the property to the purchaser or the purchaser's
25 donee in such other state.
26     Nonreusable tangible personal property that is used by

 

 

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1 persons engaged in the business of operating a restaurant,
2 cafeteria, or drive-in is a sale for resale when it is
3 transferred to customers in the ordinary course of business as
4 part of the sale of food or beverages and is used to deliver,
5 package, or consume food or beverages, regardless of where
6 consumption of the food or beverages occurs. Examples of those
7 items include, but are not limited to nonreusable, paper and
8 plastic cups, plates, baskets, boxes, sleeves, buckets or other
9 containers, utensils, straws, placemats, napkins, doggie bags,
10 and wrapping or packaging materials that are transferred to
11 customers as part of the sale of food or beverages in the
12 ordinary course of business.
13     The purchase, employment and transfer of such tangible
14 personal property as newsprint and ink for the primary purpose
15 of conveying news (with or without other information) is not a
16 purchase, use or sale of tangible personal property.
17     A person whose activities are organized and conducted
18 primarily as a not-for-profit service enterprise, and who
19 engages in selling tangible personal property at retail
20 (whether to the public or merely to members and their guests)
21 is engaged in the business of selling tangible personal
22 property at retail with respect to such transactions, excepting
23 only a person organized and operated exclusively for
24 charitable, religious or educational purposes either (1), to
25 the extent of sales by such person to its members, students,
26 patients or inmates of tangible personal property to be used

 

 

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1 primarily for the purposes of such person, or (2), to the
2 extent of sales by such person of tangible personal property
3 which is not sold or offered for sale by persons organized for
4 profit. The selling of school books and school supplies by
5 schools at retail to students is not "primarily for the
6 purposes of" the school which does such selling. The provisions
7 of this paragraph shall not apply to nor subject to taxation
8 occasional dinners, socials or similar activities of a person
9 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious
10 or educational purposes, whether or not such activities are
11 open to the public.
12     A person who is the recipient of a grant or contract under
13 Title VII of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (P.L. 92-258) and
14 serves meals to participants in the federal Nutrition Program
15 for the Elderly in return for contributions established in
16 amount by the individual participant pursuant to a schedule of
17 suggested fees as provided for in the federal Act is not
18 engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property
19 at retail with respect to such transactions.
20     "Purchaser" means anyone who, through a sale at retail,
21 acquires the ownership of or title to tangible personal
22 property for a valuable consideration.
23     "Reseller of motor fuel" means any person engaged in the
24 business of selling or delivering or transferring title of
25 motor fuel to another person other than for use or consumption.
26 No person shall act as a reseller of motor fuel within this

 

 

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1 State without first being registered as a reseller pursuant to
2 Section 2c or a retailer pursuant to Section 2a.
3     "Selling price" or the "amount of sale" means the
4 consideration for a sale valued in money whether received in
5 money or otherwise, including cash, credits, property, other
6 than as hereinafter provided, and services, but not including
7 the value of or credit given for traded-in tangible personal
8 property where the item that is traded-in is of like kind and
9 character as that which is being sold, and shall be determined
10 without any deduction on account of the cost of the property
11 sold, the cost of materials used, labor or service cost or any
12 other expense whatsoever, but does not include charges that are
13 added to prices by sellers on account of the seller's tax
14 liability under this Act, or on account of the seller's duty to
15 collect, from the purchaser, the tax that is imposed by the Use
16 Tax Act, or, except as otherwise provided with respect to any
17 cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit, on account of the
18 seller's tax liability under any local occupation tax
19 administered by the Department, or, except as otherwise
20 provided with respect to any cigarette tax imposed by a home
21 rule unit on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the
22 purchasers, the tax that is imposed under any local use tax
23 administered by the Department or on account of the seller's
24 tax liability under Section 8-11-1 of the Illinois Municipal
25 Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended, or on account of the
26 seller's tax liability under the County Retailers' Occupation

 

 

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1 Tax Act, or on account of the seller's tax liability under the
2 Home Rule Municipal Soft Drink Retailers' Occupation Tax, or on
3 account of the seller's tax liability under any tax imposed
4 under the "Regional Transportation Authority Act", approved
5 December 12, 1973. Effective December 1, 1985, "selling price"
6 shall include charges that are added to prices by sellers on
7 account of the seller's tax liability under the Cigarette Tax
8 Act, on account of the sellers' duty to collect, from the
9 purchaser, the tax imposed under the Cigarette Use Tax Act, and
10 on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the purchaser,
11 any cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit.
12     The phrase "like kind and character" shall be liberally
13 construed (including but not limited to any form of motor
14 vehicle for any form of motor vehicle, or any kind of farm or
15 agricultural implement for any other kind of farm or
16 agricultural implement), while not including a kind of item
17 which, if sold at retail by that retailer, would be exempt from
18 retailers' occupation tax and use tax as an isolated or
19 occasional sale.
20     "Gross receipts" from the sales of tangible personal
21 property at retail means the total selling price or the amount
22 of such sales, as hereinbefore defined. In the case of charge
23 and time sales, the amount thereof shall be included only as
24 and when payments are received by the seller. Receipts or other
25 consideration derived by a seller from the sale, transfer or
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1 will not be deemed payments prior to the time the purchaser
2 makes payment on such accounts.
3     "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
4     "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership,
5 association, joint stock company, joint adventure, public or
6 private corporation, limited liability company, or a receiver,
7 executor, trustee, guardian or other representative appointed
8 by order of any court.
9     The isolated or occasional sale of tangible personal
10 property at retail by a person who does not hold himself out as
11 being engaged (or who does not habitually engage) in selling
12 such tangible personal property at retail, or a sale through a
13 bulk vending machine, does not constitute engaging in a
14 business of selling such tangible personal property at retail
15 within the meaning of this Act; provided that any person who is
16 engaged in a business which is not subject to the tax imposed
17 by this Act because of involving the sale of or a contract to
18 sell real estate or a construction contract to improve real
19 estate or a construction contract to engineer, install, and
20 maintain an integrated system of products, but who, in the
21 course of conducting such business, transfers tangible
22 personal property to users or consumers in the finished form in
23 which it was purchased, and which does not become real estate
24 or was not engineered and installed, under any provision of a
25 construction contract or real estate sale or real estate sales
26 agreement entered into with some other person arising out of or

 

 

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1 because of such nontaxable business, is engaged in the business
2 of selling tangible personal property at retail to the extent
3 of the value of the tangible personal property so transferred.
4 If, in such a transaction, a separate charge is made for the
5 tangible personal property so transferred, the value of such
6 property, for the purpose of this Act, shall be the amount so
7 separately charged, but not less than the cost of such property
8 to the transferor; if no separate charge is made, the value of
9 such property, for the purposes of this Act, is the cost to the
10 transferor of such tangible personal property. Construction
11 contracts for the improvement of real estate consisting of
12 engineering, installation, and maintenance of voice, data,
13 video, security, and all telecommunication systems do not
14 constitute engaging in a business of selling tangible personal
15 property at retail within the meaning of this Act if they are
16 sold at one specified contract price.
17     A person who holds himself or herself out as being engaged
18 (or who habitually engages) in selling tangible personal
19 property at retail is a person engaged in the business of
20 selling tangible personal property at retail hereunder with
21 respect to such sales (and not primarily in a service
22 occupation) notwithstanding the fact that such person designs
23 and produces such tangible personal property on special order
24 for the purchaser and in such a way as to render the property
25 of value only to such purchaser, if such tangible personal
26 property so produced on special order serves substantially the

 

 

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1 same function as stock or standard items of tangible personal
2 property that are sold at retail.
3     Persons who engage in the business of transferring tangible
4 personal property upon the redemption of trading stamps are
5 engaged in the business of selling such property at retail and
6 shall be liable for and shall pay the tax imposed by this Act
7 on the basis of the retail value of the property transferred
8 upon redemption of such stamps.
9     "Bulk vending machine" means a vending machine, containing
10 unsorted confections, nuts, toys, or other items designed
11 primarily to be used or played with by children which, when a
12 coin or coins of a denomination not larger than $0.50 are
13 inserted, are dispensed in equal portions, at random and
14 without selection by the customer.
15 (Source: P.A. 92-213, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
16     Section 35. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
17 General Assembly becomes law, then the Southwestern Illinois
18 Development Authority Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
19 follows:
 
20     (70 ILCS 520/3)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6153)
21     Sec. 3. The following terms, whenever used or referred to
22 in this Act, shall have the following meanings, except in such
23 instances where the context may clearly indicate otherwise:
24     (a) "Authority" means the Southwestern Illinois

 

 

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1 Development Authority created by this Act.
2     (b) "Governmental agency" means any federal, State or local
3 governmental body, and any agency or instrumentality thereof,
4 corporate or otherwise.
5     (c) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership,
6 corporation, both domestic and foreign, company, association
7 or joint stock association and includes any trustee, receiver,
8 assignee or personal representative thereof.
9     (d) "Revenue bond" means any bond issued by the Authority
10 the principal and interest of which is payable solely from
11 revenues or income derived from any project or activity of the
12 Authority.
13     (e) "Board" means the Southwestern Illinois Development
14 Authority Board of Directors.
15     (f) "Governor" means the Governor of the State of Illinois.
16     (g) "City" means any city, village, incorporated town or
17 township within the geographical territory of the Authority.
18     (h) "Industrial project" means (1) a capital project,
19 including one or more buildings and other structures,
20 improvements, machinery and equipment whether or not on the
21 same site or sites now existing or hereafter acquired, suitable
22 for use by any manufacturing, industrial, research,
23 transportation or commercial enterprise including but not
24 limited to use as a factory, mill, processing plant, assembly
25 plant, packaging plant, fabricating plant, office building,
26 industrial distribution center, warehouse, repair, overhaul or

 

 

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1 service facility, freight terminal, research facility, test
2 facility, railroad facility, solid waste and wastewater
3 treatment and disposal sites and other pollution control
4 facilities, resource or waste reduction, recovery, treatment
5 and disposal facilities, and including also the sites thereof
6 and other rights in land therefor whether improved or
7 unimproved, site preparation and landscaping and all
8 appurtenances and facilities incidental thereto such as
9 utilities, access roads, railroad sidings, truck docking and
10 similar facilities, parking facilities, dockage, wharfage,
11 railroad roadbed, track, trestle, depot, terminal, switching
12 and signaling equipment or related equipment and other
13 improvements necessary or convenient thereto; or (2) any land,
14 buildings, machinery or equipment comprising an addition to or
15 renovation, rehabilitation or improvement of any existing
16 capital project.
17     (i) "Housing project" or "residential project" includes a
18 specific work or improvement undertaken to provide dwelling
19 accommodations, including the acquisition, construction or
20 rehabilitation of lands, buildings and community facilities
21 and in connection therewith to provide nonhousing facilities
22 which are an integral part of a planned large-scale project or
23 new community.
24     (j) "Commercial project" means any project, including but
25 not limited to one or more buildings and other structures,
26 improvements, machinery and equipment whether or not on the

 

 

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1 same site or sites now existing or hereafter acquired, suitable
2 for use by any retail or wholesale concern, distributorship or
3 agency, any cultural facilities of a for-profit or
4 not-for-profit type including but not limited to educational,
5 theatrical, recreational and entertainment, sports facilities,
6 racetracks, stadiums, convention centers, exhibition halls,
7 arenas, opera houses and theaters, waterfront improvements,
8 swimming pools, boat storage, moorage, docking facilities,
9 restaurants, velodromes, coliseums, sports training
10 facilities, parking facilities, terminals, hotels and motels,
11 gymnasiums, medical facilities and port facilities.
12     (k) "Unit of local government" means a unit of local
13 government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the
14 Illinois Constitution, and any local public entity as that term
15 is defined in the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
16 Tort Immunity Act and such unit of local government or local
17 public entity is located within the geographical territory of
18 the Authority or, for the purposes of the Flood Prevention
19 District Act, is located within Monroe County, Illinois.
20     (l) "Local government project" means a project or other
21 undertaking that is authorized or required by law to be
22 acquired, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved,
23 rehabilitated, replaced, maintained, or otherwise undertaken
24 in any manner by a unit of local government.
25     (m) "Local government security" means a bond, note, or
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1 is legally authorized to issue for the purpose of financing a
2 public purpose project or to issue for any other lawful public
3 purpose under any provision of the Illinois Constitution or
4 laws of this State, whether the obligation is payable from
5 taxes or revenues, rates, charges, assessments,
6 appropriations, grants, or any other lawful source or
7 combination thereof, and specifically includes, without
8 limitation, obligations under any lease or lease purchase
9 agreement lawfully entered into by the unit of local government
10 for the acquisition or use of facilities or equipment.
11     (n) "Project" means an industrial, housing, residential,
12 commercial, local government, or service project or any
13 combination thereof provided that all uses shall fall within
14 one of the categories described above. Any project, of any
15 nature whatsoever, shall automatically include all site
16 improvements and new construction involving sidewalks, sewers,
17 solid waste and wastewater treatment and disposal sites and
18 other pollution control facilities, resource or waste
19 reduction, recovery, treatment and disposal facilities, parks,
20 open spaces, wildlife sanctuaries, streets, highways and
21 runways.
22     (o) "Lease agreement" shall mean an agreement whereby a
23 project acquired by the Authority by purchase, gift or lease is
24 leased to any person or corporation which will use or cause the
25 project to be used as a project as heretofore defined upon
26 terms providing for lease rental payments at least sufficient

 

 

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1 to pay when due all principal of and interest and premium, if
2 any, on any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of
3 the Authority issued with respect to such project, providing
4 for the maintenance, insurance and operation of the project on
5 terms satisfactory to the Authority and providing for
6 disposition of the project upon termination of the lease term,
7 including purchase options or abandonment of the premises, with
8 such other terms as may be deemed desirable by the Authority.
9     (p) "Loan agreement" means any agreement pursuant to which
10 the Authority agrees to loan the proceeds of its bonds, notes
11 or other evidences of indebtedness issued with respect to a
12 project to any person or corporation which will use or cause
13 the project to be used as a project as heretofore defined upon
14 terms providing for loan repayment installments at least
15 sufficient to pay when due all principal of and interest and
16 premium, if any, on any bonds, notes or other evidences of
17 indebtedness of the Authority issued with respect to the
18 project, providing for maintenance, insurance and operation of
19 the project on terms satisfactory to the Authority and
20 providing for other matters as may be deemed advisable by the
21 Authority.
22     (q) "Financial aid" means the expenditure of Authority
23 funds or funds provided by the Authority through the issuance
24 of its revenue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
25 for the development, construction, acquisition or improvement
26 of a project.

 

 

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1     (r) "Costs incurred in connection with the development,
2 construction, acquisition or improvement of a project" means
3 the following: the cost of purchase and construction of all
4 lands and improvements in connection therewith and equipment
5 and other property, rights, easements and franchises acquired
6 which are deemed necessary for such construction; financing
7 charges; interest costs with respect to bonds, notes and other
8 evidences of indebtedness of the Authority prior to and during
9 construction and for a period of 6 months thereafter;
10 engineering and legal expenses; the costs of plans,
11 specifications, surveys and estimates of costs and other
12 expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility
13 or practicability of any project, together with such other
14 expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing,
15 insuring, acquisition and construction of a specific project
16 and the placing of the same in operation.
17     (s) "Terminal" means a public place, station or depot for
18 receiving and delivering passengers, baggage, mail, freight or
19 express matter and any combination thereof in connection with
20 the transportation of persons and property on water or land or
21 in the air.
22     (t) "Terminal facilities" means all land, buildings,
23 structures, improvements, equipment and appliances useful in
24 the operation of public warehouse, storage and transportation
25 facilities and industrial, manufacturing or commercial
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1 commerce by water or land or in the air or useful as an aid, or
2 constituting an advantage or convenience to, the safe landing,
3 taking off and navigation of aircraft or the safe and efficient
4 operation or maintenance of a public airport.
5     (u) "Port facilities" means all public structures, except
6 terminal facilities as defined herein, that are in, over, under
7 or adjacent to navigable waters and are necessary for or
8 incident to the furtherance of water commerce and includes the
9 widening and deepening of slips, harbors and navigable waters.
10     (v) "Airport" means any locality, either land or water,
11 which is used or designed for the landing and taking off of
12 aircraft or for the location of runways, landing fields,
13 aerodromes, hangars, buildings, structures, airport roadways
14 and other facilities.
15 (Source: P.A. 85-591; 86-1455.)
 
16     Section 45. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
17 General Assembly becomes law, then the Metro-East Sanitary
18 District Act of 1974 is amended by changing Section 5-1 as
19 follows:
 
20     (70 ILCS 2905/5-1)  (from Ch. 42, par. 505-1)
21     Sec. 5-1. (a) The board may levy and collect taxes for
22 corporate purposes. Such taxes shall be levied by ordinance
23 specifying the purposes for which the same are required, and a
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1 clerk of the county in which the predecessor district was
2 organized, on or before the second Tuesday in August, as
3 provided in Section 122 of the Revenue Act of 1939 (superseded
4 by Section 14-10 of the Property Tax Code). Any excess funds
5 accumulated prior to January 1, 2008 by the sanitary district
6 that are collected by levying taxes pursuant to 745 ILCS
7 10/9-107 may be expended by the sanitary district to maintain,
8 repair, improve, or construct levees or any part of the levee
9 system and to provide capital moneys for levee or river-related
10 scientific studies, including the construction of facilities
11 for such purposes. For the purposes of this subsection (a), the
12 excess funds withdrawn from the Local Governmental and
13 Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Fund may not be more than
14 90% of the balance of that fund on December 31, 2007. After the
15 assessment for the current year has been equalized by the
16 Department of Revenue, the board shall, as soon as may be,
17 ascertain and certify to such county clerk the total value of
18 all taxable property lying within the corporate limits of such
19 districts in each of the counties in which the district is
20 situated, as the same is assessed and equalized for tax
21 purposes for the current year. The county clerk shall ascertain
22 the rate per cent which, upon the total valuation of all such
23 property, ascertained as above stated, would produce a net
24 amount not less than the amount so directed to be levied; and
25 the clerk shall, without delay, certify under his signature and
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1 which a portion of the district is situated such rate per cent;
2 and it shall be the duty of each of the county clerks to extend
3 such tax in a separate column upon the books of the collector
4 or collectors of the county taxes for the counties, against all
5 property in their respective counties, within the limits of the
6 district. All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected
7 and enforced in the same manner, and by the same officers as
8 county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officers collecting
9 the same, to the treasurer of the sanitary district, in the
10 manner and at the time provided by the Property Tax Code. The
11 aggregate amount of taxes levied for any one year, exclusive of
12 the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness and
13 interest thereon, shall not exceed the rate of .20%, or the
14 rate limitation of the predecessor district in effect on July
15 1, 1967, or the rate limitation set by subsection (b) whichever
16 is greater, of value, as equalized or assessed by the
17 Department of Revenue. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates
18 may be increased or decreased under the referendum provisions
19 of the Property Tax Code.
20     (b) The tax rate limit of the district may be changed to
21 .478% of the value of property as equalized or assessed by the
22 Department of Revenue for a period of 5 years and to .312% of
23 such value thereafter upon the approval of the electors of the
24 district of such a proposition submitted at any regular
25 election pursuant to a resolution of the board of commissioners
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1 Clair and Madison in accordance with the general election law
2 upon a petition signed by not fewer than 10% of the legal
3 voters in the district, which percentage shall be determined on
4 the basis of the number of votes cast at the last general
5 election preceding the filing of such petition specifying the
6 tax rate to be submitted. Such petition shall be filed with the
7 executive director of the district not more than 10 months nor
8 less than 5 months prior to the election at which the question
9 is to be submitted to the voters of the district, and its
10 validity shall be determined as provided by the general
11 election law. The executive director shall certify the question
12 to the proper election officials, who shall submit the question
13 to the voters.
14     Notice shall be given in the manner provided by the general
15 election law.
16     Referenda initiated under this subsection shall be subject
17 to the provisions and limitations of the general election law.
18     The question shall be in substantially the following form:
19 -------------------------------------------------------------
20     Shall the maximum tax rate
21 for the Metro-East Sanitary
22 District be established at                  YES
23 .478% of the equalized assessed
24 value for 5 years and then at .312%   -----------------------
25 of the equalized assessed value
26 thereafter, instead of .2168%, the          NO

 

 

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1 maximum rate otherwise applicable
2 to the next taxes to be extended?
3 -------------------------------------------------------------
4     The ballot shall have printed thereon, but not as a part of
5 the proposition submitted, an estimate of the approximate
6 amount extendable under the proposed rate and of the
7 approximate amount extendable under the rate otherwise
8 applicable to the next taxes to be extended, such amounts being
9 computed upon the last known equalized assessed value;
10 provided, that any error, miscalculation or inaccuracy in
11 computing such amounts shall not invalidate or affect the
12 validity of any tax rate limit so adopted.
13     If a majority of all ballots cast on such proposition shall
14 be in favor of the proposition, the tax rate limit so
15 established shall become effective with the levy next following
16 the referendum; provided that nothing in this subsection shall
17 be construed as precluding the extension of taxes at rates less
18 than that authorized by such referendum.
19     Except as herein otherwise provided, the referenda
20 authorized by the terms of this subsection shall be conducted
21 in all respects in the manner provided by the general election
22 law.
23 (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
 
24     Section 50. If and only if Senate Bill 2052 of the 95th
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1 Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act is amended by changing
2 Section 9-107 as follows:
 
3     (745 ILCS 10/9-107)  (from Ch. 85, par. 9-107)
4     Sec. 9-107. Policy; tax levy.
5     (a) The General Assembly finds that the purpose of this
6 Section is to provide an extraordinary tax for funding expenses
7 relating to (i) tort liability, (ii) liability relating to
8 actions brought under the federal Comprehensive Environmental
9 Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 or the
10 Environmental Protection Act, but only until December 31, 2010,
11 (iii) insurance, and (iv) risk management programs. Thus, the
12 tax has been excluded from various limitations otherwise
13 applicable to tax levies. Notwithstanding the extraordinary
14 nature of the tax authorized by this Section, however, it has
15 become apparent that some units of local government are using
16 the tax revenue to fund expenses more properly paid from
17 general operating funds. These uses of the revenue are
18 inconsistent with the limited purpose of the tax authorization.
19     Therefore, the General Assembly declares, as a matter of
20 policy, that (i) the use of the tax revenue authorized by this
21 Section for purposes not expressly authorized under this Act is
22 improper and (ii) the provisions of this Section shall be
23 strictly construed consistent with this declaration and the
24 Act's express purposes.
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1 on its behalf taxes upon all taxable property within its
2 territory at a rate that will produce a sum that will be
3 sufficient to: (i) pay the cost of insurance, individual or
4 joint self-insurance (including reserves thereon), including
5 all operating and administrative costs and expenses directly
6 associated therewith, claims services and risk management
7 directly attributable to loss prevention and loss reduction,
8 legal services directly attributable to the insurance,
9 self-insurance, or joint self-insurance program, and
10 educational, inspectional, and supervisory services directly
11 relating to loss prevention and loss reduction, participation
12 in a reciprocal insurer as provided in Sections 72, 76, and 81
13 of the Illinois Insurance Code, or participation in a
14 reciprocal insurer, all as provided in settlements or judgments
15 under Section 9-102, including all costs and reserves directly
16 attributable to being a member of an insurance pool, under
17 Section 9-103; (ii) pay the costs of and principal and interest
18 on bonds issued under Section 9-105; (iii) pay judgments and
19 settlements under Section 9-104 of this Act; (iv) discharge
20 obligations under Section 34-18.1 of the School Code; (v) pay
21 judgments and settlements under the federal Comprehensive
22 Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
23 1980 and the Environmental Protection Act, but only until
24 December 31, 2010; (vi) pay the costs authorized by the
25 Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974 as provided in
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1 and (vii) (vi) pay the cost of risk management programs.
2 Provided it complies with any other applicable statutory
3 requirements, the local public entity may self-insure and
4 establish reserves for expected losses for any property damage
5 or for any liability or loss for which the local public entity
6 is authorized to levy or have levied on its behalf taxes for
7 the purchase of insurance or the payment of judgments or
8 settlements under this Section. The decision of the board to
9 establish a reserve shall be based on reasonable actuarial or
10 insurance underwriting evidence and subject to the limits and
11 reporting provisions in Section 9-103.
12     If a school district was a member of a
13 joint-self-health-insurance cooperative that had more
14 liability in outstanding claims than revenue to pay those
15 claims, the school board of that district may by resolution
16 make a one-time transfer from any fund in which tort immunity
17 moneys are maintained to the fund or funds from which payments
18 to a joint-self-health-insurance cooperative can be or have
19 been made of an amount not to exceed the amount of the
20 liability claim that the school district owes to the
21 joint-self-health-insurance cooperative or that the school
22 district paid within the 2 years immediately preceding the
23 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
24 Assembly.
25     Funds raised pursuant to this Section shall only be used
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1 against and reduction of any liability or loss described
2 hereinabove and under Federal or State common or statutory law,
3 the Workers' Compensation Act, the Workers' Occupational
4 Diseases Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act. Funds raised
5 pursuant to this Section may be invested in any manner in which
6 other funds of local public entities may be invested under
7 Section 2 of the Public Funds Investment Act. Interest on such
8 funds shall be used only for purposes for which the funds can
9 be used or, if surplus, must be used for abatement of property
10 taxes levied by the local taxing entity.
11     A local public entity may enter into intergovernmental
12 contracts with a term of not to exceed 12 years for the
13 provision of joint self-insurance which contracts may include
14 an obligation to pay a proportional share of a general
15 obligation or revenue bond or other debt instrument issued by a
16 local public entity which is a party to the intergovernmental
17 contract and is authorized by the terms of the contract to
18 issue the bond or other debt instrument. Funds due under such
19 contracts shall not be considered debt under any constitutional
20 or statutory limitation and the local public entity may levy or
21 have levied on its behalf taxes to pay for its proportional
22 share under the contract. Funds raised pursuant to
23 intergovernmental contracts for the provision of joint
24 self-insurance may only be used for the payment of any cost,
25 liability or loss against which a local public entity may
26 protect itself or self-insure pursuant to Section 9-103 or for

 

 

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1 the payment of which such entity may levy a tax pursuant to
2 this Section, including tort judgments or settlements, costs
3 associated with the issuance, retirement or refinancing of the
4 bonds or other debt instruments, the repayment of the principal
5 or interest of the bonds or other debt instruments, the costs
6 of the administration of the joint self-insurance fund,
7 consultant, and risk care management programs or the costs of
8 insurance. Any surplus returned to the local public entity
9 under the terms of the intergovernmental contract shall be used
10 only for purposes set forth in subsection (a) of Section 9-103
11 and Section 9-107 or for abatement of property taxes levied by
12 the local taxing entity.
13     Any tax levied under this Section shall be levied and
14 collected in like manner with the general taxes of the entity
15 and shall be exclusive of and in addition to the amount of tax
16 that entity is now or may hereafter be authorized to levy for
17 general purposes under any statute which may limit the amount
18 of tax which that entity may levy for general purposes. The
19 county clerk of the county in which any part of the territory
20 of the local taxing entity is located, in reducing tax levies
21 under the provisions of any Act concerning the levy and
22 extension of taxes, shall not consider any tax provided for by
23 this Section as a part of the general tax levy for the purposes
24 of the entity nor include such tax within any limitation of the
25 percent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required
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1     With respect to taxes levied under this Section, either
2 before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
3 of 1994:
4         (1) Those taxes are excepted from and shall not be
5     included within the rate limitation imposed by law on taxes
6     levied for general corporate purposes by the local public
7     entity authorized to levy a tax under this Section.
8         (2) Those taxes that a local public entity has levied
9     in reliance on this Section and that are excepted under
10     paragraph (1) from the rate limitation imposed by law on
11     taxes levied for general corporate purposes by the local
12     public entity are not invalid because of any provision of
13     the law authorizing the local public entity's tax levy for
14     general corporate purposes that may be construed or may
15     have been construed to restrict or limit those taxes
16     levied, and those taxes are hereby validated. This
17     validation of taxes levied applies to all cases pending on
18     or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1994.
19         (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to a hospital
20     organized under Article 170 or 175 of the Township Code,
21     under the Town Hospital Act, or under the Township
22     Non-Sectarian Hospital Act and do not give any authority to
23     levy taxes on behalf of such a hospital in excess of the
24     rate limitation imposed by law on taxes levied for general
25     corporate purposes. A hospital organized under Article 170
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1     or under the Township Non-Sectarian Hospital Act is not
2     prohibited from levying taxes in support of tort liability
3     bonds if the taxes do not cause the hospital's aggregate
4     tax rate from exceeding the rate limitation imposed by law
5     on taxes levied for general corporate purposes.
6     Revenues derived from such tax shall be paid to the
7 treasurer of the local taxing entity as collected and used for
8 the purposes of this Section and of Section 9-102, 9-103, 9-104
9 or 9-105, as the case may be. If payments on account of such
10 taxes are insufficient during any year to meet such purposes,
11 the entity may issue tax anticipation warrants against the
12 current tax levy in the manner provided by statute.
13 (Source: P.A. 95-244, eff. 8-17-07.)
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15 becoming law.