Full Text of HB2105 103rd General Assembly
HB2105 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB2105 Introduced 2/7/2023, by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 35 ILCS 200/8-35 | | 35 ILCS 200/14-15 | | 35 ILCS 200/14-20 | | 35 ILCS 200/14-25 | | 35 ILCS 200/15-25 | | 35 ILCS 200/23-25 | |
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that no certificate of error shall be issued without the chief county assessment officer first having given all affected taxing districts 30 days' written notice. Provides that taxing districts may seek a judicial determination as to the exempt status of property.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning revenue.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Sections 8-35, 14-15, 14-20, 14-25, 15-25, and 23-25 as | 6 | | follows:
| 7 | | (35 ILCS 200/8-35)
| 8 | | Sec. 8-35. Notification requirements; procedure on | 9 | | protest.
| 10 | | (a) Assessments made by the Department.
Upon completion of | 11 | | its original assessments, the Department shall publish a
| 12 | | complete list of the assessments in the State "official | 13 | | newspaper." Any person
feeling aggrieved by any such | 14 | | assessment may, within 10 days of the date of
publication of | 15 | | the list, apply to the Department for a review and correction | 16 | | of
that assessment. Upon review of the assessment, the | 17 | | Department shall make any
correction as it considers just.
| 18 | | If review of an assessment has been made and notice has | 19 | | been given of the
Department's
decision,
any party to the | 20 | | proceeding who feels aggrieved by the decision, may file an
| 21 | | application for hearing. The application shall be in writing | 22 | | and shall be
filed with the Department within 20 days after | 23 | | notice of the decision has been
given by certified mail. |
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| 1 | | Petitions for hearing shall state concisely the
mistakes | 2 | | alleged to have been made or the new evidence to be presented.
| 3 | | No action for the judicial review of any assessment
| 4 | | decision of the Department shall be allowed unless the party | 5 | | commencing
such action has filed an application for a hearing | 6 | | and the Department
has acted upon the application.
| 7 | | The extension of taxes on an assessment shall not be | 8 | | delayed by any
proceeding under this Section. In cases where | 9 | | the assessment is revised, the taxes extended upon the | 10 | | assessment, or that part
of the taxes as may be appropriate, | 11 | | shall be abated or, if already paid,
refunded.
| 12 | | (b) Exemption decisions made by the Department. Notice of | 13 | | each exemption
decision made by the Department under Section | 14 | | 15-25, 16-70, or 16-130
shall be given by certified mail to the | 15 | | applicant for exemption.
| 16 | | If an exemption decision has been made by the Department | 17 | | and notice has been
given of the Department's decision, any | 18 | | party to the proceeding who feels
aggrieved by the decision | 19 | | may file an application for hearing. The application
shall be | 20 | | in writing and shall be filed with the Department within 60 | 21 | | days after
notice of the decision has been given by certified | 22 | | mail. Petitions for hearing
shall state concisely the mistakes | 23 | | alleged to have been made or the new
evidence to be presented.
| 24 | | If a petition for hearing is filed, the Department shall | 25 | | reconsider the
exemption decision and shall grant any party to | 26 | | the proceeding a hearing. As
soon as practical after the |
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| 1 | | reconsideration and hearing, the Department
shall issue a | 2 | | notice of decision by mailing the notice by certified mail. | 3 | | The
notice shall set forth the Department's findings of fact | 4 | | and the basis of the
decision.
| 5 | | Within 30 days after the mailing of a notice of decision, | 6 | | any party to the
proceeding may file with the Director a | 7 | | written request for rehearing in such
form as the Department | 8 | | may by rule prescribe, setting forth the grounds on
which
| 9 | | rehearing is requested. If rehearing or Departmental review is | 10 | | granted, as
soon as practical after the rehearing or | 11 | | Departmental review has been held,
the Department shall issue | 12 | | a revised decision to the party or the party's legal
| 13 | | representative as a result of the rehearing. The action of the | 14 | | Department on a
petition for hearing shall become final the | 15 | | later of (i) 30 days after issuance
of a notice of decision, if | 16 | | no request for rehearing is made, or (ii) if a
timely request | 17 | | for rehearing is made, upon the issuance of the denial of the
| 18 | | request or the issuance of a notice of final decision.
| 19 | | No action for the judicial review of any exemption | 20 | | decision of the Department
shall be allowed unless the party | 21 | | commencing the action has filed an
application for a hearing | 22 | | and the Department has acted upon the application.
| 23 | | The extension of taxes on an assessment shall not be | 24 | | delayed by any
proceeding under this Section. In cases when | 25 | | the exemption is granted, in
whole or in part, the taxes | 26 | | extended upon the assessment, or that part of the
taxes as may |
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| 1 | | be appropriate, shall be abated or, if already paid, refunded. | 2 | | However, in no event shall taxes be refunded until the time to | 3 | | request a hearing under this Section has expired or, if a | 4 | | hearing under this Section has been timely requested, until | 5 | | the Department has made its decision on reconsideration and | 6 | | all opportunity for judicial review has been exhausted.
| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 92-658, eff. 7-16-02.)
| 8 | | (35 ILCS 200/14-15)
| 9 | | Sec. 14-15. Certificate of error; counties of 3,000,000 or | 10 | | more.
| 11 | | (a) In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, if, | 12 | | after the
assessment is certified pursuant to Section 16-150, | 13 | | but subject to the
limitations of subsection (c) of this | 14 | | Section,
the county assessor discovers an error or mistake in | 15 | | the assessment, the
assessor shall execute a certificate | 16 | | setting forth the nature and cause of the
error. The | 17 | | certificate when endorsed by the county assessor, or when | 18 | | endorsed
by the county assessor and board of appeals (until | 19 | | the first Monday in December
1998 and the board of review | 20 | | beginning the first Monday in December 1998 and
thereafter) | 21 | | where the certificate is executed for any assessment which was | 22 | | the
subject of a complaint filed in the board of appeals (until | 23 | | the first Monday in
December 1998 and the board of review | 24 | | beginning the first Monday in December
1998 and thereafter) | 25 | | for the tax year for which the certificate is issued,
may, |
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| 1 | | either be certified according
to the procedure authorized by | 2 | | this Section or
be presented and received in evidence in any | 3 | | court of competent
jurisdiction.
Certification is authorized, | 4 | | at the discretion of the county assessor, for:
(1) | 5 | | certificates of error allowing homestead exemptions under | 6 | | Article 15; (2) certificates of error on
residential property
| 7 | | of 6 units or less; (3) certificates of error allowing | 8 | | exemption of the
property pursuant to Section 14-25; and (4) | 9 | | other certificates of error
reducing assessed value by less | 10 | | than $100,000. Any certificate of error not
certified shall be | 11 | | presented to the court.
The county assessor shall develop | 12 | | reasonable procedures for the filing and
processing of | 13 | | certificates of error. Prior to the certification or
| 14 | | presentation to the court, the county assessor or his or her | 15 | | designee shall
execute and include in the certificate of error | 16 | | a statement attesting that all
procedural requirements | 17 | | pertaining to the issuance of the certificate of error
have | 18 | | been met and that in fact an error exists.
When so
introduced | 19 | | in evidence such certificate shall become a part of the court
| 20 | | records, and shall not be removed from the files except upon | 21 | | the order of the
court.
| 22 | | Certificates of error that will be presented to the court | 23 | | shall be filed as
an
objection in the application for judgment | 24 | | and order of sale for the year in
relation to which the | 25 | | certificate is made
or as an amendment to the objection
under | 26 | | subsection (b).
Certificates of error that are to be
certified |
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| 1 | | according to the procedure authorized by this Section need not | 2 | | be
presented to the court as an objection or an amendment under | 3 | | subsection
(b). The State's Attorney of the county
in which | 4 | | the property is situated shall mail a copy of any final | 5 | | judgment
entered by the court regarding any certificate of | 6 | | error to the
taxpayer of record for
the year in question.
| 7 | | Any unpaid taxes after the entry of the final judgment by | 8 | | the court or
certification on
certificates issued under this | 9 | | Section may be included in a special tax sale,
provided that an | 10 | | advertisement is published and a notice is mailed to the
| 11 | | person in whose name the taxes were last assessed, in a form | 12 | | and manner
substantially similar to the advertisement and | 13 | | notice required under Sections
21-110 and 21-135. The | 14 | | advertisement and sale shall be subject to all
provisions of | 15 | | law regulating the annual advertisement and sale of delinquent
| 16 | | property, to the extent that those provisions may be made | 17 | | applicable.
| 18 | | A certificate of error certified under this Section shall | 19 | | be given effect by the county treasurer, who shall mark the tax
| 20 | | books and, upon receipt of one of the following certificates | 21 | | from the county assessor
or the county assessor and the board | 22 | | of
review
where the board of review is
required to endorse the | 23 | | certificate of error,
shall issue refunds to the taxpayer | 24 | | accordingly:
| 25 | | "CERTIFICATION
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| 1 | | I, .................., county assessor, hereby certify | 2 | | that the Certificates
of Error set out on the attached | 3 | | list have been duly issued to correct an
error or mistake | 4 | | in the assessment."
| 5 | | "CERTIFICATION
| 6 | | I, .................., county assessor, and we,
| 7 | | ........................................................,
| 8 | | members of the board of review,
hereby certify that the | 9 | | Certificates
of Error set out on the attached list have | 10 | | been duly issued to correct an
error or mistake in the | 11 | | assessment and that any certificates of error required
to
| 12 | | be endorsed by the
board of review
have been so endorsed."
| 13 | | The county treasurer has the power to mark the tax books to | 14 | | reflect
the issuance of certificates of error
certified | 15 | | according to
the procedure authorized in this Section for | 16 | | certificates of error issued under
Section 14-25 or | 17 | | certificates of error
issued to and including 3
years after | 18 | | the date on which the annual judgment and order of sale for | 19 | | that
tax year was first entered. The county
treasurer has the | 20 | | power to issue refunds to the taxpayer as set forth
above until | 21 | | all refunds authorized by this Section have been completed.
| 22 | | To the extent that the certificate of error obviates the | 23 | | liability for
nonpayment of taxes, certification of a | 24 | | certificate of error according to the
procedure authorized in |
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| 1 | | this Section shall operate to vacate any judgment or
| 2 | | forfeiture as to that year's taxes, and the warrant books and | 3 | | judgment books
shall be marked to reflect that the judgment or | 4 | | forfeiture has been vacated.
| 5 | | (b) Nothing in subsection (a) of this Section shall be | 6 | | construed to
prohibit the execution, endorsement, issuance, | 7 | | and adjudication of a
certificate of error if (i) the annual | 8 | | judgment and order of sale for the tax
year in question is | 9 | | reopened for further proceedings upon consent of the county
| 10 | | collector and county assessor, represented by the State's | 11 | | Attorney, and (ii) a
new final judgment is subsequently | 12 | | entered pursuant to the certificate. This
subsection (b) shall | 13 | | be construed as declarative of existing law and not as a
new | 14 | | enactment.
| 15 | | (c) No certificate of error, other than a certificate to | 16 | | establish an
exemption under Section 14-25, shall be executed | 17 | | for any tax year more than 3
years after the date on which the | 18 | | annual judgment and order of sale for that
tax year was first | 19 | | entered, except that during calendar years 1999 and 2000 a
| 20 | | certificate of error may
be
executed
for any tax year, | 21 | | provided that the error or mistake in the assessment was
| 22 | | discovered no
more than 3 years after the date on which the | 23 | | annual judgment and order of sale
for that
tax year was first | 24 | | entered.
| 25 | | (d) The time limitation of subsection (c) shall not apply | 26 | | to a certificate
of error correcting an assessment to $1, |
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| 1 | | under Section 10-35, on a parcel that
a subdivision or planned | 2 | | development has acquired by adverse possession, if
during the | 3 | | tax year for which the certificate is executed the subdivision | 4 | | or
planned development used the parcel as common area, as | 5 | | defined in Section
10-35, and if application for the | 6 | | certificate of error is made prior to
December 1, 1997.
| 7 | | (e) The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st | 8 | | General
Assembly apply to certificates
of error issued before, | 9 | | on, and after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the | 10 | | 91st General Assembly.
| 11 | | (f) No certificate of error shall be issued under this | 12 | | Section based upon an exemption from taxation without the | 13 | | Assessor first having given all affected taxing districts 30 | 14 | | days' written notice. | 15 | | (Source: P.A. 95-644, eff. 10-12-07.)
| 16 | | (35 ILCS 200/14-20)
| 17 | | Sec. 14-20. Certificate of error; counties of less than | 18 | | 3,000,000. In any
county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, | 19 | | if, at any time before judgment or
order of sale is entered in | 20 | | any proceeding to collect or to enjoin the
collection of taxes | 21 | | based upon any assessment of any property, the chief county
| 22 | | assessment officer discovers an error or mistake in the | 23 | | assessment (other than
errors of judgment as to the valuation | 24 | | of the property), he or she shall issue
to the person | 25 | | erroneously assessed a certificate setting forth the nature of
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| 1 | | the error and the cause or causes of the error.
In any county | 2 | | with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, if an owner fails to
| 3 | | file
an application for any homestead exemption provided under | 4 | | Article 15 during the previous assessment year and qualifies
| 5 | | for the exemption, the Chief County Assessment Officer | 6 | | pursuant to this
Section,
or the Board of Review pursuant to | 7 | | Section 16-75, shall issue a
certificate of error setting | 8 | | forth the correct taxable valuation of the
property.
The | 9 | | certificate, when properly
endorsed by the majority of the | 10 | | board of review, showing their concurrence, and
not otherwise, | 11 | | may be used in evidence in any court of competent | 12 | | jurisdiction,
and when so introduced in evidence, shall become | 13 | | a part of the court record and
shall not be removed from the | 14 | | files except on an order of the court. No certificate of error | 15 | | shall be issued under this Section based upon an exemption | 16 | | from taxation without the chief county assessment officer | 17 | | first having given all affected taxing districts 30 days' | 18 | | written notice.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 96-522, eff. 8-14-09.)
| 20 | | (35 ILCS 200/14-25)
| 21 | | Sec. 14-25. Certificate of error; tax exempt property. If | 22 | | an exemption is
approved by the Department and all opportunity | 23 | | for reconsideration by the Department under Section 8-35 of | 24 | | the Property Tax Code and judicial review thereon has been | 25 | | exhausted or if an exemption is
approved by a final court |
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| 1 | | decision in proceedings to
review an exemption decision of the | 2 | | Department under the Administrative Review
Law then a | 3 | | certificate of error shall be issued under Section 14-15 or
| 4 | | 14-20
if one of the following is met:
| 5 | | (a) If the property became eligible for the exemption at | 6 | | an
earlier time, a
certificate of error shall be issued
for
the | 7 | | period of eligibility, but in no event, except as otherwise | 8 | | provided in
this subsection (a), for more than the 3 | 9 | | assessment years
immediately preceding the assessment year for | 10 | | which the exemption was
approved. A certificate of error
shall | 11 | | be issued for the period of eligibility, but in no
event for | 12 | | more than the 5 assessment years immediately preceding the | 13 | | assessment
year for which the exemption was approved, if the | 14 | | municipality requests the
certificate of error before January | 15 | | 1, 1995.
| 16 | | (b) If the property is subsequently erroneously assessed | 17 | | as non-exempt,
that
error shall be remedied by the issuance of | 18 | | a certificate of error.
| 19 | | (c) If the owner failed to file an application for | 20 | | exemption, or a
certificate
of status under Section 15-10, for | 21 | | an assessment year following the assessment
year for which the | 22 | | exemption was approved and the property remains eligible for
| 23 | | exemption for the following year.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 88-455; 88-660, eff. 9-16-94.)
| 25 | | (35 ILCS 200/15-25)
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| 1 | | Sec. 15-25. Removal of exemptions. | 2 | | (a) If the Department determines that any
property has | 3 | | been unlawfully exempted from taxation, or is no longer | 4 | | entitled
to exemption, the Department shall, before January 1 | 5 | | of any year, direct the
chief county assessment officer to | 6 | | assess the property and return it to the
assessment rolls for | 7 | | the next assessment year. The Department shall give
notice of | 8 | | its decision to the owner of the property by certified mail. | 9 | | The
decision shall be subject to review and hearing under | 10 | | Section 8-35, upon
application by the owner filed within 60 | 11 | | days after the notice of
decision is
mailed. However, the | 12 | | extension of taxes on the assessment shall not be delayed
by | 13 | | any proceedings under this Section. If the property is | 14 | | determined to be
exempt, any taxes extended upon the | 15 | | assessment shall be abated or, if already
paid, be refunded.
| 16 | | (b) Any taxing district may initiate, no later than | 17 | | November 1 of any year, a complaint with the Department, | 18 | | requesting that the Department make a determination under | 19 | | subsection (a) of this Section that any property located | 20 | | within the boundaries of the taxing district has been | 21 | | unlawfully exempted from taxation or is no longer entitled to | 22 | | exemption for the next assessment year. If the request is | 23 | | denied or not acted upon by the Department within 60 days after | 24 | | the Department receives the request, then the complainant | 25 | | taxing district may initiate, no later than March 1 of the | 26 | | assessment year, an original action in circuit court seeking a |
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| 1 | | declaration as to whether the property is no longer eligible | 2 | | to be tax exempt. The Department shall be bound by that | 3 | | judicial determination. | 4 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
| 5 | | (35 ILCS 200/23-25)
| 6 | | Sec. 23-25. Tax exempt property; restriction on judicial | 7 | | determinations.
| 8 | | (a) No taxpayer
may file an objection as
provided in | 9 | | Section 21-175 or Section 23-10 on the grounds that the
| 10 | | property is exempt from
taxation, or otherwise seek a judicial | 11 | | determination as to tax exempt status,
except as provided in | 12 | | Section 8-40 and except as otherwise provided in this
Section | 13 | | and Section 14-25 and Section 21-175.
| 14 | | (b) Nothing in this Section shall
affect the right of a | 15 | | governmental agency to seek a judicial determination as
to the | 16 | | exempt status of property for those years during which eminent | 17 | | domain
proceedings were pending before a court, once a | 18 | | certificate of exemption for
the property is obtained by the | 19 | | governmental agency under Section 8-35 or
Section 8-40.
| 20 | | (c) This Section shall not apply to exemptions granted | 21 | | under Sections
15-165
through 15-180.
| 22 | | (d) The limitation in this Section shall not apply to | 23 | | court proceedings
relating to an exemption for the 1985 | 24 | | assessment year and preceding assessment
years. However, an | 25 | | order entered in any such proceeding shall not preclude the
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| 1 | | necessity of applying for an exemption for 1986 or later | 2 | | assessment years in
the manner provided by Section 16-70 or | 3 | | 16-130.
| 4 | | (e) The limitation in this Section shall not apply to | 5 | | court proceedings to
establish an exemption for any specific | 6 | | assessment year, provided that the
plaintiff or its | 7 | | predecessor in interest in the property has established an
| 8 | | exemption for any subsequent or prior assessment year on | 9 | | grounds comparable to
those alleged in the court proceedings. | 10 | | For purposes of this subsection, the
exemption for a | 11 | | subsequent or prior year must have been determined under
| 12 | | Section 8-35 or a prior similar law by the Department or a | 13 | | predecessor agency,
or under Section 8-40. Court proceedings | 14 | | permitted by this subsection may be
initiated while | 15 | | proceedings for the subsequent or prior year under Section
| 16 | | 16-70, 16-130, 8-35, or 8-40 are still pending, but judgment | 17 | | shall not be
entered until the proceedings under Section 8-35 | 18 | | or 8-40 have terminated.
| 19 | | (f) Nothing in this Section shall affect the right of a | 20 | | taxing district to seek a judicial determination as to the | 21 | | exempt status of property as provided in Section 15-25 of the | 22 | | Property Tax Code. | 23 | | (Source: P.A. 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 90-679, eff. 7-31-98.)
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