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SB1963 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1963

 

Introduced 2/7/2008, by Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-1009   from Ch. 34, par. 5-1009

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the limitation on home rule powers regarding the imposition of certain types of taxes.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 5-1009 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/5-1009)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1009)
7     Sec. 5-1009. Limitation on home rule powers. Except as
8 provided in Sections 5-1006, 5-1006.5, 5-1007 and and 5-1008,
9 on and after September 1, 1990, no home rule county has the
10 authority to impose, pursuant to its home rule authority, a
11 retailer's occupation tax, service occupation tax, use tax,
12 sales tax or other tax on the use, sale or purchase of tangible
13 personal property based on the gross receipts from such sales
14 or the selling or purchase price of said tangible personal
15 property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section does not
16 preempt any home rule imposed tax such as the following: (1) a
17 tax on alcoholic beverages, whether based on gross receipts,
18 volume sold or any other measurement; (2) a tax based on the
19 number of units of cigarettes or tobacco products; (3) a tax,
20 however measured, based on the use of a hotel or motel room or
21 similar facility; (4) a tax, however measured, on the sale or
22 transfer of real property; (5) a tax, however measured, on
23 lease receipts; (6) a tax on food prepared for immediate

 

 

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1 consumption and on alcoholic beverages sold by a business which
2 provides for on premise consumption of said food or alcoholic
3 beverages; or (7) other taxes not based on the selling or
4 purchase price or gross receipts from the use, sale or purchase
5 of tangible personal property. This Section is a limitation,
6 pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the
7 Illinois Constitution, on the power of home rule units to tax.
8 (Source: P.A. 91-51, eff. 6-30-99.)