HB4556 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 12722 RLJ 26401 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4556

Introduced 5/13/2009, by Rep. Elizabeth Coulson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-10.2 new

Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality that maintains a website must post specified information pertaining to redevelopment project areas located within the municipality (purpose of redevelopment project areas, specified contracts entered into by the municipality, names of the joint review board members, and other information). Provides that a municipality that does not maintain a website must publish in a newspaper specified information at least once each year.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 11-74.4-10.2 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-10.2 new)

Sec. 11-74.4-10.2. Posting and publication requirements.

(a) Beginning 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, a municipality that maintains a website must post on its website the following information:

(1) The name, legal description, and purpose of each redevelopment project area located within the municipality.

(2) Contracts a municipality enters into for the implementation of a redevelopment project.

(3) The names of developers, vendors, and other persons that perform work within a redevelopment project area.

(4) The names of the members of the corporate authorities of the municipality and the joint review board.

(5) The balance in the special tax allocation fund at the beginning and end of the fiscal year.

(6) An itemized list of all expenditures from the special tax allocation fund by category of permissible redevelopment project cost.

(b) If a municipality does not maintain a website, then the municipality must, within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, and at least once each year thereafter, publish in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality the information required in items (1) through (6) of subsection (a).