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105 ILCS 5/7-14

(105 ILCS 5/7-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-14)

Sec. 7-14. Bonded indebtedness-Tax rate.

(a) Beginning on January 1, 2015, whenever the boundaries of any school district are changed by the attachment or detachment of territory, the territory that is detached shall remain liable for its proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness of the school district from which the territory is detached.  The annexing district shall not, except pursuant to the approval of a resolution by the school board of the annexing district prior to the effective date of the change of boundaries, assume or be responsible for any of the bonded indebtedness of the district from which the territory is detached.  If the annexing district does not assume the detaching territory's proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness of the district from which the territory is detaching, a tax rate for that bonded indebtedness shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 19-7 of this Code, and the county clerk or clerks shall annually extend taxes for each bond outstanding on the effective date of the change of boundaries against all of the taxable property situated within the territory that is detached and within the detaching district.  After the effective date of the change of boundaries, all of the property situated within the annexing school district, including the detaching territory, shall be liable for the bonded indebtedness of that district as it exists on the effective date of the change of boundaries and any date thereafter.

(b) Whenever a school district with bonded indebtedness has become dissolved
under this Article and its territory annexed to another district, the
annexing district or districts shall not, except by action pursuant to
resolution of the school board of the annexing district prior to the effective
date of the annexation, assume the bonded indebtedness of the dissolved
district; nor,  except by action pursuant to resolution of the school
board of the dissolving district, shall the territory of the dissolved
district assume the bonded indebtedness of the annexing district or districts.
If the annexing district or districts do not assume the bonded indebtedness of
the dissolved district, a tax rate for the bonded indebtedness shall be
determined in the manner provided in Section 19-7, and the county clerk or
clerks shall annually extend taxes for each outstanding bond issue against
all the taxable property that was situated within the boundaries of the
district as the boundaries existed at the time of the issuance of each bond
issue regardless of whether the property is still contained in that same
district at the time of the extension of the taxes by the county clerk
or clerks.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19-18 of this Code, upon resolution of the school board, the county clerk must extend taxes to pay the principal of and interest on any bonds issued exclusively to refund any bonded indebtedness of the annexing school district against all of the taxable property that was situated within the boundaries of the annexing district as the boundaries existed at the time of the issuance of the bonded indebtedness being refunded and not against any of the taxable property in the dissolved school district, provided that (i) the net interest rate on the refunding bonds may not exceed the net interest rate on the refunded bonds, (ii) the final maturity date of the refunding bonds may not extend beyond the final maturity date of the refunded bonds, and (iii) the tax levy to pay the refunding bonds in any levy year may not exceed the tax levy that would have been required to pay the refunded bonds for that levy year.  The provisions of this subsection (c) are applicable to school districts that were dissolved and their territory annexed to another school district pursuant to a referendum held in April of 2003. The provisions of this subsection (c), other than this sentence, are inoperative 2 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.

(Source: P.A. 99-475, eff. 1-1-16.)