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Public Act 90-0689

SB1565 Enrolled                                LRB9011620KDks

    AN ACT concerning taxes.

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

    Section  5.  The  Counties  Code  is  amended by changing
Sections 5-1006, 5-1006.5, and 5-1007 as follows:

    (55 ILCS 5/5-1006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1006)
    Sec. 5-1006.  Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation  Tax
Law.  Any  county  that  is a home rule unit may impose a tax
upon all persons engaged in the business of selling  tangible
personal  property,  other  than an item of tangible personal
property titled or registered with an agency of this  State's
government,  at  retail  in  the county on the gross receipts
from such sales made in the course  of  their  business.   If
imposed,  this  tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments.
On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax  may  not
be  imposed  on the sales of food for human consumption which
is to be consumed off the premises where it  is  sold  (other
than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and food which has been
prepared  for  immediate  consumption)  and  prescription and
nonprescription  medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances  and
insulin, urine testing materials, syringes and  needles  used
by  diabetics. The tax imposed by a home rule county pursuant
to this Section and all civil penalties that may be  assessed
as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the
State Department of Revenue.  The certificate of registration
that  is  issued  by  the  Department to a retailer under the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit  the  retailer  to
engage  in  a business that is taxable under any ordinance or
resolution  enacted  pursuant   to   this   Section   without
registering   separately   with  the  Department  under  such
ordinance  or  resolution  or  under   this   Section.    The
Department  shall  have  full power to administer and enforce
this  Section;  to  collect  all  taxes  and  penalties   due
hereunder;  to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in
the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all  rights
to  credit  memoranda  arising  on  account  of the erroneous
payment of tax or penalty hereunder.  In  the  administration
of,  and  compliance  with,  this Section, the Department and
persons who are subject to this Section shall have  the  same
rights,  remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties,
and  be  subject  to  the  same   conditions,   restrictions,
limitations,  penalties  and definitions of terms, and employ
the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1,
1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65  (in
respect  to  all provisions therein other than the State rate
of tax), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h,  5i,  5j,  5k,
5l,  6,  6a,  6b,  6c,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11, 12 and 13 of the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the  Uniform
Penalty  and  Interest  Act,  as fully as if those provisions
were set forth herein.
    No tax may be imposed by a home rule county  pursuant  to
this Section unless the county also imposes a tax at the same
rate pursuant to Section 5-1007.
    Persons  subject  to  any  tax  imposed  pursuant  to the
authority granted in this Section  may  reimburse  themselves
for  their  seller's  tax  liability  hereunder by separately
stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be
stated in combination, in a single  amount,  with  State  tax
which  sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act,
pursuant to such bracket  schedules  as  the  Department  may
prescribe.
    Whenever  the  Department determines that a refund should
be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
credit memorandum, the  Department  shall  notify  the  State
Comptroller,  who  shall  cause the order to be drawn for the
amount specified and to the person named in the  notification
from  the  Department.  The refund shall be paid by the State
Treasurer out of the home rule county  retailers'  occupation
tax fund.
    The  Department  shall  forthwith  pay  over to the State
Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all  taxes  and  penalties
collected  hereunder.   On  or  before  the  25th day of each
calendar month, the Department shall prepare and  certify  to
the  Comptroller  the disbursement of stated sums of money to
named counties, the counties to be those from which retailers
have paid taxes or  penalties  hereunder  to  the  Department
during the second preceding calendar month.  The amount to be
paid to each county shall be the amount (not including credit
memoranda)  collected  hereunder  during the second preceding
calendar  month  by  the  Department  plus  an   amount   the
Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that
were  erroneously  paid  to  a different taxing body, and not
including an amount equal  to  the  amount  of  refunds  made
during  the second preceding calendar month by the Department
on behalf of such county, and not including any amount  which
the  Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts
which were payable  to  a  different  taxing  body  but  were
erroneously paid to the county. Within 10 days after receipt,
by  the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the
counties provided for in this Section  to  be  given  to  the
Comptroller  by  the  Department, the Comptroller shall cause
the  orders  to  be  drawn  for  the  respective  amounts  in
accordance   with   the   directions   contained    in    the
certification.
    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph,  an allocation shall be made in March of each year
to  each  county  that  received  more   than   $500,000   in
disbursements  under the preceding paragraph in the preceding
calendar year.  The allocation shall be in an amount equal to
the average monthly distribution made  to  each  such  county
under  the  preceding paragraph during the preceding calendar
year (excluding the  2  months  of  highest  receipts).   The
distribution  made  in  March  of each year subsequent to the
year in  which  an  allocation  was  made  pursuant  to  this
paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the
amount  allocated  and  disbursed under this paragraph in the
preceding calendar year.  The Department  shall  prepare  and
certify  to  the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations
made in accordance with this paragraph.
    For the purpose of  determining  the  local  governmental
unit  whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of
coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale  at  retail
at  the  place  where  the  coal  or  other  mineral mined in
Illinois is extracted from the earth.   This  paragraph  does
not  apply  to  coal or other mineral when it is delivered or
shipped by the seller to the purchaser  at  a  point  outside
Illinois  so  that the sale is exempt under the United States
Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in  any
business  which  under  the Constitution of the United States
may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
    An ordinance or resolution imposing  or  discontinuing  a
tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall
be  adopted  and  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed with the
Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon  the
Department  shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce this
Section as of the first day of September next following  such
adoption  and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance
or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder  or
effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a
certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before
the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed
to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of
October  next  following  such adoption and filing. Beginning
January 1, 1993,  an  ordinance  or  resolution  imposing  or
discontinuing  the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the
rate thereof shall be adopted and a  certified  copy  thereof
filed  with  the  Department  on  or  before the first day of
October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer
and enforce this Section as of the first day of January  next
following  such adoption and filing. Beginning April 1, 1998,
an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the  tax
hereunder  or  effecting  a  change in the rate thereof shall
either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with
the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon
the Department shall proceed to administer and  enforce  this
Section  as  of  the  first  day  of  July next following the
adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified  copy
thereof  filed with the Department on or before the first day
of  October,  whereupon  the  Department  shall  proceed   to
administer  and  enforce  this Section as of the first day of
January next following the adoption and filing.
    When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a
county under this Section, the Department shall  increase  or
decrease  such  amount  by  an amount necessary to offset any
misallocation of previous disbursements.  The  offset  amount
shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous
6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.
    This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Home
Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Law".
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028; 86-1475; 87-205; 87-895.)

    (55 ILCS 5/5-1006.5)
    Sec.  5-1006.5.  Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax
For Public Safety.
    (a)  The county board of any county may impose a tax upon
all persons engaged  in  the  business  of  selling  tangible
personal  property,  other  than  personal property titled or
registered with an agency  of  this  State's  government,  at
retail  in  the  county  on the gross receipts from the sales
made in the course of business to provide revenue to be  used
exclusively  for  public safety purposes in that county, if a
proposition for the tax has been submitted to the electors of
that county and approved by a majority of those voting on the
question.  If imposed, this tax  shall  be  imposed  only  in
one-quarter  percent  increments.  By  resolution, the county
board may order  the  proposition  to  be  submitted  at  any
election.  The county clerk shall certify the question to the
proper  election  authority, who shall submit the proposition
at an election in accordance with the general election law.
    The proposition shall be in substantially  the  following
form:
         "Shall  (name  of  county) be authorized to impose a
    public safety tax at the rate of ....  upon  all  persons
    engaged  in  the  business  of  selling tangible personal
    property at retail in the county on gross  receipts  from
    the sales made in the course of their business to be used
    for  crime prevention, detention, and other public safety
    purposes?"
Votes shall be recorded as Yes or No.  If a majority  of  the
electors  voting  on the proposition vote in favor of it, the
county may impose the tax.
    This additional tax may not be imposed on  the  sales  of
food  for  human  consumption  that is to be consumed off the
premises where it is sold (other  than  alcoholic  beverages,
soft  drinks,  and food which has been prepared for immediate
consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
drugs,  medical  appliances  and   insulin,   urine   testing
materials,  syringes, and needles used by diabetics.  The tax
imposed  by  a  county  under  this  Section  and  all  civil
penalties that may be assessed as  an  incident  of  the  tax
shall be collected and enforced by the Illinois Department of
Revenue.   The  certificate of registration that is issued by
the Department to a retailer under the Retailers'  Occupation
Tax  Act  shall  permit  the retailer to engage in a business
that is  taxable  without  registering  separately  with  the
Department  under  an  ordinance  or  resolution  under  this
Section.   The  Department  has  full power to administer and
enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties  due
under  this  Section,  to  dispose  of taxes and penalties so
collected in the manner provided  in  this  Section,  and  to
determine  all  rights to credit memoranda arising on account
of the erroneous payment of  a  tax  or  penalty  under  this
Section.   In  the administration of and compliance with this
Section, the Department and persons who are subject  to  this
Section shall (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges,
immunities,  powers,  and duties, (ii) be subject to the same
conditions,   restrictions,   limitations,   penalties,   and
definitions of terms, and (iii)  employ  the  same  modes  of
procedure  as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e,
1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2, 2-5, 2-5.5, 2-10  (in  respect  to
all  provisions  contained  in  those Sections other than the
State rate of tax), 2-15 through 2-70, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3  (except
provisions   relating  to  transaction  returns  and  quarter
monthly payments), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h,  5i,
5j,  5k,  5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, and 13
of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7  of  the
Uniform  Penalty and Interest Act as if those provisions were
set forth in this Section.
    Persons subject to any tax imposed  under  the  authority
granted  in  this  Section may reimburse themselves for their
sellers' tax liability by separately stating the  tax  as  an
additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination,
in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required
to  collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracketed
schedules as the Department may prescribe.
    Whenever the Department determines that a  refund  should
be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
credit  memorandum,  the  Department  shall  notify the State
Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be  drawn  for  the
amount  specified and to the person named in the notification
from the Department.  The refund shall be paid by  the  State
Treasurer   out   of  the  County  Public  Safety  Retailers'
Occupation Tax Fund.
    (b)  If a tax has been imposed under  subsection  (a),  a
service occupation tax shall also be imposed at the same rate
upon  all  persons engaged, in the county, in the business of
making sales of service, who, as an incident to making  those
sales  of service, transfer tangible personal property within
the county as an incident to a sale of service. This tax  may
not be imposed on sales of food for human consumption that is
to  be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than
alcoholic beverages,  soft  drinks,  and  food  prepared  for
immediate  consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances  and  insulin,  urine
testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics.
The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties
that  may  be  assessed  as  an  incident  thereof  shall  be
collected  and  enforced  by  the  Department of Revenue. The
Department has full power  to  administer  and  enforce  this
subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder;
to  dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner
hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights  to  credit
memoranda  arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax
or  penalty  hereunder.    In  the  administration  of,   and
compliance  with  this subsection, the Department and persons
who are subject to this paragraph shall  (i)  have  the  same
rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties,
(ii)   be  subject  to  the  same  conditions,  restrictions,
limitations,   penalties,   exclusions,    exemptions,    and
definitions  of  terms,  and  (iii)  employ the same modes of
procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2 (except  that
the   reference  to  State  in  the  definition  of  supplier
maintaining a place of business in this State shall mean  the
county),  2a,  2b,  2c,  3  through  3-50  (in respect to all
provisions therein other than  the  State  rate  of  tax),  4
(except  that  the  reference  to  the  State shall be to the
county), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to  which  the
tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8
shall  be  the  county),  9  (except as to the disposition of
taxes and penalties collected, and except that  the  returned
merchandise  credit for this tax may not be taken against any
State tax), 10, 11,  12  (except  the  reference  therein  to
Section  2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except
that any reference to the State shall mean the  county),  the
first  paragraph  of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the
Service Occupation Tax Act and Section  3-7  of  the  Uniform
Penalty  and  Interest  Act,  as fully as if those provisions
were set forth herein.
    Persons subject to any tax imposed  under  the  authority
granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
serviceman's  tax  liability by separately stating the tax as
an  additional  charge,  which  charge  may  be   stated   in
combination,   in  a  single  amount,  with  State  tax  that
servicemen are authorized to collect under  the  Service  Use
Tax  Act,  in  accordance  with such bracket schedules as the
Department may prescribe.
    Whenever the Department determines that a  refund  should
be  made  under  this  subsection  to  a  claimant instead of
issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify  the
State  Comptroller,  who  shall cause the warrant to be drawn
for the amount specified, and to the  person  named,  in  the
notification  from  the Department.  The refund shall be paid
by the State  Treasurer  out  of  the  County  Public  Safety
Retailers' Occupation Fund.
    Nothing   in   this  subsection  shall  be  construed  to
authorize the county to impose a tax upon  the  privilege  of
engaging  in any business which under the Constitution of the
United States may not be made the subject of taxation by  the
State.
    (c)  The  Department  shall  immediately  pay over to the
State Treasurer,  ex  officio,  as  trustee,  all  taxes  and
penalties  collected  under this Section to be deposited into
the County Public  Safety  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Fund,
which  shall  be an unappropriated trust fund held outside of
the State treasury.  On  or  before  the  25th  day  of  each
calendar  month,  the Department shall prepare and certify to
the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of  money  to
the   counties  from  which  retailers  have  paid  taxes  or
penalties to  the  Department  during  the  second  preceding
calendar  month.   The amount to be paid to each county shall
be the amount  (not  including  credit  memoranda)  collected
under this Section during the second preceding calendar month
by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is
necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to
a  different  taxing  body,  and  not including (i) an amount
equal to  the  amount  of  refunds  made  during  the  second
preceding  calendar  month by the Department on behalf of the
county and (ii) any amount that the Department determines  is
necessary  to  offset  any  amounts  that  were  payable to a
different taxing  body  but  were  erroneously  paid  to  the
county.   Within  10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of
the disbursement certification to the counties  provided  for
in  this  Section  to  be  given  to  the  Comptroller by the
Department, the Comptroller shall  cause  the  orders  to  be
drawn   for   the   respective  amounts  in  accordance  with
directions contained in the certification.
    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph, an allocation shall be made in March of each  year
to   each   county   that  received  more  than  $500,000  in
disbursements under the preceding paragraph in the  preceding
calendar year.  The allocation shall be in an amount equal to
the  average  monthly  distribution  made to each such county
under the preceding paragraph during the  preceding  calendar
year  (excluding  the  2  months  of  highest receipts).  The
distribution made in March of each  year  subsequent  to  the
year  in  which  an  allocation  was  made  pursuant  to this
paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the
amount allocated and disbursed under this  paragraph  in  the
preceding  calendar  year.   The Department shall prepare and
certify to the Comptroller for disbursement  the  allocations
made in accordance with this paragraph.
    (d)  For   the   purpose   of   determining   the   local
governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a
producer  of  coal  or another mineral mined in Illinois is a
sale at retail at the place where the coal or  other  mineral
mined   in  Illinois  is  extracted  from  the  earth.   This
paragraph does not apply to coal or another mineral  when  it
is  delivered  or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a
point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt  under  the
United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign
commerce.
    (e)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
authorize  a  county  to  impose  a tax upon the privilege of
engaging in any business that under the Constitution  of  the
United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this
State.
    (e-5)  If  a county imposes a tax under this Section, the
county board may, by ordinance, discontinue or lower the rate
of the tax.  If the county  board  lowers  the  tax  rate  or
discontinues the tax, a referendum must be held in accordance
with  subsection (a) of this Section in order to increase the
rate of the tax or to reimpose the discontinued tax.
    (f)  Beginning April 1, 1998, the results of any election
authorizing a proposition to impose a tax under this  Section
or  effecting  a  change in the rate of tax, or any ordinance
lowering  the  rate  or  discontinuing  the  tax,  shall   be
certified  by  the  county  clerk and filed with the Illinois
Department of Revenue either (i) on or before the  first  day
of   April,   whereupon   the  Department  shall  proceed  to
administer and enforce the tax as of the first  day  of  July
next following the filing; or (ii) on or before the first day
of   October,  whereupon  the  Department  shall  proceed  to
administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of January
next following the filing. on or  before  the  first  day  of
June.  The  Illinois Department of Revenue shall then proceed
to administer and enforce this Section or to lower  the  rate
or  discontinue  the tax, as the case may be, as of the first
day of January next following the filing.
    (g)  When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement
to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase
or decrease the amounts by an amount necessary to offset  any
miscalculation  of previous disbursements.  The offset amount
shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous
6 months from the time a miscalculation is discovered.
    (h)  This Section may be cited  as  the  "Special  County
Occupation Tax For Public Safety Law".
    (i)  For   purposes  of  this  Section,  "public  safety"
includes  but  is  not  limited  to  fire  fighting,  police,
medical, ambulance, or other emergency services.
(Source: P.A.  89-107,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-718,  eff.  3-7-97;
90-190,  eff.  7-24-97;  90-267,  eff.  7-30-97; 90-552, eff.
12-12-97; 90-562, eff. 12-16-97; revised 12-30-97.)
    (55 ILCS 5/5-1007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1007)
    Sec. 5-1007. Home Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law.
The corporate authorities of a home rule county may impose  a
tax upon all persons engaged, in such county, in the business
of  making  sales  of service at the same rate of tax imposed
pursuant to Section  5-1006  of  the  selling  price  of  all
tangible  personal  property  transferred  by such servicemen
either in the form of tangible personal property  or  in  the
form  of  real estate as an incident to a sale of service. If
imposed, such tax shall only be imposed in  1/4%  increments.
On  and  after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not
be imposed on the sales of food for human  consumption  which
is  to  be  consumed off the premises where it is sold (other
than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and food which has been
prepared for  immediate  consumption)  and  prescription  and
nonprescription  medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances  and
insulin,  urine  testing materials, syringes and needles used
by diabetics. The tax imposed by a home rule county  pursuant
to  this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed
as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the
State Department of Revenue. The certificate of  registration
which  is  issued  by  the Department to a retailer under the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation
Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a  business
which  is  taxable  under any ordinance or resolution enacted
pursuant to this Section without registering separately  with
the  Department  under  such ordinance or resolution or under
this Section.   The  Department  shall  have  full  power  to
administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and
penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so
collected   in   the  manner  hereinafter  provided;  and  to
determine all rights to credit memoranda arising  on  account
of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder.  In the
administration  of,  and  compliance  with,  this Section the
Department and persons who are subject to this Section  shall
have  the  same  rights,  remedies,  privileges,  immunities,
powers  and  duties,  and  be subject to the same conditions,
restrictions,  limitations,  penalties  and  definitions   of
terms,  and  employ  the  same  modes  of  procedure,  as are
prescribed in Sections  1a-1,  2,  2a,  3  through  3-50  (in
respect  to  all provisions therein other than the State rate
of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State  shall  be
to  the taxing county), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction
to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent  indicated  in
that  Section  8 shall be the taxing county), 9 (except as to
the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and  except
that  the returned merchandise credit for this county tax may
not be taken against any State tax), 10, 11, 12  (except  the
reference  therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation
Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to  the  State  shall
mean  the  taxing county), the first paragraph of Section 15,
16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax  Act  and
Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully
as if those provisions were set forth herein.
    No  tax  may be imposed by a home rule county pursuant to
this Section unless such county also imposes  a  tax  at  the
same rate pursuant to Section 5-1006.
    Persons  subject  to  any  tax  imposed  pursuant  to the
authority granted in this Section  may  reimburse  themselves
for  their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately
stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be
stated in combination, in a single  amount,  with  State  tax
which  servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service
Use Tax Act,  pursuant  to  such  bracket  schedules  as  the
Department may prescribe.
    Whenever  the  Department determines that a refund should
be made under this Section to a claimant instead  of  issuing
credit  memorandum,  the  Department  shall  notify the State
Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be  drawn  for  the
amount   specified,   and   to  the  person  named,  in  such
notification from the Department. Such refund shall  be  paid
by the State Treasurer out of the home rule county retailers'
occupation tax fund.
    The  Department  shall  forthwith  pay  over to the State
Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all  taxes  and  penalties
collected  hereunder.  On  or  before  the  25th  day of each
calendar month, the Department shall prepare and  certify  to
the  Comptroller  the disbursement of stated sums of money to
named counties, the counties to be those from which suppliers
and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to  the
Department  during  the second preceding calendar month.  The
amount to be paid to each county shall  be  the  amount  (not
including  credit  memoranda)  collected hereunder during the
second preceding calendar month by the  Department,  and  not
including  an  amount  equal  to  the  amount of refunds made
during the second preceding calendar month by the  Department
on  behalf  of such county.  Within 10 days after receipt, by
the Comptroller, of the  disbursement  certification  to  the
counties  provided  for  in  this  Section to be given to the
Comptroller by the Department, the  Comptroller  shall  cause
the  orders  to  be  drawn  for  the  respective  amounts  in
accordance    with   the   directions   contained   in   such
certification.
    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph, an allocation shall be made in each year  to  each
county  which  received  more  than $500,000 in disbursements
under the preceding paragraph in the preceding calendar year.
The allocation shall be in an amount  equal  to  the  average
monthly  distribution  made  to  each  such  county under the
preceding  paragraph  during  the  preceding  calendar   year
(excluding   the   2   months   of  highest  receipts).   The
distribution made in March of each  year  subsequent  to  the
year  in  which  an  allocation  was  made  pursuant  to this
paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the
amount allocated and disbursed under this  paragraph  in  the
preceding  calendar  year.   The Department shall prepare and
certify to the Comptroller for disbursement  the  allocations
made in accordance with this paragraph.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
county  to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any
business which under the Constitution of  the  United  States
may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
    An  ordinance  or  resolution imposing or discontinuing a
tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall
be adopted and  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed  with  the
Department  on or before the first day of June, whereupon the
Department shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce  this
Section  as of the first day of September next following such
adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an  ordinance
or  resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or
effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a
certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before
the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed
to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of
October next following such adoption  and  filing.  Beginning
January  1,  1993,  an  ordinance  or  resolution imposing or
discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in  the
rate  thereof  shall  be adopted and a certified copy thereof
filed with the Department on  or  before  the  first  day  of
October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer
and  enforce this Section as of the first day of January next
following such adoption and filing.  Beginning April 1, 1998,
an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the  tax
hereunder  or  effecting  a  change in the rate thereof shall
either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with
the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon
the Department shall proceed to administer and  enforce  this
Section  as  of  the  first  day  of  July next following the
adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified  copy
thereof  filed with the Department on or before the first day
of  October,  whereupon  the  Department  shall  proceed   to
administer  and  enforce  this Section as of the first day of
January next following the adoption and filing.
    This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Home
Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law".
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028; 86-1475; 87-205; 87-895.)

    Section 10.  The Illinois Municipal Code  is  amended  by
changing Sections 8-11-1, 8-11-5, and 8-11-6 as follows:

    (65 ILCS 5/8-11-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1)
    Sec.  8-11-1.  Home  Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation
Tax  Act.   The  corporate  authorities  of   a   home   rule
municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the
business of selling tangible personal property, other than an
item  of tangible personal property titled or registered with
an agency of  this  State's  government,  at  retail  in  the
municipality  on  the gross receipts from these sales made in
the course of such business.  If imposed, the tax shall  only
be  imposed  in  1/4%  increments.  On and after September 1,
1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on the sales  of
food  for  human  consumption  that is to be consumed off the
premises where it is sold (other  than  alcoholic  beverages,
soft  drinks  and  food  that has been prepared for immediate
consumption) and prescription and nonprescription  medicines,
drugs,   medical   appliances   and  insulin,  urine  testing
materials, syringes and needles used by  diabetics.  The  tax
imposed  by  a  home rule municipality under this Section and
all civil penalties that may be assessed as  an  incident  of
the  tax  shall  be  collected  and  enforced  by  the  State
Department  of Revenue.  The certificate of registration that
is  issued  by  the  Department  to  a  retailer  under   the
Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act shall permit the retailer to
engage in a business that is taxable under any  ordinance  or
resolution   enacted   pursuant   to   this  Section  without
registering  separately  with  the  Department   under   such
ordinance   or   resolution   or  under  this  Section.   The
Department shall have full power to  administer  and  enforce
this   Section;  to  collect  all  taxes  and  penalties  due
hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected  in
the  manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights
to credit memoranda  arising  on  account  of  the  erroneous
payment  of  tax or penalty hereunder.  In the administration
of, and compliance with,  this  Section  the  Department  and
persons  who  are subject to this Section shall have the same
rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and  duties,
and   be   subject  to  the  same  conditions,  restrictions,
limitations, penalties and definitions of terms,  and  employ
the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1,
1a,  1d,  1e,  1f,  1i,  1j,  1k,  1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in
respect to all provisions therein other than the  State  rate
of  tax),  2c,  3  (except as to the disposition of taxes and
penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f,  5g,  5h,
5i,  5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of
the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act  and  Section  3-7  of  the
Uniform  Penalty  and  Interest  Act,  as  fully  as if those
provisions were set forth herein.
    No tax may be imposed by a home rule  municipality  under
this  Section  unless  the municipality also imposes a tax at
the same rate under Section 8-11-5 of this Act.
    Persons subject to any tax imposed  under  the  authority
granted  in  this  Section may reimburse themselves for their
seller's tax liability hereunder by separately  stating  that
tax  as  an  additional charge, which charge may be stated in
combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers
are required to collect under the Use Tax  Act,  pursuant  to
such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.
    Whenever  the  Department determines that a refund should
be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
credit memorandum, the  Department  shall  notify  the  State
Comptroller,  who  shall  cause the order to be drawn for the
amount specified and to the person named in the  notification
from  the  Department.  The refund shall be paid by the State
Treasurer  out  of  the  home   rule   municipal   retailers'
occupation tax fund.
    The  Department  shall  immediately pay over to the State
Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all  taxes  and  penalties
collected  hereunder.   On  or  before  the  25th day of each
calendar month, the Department shall prepare and  certify  to
the  Comptroller  the disbursement of stated sums of money to
named municipalities, the municipalities  to  be  those  from
which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the
Department  during  the  second preceding calendar month. The
amount to be paid to each municipality shall  be  the  amount
(not  including  credit memoranda) collected hereunder during
the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an
amount the Department determines is necessary to  offset  any
amounts  that  were  erroneously  paid  to a different taxing
body, and not including an amount  equal  to  the  amount  of
refunds  made  during  the second preceding calendar month by
the Department  on  behalf  of  such  municipality,  and  not
including  any  amount  that  the  Department  determines  is
necessary  to  offset  any  amounts  that  were  payable to a
different taxing  body  but  were  erroneously  paid  to  the
municipality. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller
of  the  disbursement  certification  to  the  municipalities
provided  for  in this Section to be given to the Comptroller
by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders  to
be  drawn  for  the respective amounts in accordance with the
directions contained in the certification.
    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph  and  in  order  to  mitigate  delays   caused   by
distribution  procedures,  an allocation shall, if requested,
be made within  10  days  after  January  14,  1991,  and  in
November   of   1991   and  each  year  thereafter,  to  each
municipality that received  more  than  $500,000  during  the
preceding  fiscal  year,  (July  1  through  June 30) whether
collected by the municipality or disbursed by the  Department
as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14,
1991,   participating   municipalities   shall   notify   the
Department  in  writing  of  their intent to participate.  In
addition,  for  the   initial   distribution,   participating
municipalities  shall  certify  to the Department the amounts
collected by the municipality for each month under  its  home
rule  occupation and service occupation tax during the period
July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990.  The allocation within 10
days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount  equal  to
the  monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months
of highest receipts. The monthly average for  the  period  of
July  1,  1990  through  June  30, 1991 will be determined as
follows:  the amounts collected by the municipality under its
home rule occupation and service occupation  tax  during  the
period  of  July  1,  1990  through  September 30, 1990, plus
amounts  collected  by  the  Department  and  paid  to   such
municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding the 2 months of
highest  receipts.   The  monthly average for each subsequent
period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount equal  to
the monthly distribution made to each such municipality under
the  preceding  paragraph during this period, excluding the 2
months  of  highest  receipts.   The  distribution  made   in
November  1991  and each year thereafter under this paragraph
and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced  by  the  amount
allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding
period  of  July  1  through  June  30.  The Department shall
prepare and certify to the Comptroller for  disbursement  the
allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.
    For  the  purpose  of  determining the local governmental
unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer  of
coal  or  other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail
at the place  where  the  coal  or  other  mineral  mined  in
Illinois  is  extracted  from the earth.  This paragraph does
not apply to coal or other mineral when it  is  delivered  or
shipped  by  the  seller  to the purchaser at a point outside
Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the  United  States
Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
municipality  to  impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging
in any business which under the Constitution  of  the  United
States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
    An  ordinance  or  resolution imposing or discontinuing a
tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall
be adopted and  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed  with  the
Department  on or before the first day of June, whereupon the
Department shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce  this
Section  as  of the first day of September next following the
adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an  ordinance
or  resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or
effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a
certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before
the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed
to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of
October next following such adoption  and  filing.  Beginning
January  1,  1993,  an  ordinance  or  resolution imposing or
discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in  the
rate  thereof  shall  be adopted and a certified copy thereof
filed with the Department on  or  before  the  first  day  of
October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer
and  enforce this Section as of the first day of January next
following the adoption and filing.  However,  a  municipality
located  in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000
that elected to become  a  home  rule  unit  at  the  general
primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution
imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy
of  the  ordinance  or  resolution  with the Department on or
before July 1, 1994. The Department  shall  then  proceed  to
administer  and  enforce  this Section as of October 1, 1994.
Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution  imposing
or  discontinuing  the tax hereunder or effecting a change in
the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a  certified
copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first
day  of  April,  whereupon  the  Department  shall proceed to
administer and enforce this Section as of the  first  day  of
July  next  following  the  adoption  and  filing; or (ii) be
adopted  and  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed   with   the
Department  on  or before the first day of October, whereupon
the Department shall proceed to administer and  enforce  this
Section  as  of  the  first day of January next following the
adoption and filing.
    When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a
municipality  under  this  Section,  the   Department   shall
increase  or  decrease  the  amount by an amount necessary to
offset  any  misallocation  of  previous  disbursements.  The
offset amount  shall  be  the  amount  erroneously  disbursed
within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is
discovered.
    Any   unobligated  balance  remaining  in  the  Municipal
Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December  31,  1989,  which
fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of
municipal  tax  as  a  result  of audits of liability periods
prior to January 1,  1990,  shall  be  paid  into  the  Local
Government  Tax  Fund  for  distribution  as provided by this
Section prior to the enactment of  Public  Act  85-1135.  All
receipts  of  municipal  tax as a result of an assessment not
arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January
1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for
distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section
prior to the enactment of Public  Act  85-1135;  and  on  and
after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as
provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.
    As  used  in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality"
means a city, village  or  incorporated  town,  including  an
incorporated town that has superseded a civil township.
    This  Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home
Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-205; 87-435; 87-895; 88-603, eff. 9-1-94.)

    (65 ILCS 5/8-11-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-5)
    Sec. 8-11-5.  Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation  Tax
Act.   The  corporate authorities of a home rule municipality
may  impose  a  tax  upon  all  persons  engaged,   in   such
municipality,  in  the business of making sales of service at
the same rate of tax imposed pursuant to Section  8-11-1,  of
the   selling   price   of  all  tangible  personal  property
transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible
personal property or  in  the  form  of  real  estate  as  an
incident  to  a  sale of service.  If imposed, such tax shall
only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1,
1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on the sales  of
food  for  human  consumption which is to be consumed off the
premises where it is sold (other  than  alcoholic  beverages,
soft  drinks  and  food which has been prepared for immediate
consumption) and prescription and nonprescription  medicines,
drugs,   medical   appliances   and  insulin,  urine  testing
materials, syringes and needles used by  diabetics.  The  tax
imposed  by a home rule municipality pursuant to this Section
and all civil penalties that may be assessed as  an  incident
thereof   shall  be  collected  and  enforced  by  the  State
Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration  which
is   issued  by  the  Department  to  a  retailer  under  the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation
Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a  business
which  is  taxable  under any ordinance or resolution enacted
pursuant to this Section without registering separately  with
the  Department  under  such ordinance or resolution or under
this Section.   The  Department  shall  have  full  power  to
administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and
penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so
collected   in   the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  and  to
determine all rights to credit memoranda arising  on  account
of  the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the
administration of, and  compliance  with,  this  Section  the
Department  and persons who are subject to this Section shall
have  the  same  rights,  remedies,  privileges,  immunities,
powers and duties, and be subject  to  the  same  conditions,
restrictions,   limitations,  penalties  and  definitions  of
terms, and  employ  the  same  modes  of  procedure,  as  are
prescribed  in  Sections  1a-1,  2,  2a,  3  through 3-50 (in
respect to all provisions therein other than the  State  rate
of  tax),  4 (except that the reference to the State shall be
to the  taxing  municipality),  5,  7,  8  (except  that  the
jurisdiction  to  which the tax shall be a debt to the extent
indicated  in  that   Section   8   shall   be   the   taxing
municipality),  9  (except as to the disposition of taxes and
penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise
credit for this municipal tax may not be  taken  against  any
State  tax),  10,  11,  12  (except  the reference therein to
Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13  (except
that  any  reference  to  the  State  shall  mean  the taxing
municipality), the first paragraph  of  Section  15,  16,  17
(except  that  credit  memoranda  issued hereunder may not be
used to discharge any State tax liability), 18, 19 and 20  of
the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform
Penalty  and  Interest  Act,  as fully as if those provisions
were set forth herein.
    No tax  may  be  imposed  by  a  home  rule  municipality
pursuant  to  this  Section  unless  such  municipality  also
imposes  a tax at the same rate pursuant to Section 8-11-1 of
this Act.
    Persons subject  to  any  tax  imposed  pursuant  to  the
authority  granted  in  this Section may reimburse themselves
for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by  separately
stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be
stated  in  combination,  in  a single amount, with State tax
which servicemen are authorized to collect under the  Service
Use  Tax  Act,  pursuant  to  such  bracket  schedules as the
Department may prescribe.
    Whenever the Department determines that a  refund  should
be  made  under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing
credit memorandum, the  Department  shall  notify  the  State
Comptroller,  who  shall  cause the order to be drawn for the
amount  specified,  and  to  the  person   named,   in   such
notification  from the Department.  Such refund shall be paid
by the  State  Treasurer  out  of  the  home  rule  municipal
retailers' occupation tax fund.
    The  Department  shall  forthwith  pay  over to the State
Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all  taxes  and  penalties
collected  hereunder.  On  or  before  the  25th  day of each
calendar month, the Department shall prepare and  certify  to
the  Comptroller  the disbursement of stated sums of money to
named municipalities, the municipalities  to  be  those  from
which  suppliers  and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties
hereunder to  the  Department  during  the  second  preceding
calendar  month.  The  amount to be paid to each municipality
shall  be  the  amount  (not  including   credit   memoranda)
collected  hereunder  during  the  second  preceding calendar
month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to
the amount  of  refunds  made  during  the  second  preceding
calendar   month   by   the  Department  on  behalf  of  such
municipality.  Within  10  days   after   receipt,   by   the
Comptroller,   of   the  disbursement  certification  to  the
municipalities, provided for in this Section to be  given  to
the  Comptroller  by  the  Department,  the Comptroller shall
cause the orders to be drawn for the  respective  amounts  in
accordance    with   the   directions   contained   in   such
certification.
    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph  and  in  order  to  mitigate  delays   caused   by
distribution  procedures,  an allocation shall, if requested,
be made within  10  days  after  January  14,  1991,  and  in
November   of   1991   and  each  year  thereafter,  to  each
municipality that received  more  than  $500,000  during  the
preceding  fiscal  year,  (July  1  through  June 30) whether
collected by the municipality or disbursed by the  Department
as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14,
1991,   participating   municipalities   shall   notify   the
Department  in  writing  of  their intent to participate.  In
addition,  for  the   initial   distribution,   participating
municipalities  shall  certify  to the Department the amounts
collected by the municipality for each month under  its  home
rule  occupation and service occupation tax during the period
July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990.  The allocation within 10
days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount  equal  to
the  monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months
of highest receipts.  Monthly average for the period of  July
1,  1990 through June 30, 1991 will be determined as follows:
the amounts collected by the municipality under its home rule
occupation and service occupation tax during  the  period  of
July  1,  1990  through  September  30,  1990,  plus  amounts
collected  by  the  Department  and paid to such municipality
through June 30, 1991, excluding  the  2  months  of  highest
receipts.   The monthly average for each subsequent period of
July 1 through June 30  shall  be  an  amount  equal  to  the
monthly distribution made to each such municipality under the
preceding  paragraph  during  this  period,  excluding  the 2
months  of  highest  receipts.   The  distribution  made   in
November  1991  and each year thereafter under this paragraph
and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced  by  the  amount
allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding
period  of  July  1  through  June  30.  The Department shall
prepare and certify to the Comptroller for  disbursement  the
allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
municipality  to  impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging
in any business which under the constitution  of  the  United
States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
    An  ordinance  or  resolution imposing or discontinuing a
tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall
be adopted and  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed  with  the
Department  on or before the first day of June, whereupon the
Department shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce  this
Section  as of the first day of September next following such
adoption and filing.  Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance
or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder  or
effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a
certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before
the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed
to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of
October  next  following  such adoption and filing. Beginning
January 1, 1993,  an  ordinance  or  resolution  imposing  or
discontinuing  the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the
rate thereof shall be adopted and a  certified  copy  thereof
filed  with  the  Department  on  or  before the first day of
October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer
and enforce this Section as of the first day of January  next
following  such  adoption and filing. However, a municipality
located in a county with a population in excess of  3,000,000
that  elected  to  become  a  home  rule  unit at the general
primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution
imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy
of the ordinance or resolution  with  the  Department  on  or
before  July  1,  1994.  The Department shall then proceed to
administer and enforce this Section as of  October  1,  1994.
Beginning  April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing
or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a  change  in
the  rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified
copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first
day of April,  whereupon  the  Department  shall  proceed  to
administer  and  enforce  this Section as of the first day of
July next following the  adoption  and  filing;  or  (ii)  be
adopted   and   a  certified  copy  thereof  filed  with  the
Department on or before the first day of  October,  whereupon
the  Department  shall proceed to administer and enforce this
Section as of the first day of  January  next  following  the
adoption and filing.
    Any   unobligated  balance  remaining  in  the  Municipal
Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December  31,  1989,  which
fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of
municipal  tax  as  a  result  of audits of liability periods
prior to January 1,  1990,  shall  be  paid  into  the  Local
Government  Tax  Fund,  for  distribution as provided by this
Section prior to the enactment of  Public  Act  85-1135.  All
receipts  of  municipal  tax as a result of an assessment not
arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January
1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for
distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section
prior to the enactment of Public  Act  85-1135,  and  on  and
after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as
provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.
    As  used  in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality"
means a city, village  or  incorporated  town,  including  an
incorporated town which has superseded a civil township.
    This  Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home
Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-205; 87-435; 87-895; 88-603, eff. 9-1-94.)

    (65 ILCS 5/8-11-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-6)
    Sec. 8-11-6.  Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act.
    (a)  The   corporate   authorities   of   a   home   rule
municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in
such municipality, any item  of  tangible  personal  property
which  is  purchased  at retail from a retailer, and which is
titled or registered  at  a  location  within  the  corporate
limits  of such home rule municipality with an agency of this
State's government, at a rate which is an increment  of  1/4%
and  based  on  the  selling  price of such tangible personal
property, as "selling price" is defined in the Use  Tax  Act.
In   home   rule  municipalities  with  less  than  2,000,000
inhabitants, the tax shall be collected by  the  municipality
imposing  the  tax  from  persons  whose Illinois address for
titling or registration purposes is given as  being  in  such
municipality.
    (b)  In  home  rule municipalities with 2,000,000 or more
inhabitants, the corporate authorities  of  the  municipality
may additionally impose a tax beginning July 1, 1991 upon the
privilege  of using in the municipality, any item of tangible
personal property,  other  than  tangible  personal  property
titled   or   registered   with  an  agency  of  the  State's
government, that is  purchased  at  retail  from  a  retailer
located  outside the corporate limits of the municipality, at
a rate that is an increment of 1/4%  not  to  exceed  1%  and
based on the selling price of the tangible personal property,
as  "selling  price" is defined in the Use Tax Act.  Such tax
shall be collected from the  purchaser  by  the  municipality
imposing such tax.
    To prevent multiple home rule taxation, the use in a home
rule  municipality  of  tangible  personal  property  that is
acquired outside the municipality and caused  to  be  brought
into the municipality by a person who has already paid a home
rule  municipal tax in another municipality in respect to the
sale, purchase, or use of that property, shall be  exempt  to
the  extent of the amount of the tax properly due and paid in
the other home rule municipality.
    (c)  If  a  municipality   having   2,000,000   or   more
inhabitants  imposes  the  tax  authorized by subsection (a),
then the tax shall be collected by the Illinois Department of
Revenue when the property  is  purchased  at  retail  from  a
retailer  in  the  county in which the home rule municipality
imposing the tax is located, and in all contiguous  counties.
The  tax  shall  be  remitted  to  the State, or an exemption
determination must be obtained from the Department before the
title or certificate of registration for the property may  be
issued.   The tax or proof of exemption may be transmitted to
the Department by way of the  State  agency  with  which,  or
State  officer with whom, the tangible personal property must
be titled or registered if the Department and that agency  or
State officer determine that this procedure will expedite the
processing of applications for title or registration.
    The  Department  shall  have full power to administer and
enforce this Section to  collect  all  taxes,  penalties  and
interest  due  hereunder,  to dispose of taxes, penalties and
interest so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and
determine all rights to credit memoranda or  refunds  arising
on  account  of  the  erroneous  payment  of  tax, penalty or
interest hereunder.  In the administration of and  compliance
with  this Section the Department and persons who are subject
to  this  Section  shall  have  the  same  rights,  remedies,
privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject  to
the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and
definitions  of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure
as are prescribed in Sections 2  (except  the  definition  of
"retailer  maintaining a place of business in this State"), 3
(except provisions pertaining to the State rate of  tax,  and
except  provisions  concerning collection or refunding of the
tax by retailers), 4, 11, 12, 12a, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 and  22
of  the  Use  Tax  Act,  which are not inconsistent with this
Section,  as  fully  as  if  provisions  contained  in  those
Sections of the Use Tax Act were set forth herein.
    Whenever the Department determines that a refund shall be
made under this Section to a claimant instead  of  issuing  a
credit  memorandum,  the  Department  shall  notify the State
Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be  drawn  for  the
amount   specified,   and   to  the  person  named,  in  such
notification from the Department.  Such refund shall be  paid
by  the  State  Treasurer  out  of  the  home  rule municipal
retailers' occupation tax fund.
    The Department shall forthwith  pay  over  to  the  State
Treasurer,  ex  officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties and
interest collected hereunder.  On or before the 25th  day  of
each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify
to  the  State Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of
money to  named  municipalities,  the  municipality  in  each
instance  to  be  that municipality from which the Department
during  the  second  preceding  calendar   month,   collected
municipal  use tax from any person whose Illinois address for
titling or registration purposes is given as  being  in  such
municipality.   The  amount  to  be paid to each municipality
shall  be  the  amount  (not  including   credit   memoranda)
collected  hereunder  during  the  second  preceding calendar
month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to
the amount  of  refunds  made  during  the  second  preceding
calendar   month   by   the  Department  on  behalf  of  such
municipality, less the  amount  expended  during  the  second
preceding  month  by  the  Department  to  be  paid  from the
appropriation to the Department from the Home Rule  Municipal
Retailers'  Occupation  Tax Trust Fund.  The appropriation to
cover the costs incurred by the Department  in  administering
and  enforcing this Section shall not exceed 2% of the amount
estimated to  be  deposited  into  the  Home  Rule  Municipal
Retailers'  Occupation  Tax Trust Fund during the fiscal year
for which the appropriation is made.  Within  10  days  after
receipt   by   the  State  Comptroller  of  the  disbursement
certification to the  municipalities  provided  for  in  this
Section   to  be  given  to  the  State  Comptroller  by  the
Department, the State Comptroller shall cause the  orders  to
be  drawn  for  the respective amounts in accordance with the
directions contained in that certification.
    Any ordinance imposing or discontinuing  any  tax  to  be
collected  and  enforced by the Department under this Section
shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with  the
Department  on  or before October 1, whereupon the Department
of Revenue shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce  this
Section  on behalf of the municipalities as of January 1 next
following such adoption and filing.  Beginning April 1, 1998,
any  ordinance  imposing  or  discontinuing  any  tax  to  be
collected and enforced by the Department under  this  Section
shall  either  (i)  be  adopted  and a certified copy thereof
filed with the Department on or before April 1, whereupon the
Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce
this Section on behalf of the municipalities  as  of  July  1
next  following  the  adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted
and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on  or
before  October  1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall
proceed to administer and enforce this Section on  behalf  of
the  municipalities  as  of  January  1  next  following  the
adoption and filing.
    Nothing  in this subsection (c) shall prevent a home rule
municipality from collecting the tax pursuant  to  subsection
(a)  in  any situation where such tax is not collected by the
Department of Revenue under this subsection (c).
    (d)  Any unobligated balance remaining in  the  Municipal
Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Fund on December 31, 1989, which
fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of
municipal tax as a result  of  audits  of  liability  periods
prior  to  January  1,  1990,  shall  be  paid into the Local
Government Tax Fund, for distribution  as  provided  by  this
Section  prior  to  the  enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All
receipts of municipal tax as a result of  an  assessment  not
arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January
1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for
distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section
prior  to  the  enactment  of  Public Act 85-1135, and on and
after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as
provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.
    (e)  As   used   in   this   Section,   "Municipal"   and
"Municipality" means a city, village  or  incorporated  town,
including  an  incorporated town which has superseded a civil
township.
    (f)  This Section shall be known and may be cited as  the
"Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act".
(Source: P.A. 90-562, eff. 12-16-97.)

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

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