94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4805


 
Introduced 1/18/2006, by Rep. Roger Jenisch - Ed Sullivan, Jr.
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		















35 ILCS 200/2-85 new





35 ILCS 200/3-35









    Amends the Property Tax Code. Prohibits township assessors, multi-township assessors, and supervisors of assessments and their deputies and employees from having an interest, directly or indirectly, in any business concern that provides assistance to any taxpayer to challenge the assessment or valuation of any real property  that is located in the county  in which the assessor or supervisor of assessments serves in his or her office. Provides that a violation of this prohibition is a petty offense and violators may not serve as an assessor, supervisor of assessments, or deputy or employee of an assessor or supervisor of assessments. 
















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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended  by changing 
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Section 3-35 and  by adding Section 2-85 as follows:
 
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    (35 ILCS 200/2-85  new)
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    Sec. 2-85. Prohibited activities. A township or 
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multi-township assessor or any deputy or employee of the 
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assessor may not have an interest, directly or indirectly, in 
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any business concern that provides assistance to any taxpayer 
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to challenge the assessment or valuation of any real property  
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that is located in the county  in which the assessor serves in 
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his or her office.
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    Any person who violates the provisions of this Section is 
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guilty of a petty offense and is subject to a fine of not less 
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than $501 and not more than $1,000. If a person is convicted of 
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a petty offense for a violation of the provisions of this 
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Section, then that person may not serve as a  township or 
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multi-township assessor or any deputy or employee of the 
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assessor.
 



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    (35 ILCS 200/3-35)



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    Sec. 3-35. Outside employment; prohibited activities. 
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    (a) Except as provided below, any person
appointed under 
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Section 3-5 shall hold no other lucrative public office or

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public employment.  In counties with less than 100,000 
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inhabitants, he or she
may hold public employment if the duties 
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are not incompatible with his or her
duties as supervisor of 
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assessments as assigned by the county board.  The
duties of a 
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person administering a county zoning ordinance shall not be

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considered incompatible with the duties of a supervisor of 
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assessments.

 


 






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    (b) A supervisor of assessments or any deputy or employee 
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of the supervisor of assessments may not have an interest, 
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directly or indirectly, in any business concern that provides 
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assistance to any taxpayer to challenge the assessment or 
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valuation of any real property  that is located in the county  in 
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which the supervisor of assessments serves in his or her 
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office.
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    Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection 
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(b) is guilty of a petty offense and is subject to a fine of not 
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less than $501 and not more than $1,000. If a person is 
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convicted of a petty offense for a violation of the provisions 
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of this subsection (b), then that person may not serve as a  
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supervisor of assessments or any deputy or employee of the 
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supervisor of assessments.
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(Source: P.A. 86-482; 86-1475; 88-455.)