(20 ILCS 655/5.2) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 607)
Sec. 5.2. Department review of Enterprise Zone applications. (a) All
applications which are to be considered and acted upon by the Department
during a calendar year must be received by the Department no later than
December 31 of the preceding calendar year.
Any application received after December 31 of any calendar year shall
be held by the Department for consideration and action during the following
calendar year.
Each enterprise zone application shall include a specific definition of the applicant's local labor market area. (a-5) The Department shall, no later than July 31, 2013, develop an application process for an enterprise zone application. The Department has emergency rulemaking authority for the purpose of application development only until 12 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. (b) Upon receipt of an application from a county or municipality the Department
shall review the application to determine whether the designated area
qualifies as an enterprise zone under Section 4 of this Act.
(c) No later than June 30, the Department shall notify all applicant municipalities
and counties of the Department's determination of the qualification of their
respective designated enterprise zone areas, and shall send qualifying applications, including the applicant's scores for each of the items set forth in subsection (a) of Section 4.1 and the applicant's final score under that Section, to the Board for the Board's consideration, along with supporting documentation of the basis for the Department's decision.
(d) If any such designated area is found to be qualified to be an enterprise
zone by the Department under subsection (c) of this Section, the Department shall, no later than July 15, send a letter of notification to each member of the General Assembly whose legislative district or representative district contains all or part of the designated area and publish a notice in at
least one newspaper of general circulation within the proposed zone area
to notify the general public of the application and their opportunity to
comment. Such notice shall include a description of the area and a brief
summary of the application and shall indicate locations where the applicant
has provided copies of the application for public inspection. The notice
shall also indicate appropriate procedures for the filing of written comments
from zone residents, business, civic and other organizations and property
owners to the Department. The Department and the Board may consider written comments submitted pursuant to this Section or any other information regarding a pending enterprise zone application submitted after the deadline for enterprise zone application and received prior to the Board's decision on all pending applications.
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(Source: P.A. 102-108, eff. 1-1-22.)
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