(65 ILCS 5/9-2-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-23)
Sec. 9-2-23.
The superintendent of special assessments, or president of the
board of local improvements, as the case may be, shall file with the
commissioners' report an affidavit made by himself or by some employee of
his office, that (1) the affiant has carefully examined the records in the
recorder's office of the specified county or counties for the names of the
owners of record of the several lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land
to be taken or damaged for the improvement, (2) that the affiant made a
careful examination of the collector's books showing the payments of
general taxes during the last preceding year in which taxes were paid on
the respective lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land against which
benefits are assessed in the commissioners' report, to ascertain the person
or persons who last paid the taxes on those respective lots, blocks,
tracts, and parcels of land, (3) that the names of those owners of record
and persons who paid those taxes are correctly shown in the columns or
schedules of ownership and of persons who paid those taxes in the
commissioners' report, (4) that he has diligently inquired as to the
residence of the respective owners of property to be taken or damaged for
the improvement and of the persons who paid the general taxes during the
last preceding calendar year in which general taxes were paid on all the
respective lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land against which benefits
have been assessed in the commissioners' report (specifying the nature of
the inquiry and examination he has made for that purpose), (5) that the
residences of the owners and parties paying those general taxes are
correctly stated, according to the result of his examination, in the column
or schedule of residences in the commissioners' report, and (6) that in all
cases where he has been unable to find the residence of the owner of the
record title, he has examined the return of the collector's warrant for
taxes on real estate for the last preceding year, in which the taxes were
paid, and has set opposite each such parcel whose owner has not been found,
the name of the person who last paid the tax on that parcel, together with
his place of residence, wherever, on diligent inquiry, he was able to find
the same. This affidavit, or an affidavit filed therewith, shall further
state that the affiant has visited each of the parcels of land to be taken
or damaged for the improvement described in the commissioners' report, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the parcel was occupied, and the
name and residence of the occupant, if any, and that in every case where
those parcels of land were found to be occupied, upon such investigation,
the name of the occupant is stated in the commissioners' report opposite
that parcel, together with his residence, when ascertained. Such an
affidavit and report shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements of
this Division 2 have been complied with.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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