(65 ILCS 5/9-2-56) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-56)
Sec. 9-2-56.
Upon objections or motion for that purpose, the court in which
the specified proceeding is pending may inquire in a summary way whether
the officer making the report has omitted any property benefited and
whether or not the assessment, as made and returned, is an equitable and
just distribution of the cost of the improvement, first, between the public
and the property, and second, among the parcels of property assessed. The
court has the power, on such application being made, to revise and correct
the assessments levied, to change or modify the distribution of the total
cost between the public and property benefited, to change the manner of
distribution among the parcels of private property, and to strike out of
the roll of awards by the commissioners filed in the case the amount or
amounts shown as compensation for property which property has been
theretofore donated by any person or persons for the making of the proposed
improvement, so as to produce a just and equitable assessment, considering
the nature of the property assessed, and its capacity for immediate use of
the improvement when completed.
The court may either make such corrections or changes, or determine in
general the manner in which the corrections or changes shall be made, and
refer the assessment roll to any competent person for revision, correction
or alteration in such manner as the court may determine. The determination
of the court as to the correctness of the distribution of the cost of the
improvement between the public and the property to be assessed, is
appealable as in other civil cases.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3762.)
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