(70 ILCS 605/9-8) (from Ch. 42, par. 9-8)
Sec. 9-8.
Prior
obligations and assessments-Annual maintenance assessments.
The merging of any district into a consolidated district shall not
affect the obligation of any contract entered into by the merged district
nor invalidate or otherwise affect the levy, extension or collection of any
assessments upon property in such merged district. Such contracts shall be
taken over and assumed by the consolidated district. All assessments shall
be collected and the proceeds therefrom shall be expended or disposed of by
the consolidated district in the same manner as such assessments might have
been collected, expended or disposed of by the individual districts.
If an annual maintenance assessment has been levied in one or more of
the districts so consolidated such annual maintenance assessment or
assessments shall remain unimpaired by such consolidation and the
commissioners of the consolidated district shall have the power to make and
file a certificate of levy of an annual maintenance assessment in the same
manner as is provided in this Act for other districts. If the commissioners
of the consolidated district determine that (a) the annual maintenance
assessment is insufficient or (b) is not properly equalized on the lands
and other property in the consolidated district they may petition the court
for leave to levy an annual maintenance assessment to supersede the former
annual maintenance assessment or assessments levied by the individual
district or districts. Any such petition shall be filed, set for hearing
and heard after notice in the manner provided in Sections 4-19 to 4-24,
inclusive. If the court finds that the existing annual maintenance
assessment is insufficient or is not properly equalized on the lands or
other property in the consolidated district then its order shall include a
provision setting aside and vacating the former annual maintenance
assessment or assessments effective upon the confirmation of the new annual
maintenance assessment roll, but such order shall not in any way affect the
collection of any annual maintenance assessments due and unpaid at the time
of the confirmation of the new roll.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)
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