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 1        AN ACT concerning property taxes.

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

 4        Section  5.  The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
 5    Section 18-150 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 200/18-150)
 7        Sec. 18-150.  Extension in one total;  designated  escrow
 8    account.  In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the
 9    county clerk shall, and in  all  other  counties  the  county
10    clerk  may,  extend  on each valuation of property the sum of
11    the taxes to be extended upon  the  property  in  one  total.
12    When  collected,  the taxes shall be divided among the taxing
13    bodies levying  the  same  in  proportion  to  the  rates  as
14    determined  by  the  clerk,  after deducting from any tax the
15    amount or  amounts,  if  any,  ruled  invalid  by  the  final
16    judgment  of  a  court  of competent jurisdiction, and in the
17    event a municipality  has  adopted  tax  increment  financing
18    under  Division  74.4 of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal
19    Code, after deducting from any tax the amount to be placed in
20    the special tax allocation  fund  except  as  provided  under
21    Section  20-90,  and  distributing the amount to be placed in
22    the special fund to the  municipal  treasurer  under  Section
23    11-74.4-8  of  that  Act.  The  clerk  shall  certify  in the
24    collector's books the rates as determined  for  extension  in
25    such  manner as to indicate the different taxes entering into
26    each total.  All officers dealing with such extensions, shall
27    record  them  by  totals.   The  clerk  shall  show  in   the
28    collector's  books  the  total  tax  due  each taxing body as
29    extended.
30        If (i) a county clerk does not extend  in  one  total  on
31    each  valuation  of  property  the  sum  of  the  taxes to be
 
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 1    extended upon  the  property  and  (ii)  a  municipality  has
 2    adopted  tax  increment  financing  under  Division  74.4  of
 3    Article  11  of  the Illinois Municipal Code, then, except as
 4    provided under Section 20-90, the clerk must deduct from  any
 5    tax  the  amount  to  be placed in the special tax allocation
 6    fund and distribute the amount to be placed  in  the  special
 7    fund  to  the  municipal treasurer under Section 11-74.4-8 of
 8    the Illinois Municipal Code.  The amount of the tax  proceeds
 9    deposited  into  a  designated  escrow  account under Section
10    20-90 are subject to deductions from the tax in  the  amounts
11    ruled  invalid  by the final judgment of a court of competent
12    jurisdiction.
13    (Source: P.A. 79-1525; 88-455.)

14        Section 10.  The Illinois Municipal Code  is  amended  by
15    changing Section 11-74.4-8 as follows:

16        (65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-8)
17        Sec.   11-74.4-8.   A  municipality  may  not  adopt  tax
18    increment financing in a redevelopment project area after the
19    effective date of this  amendatory  Act  of  1997  that  will
20    encompass an area that is currently included in an enterprise
21    zone  created  under  the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act unless
22    that municipality, pursuant to Section 5.4  of  the  Illinois
23    Enterprise  Zone  Act, amends the enterprise zone designating
24    ordinance to limit the  eligibility  for  tax  abatements  as
25    provided  in  Section  5.4.1  of the Illinois Enterprise Zone
26    Act.  A municipality, at the  time  a  redevelopment  project
27    area  is  designated,  may  adopt  tax  increment  allocation
28    financing  by  passing  an  ordinance  providing  that the ad
29    valorem taxes, if any, arising from the levies  upon  taxable
30    real  property  in  such redevelopment project area by taxing
31    districts and tax rates determined in the manner provided  in
32    paragraph  (c)  of  Section  11-74.4-9  each  year  after the
 
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 1    effective date of the ordinance until  redevelopment  project
 2    costs  and  all municipal obligations financing redevelopment
 3    project costs incurred under this  Division  have  been  paid
 4    shall be divided as follows:
 5        (a)  That  portion of taxes levied upon each taxable lot,
 6    block, tract or parcel of real property which is attributable
 7    to the lower of the current equalized assessed value  or  the
 8    initial  equalized  assessed  value of each such taxable lot,
 9    block, tract or parcel of real property in the  redevelopment
10    project  area  shall be allocated to and when collected shall
11    be paid by the county collector to  the  respective  affected
12    taxing districts in the manner required by law in the absence
13    of the adoption of tax increment allocation financing.
14        (b)  Except  as  provided  under  Section  20-90  of  the
15    Property  Tax Code, that portion, if any, of such taxes which
16    is attributable to the  increase  in  the  current  equalized
17    assessed  valuation  of  each  taxable  lot,  block, tract or
18    parcel of real property in  the  redevelopment  project  area
19    over  and  above the initial equalized assessed value of each
20    property in the project area shall be allocated to  and  when
21    collected  shall be paid to the municipal treasurer who shall
22    deposit said taxes into a special fund called the special tax
23    allocation fund of the municipality for the purpose of paying
24    redevelopment project costs and obligations incurred  in  the
25    payment thereof. In any county with a population of 3,000,000
26    or  more  that  has  adopted a procedure for collecting taxes
27    that provides for one or more  of  the  installments  of  the
28    taxes  to  be billed and collected on an estimated basis, the
29    municipal treasurer shall be paid for deposit in the  special
30    tax  allocation  fund  of  the  municipality,  from the taxes
31    collected from estimated bills issued  for  property  in  the
32    redevelopment project area, the difference between the amount
33    actually  collected  from  each taxable lot, block, tract, or
34    parcel of real property within the redevelopment project area
 
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 1    and an amount determined by multiplying  the  rate  at  which
 2    taxes  were  last  extended  against  the taxable lot, block,
 3    track, or parcel of real property in the manner  provided  in
 4    subsection  (c) of Section 11-74.4-9 by the initial equalized
 5    assessed value of the  property  divided  by  the  number  of
 6    installments  in  which  real  estate  taxes  are  billed and
 7    collected within the county, provided each of  the  following
 8    conditions are met:
 9             (1)  The  total  equalized  assessed  value  of  the
10        redevelopment  project  area  as  last determined was not
11        less than 175% of the total  initial  equalized  assessed
12        value.
13             (2)  Not  more  than  50%  of  the  total  equalized
14        assessed  value of the redevelopment project area as last
15        determined  is  attributable  to  a  piece  of   property
16        assigned a single real estate index number.
17             (3)  The municipal clerk has certified to the county
18        clerk that the municipality has issued its obligations to
19        which  there  has  been  pledged the incremental property
20        taxes of the redevelopment project area or  taxes  levied
21        and  collected on any or all property in the municipality
22        or the full faith and credit of the municipality  to  pay
23        or   secure   payment   for  all  or  a  portion  of  the
24        redevelopment project costs. The certification  shall  be
25        filed   annually  no  later  than  September  1  for  the
26        estimated taxes to be distributed in the following  year;
27        however,  for  the  year  1992 the certification shall be
28        made at any time on or before March 31, 1992.
29             (4)  The municipality has  not  requested  that  the
30        total  initial  equalized assessed value of real property
31        be adjusted as provided  in  subsection  (b)  of  Section
32        11-74.4-9.
33        It  is  the  intent  of  this  Division  that  after  the
34    effective   date   of   this   amendatory   Act   of  1988  a
 
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 1    municipality's own ad valorem  tax  arising  from  levies  on
 2    taxable  real  property  be  included in the determination of
 3    incremental revenue in the manner provided in  paragraph  (c)
 4    of  Section  11-74.4-9.  If  the municipality does not extend
 5    such a tax, it shall annually deposit in  the  municipality's
 6    Special  Tax  Increment  Fund  an  amount equal to 10% of the
 7    total  contributions  to  the  fund  from  all  other  taxing
 8    districts in that year.  The annual 10% deposit  required  by
 9    this  paragraph  shall  be  limited  to  the actual amount of
10    municipally produced incremental tax  revenues  available  to
11    the  municipality from taxpayers located in the redevelopment
12    project area in that year if:  (a)  the  plan  for  the  area
13    restricts  the  use  of  the property primarily to industrial
14    purposes, (b) the municipality establishing the redevelopment
15    project area is a home-rule community with a 1990  population
16    of  between 25,000 and 50,000, (c) the municipality is wholly
17    located within a  county  with  a  1990  population  of  over
18    750,000   and   (d)   the   redevelopment  project  area  was
19    established by the municipality prior to June 1, 1990.   This
20    payment  shall  be  in  lieu  of a contribution of ad valorem
21    taxes on real property. If  no  such  payment  is  made,  any
22    redevelopment  project  area  of  the  municipality  shall be
23    dissolved.
24        If a municipality has adopted  tax  increment  allocation
25    financing  by  ordinance  and  the  County  Clerk  thereafter
26    certifies  the  "total  initial  equalized  assessed value as
27    adjusted"  of  the  taxable   real   property   within   such
28    redevelopment   project   area  in  the  manner  provided  in
29    paragraph (b) of Section 11-74.4-9, each year after the  date
30    of  the certification of the total initial equalized assessed
31    value as adjusted until redevelopment project costs  and  all
32    municipal  obligations  financing redevelopment project costs
33    have been paid the ad valorem taxes, if any, arising from the
34    levies upon the taxable real property in  such  redevelopment
 
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 1    project  area by taxing districts and tax rates determined in
 2    the manner provided in paragraph  (c)  of  Section  11-74.4-9
 3    shall be divided as follows:
 4             (1)  That  portion  of  the  taxes  levied upon each
 5        taxable lot, block, tract  or  parcel  of  real  property
 6        which  is  attributable  to  the  lower  of  the  current
 7        equalized  assessed  value or "current equalized assessed
 8        value as adjusted"  or  the  initial  equalized  assessed
 9        value  of  each such taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel
10        of real property  existing  at  the  time  tax  increment
11        financing  was adopted, minus the total current homestead
12        exemptions provided by Sections 15-170 and 15-175 of  the
13        Property Tax Code in the redevelopment project area shall
14        be  allocated  to and when collected shall be paid by the
15        county  collector  to  the  respective  affected   taxing
16        districts in the manner required by law in the absence of
17        the adoption of tax increment allocation financing.
18             (2)  That  portion,  if  any, of such taxes which is
19        attributable to the increase  in  the  current  equalized
20        assessed  valuation of each taxable lot, block, tract, or
21        parcel of real  property  in  the  redevelopment  project
22        area, over and above the initial equalized assessed value
23        of  each  property  existing  at  the  time tax increment
24        financing was adopted, minus the total current  homestead
25        exemptions  pertaining to each piece of property provided
26        by Sections 15-170 and 15-175 of the Property Tax Code in
27        the redevelopment project area, shall be allocated to and
28        when collected shall be paid to the municipal  Treasurer,
29        who  shall  deposit said taxes into a special fund called
30        the special tax allocation fund of the  municipality  for
31        the  purpose  of  paying  redevelopment project costs and
32        obligations incurred in the payment thereof.
33        The municipality may pledge in the ordinance the funds in
34    and to be deposited in the special tax  allocation  fund  for
 
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 1    the  payment  of  such costs and obligations.  No part of the
 2    current equalized assessed valuation of each property in  the
 3    redevelopment project area attributable to any increase above
 4    the  total  initial  equalized  assessed  value, or the total
 5    initial  equalized  assessed  value  as  adjusted,  of   such
 6    properties  shall  be  used  in calculating the general State
 7    school aid formula, provided  for  in  Section  18-8  of  the
 8    School  Code,  until  such  time as all redevelopment project
 9    costs have been paid as provided for in this Section.
10        Whenever a municipality issues bonds for the  purpose  of
11    financing  redevelopment project costs, such municipality may
12    provide by ordinance for the appointment of a trustee,  which
13    may  be  any  trust  company  within  the  State, and for the
14    establishment of such funds or accounts to be  maintained  by
15    such  trustee  as  the  municipality  shall deem necessary to
16    provide for the security and payment of the bonds.   If  such
17    municipality  provides for the appointment of a trustee, such
18    trustee shall be considered  the  assignee  of  any  payments
19    assigned  by  the municipality pursuant to such ordinance and
20    this Section.  Any amounts paid to such trustee  as  assignee
21    shall  be  deposited  in  the  funds  or accounts established
22    pursuant to such trust agreement, and shall be held  by  such
23    trustee in trust for the benefit of the holders of the bonds,
24    and such holders shall have a lien on and a security interest
25    in  such  funds  or  accounts  so  long  as  the bonds remain
26    outstanding and unpaid. Upon retirement  of  the  bonds,  the
27    trustee  shall  pay  over  any  excess  amounts  held  to the
28    municipality for deposit in the special tax allocation fund.
29        When such redevelopment projects costs, including without
30    limitation all municipal obligations financing  redevelopment
31    project  costs  incurred under this Division, have been paid,
32    all  surplus  funds  then  remaining  in  the   special   tax
33    allocation  fund  shall  be  distributed by being paid by the
34    municipal  treasurer  to  the  Department  of  Revenue,   the
 
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 1    municipality   and   the   county  collector;  first  to  the
 2    Department  of  Revenue  and  the  municipality   in   direct
 3    proportion  to  the tax incremental revenue received from the
 4    State and the municipality,  but  not  to  exceed  the  total
 5    incremental   revenue   received   from   the  State  or  the
 6    municipality  less  any  annual   surplus   distribution   of
 7    incremental revenue previously made; with any remaining funds
 8    to  be  paid  to  the  County Collector who shall immediately
 9    thereafter pay said funds to  the  taxing  districts  in  the
10    redevelopment  project area in the same manner and proportion
11    as the most recent distribution by the  county  collector  to
12    the  affected  districts  of  real  property  taxes from real
13    property in the redevelopment project area.
14        Upon the payment  of  all  redevelopment  project  costs,
15    retirement  of obligations and the distribution of any excess
16    monies pursuant to this Section, the municipality shall adopt
17    an ordinance dissolving the special tax allocation  fund  for
18    the   redevelopment   project   area   and   terminating  the
19    designation  of  the  redevelopment   project   area   as   a
20    redevelopment   project  area.   If  a  municipality  extends
21    estimated dates of completion of a redevelopment project  and
22    retirement of obligations to finance a redevelopment project,
23    as  allowed  by  this  amendatory Act of 1993, that extension
24    shall  not  extend  the  property  tax  increment  allocation
25    financing authorized by this Section.  Thereafter  the  rates
26    of  the  taxing districts shall be extended and taxes levied,
27    collected and distributed in the  manner  applicable  in  the
28    absence   of   the   adoption  of  tax  increment  allocation
29    financing.
30        Nothing in this Section shall be construed  as  relieving
31    property  in  such  redevelopment  project  areas  from being
32    assessed as provided in the Property Tax Code or as relieving
33    owners of such property from paying a uniform rate of  taxes,
34    as  required  by  Section  4  of  Article  9  of the Illinois
 
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 1    Constitution.
 2    (Source: P.A. 90-258, eff. 7-30-97.)

 3        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 4    becoming law.

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