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91_SB1376
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
2 Sections 9-2-84 and 9-2-88.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
6 changing Sections 9-2-84 and 9-2-88 as follows:
7 (65 ILCS 5/9-2-84) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-84)
8 Sec. 9-2-84. In counties having a population of less than
9 1,000,000, the collector of the municipality, at any time
10 after August 15 in each year, shall publish an advertisement
11 that a return will be made to the general officer of the
12 county having authority to receive State and county taxes of
13 all unpaid special assessments or installments thereof
14 matured and payable, or interest thereon, or interest due to
15 the preceding January 2 on installments not yet matured on
16 all warrants in his hands. This advertisement (1) shall
17 contain a list of the delinquent lands, town lots, and real
18 property upon which the special assessment or installments
19 thereof or interest thereon remain unpaid, the name of the
20 person shown by the county collector's current warrant book
21 to be the party in whose name the general real estate taxes
22 were last assessed for each such property, the total amount
23 due thereon, and the year for which the same are due; (2)
24 shall give notice that the general officer of the county
25 having authority to receive State and county taxes in the
26 county in which those lands, town lots, or real property may
27 be located, will make application on the day specified
28 therein, for judgment against those lands, town lots, and
29 real property for those special assessments, matured
30 installments of special assessments, interest and costs due
31 thereon, and for an order to sell those lands, town lots, and
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1 real property for the satisfaction thereof; and (3) shall
2 give notice that on the Monday fixed by that general officer
3 of the county for sale, all the lands, town lots, and real
4 property, for the sale of which an order is made, will be
5 exposed to public sale at the court house in that county for
6 the amount of special assessments and matured installments of
7 special assessments, interest and costs due thereon. The
8 advertisement shall be sufficient notice of the intended
9 application for judgment and of the sale of those lands, town
10 lots, and real property under the order of the court.
11 Publication of the advertisement shall be made at least
12 once not more than 30 nor less than 15 days in advance of the
13 date upon which the judgment is to be sought. Such
14 publication shall be made in one or more newspapers published
15 in the municipality, or if no newspaper is published therein
16 then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation in
17 the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500
18 inhabitants, publication may instead be made by posting a
19 notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
20 The municipal collector shall add to all special
21 assessments and matured installments of special assessments
22 and the interest thereon, when paid after August 15, in the
23 year when they became due and payable, an amount equal to the
24 actual costs, not to exceed 0.2% of the assessed value of the
25 sum of 10 cents for each lot, tract, or parcel of land upon
26 which payment is made, to cover the cost of the advertisement
27 as required in this Division 2.
28 (Source: P.A. 85-1137.)
29 (65 ILCS 5/9-2-88) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-88)
30 Sec. 9-2-88. In counties having a population of less than
31 1,000,000 in all cases, except where land or lots have been
32 withdrawn from collection for want of bidders or forfeited to
33 the State for nonpayment of special assessments 2 or more
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1 years in succession next preceding the year in which the
2 application for judgment and order of sale is made, the
3 collector of the municipality shall send a notice of the
4 application for judgment and sale of the land or lots upon
5 which special assessments remain due and unpaid, the date of
6 sale, a description of the land or lots, and the amount of
7 the special assessments together with interest and costs due
8 thereon. The notice shall be sent by mail, either by letter
9 or post card, postage prepaid, at least 5 days before the
10 date of sale. The notice shall be addressed to the person
11 shown by the county collector's current warrant book to be
12 the party in whose name the general real estate taxes on such
13 property were last assessed, and such notices shall be mailed
14 to each such party at the address shown for such party in the
15 county collector's current warrant book. For each such notice
16 the collector of the municipality shall charge an amount
17 equal to the actual costs, not to exceed 0.02% of the
18 assessed value of each parcel, 10 cents to be taxed and
19 collected as costs.
20 (Source: P.A. 85-1137.)
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.