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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1276

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1276  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section 5.  The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
 5    Sections 9-195 and  15-60 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 200/9-195)
 7        Sec. 9-195.  Leasing of exempt property.
 8        (a)  Except  as provided in Sections 15-35, 15-55, 15-60,
 9    15-100, and  15-103,  when  property  which  is  exempt  from
10    taxation  is  leased to another whose property is not exempt,
11    and the leasing of which does not make the property  taxable,
12    the leasehold estate and the appurtenances shall be listed as
13    the  property  of the lessee thereof, or his or her assignee.
14    Taxes on that property shall be collected in the same  manner
15    as  on  property  that is not exempt, and the lessee shall be
16    liable for those taxes.  However, no tax lien shall attach to
17    the exempt real estate. The changes made by  this  amendatory
18    Act  of  1997  and by this amendatory Act of the 91st General
19    Assembly  are declaratory of existing law and  shall  not  be
20    construed  as  a  new  enactment.  The changes made by Public
21    Acts 88-221  and  88-420  that  are  incorporated  into  this
22    Section  by  this  amendatory  Act of 1993 are declarative of
 
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 1    existing law and are not a new enactment.
 2        (b)  The provisions of this Section regarding taxation of
 3    leasehold interests in exempt property do not  apply  to  any
 4    leasehold   interest  created  pursuant  to  any  transaction
 5    described in subsection  (e)  of  Section  15-35,  subsection
 6    (c-5)  of Section 15-60, subsection (b) of Section 15-100, or
 7    Section 15-103.
 8    (Source: P.A. 90-562, eff. 12-16-97; 91-513, eff. 8-13-99.)

 9        (35 ILCS 200/15-60)
10        Sec.  15-60.   Taxing  district  property.  All  property
11    belonging to any county or municipality used exclusively  for
12    the  maintenance  of  the  poor is exempt, as is all property
13    owned by a taxing district that  is  being  held  for  future
14    expansion  or  development,  except  if  leased by the taxing
15    district to lessees for use for other than public purposes.
16        Also exempt are:
17        (a)  all swamp  or  overflowed  lands  belonging  to  any
18    county;
19        (b)  all   public  buildings  belonging  to  any  county,
20    township, or municipality,  with  the  ground  on  which  the
21    buildings are erected;
22        (c)  all  property  owned  by  any  municipality  located
23    within  its incorporated limits.  Any such property leased by
24    a  municipality  shall  remain  exempt,  and  the   leasehold
25    interest  of the lessee shall be assessed under Section 9-195
26    of this Act, (i) for a lease entered into on or after January
27    1, 1994,  unless  the  lease  expressly  provides  that  this
28    exemption  shall  not apply; (ii) for a lease entered into on
29    or after the effective date of Public Act 87-1280 and  before
30    January  1,  1994,  unless  the lease expressly provides that
31    this exemption shall not apply or unless evidence other  than
32    the  lease  itself substantiates the intent of the parties to
33    the lease that this exemption shall not apply; and (iii)  for
 
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 1    a  lease entered into before the effective date of Public Act
 2    87-1280, if the terms of the lease do not bind the lessee  to
 3    pay  the  taxes on the leased property or if, notwithstanding
 4    the terms  of  the  lease,  the  municipality  has  filed  or
 5    hereafter files a timely exemption petition or complaint with
 6    respect  to  property  consisting  of or including the leased
 7    property for an assessment year which includes part or all of
 8    the first 12 months  of  the  lease  period.   The  foregoing
 9    clause (iii) added by Public Act 87-1280 shall not operate to
10    exempt property for any assessment year as to which no timely
11    exemption  petition  or  complaint  has  been  filed  by  the
12    municipality  or  as  to  which  an  administrative  or court
13    decision   denying   exemption   has   become    final    and
14    nonappealable.  For  each  assessment year or portion thereof
15    that property is made exempt by operation  of  the  foregoing
16    clause (iii), whether such year or portion is before or after
17    the  effective  date  of  Public  Act  87-1280, the leasehold
18    interest of the lessee shall,  if  necessary,  be  considered
19    omitted property for purposes of this Act;
20        (c-5)  Notwithstanding  clause (i) of subsection (c), all
21    property owned by a municipality with a  population  of  over
22    500,000  that  is  used for toll road or toll bridge purposes
23    and that is leased for those purposes to another entity whose
24    property is not exempt shall remain exempt, and any leasehold
25    interest in the property shall not  be  subject  to  taxation
26    under Section 9-195 of this Act;
27        (d)  all  property  owned  by  any  municipality  located
28    outside  its  incorporated  limits but within the same county
29    when used  as  a  tuberculosis  sanitarium,  farm  colony  in
30    connection with a house of correction, or nursery, garden, or
31    farm,   or   for  the  growing  of  shrubs,  trees,  flowers,
32    vegetables, and plants for use in  beautifying,  maintaining,
33    and  operating  playgrounds, parks, parkways, public grounds,
34    buildings,  and  institutions  owned  or  controlled  by  the
 
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 1    municipality; and
 2        (e)  all property owned by a  township  and  operated  as
 3    senior  citizen  housing under Sections 35-50 through 35-50.6
 4    of the Township Code.
 5        All property owned by any  municipality  outside  of  its
 6    corporate  limits is exempt if used exclusively for municipal
 7    or public purposes.
 8        For purposes of this  Section,  "municipality"   means  a
 9    municipality,  as  defined  in  Section 1-1-2 of the Illinois
10    Municipal Code.
11    (Source: P.A. 89-165, eff. 1-1-96; 90-176, eff. 1-1-98.)

12        Section 10.  The Illinois Municipal Code  is  amended  by
13    changing Section 8-11-6 as follows:

14        (65 ILCS 5/8-11-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-6)
15        Sec. 8-11-6.  Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act.
16        (a)  The   corporate   authorities   of   a   home   rule
17    municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in
18    such  municipality,  any  item  of tangible personal property
19    which is purchased at retail from a retailer,  and  which  is
20    titled  or  registered  at  a  location  within the corporate
21    limits of such home rule municipality with an agency of  this
22    State's  government,  at a rate which is an increment of 1/4%
23    and based on the selling  price  of  such  tangible  personal
24    property,  as  "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act.
25    In  home  rule  municipalities  with  less   than   2,000,000
26    inhabitants,  the  tax shall be collected by the municipality
27    imposing the tax from  persons  whose  Illinois  address  for
28    titling  or  registration  purposes is given as being in such
29    municipality.
30        (b)  In home rule municipalities with 2,000,000  or  more
31    inhabitants,  the  corporate  authorities of the municipality
32    may additionally impose a tax beginning July 1, 1991 upon the
 
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 1    privilege of using in the municipality, any item of  tangible
 2    personal  property,  other  than  tangible  personal property
 3    titled  or  registered  with  an  agency   of   the   State's
 4    government,  that  is  purchased  at  retail  from a retailer
 5    located outside the corporate limits of the municipality,  at
 6    a  rate  that  is  an  increment of 1/4% not to exceed 1% and
 7    based on the selling price of the tangible personal property,
 8    as "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act.   Such  tax
 9    shall  be collected from the purchaser or the retailer either
10    by the municipality imposing such tax or by the Department of
11    Revenue pursuant to an agreement between the  Department  and
12    the municipality.
13        To prevent multiple home rule taxation, the use in a home
14    rule  municipality  of  tangible  personal  property  that is
15    acquired outside the municipality and caused  to  be  brought
16    into the municipality by a person who has already paid a home
17    rule  municipal tax in another municipality in respect to the
18    sale, purchase, or use of that property, shall be  exempt  to
19    the  extent of the amount of the tax properly due and paid in
20    the other home rule municipality.
21        (c)  If  a  municipality   having   2,000,000   or   more
22    inhabitants  imposes  the  tax  authorized by subsection (a),
23    then the tax shall be collected by the Illinois Department of
24    Revenue when the property  is  purchased  at  retail  from  a
25    retailer  in  the  county in which the home rule municipality
26    imposing the tax is located, and in all contiguous  counties.
27    The  tax  shall  be  remitted  to  the State, or an exemption
28    determination must be obtained from the Department before the
29    title or certificate of registration for the property may  be
30    issued.   The tax or proof of exemption may be transmitted to
31    the Department by way of the  State  agency  with  which,  or
32    State  officer with whom, the tangible personal property must
33    be titled or registered if the Department and that agency  or
34    State officer determine that this procedure will expedite the
 
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 1    processing of applications for title or registration.
 2        The  Department  shall  have full power to administer and
 3    enforce this Section to  collect  all  taxes,  penalties  and
 4    interest  due  hereunder,  to dispose of taxes, penalties and
 5    interest so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and
 6    determine all rights to credit memoranda or  refunds  arising
 7    on  account  of  the  erroneous  payment  of  tax, penalty or
 8    interest hereunder.  In the administration of and  compliance
 9    with  this Section the Department and persons who are subject
10    to  this  Section  shall  have  the  same  rights,  remedies,
11    privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject  to
12    the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and
13    definitions  of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure
14    as are prescribed in Sections 2  (except  the  definition  of
15    "retailer  maintaining a place of business in this State"), 3
16    (except provisions pertaining to the State rate of  tax,  and
17    except  provisions  concerning collection or refunding of the
18    tax by retailers), 4, 11, 12, 12a, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 and  22
19    of  the  Use  Tax  Act,  which are not inconsistent with this
20    Section,  as  fully  as  if  provisions  contained  in  those
21    Sections of the Use Tax Act were set forth herein.
22        Whenever the Department determines that a refund shall be
23    made under this Section to a claimant instead  of  issuing  a
24    credit  memorandum,  the  Department  shall  notify the State
25    Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be  drawn  for  the
26    amount   specified,   and   to  the  person  named,  in  such
27    notification from the Department.  Such refund shall be  paid
28    by  the  State  Treasurer  out  of  the  home  rule municipal
29    retailers' occupation tax fund.
30        The Department shall forthwith  pay  over  to  the  State
31    Treasurer,  ex  officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties and
32    interest collected hereunder.  On or before the 25th  day  of
33    each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify
34    to  the  State Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of
 
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 1    money to  named  municipalities,  the  municipality  in  each
 2    instance  to  be  that municipality from which the Department
 3    during  the  second  preceding  calendar   month,   collected
 4    municipal  use tax from any person whose Illinois address for
 5    titling or registration purposes is given as  being  in  such
 6    municipality.   The  amount  to  be paid to each municipality
 7    shall  be  the  amount  (not  including   credit   memoranda)
 8    collected  hereunder  during  the  second  preceding calendar
 9    month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to
10    the amount  of  refunds  made  during  the  second  preceding
11    calendar   month   by   the  Department  on  behalf  of  such
12    municipality, less the  amount  expended  during  the  second
13    preceding  month  by  the  Department  to  be  paid  from the
14    appropriation to the Department from the Home Rule  Municipal
15    Retailers'  Occupation  Tax Trust Fund.  The appropriation to
16    cover the costs incurred by the Department  in  administering
17    and  enforcing this Section shall not exceed 2% of the amount
18    estimated to  be  deposited  into  the  Home  Rule  Municipal
19    Retailers'  Occupation  Tax Trust Fund during the fiscal year
20    for which the appropriation is made.  Within  10  days  after
21    receipt   by   the  State  Comptroller  of  the  disbursement
22    certification to the  municipalities  provided  for  in  this
23    Section   to  be  given  to  the  State  Comptroller  by  the
24    Department, the State Comptroller shall cause the  orders  to
25    be  drawn  for  the respective amounts in accordance with the
26    directions contained in that certification.
27        Any ordinance imposing or discontinuing  any  tax  to  be
28    collected  and  enforced by the Department under this Section
29    shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with  the
30    Department  on  or before October 1, whereupon the Department
31    of Revenue shall  proceed  to  administer  and  enforce  this
32    Section  on behalf of the municipalities as of January 1 next
33    following such adoption and filing.  Beginning April 1, 1998,
34    any  ordinance  imposing  or  discontinuing  any  tax  to  be
 
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 1    collected and enforced by the Department under  this  Section
 2    shall  either  (i)  be  adopted  and a certified copy thereof
 3    filed with the Department on or before April 1, whereupon the
 4    Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce
 5    this Section on behalf of the municipalities  as  of  July  1
 6    next  following  the  adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted
 7    and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on  or
 8    before  October  1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall
 9    proceed to administer and enforce this Section on  behalf  of
10    the  municipalities  as  of  January  1  next  following  the
11    adoption and filing.
12        Nothing  in this subsection (c) shall prevent a home rule
13    municipality from collecting the tax pursuant  to  subsection
14    (a)  in  any situation where such tax is not collected by the
15    Department of Revenue under this subsection (c).
16        (d)  Any unobligated balance remaining in  the  Municipal
17    Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Fund on December 31, 1989, which
18    fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of
19    municipal tax as a result  of  audits  of  liability  periods
20    prior  to  January  1,  1990,  shall  be  paid into the Local
21    Government Tax Fund, for distribution  as  provided  by  this
22    Section  prior  to  the  enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All
23    receipts of municipal tax as a result of  an  assessment  not
24    arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January
25    1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for
26    distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section
27    prior  to  the  enactment  of  Public Act 85-1135, and on and
28    after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as
29    provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act.
30        (e)  As   used   in   this   Section,   "Municipal"   and
31    "Municipality" means a city, village  or  incorporated  town,
32    including  an  incorporated town which has superseded a civil
33    township.
34        (f)  This Section shall be known and may be cited as  the
 
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 1    Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act.
 2    (Source: P.A. 91-51, eff. 6-30-99; 92-221, eff. 8-2-01.)

 3        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
 4    Section 8.26 as follows:

 5        (30 ILCS 805/8.26 new)
 6        Sec. 8.26. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
 7    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
 8    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
 9    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

10        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
11    becoming law.".

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