96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB3157


 
Introduced 2/9/2010, by Sen. Don Harmon
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














35 ILCS 200/27-5









    Amends the Property Tax Code.  Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Special Service Area Tax Law.
















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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

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

 
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    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing 
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Section 27-5 as follows:
 



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    (35 ILCS 200/27-5)



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    Sec. 27-5. Short title; definitions. This Article may be 
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cited as the
the
Special Service Area Tax Law.
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    When used in this Article: 

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    "Special Service Area" means a contiguous area within a 
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municipality
or county in which special governmental services 
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are provided in
addition to those services provided generally 
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throughout the
municipality or county, the cost of the special 
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services to be paid
from revenues collected from taxes levied 
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or imposed upon property
within that area.  Territory shall be 
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considered contiguous for purposes
of this Article even though 
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certain completely surrounded portions of the
territory are 
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excluded from the special service area.  A county may create
a 
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special service area within a municipality or municipalities 
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when the
municipality or municipalities consent to the creation 
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of the special
service area. A municipality may create a 
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special service area within a
municipality and the 
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unincorporated area of a county or within another
municipality 
 


 






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when the county or other municipality consents to the creation

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of the special service area.

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    "Special Services" means all forms of services pertaining 
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to the
government and affairs of the municipality or county, 
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including
but not limited to weather modification and 
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improvements permissible under
Article 9 of the Illinois 
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Municipal Code, and contracts for the supply of
water as 
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described in Section 11-124-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code 
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which
may be entered into by the municipality or by the county 
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on behalf of a
county service area.

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(Source: P.A. 86-1324; 88-445.)