Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 9 - Local Improvements

Division 1. Provisions Generally Applicable

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-1
  The provisions of Sections 9-1-2 through 9-1-10 apply in all municipalities unless otherwise provided in any of such sections. The provisions of Sections 9-1-11...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-2
  When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered to be made provides that the improvement shall be made by general taxation, the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-3
  No ordinance ordering a local improvement shall be repealed except on a written recommendation of the board of local improvements, or committee on local...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-4
  The board of local improvements or committee on local improvements, as the case may be, shall submit to the corporate authorities, during the months...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-5
  Any municipality having any undistributed or unclaimed money received from the making of any local improvement paid for wholly or in part by special...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-6
  Before the money so remaining undistributed or unclaimed and in the possession of a municipality is set aside and transferred into the unclaimed rebate...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-7
  The corporate authorities, by ordinance, may create an unclaimed rebate fund and may provide for its regulation and control, and from time to time...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-8
  Unless a claim is made by the person entitled thereto before the passage of an ordinance by a municipality, as specified in Section 9-1-6,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-9
  Any municipality having an unclaimed rebate fund as provided in Sections 9-1-5 through 9-1-7, by ordinance may at its option direct the use of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-10
  Whenever any municipality creates an unclaimed rebate fund and by ordinance directs the use of the money in that fund for the purpose of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-11
  Whenever the treasurer of any municipality has petitioned a court of record for directions as to the distribution of undistributed or unclaimed money received...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-12
  If the corporate authorities have created an unclaimed rebate fund, the treasurer shall transfer to the unclaimed rebate fund, in trust any funds which...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-13
  If the corporate authorities have not created an unclaimed rebate fund, the treasurer shall transfer to the general fund of the municipality, in trust,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-1-14
  Any person entitled to any unclaimed sum of money paid into the general fund of a municipality, in trust, under the provisions of Sections...

Division 2. Local Improvement Procedures Restricted to Certain Municipalities

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-1
  This Division 2 applies to all cities and villages incorporated under this Code and to any city, village or incorporated town organized under a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-2
  In this Division 2, the following terms have the meaning ascribed to them unless the context indicates otherwise: "Municipality" means any city, village or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-3
  Any municipality which after July 6, 1937, enters into an agreement with the Federal Government or any agency thereof or other governmental agency for...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-4
  Any municipality in or adjacent to which any Federal defense project is in progress or is about to be in progress, may, if the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-4.5
  Special assessment for payment of costs associated with certain ordinance violations. (a) For purposes of this Section, "Code" means any municipal ordinance that requires, after...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-5
  When any municipality provides by ordinance for the making of any local improvement, it shall prescribe by the same ordinance whether the improvement shall...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-6
  No ordinance for any local improvement, to be paid wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation, shall be considered or passed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-7
  In cities having a population of 500,000 or more, there is created a board of local improvements consisting of the superintendent of special assessments...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-8
  In cities having a population of 500,000 or more, and having a chief clerk of special assessments, that chief clerk of special assessments, in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-9
  Preliminary procedure for local improvements by special assessment. All ordinances for local improvements to be paid for wholly or in part by special assessment...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-10
  At the time and place fixed in the specified notice for the public hearing, the board of local improvements shall meet and hear the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-11
  Accompanying any ordinance for a local improvement presented by the board of local improvements to the corporate authorities shall be a recommendation of such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-12
  An estimate of the cost of the improvement, including the cost of engineering services, as originally contemplated, or as changed, altered, or modified at...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-13
  Publication and posting of ordinances. Upon the presentation to the corporate authorities of the proposed ordinance, together with the required recommendation and estimate, if the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-14
  If the ordinance provides for improvements which require the taking or damaging of property, the proceeding for making just compensation therefor shall be as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-15
  Whenever any local improvement ordinance is passed by the corporate authorities of any municipality, to be paid for wholly or in part by special...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-16
  The petition required in Section 9-2-15 shall contain a reasonably accurate description of lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land which are to be...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-17
  When a petition is filed, a certified copy of the petition and the assessment roll of the municipality, hereinafter required in Section 9-2-18, shall...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-18
  The commissioners shall make an investigation as required and prepare and file in court their report accordingly. In this report the commissioners shall in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-19
  Whenever any local improvement provided in any ordinance passed by virtue of this Division 2 consists of a system of waterworks or a bridge...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-20
  If the amount awarded to any person for property taken or damaged for an improvement under this Division 2 is greater than the amount...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-21
  In the assessment of damages and benefits for the opening of any street or alley, the commissioners, where part of the land to be...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-22
  The commissioners shall return their report to the court in which the specified petition was filed, and file the report with the clerk thereof,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-23
  The superintendent of special assessments, or president of the board of local improvements, as the case may be, shall file with the commissioners' report...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-24
  Every person who is named in the commissioners' report as an owner of property to be taken or damaged for the improvement, and every...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-25
  Where the residence of any defendant named in the commissioners' report is shown thereby to be outside of the State of Illinois, and the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-26
  There shall be sent by mail, post paid, to each of the persons paying the taxes during the last preceding year in which taxes...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-27
  Upon the return of the summons, or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, the court shall proceed to a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-28
  If any defendant or party interested demands, and if the court deems it proper, separate juries may be impaneled, either as to the benefits...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-29
  The court upon the motion of the petitioner, or of any person claiming any such compensation, may direct that the jury, under the charge...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-30
  Upon the return of the jury's verdict, the court shall order the verdict to be recorded and shall enter such judgment thereon as the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-31
  Upon proof that any owner named in such petition, who has not been served with process, has ceased to own the described property since...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-32
  No delay in making an assessment of compensation shall be occasioned by any doubt or contest which may arise as to the ownership of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-33
  When it appears from the petition, or otherwise at any time during the proceedings upon the petition, that any minor or person under legal...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-34
  Any final judgment rendered by a court upon any finding of any jury or of any judge where trial by jury is waived by...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-35
  The court, upon proof that the amount of the just compensation as found by the jury or by the court in case a trial...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-36
  Upon the return of a verdict in a proceeding to acquire property for a public improvement, if no motion for a new trial is...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-37
  If, in any case, upon the filing of the assessment roll by the commissioners, it appears that the amount assessed as benefits is not...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-38
  Any municipality which (1) has a population exceeding 15,000 but less than 500,000, (2) is not located within any sanitary district, (3) discharges its...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-39
  Any municipality having a population of less than 500,000 may provide by ordinance for the levy, in addition to the taxes now authorized by...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-40
  Whenever the owners of one-half of the property abutting on any street, alley, park, or public place, or portion thereof, petition for any local...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-41
  When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered provides that the improvement shall be made wholly or in part by special taxation...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-42
  When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered to be made contains no provisions for the condemnation of private property therefor, and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-43
  Upon the passage of any ordinance for a local improvement pursuant thereto, the officer specified therein shall file a petition in the circuit court...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-44
  Upon the filing of such a petition, either the superintendent of special assessments, in municipalities where that officer is provided for by law or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-45
  The officer specified in Section 9-2-44 shall estimate what proportion of the total cost of such improvement will be of benefit to the public,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-46
  In levying any special assessment or special tax, each lot, block, tract, or parcel of land shall be assessed separately, in the same manner...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-47
  The assessment roll shall contain (1) a list of all the lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land assessed for the proposed improvement and,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-48
  The corporate authorities may provide in the ordinance for any local improvement, any portion of the cost of which is to be defrayed by...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-48(1)
  In addition to any other powers or procedures for the making of a local improvement by special tax or assessment, when a pedestrian mall...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-49
  Whenever an ordinance provides for the making of a local improvement which comprises either the construction of an improvement or the taking or damaging...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-50
  Within 30 days after the entry of confirmation of the assessment roll in such a proceeding described in Section 9-2-49, the clerk of the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-51
  All installments established pursuant to Section 9-2-50 shall bear in Section 9-2-10 of the Illinois Municipal Code and not more than the greater of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-52
  Whenever sufficient funds are on hand, the corporate authorities of the municipality issuing improvement bonds shall direct the treasurer, or such other officer as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-53
  Petitioner, in addition to other notices hereinbefore provided for, shall publish a notice at least twice, not more than 30 nor less than 15...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-54
  If 15 days have not elapsed between the first publication or the putting up of such notice, and the day fixed in the notice...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-55
  Any person interested in any real estate to be affected by an assessment, may appear and file objections to the report, by the time...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-56
  Upon objections or motion for that purpose, the court in which the specified proceeding is pending may inquire in a summary way whether the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-57
  On the application of the petitioner, at any time after the return day, the court may set down all objections, except the objection that...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-58
  If it is objected on the part of any property assessed for such an improvement, that it will not be benefited thereby to the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-59
  Wherever, on a hearing by the court, or before a jury, the amount of any assessment is reduced or cancelled, so that there is...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-60
  The hearing in all the cases arising under this Division 2 shall have precedence over all other cases in any court, where they are...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-61
  The court before which any such proceedings may be pending may modify, alter, change, annul, or confirm any assessment returned as specified, in addition...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-62
  No special assessment or special tax shall be levied for any local improvement until the land necessary therefor has been acquired and is in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-63
  It is no objection to the legality of any local improvement that a similar improvement has been previously made in the same locality, if...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-64
  In case of a special assessment or a special tax levied to be paid by installments, under the provisions of this Division 2, the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-65
  Judgment for special tax or assessment. The judgments of the court shall be final as to all the issues involved, and the proceedings in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-66
  A municipality may file a petition in the circuit court praying for the entry of an order authorizing the municipality to sell and assign...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-67
  The petition to sell and assign special assessment liens shall allege that the special assessments are past due and unpaid, the total amounts owing...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-68
  Pursuant to authorization by order of court, the municipality may at public sale, after first giving notice by publication of the time and place...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-69
  Redemption of special assessment liens may be made prior to the entry of a foreclosure judgment by payment to the county clerk of the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-70
  The assignee of a special assessment lien may, not later than 5 years after the date of the sale and assignment of the special...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-71
  The cost and expense attending the sale and assignment of a special assessment lien by a municipality, not exceeding 10% of the amount of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-72
  If any special assessment or special tax before January 1, 1942 has been, or on or after January 1, 1942, is annulled by the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-73
  No special assessment or special tax shall be held invalid because levied for work already done, if it appears that the work was done...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-74
  At any time after the bids have been received pursuant to the provisions of this Division 2, if it appears to the satisfaction of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-75
  If from any cause any municipality fails to collect the whole or any portion of any special assessment or special tax which may be...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-76
  Within 30 days after the filing of the report of the amount and date of the first voucher issued on account of work done,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-77
  Whenever any warrant is issued by the clerk of the court in which the judgment of confirmation is rendered, for the collection of any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-78
  If an appeal is taken on any part of such judgment, and if the board elects to proceed with the improvement, notwithstanding such an...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-79
  The collector receiving such a warrant shall give notice thereof within 10 days by publishing a notice once each week for 2 successive weeks...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-80
  The collector, into whose possession the warrant comes, as far as practicable, shall call upon all persons, resident within the neighborhood, whose names appear...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-81
  In cities of this state having a population of 1,000,000 or more, when any officer is authorized to collect special assessments or special taxes,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-82
  In counties having a population of 1,000,000 or more the collector shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, make...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-83
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000, the general officer of the county having authority to receive State and county taxes shall,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-84
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000, the collector of the municipality, at any time after August 15 in each year, shall...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-85
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000, the collector of the municipality, not later than 5 days prior to the date fixed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-86
  The report of the municipal collector, when so made, shall be prima facie evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law, in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-87
  When the specified general officer in each county receives the report provided for, he shall proceed to obtain judgment against the lots and parcels...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-88
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000 in all cases, except where land or lots have been withdrawn from collection for want...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-89
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000, any person owning or claiming land or lots upon which judgment is prayed, as provided...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-90
  After making the specified sale, the list of lots, parcels of land, and property sold thereat shall be returned to the office of the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-91
  In counties having a population of less than 1,000,000, a list of all lots, parcels of land, and property withdrawn from collection at the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-92
  In counties having a population of 1,000,000 or more, a list of all lots, parcels of land, and property withdrawn from collection at that...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-93
  In case of such a payment of a withdrawn or forfeited special assessment, the municipal collector or county clerk, as the case may be,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-94
  In counties having a population of 500,000 or more, the city comptroller or other officer designated and authorized by the corporate authorities of any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-95
  If the collector receives any money for taxes or assessments, or installments thereof, and gives a receipt therefor, for any land or parcel of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-96
  The collector and the general officer to whom the warrants are returned, shall pay over to the municipal treasury to which the money belongs,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-97
  The general revenue laws of this State, with reference to proceedings to recover judgment for delinquent taxes, the sale of property thereon, the execution...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-98
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, any municipality interested in the collection of any tax or special assessment, in default of other bidders,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-99
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, no person obtaining contracts from the municipality and agreeing to be paid out of special assessments or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-100
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, any work or other public improvement, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-101
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, if the ordinance provides for alternate specifications for the kind, nature, character, and description of a proposed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-102
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, within 90 days after judgment of confirmation of any special assessment or special tax, levied in pursuance...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-103
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, notice shall be given by the board of local improvements that bids will be received for the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-104
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the successful bidder for the construction of such an improvement shall be required to enter into bond...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-105
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the board of local improvements may reject any and all proposals or bids, should they deem it...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-106
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, whenever any contract has been awarded to any bidder for the construction of any waterworks system, bridge,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-107
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, any owner or person interested in any of the property assessed and any bidder shall be entitled...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-108
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, a notice of such an award of contract shall be published in one or more newspapers, designated...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-109
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the owners of a majority of the frontage of the lots and land upon the street wherein...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-110
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, if such original bidder fails or refuses for 20 days after the first publication of the notice...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-111
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, if the owners or contractors, who may have taken any contract, do not complete the work within...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-112
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-38, the board of local improvements in cities of 500,000 and over, may appoint an engineer for the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-113
  In any case where an improvement is to be constructed with the aid and assistance of any agency of the Federal Government, or any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-114
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-117, within 30 days after the final completion and, where required, acceptance of the work, as provided in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-115
  In every assessment proceeding in which the assessment is divided into installments, the board of local improvements shall state in the certificate whether or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-116
  If upon the hearing the court finds against the allegations of the certificate, it shall enter an order accordingly. The board of local improvements...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-117
  Where an improvement has been constructed with the aid of any agency of the Federal government, or other governmental agency, the provisions of Sections...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-118
  The board of local improvements shall designate someone to carefully inspect the entire work done pursuant to any such proceeding and contract, and the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-119
  For the purpose of anticipating the collection of the second and succeeding installments, provided for in this Division 2, a municipality may issue bonds,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-120
  The court having jurisdiction of the original assessment proceeding is authorized at any time after the assessment has been confirmed to extend the time...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-121
  Whenever it is desired to extend the time of payment of any assessment or any of the installments thereof and issue refunding securities, any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-122
  The court shall hear the proceeding in a summary manner without a jury and there shall be no hearing on benefits or on any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-123
  Accompanying the petition there shall be filed an assessment roll setting forth a description of the lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land assessed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-124
  Any assessment and all installments, the time for collection of which has been extended, shall continue to be a lien on the land assessed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-125
  Whenever, in a proceeding under Sections 9-2-120 through 9-2-124, the refunding of securities and the extending of the time of payment of any assessment...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-126
  Whenever any voucher, bond or interest coupon issued by a municipality in anticipation of the collection of special assessments under any of the provisions...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-127
  In lieu of the bonds authorized in Section 9-2-119, the municipality upon the written request of the holders of all of the outstanding and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-128
  The bonds authorized in Section 9-2-127 may be in the following form: United States of America Number Dollars .... .... State of Illinois County...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-129
  The municipality shall have the right to call and pay the bonds authorized in Section 9-2-127, or any number thereof, in the following manner:...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-130
  The bonds may be sold, or paid to the contractor having the contract for the improvement for which the assessment was levied, at not...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-131
  Payment for any improvement done or performed under the provisions of this Division 2, to be paid for out of any special assessment or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-132
  Any property owner may pay his assessment wholly or in part, either before or after it is due, and whether or not the assessment...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-133
  When any municipality provides by ordinance for the construction of a waterworks system, any portion of the cost of which is to be paid...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-134
  The entire proceeds arising from the operation of such waterworks system shall be paid into the municipal treasury and shall be kept in a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-135
  No person accepting the vouchers or bonds as provided in this Division 2 shall have any claim or lien upon the municipality in any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-136
  From time to time, as the work under any contract for such an improvement progresses, upon certificates by the board of local improvements, or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-137
  The board of local improvements before the crediting of the excess as provided for in Section 9-2-114, shall estimate an amount deemed sufficient to...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-138
  If, after final settlement with the contractor for any improvement and after full payment of all vouchers or bonds except those bonds and interest...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-139
  The costs and expenses of maintaining the board of local improvements, for paying salaries of the members of the board, and the expense of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-140
  Appeals from final judgments or orders of any court made in the proceedings provided for by this Division 2, may be taken in the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-141
  After the expiration of the 30 day period allowed for filing a notice of appeal under this Division 2, an appeal from any such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-142
  Any municipality, not already controlled by this Division 2, if it so determines by ordinance, may adopt the provisions of this Division 2, and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-143
  Whenever, immediately prior to January 1, 1942, authority of law existed in corporate authorities to levy special assessments or special taxes for local improvements,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-2-144
  The laws subsisting immediately prior to January 1, 1942, the time of the taking effect of this Division 2, shall continue to apply to...

Division 3. Procedures for Specified Local Improvements

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-1
  Any municipality may make a local improvement whenever the public necessity requires such improvement, subject only to the limitations prescribed in this Division 3....
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-2
  In this Division 3, the following terms have the meaning ascribed to them unless the context indicates otherwise: "Municipality" means any city, village, or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-3
  Whenever the corporate authorities of any municipality deem it necessary to undertake any local improvement, within the corporate limits, a resolution shall be adopted...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-4
  The corporate authorities of any municipality may contract for the services of an attorney and an engineer, who shall be members of the committee...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-5
  Upon the adoption of a resolution determining to make the improvement by the corporate authorities, the committee on local improvements shall proceed with the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-6
  After the filing of the plans, specifications and estimate of cost, as provided in Section 9-3-5, the corporate authorities shall, by resolution, set a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-7
  At the time and place fixed for the public hearing, the corporate authorities shall meet and hear anyone desiring to be heard upon the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-8
  After the public hearing has been held as provided in Section 9-3-7, and after the plans, specifications and estimate of cost have been filed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-9
  On the date set for consideration and passage of the ordinance, the corporate authorities shall convene, consider the ordinance, examine the certificates submitted with...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-10
  The ordinance authorizing and directing the construction of any local improvement shall describe generally the nature and character of the improvement and refer to...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-11
  Any local improvement ordinance passed by the corporate authorities shall be published one time in a newspaper published and of general circulation in such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-12
  After such ordinance becomes effective the corporate authorities shall direct some office of such municipality to file a petition in the circuit court in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-13
  After filing of the petition as provided in Section 9-3-12, the court shall enter an order setting a date for hearing on the question...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-14
  Any person interested in any real estate to be affected by such assessment may appear and file objections to the amount assessed against any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-15
  The assessment roll as returned by the officers making the same shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of the amount assessed against...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-16
  The hearing on benefits in all cases arising under this Division 3 may be had at such time as the court may designate. Such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-17
  The court before which any such proceedings may be pending shall have authority to modify, alter, change, annul or confirm any assessment returned as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-18
  No special assessment shall be levied under the provisions of this Division 3 until the land necessary therefor or rights in land, are acquired...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-19
  In case any special assessment levied under this Division 3 is divided into installments under the provisions of this Division 3, the judgment of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-20
  The judgment of the court shall be final as to all issues involved and the proceedings in such case shall be subject to review...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-21
  For any special assessment levied under the provisions of this Division 3 that are annulled by the corporate authorities, or set aside by any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-22
  The ordinance for any improvement to be constructed under this Division 3 may provide that the special assessment to be levied to defray the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-23
  All contracts awarded by any municipality for the construction of any improvement authorized and provided for under this Division 3 shall be payable solely...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-24
  All contracts for the construction of any improvement to be paid by special assessment when the expense thereof exceeds $500 shall be let to...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-25
  Notice for bids for the construction of the improvement shall be published in at least one issue of a newspaper published and of general...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-26
  The committee on local improvements shall meet at the time and place specified by the corporate authorities for receipt of bids and publicly open...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-27
  Within 20 days after the contract is awarded, the contractor shall enter into a contract with such municipality for the construction of the improvement...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-28
  The contract shall be executed by the contractor and the presiding officer of the corporate authorities and attested by the clerk of such municipality...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-29
  Immediately upon awarding the contract for the construction of the improvement, the clerk of any such municipality shall file a certificate in the court...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-30
  Upon receipt of the warrant for the collection of the assessment it shall be the duty of the collector to immediately give notice thereof...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-31
  The construction of such improvement in accordance with the provisions of the contract shall be under the supervision of the committee on local improvements,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-32
  Within 30 days after the completion of the work, the committee on local improvements shall certify the fact that the work has been completed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-33
  If upon final settlement with the contractor for the construction of any improvement and after paying all costs of levying, collecting and making the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-34
  No litigation, suit or proceeding of any kind or character shall be instituted touching the sufficiency of the plans, specifications, estimate of the cost,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-35
  At any time after 15 days from date of acceptance of the work by the corporate authorities bonds may be issued to anticipate the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-36
  Whenever there are sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer after the payment of all interest due and to become due within 6...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-37
  Any deduction in assessments made pursuant to the order of the court may be added to and become part of the municipality's portion of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-38
  No collateral attack or litigation shall be instituted which in any way questions the enforceability of the validity of the bonds issued under the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-39
  The assessment authorized by this Division 3 shall constitute valid and binding liens upon the respective tracts of property against which they are assessed...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-40
  Liens shall be enforced and collected independently of any other provision of the statutes contrary thereto notwithstanding. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-41
  Whenever any assessment has been levied against any real estate, the assessment or installments thereof shall become delinquent the first day of July next...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-42
  The corporate authorities by resolution shall direct some officer of such municipality to file a petition in the name of such municipality in any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-43
  The cause shall be heard as suits to foreclose mortgages on real estate. The court shall ascertain and determine the amount of the liens...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-44
  Upon expiration of the time for payment as fixed by the order of the court, the general county officer having authority to receive state...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-45
  Any owner or person interested in any real estate sold under the provisions of this Division 3 has the right to redeem from such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-46
  Subsequent to the issuance of the certificate of sale and 30 days prior to the expiration of the period of redemption the purchaser or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-47
  The purchaser or his assignee shall pay all taxes and assessments on real estate sold under the provisions of this Division 3. Notation of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-48
  A deed conveying the fee simple title to the premises, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, except unpaid general taxes and special...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-49
  Any municipality levying assessments as provided in this Division 3 may provide by ordinance for the levy, in addition to the taxes now authorized...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-3-50
  The funds of each assessment created under this Division 3 shall be kept by the treasurer of such municipality in a separate bank account....

Division 4. Improvements Affecting Property Not Within Municipality

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-4-1
  Property not within the corporate limits but contiguous to any local improvement made by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of this Article may...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-4-2
  The corporate authorities of a municipality who intend to charge benefits conferred by local improvements on property not within the corporate limits of such...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-4-3
  The amount set by order of the circuit court shall be a lien against such property enforceable in the same manner as a lien...

Division 5. Financing of Certain Improvements

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-5-1
  Whenever a municipal ordinance or an annexation agreement authorized under Section 11-15.1-1 of this Code requires the installation of water mains, sanitary sewers, drains,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-5-2
  Any contract entered into between the corporate authorities of a municipality and a subdivider pursuant to Section 9-5-1 shall be filed with the recorder...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 9-5-3
  This Division 5 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit. This Division 5 is not a prohibition upon the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015