Division 5 - Airports and Interstate Bridges
(35 ILCS 200/10‑90) Sec. 10‑90. Property used for airport purposes. In counties with 200,000 or more inhabitants, in addition to valuation as otherwise permitted by law, upon the filing of an application under Section 10‑95 by the person liable for the taxes on that property, which is used for airport purposes and has been so used for the 3 years immediately preceding the year when the assessment is made shall be valued on the basis of 33 1/3% of its fair cash value, based upon the price it would bring at a fair, voluntary sale for use by the buyer for airport purposes. Property is considered used for airport purposes under this Section if it is devoted primarily to the operation of an airport or restricted landing field approved by the Department of Transportation in accordance with the Illinois Aeronautics Act and is open to the public except as restricted by the Department of Transportation or the Illinois Aeronautics Act. (Source: P.A. 81‑840; 88‑455.) |
(35 ILCS 200/10‑95) Sec. 10‑95. Application process. The person liable for taxes on land used for airport purposes must file a verified application requesting the additional valuation provided for in Section 10‑90, with the chief county assessment officer of the county where the land is located, by January 1 of each year for which that valuation is desired. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the Department and contain such information as may reasonably be required to determine whether the applicant meets the requirements of Section 10‑90. If the application shows the applicant is entitled to the valuation, the chief county assessment officer shall approve it; otherwise, he or she shall reject the application. When an application has been filed with and approved by the chief county assessment officer, he or she shall determine the valuation of the land in two ways as otherwise permitted by law, and as described in Section 10‑90, and shall list those valuations separately. The county clerk, in preparing assessment books, lists and blanks under Section 9‑100, shall include columns for indicating the approval of an application filed under this Section and for setting out the valuations made as otherwise permitted by law, and under Section 10‑90. (Source: P.A. 77‑2783; 88‑455.) |
(35 ILCS 200/10‑100) Sec. 10‑100. Liability for prior year's taxes. The valuation determined under Section 10‑90 shall be used for each year for which application is made and approved under Section 10‑95. When any portion of the land is no longer used for airport purposes, the person liable for taxes on that portion of the land shall notify the chief county assessment officer, in writing, of that fact, and shall pay to the county treasurer, by the following September 1, the difference between the taxes paid in each of the 3 preceding years as based on a valuation under Section 10‑90 and what those taxes for each of those years would have been when based on the valuation as otherwise permitted by law, together with 5% interest. If this difference is not paid by the following September 1, the amount of that difference shall be considered as delinquent taxes under this Code. (Source: P.A. 77‑2783; 88‑455.) |
(35 ILCS 200/10‑105) Sec. 10‑105. Interstate bridges. All bridge structures across any navigable streams forming the boundary line between the State of Illinois and any other State, and not classified as operating property by any railroad operating in this State, shall be assessed by the township or other assessor in the county or township where the structure is located. All provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, shall apply to those bridges. The assessor shall give in his or her description the quarter section of property, section of property, township and range in which the bridge is located or terminates in this State, together with the metes and bounds of the ground occupied by the bridge and the approaches to it, from the end on the Illinois shore to the center of the main channel of the stream crossed by the bridge. To obtain the description, the assessor may employ a competent surveyor, and the expense of making the survey and description shall be charged as a tax against the property by the county clerk, on the certificate of the surveyor. One survey of any bridge and approaches made under this Code, shall be deemed sufficient for the purpose of subsequent assessment of the bridge or approaches. In default of the payment of any tax assessed against any bridge company, the bridge structure and its approaches that are located within this State, together with the land on which they are located, as described by the assessor, and the franchise belonging thereto, shall be sold for the tax at the same time and in the same manner as other property in the county is sold for delinquent tax. Any county, city, town, school district or other municipal corporation, interested in the collection of the tax levied upon the bridge, may become the purchaser at the sale, or at any sale of the property under judgment recovered upon, or to enforce the collection of the tax; and if the property so sold is not redeemed, may acquire, hold, sell and dispose of the title. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 886; P.A. 88‑455.) |