Article 29 - Special Assessments Benefiting State Property Law - Illinois Statutes

      (35 ILCS 200/Art. 29 heading)Article 29. Special Assessments Benefiting State Property Law

(35 ILCS 200/29‑1)     Sec. 29‑1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the Special Assessment Benefiting State Property Law. (Source: P.A. 86‑1324; 88‑455.)

(35 ILCS 200/29‑5)     Sec. 29‑5. State policy. It is the policy of this State that when any unit of local government makes a local improvement by special assessment or special tax which benefits abutting State property, the State should pay for the benefit so conferred on the same basis as other property owners benefited by that improvement, subject to the same rights as are afforded to those property owners. (Source: P.A. 86‑933; 88‑455.)

    (35 ILCS 200/29‑10)
    Sec. 29‑10. State must be party to proceedings. No amount may be claimed from the State by or on behalf of any unit of local government for any local improvement made by special assessment or special tax that benefits, or is alleged to benefit, abutting property owned by the State unless the State has been made a party to all proceedings, has been given all notices, and has been afforded the same opportunities for hearing and for objecting to the assessment in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in the law applicable to the making of the local improvement by special assessment or special tax by that unit of local government.
    For the purposes of this Article, any notices required under applicable law must be sent by registered or certified mail to the Director of the Department or the other State officer having jurisdiction over the State property affected, to the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and to the Attorney General.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)

    (35 ILCS 200/29‑15)
    Sec. 29‑15. Payment of assessment. When the Attorney General has certified to the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that the amount, in the nature of a special assessment by which specified abutting State property has been benefited by a specified local improvement, has been determined in compliance with this Article, the Director shall, to the extent that appropriations are available for that purpose, voucher the amount of that assessment, or $25,000, whichever is less, for payment to the appropriate unit of local government. When the amount appropriated in any fiscal year for those purposes is insufficient to pay a special assessment totalling $25,000 or less in full, the balance of that special assessment shall be vouchered for payment from the appropriation for those purposes for the next succeeding fiscal year.
    If the amount of the assessment exceeds $25,000, the Director of the Department or the other State officer having jurisdiction over the property affected shall include in the Department's budget for the next succeeding fiscal year a request for the appropriation of the amount by which the assessment exceeds $25,000, plus interest, if any, which shall be vouchered for payment from that appropriation.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)

(35 ILCS 200/29‑20)     Sec. 29‑20. No lien on State property. Nothing in this Article permits the imposition or enforcement of a lien on State property. (Source: P.A. 86‑933; 88‑455.)