65 ILCS 5/9-2-23
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-23)Sec. 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 an affidavit made by himself or by some employee of  his office, that (1) the affiant has carefully examined the records in the  recorder's office of the specified county or counties for the names of the  owners of record of the several lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land  to be taken or damaged for the improvement, (2) that the affiant made a  careful examination of the collector's books showing the payments of  general taxes during the last preceding year in which taxes were paid on  the respective lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land against which  benefits are assessed in the commissioners' report, to ascertain the person  or persons who last paid the taxes on those respective lots, blocks,  tracts, and parcels of land, (3) that the names of those owners of record  and persons who paid those taxes are correctly shown in the columns or  schedules of ownership and of persons who paid those taxes in the  commissioners' report, (4) that he has diligently inquired as to the  residence of the respective owners of property to be taken or damaged for  the improvement and of the persons who paid the general taxes during the  last preceding calendar year in which general taxes were paid on all the  respective lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land against which benefits  have been assessed in the commissioners' report (specifying the nature of  the inquiry and examination he has made for that purpose), (5) that the  residences of the owners and parties paying those general taxes are  correctly stated, according to the result of his examination, in the column  or schedule of residences in the commissioners' report, and (6) that in all  cases where he has been unable to find the residence of the owner of the  record title, he has examined the return of the collector's warrant for  taxes on real estate for the last preceding year, in which the taxes were  paid, and has set opposite each such parcel whose owner has not been found,  the name of the person who last paid the tax on that parcel, together with  his place of residence, wherever, on diligent inquiry, he was able to find  the same. This affidavit, or an affidavit filed therewith, shall further  state that the affiant has visited each of the parcels of land to be taken  or damaged for the improvement described in the commissioners' report, for  the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the parcel was occupied, and the  name and residence of the occupant, if any, and that in every case where  those parcels of land were found to be occupied, upon such investigation,  the name of the occupant is stated in the commissioners' report opposite  that parcel, together with his residence, when ascertained. Such an  affidavit and report shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements of  this Division 2 have been complied with.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)