65 ILCS 5/9-2-481
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-48(1))Sec. 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 and parking facilities improvement is proposed or made  under Section 9-2-48, the corporate authorities may provide in the original  ordinance for the improvement, or in a separate ordinance, that the costs  and expenses of maintenance and operation thereof as provided in this  Section shall be paid for by an annual assessment, upon the commercial or  business property within the district of the improvement, which improvement  district is primarily benefited by the provision for such costs and  expenses which are necessary, convenient and desirable for the protection  and preservation of the capital improvement so made and the operation,  upkeep, repairs, replacement and/or maintenance of the said improvement and  its component parts, fixtures, equipment or facilities. When an ordinance  is so enacted, the annual assessment so provided for by such ordinance may  be made under and in accordance with the provisions of this Section.(a) The annual assessment hereunder shall be made each year for a  period of consecutive years not exceeding the number of years over which  the cost for the making of the improvement has been spread, provided,  however, that by consent of the owners of 66 2/3% of the frontage of  private property within the district, the annual assessment can be  continued for additional periods of years.The annual assessments hereunder shall be due and payable on January  2nd next after the date of confirmation of each annual assessment.(b) Upon the completion of the pedestrian mall or parking facility,  the court in which the special assessment or tax for the making of the  improvement was confirmed shall upon the application of the municipality  or any assessee within the district, appoint a board of commissioners  consisting of 5 members, at least 3 of whom shall be  owners or lessees (or their duly authorized representatives) of property  within the district. The board of commissioners shall determine and  estimate the amount of the costs and expenses of the improvement for the  year as provided in this Section, and shall file a report of said  expenses and an assessment roll signed and certified to by the chairman  of the board, spreading the total annual cost over the property of the  district proportionate to the assessed valuation of said property for  general real estate tax purposes. Notice of the filing of said report  and assessment shall be given to the assessee of taxes for said property  and a date for filing and hearing objections, if any, thereto shall be  set. The court shall hear and determine objections and shall have full  and complete power to revise, confirm, modify, amend or recast the said  roll to comply with the provisions of this Section, including the power  to revise individual assessments wherein the assessment as levied in  accordance with this Section exceeds the benefit to the property or  constitutes more than a proportionate share of the total annual  assessment. Upon confirmation of the roll and the annual assessment, a  warrant to collect the assessment shall issue by the County Clerk. The  assessment hereunder shall have the same force and effect as other  assessments under Article 9 Division 2 and shall be otherwise governed  thereby except as provided otherwise herein. The annual assessments  collected hereunder shall be paid over to the board of commissioners who  shall apply same in discharge of the actual cost and expenses provided  for herein as incurred during the course of said year. Any surplus in  the estimated amount collected over the actual costs or expense of the  year shall be credited on the next year's estimate and any deficiency  shall be included as a permitted item of cost or expense to be defrayed  by the assessment for the following year. In the event there is any  surplus of assessments collected in the last year of collections, the  same shall be rebated in proportion to the assessments for that year,  and in the event there is any deficiency in collections of the last  year, a final winding-up assessment to satisfy said deficit shall be  made for the year following the said last year of assessment hereunder.(c) The items of cost and expense which may be included in the  estimate and for which an annual assessment may be levied hereunder are  as follows:1. The cost of repairs, upkeep and maintenance of any or all  fixtures, equipment or facilities which comprised the improvement as  originally made or any replacements thereof.2. The costs of repairs, upkeep and maintenance of any common areas  within the improvement as originally made.3. The costs of any additions to or modifications of the improvement  as originally made, any new or additional fixtures, equipment,  facilities or service which is or are determined to be essential to  public health, safety or welfare and to the protection and  preservation of the improvement and the operation thereof.4. A reserve for contingencies in the item of costs and expense  estimated, not to exceed 10% of the total of such costs for the year  in question.5. A reserve to defray interest on funds borrowed or vouchers issued  in anticipation of collection of annual installments.6. Any deficiencies in collection over the actual costs and expense  of the preceding year.7. The costs and expenses of management employees and facilities, of  making and levying the assessments and letting and executing  contracts, of necessary estimates, examinations, advertisements and  the like, including any court costs and fees, and for reimbursement  of the expenses incurred by the commissioners in performing their  duties hereunder.(d) The commissioners to be appointed hereunder shall receive no  compensation for services and shall serve for a term of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1  year from the date of appointment and the term shall be selected by lot  at the first meeting of the board after appointment by the court. The  court shall thereafter appoint commissioners for 5 year terms  upon termination of each term and shall appoint successors in the event  of vacancy. Any commissioner shall be eligible to succeed himself.(e) The board of commissioners shall have authority:(1) To issue vouchers in anticipation of the collections of the  annual assessments, in payment for the costs and expenses of  maintenance and operation provided for hereunder and such vouchers  shall be payable from the annual assessments when collected and shall  bear interest at a rate set by the board, not to exceed the greater of  9% or 70% of the Prime Commercial Rate in effect at the time of the passage  of the ordinance referred to in Section 9-2-10 of the Illinois Municipal  Code.(2) To borrow funds for working capital in anticipation of collection  of annual assessments at a rate of interest not to exceed the greater  of (i) 9% annually or 70% of the Prime Commercial Rate in effect at the time  of the passage of the ordinance referred to in Section 9-2-10 of the Illinois  Municipal Code or (ii) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond  Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract.(3) To enter into agreements with the municipality relative to the  payment of that portion of the costs of maintenance and operation  provided for herein, which reflects the general public benefit  derived from the protection and preservation of the pedestrian mall  or parking facility improvement. In such agreements, the board shall  have authority to accept the fair and reasonable value of service  provided by the municipality in full or partial satisfaction of the  public benefit portion of said costs.With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this  Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory  Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General  Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been  supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the  Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear  to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the  provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary  authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments  issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted  by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of  this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than  those Acts.    (Source: P.A. 86-4.)