(65 ILCS 60/0.01) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.37h) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Delinquent Special Assessment Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(65 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.38) Sec. 1. The provisions of this Act shall apply in any city, village or incorporated town of less than 500,000 inhabitants which adopts it by ordinance: Provided that no such ordinance may be enacted until the council or board of trustees of the city, village or incorporated town has made a survey and has determined as a result of the survey that the payment in full of the principal and interest on special assessment bonds will not be prevented by the adoption of this Act. The facts disclosed by the survey, the manner of conducting the same, and the determination resulting therefrom shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting of the council or board of trustees at which this Act is adopted. The ordinance may provide either for the remission of all penalties, interest and costs, other than advertising costs, on delinquent special assessments, or for the remission of penalties, interest and costs, other than advertising costs, accruing after the maturity date of bonds issued to finance the improvement. Any owner of real estate on which there is any amount of past due special assessments as of July 1, 1947, may, on or before June 1, 1948, petition the officer authorized to collect the special assessments, describing the tract or tracts of land to which the petitioner desires to have the benefits of this Act apply and in such petition shall stipulate a day, not later than 90 days after the filing thereof, on or before which he will pay the full amount due as determined under this Act. Prior to the day stipulated for payment, the land shall not be offered for sale on account of failure to pay any of the items mentioned in the petition or which will be remitted if payment is made as stipulated. (Source: Laws 1947, p. 600.)

(65 ILCS 60/2) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.39) Sec. 2. Upon receipt of the petition, the collector shall determine the amount of past due special assessments on the land described in the petition, together with advertising costs and all penalties, interest and costs not remitted by ordinance as of the payment date stipulated therein, but not including such penalties, interest and costs as may be remitted under the ordinance. (Source: Laws 1947, p. 600.)

(65 ILCS 60/3) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.40) Sec. 3. The proper collector shall handle all matters covered by this Act. He shall keep a separate record of each tract of land for which payments are made, and, upon receiving the stipulated payment, he shall issue a receipt therefor, showing that the past due special assessments on the particular tract of land described, together with advertising costs and all penalties, interest and costs not remitted under the ordinance, have been paid, but that remitted penalties, interest and costs accrued thereon have not been paid. (Source: Laws 1947, p. 600.)

(65 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.41) Sec. 4. At any time after the effective date of this Act the State's Attorney of each county may petition the circuit court for judgment against all tracts of land described in petitions filed under Section 1 of this Act, wherein shall be set out a description of each tract, together with the names of the owners or grantees of owners, mediate or immediate, thereof, and the court shall set the same for hearing on a day not less than 30 days thereafter. The clerk of the court shall cause notice thereof by publication to be made in a newspaper published in the county, once in each week for 2 successive weeks, the first publication thereof to be made not less than 20 days before the day upon which the petition is set for hearing. The notice shall declare that the State's Attorney will apply to the circuit court on the day specified therein for judgment against such tract or tracts of land for all delinquent special assessments and the penalties, interest and costs thereon, and for an order to sell such tract or tracts for the satisfaction thereof. Upon the day specified for the entry of judgment, or upon such subsequent day as the court may at that time fix, the court shall hear evidence upon the issues presented in the petition, and if it appears that the owner of any such real estate, or his or her grantee, mediate or immediate, has made payment as agreed to be made in the petition filed by such owner, as provided in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, he shall enter an order relieving the original owner, his or her grantee or subsequent grantees, of the payment of sums alleged to be due for the delinquent special assessments and the penalties, interest and cost thereon, and divesting the tract or tracts of the lien thereof. If, however, it appears that the delinquent special assessment against any tract, together with unremitted penalties, interest and costs thereon, have not been paid as provided in this Act, judgment shall be rendered against the same for all delinquent special assessments and penalties, interest and costs thereon, and the amount thereof shall be entered on the Tax Judgment, Sale, Redemption and Forfeiture records of the county. The judgment shall be enforceable in the manner provided for the enforcement of judgments in the Property Tax Code. The city, village or incorporated town in whose behalf judgment is sought shall, upon presentation of a statement of the expense incurred by the clerk of the court in causing the notice to be published, reimburse the clerk for his expense. (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

(65 ILCS 60/5) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.42) Sec. 5. When and if the taxpayer fails to pay the past due special assessments and the unremitted penalties, interest and costs in accordance with the provisions of this Act, he shall not receive the benefits of this Act. (Source: Laws 1947, p. 600.)

(65 ILCS 60/6) (from Ch. 24, par. 808.43) Sec. 6. The benefits of this Act shall apply to any grantee or subsequent owner of the tract or tracts of land described in the petition or petitions referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act. (Source: Laws 1947, p. 600.)