Illinois § 20-50

Full text of Illinois Illinois Compiled Statutes § 20-50, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 20-50.

Payment to taxing districts by township collectors; intermediate settlements. (a) Township collectors shall, every 30 days, when required to do so by the proper authorities of incorporated towns, cities, villages, and road and school districts for which any tax is collected, render to those authorities a statement of the amount of each kind of tax collected for the entity and the amount paid under protest. At the same time, subject to Sections 3.1-35-60 through 3.1-35-80 of the Illinois Municipal Code, the collectors shall pay over to the authorities the amount of all taxes shown to be collected, other than those paid under protest. The payments shall be made as directed in the warrant attached to the collector's books. (b) Township collectors shall, every 30 days, render a similar account of county taxes, to the county collector, and at the same time, the collectors shall pay over the amount collected to the county collector. (c) Each township collector shall make final settlement for all taxes charged in the tax books at or before the time fixed in Section 20-55. In making the settlements, the collectors shall be entitled to credit for the amount uncollected on the tax books as determined by the settlement with the county collector. (d) The officer to whom any moneys are paid under this Section shall deliver to the collector duplicate receipts for those payments. (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

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