§ 11-84-1

In addition to any other manner authorized by law, any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the construction and repair of sidewalks therein, along or upon any streets or part of streets therein. The corporate authorities, by that ordinance, may provide for the payment of the whole or any part of the cost thereof by special taxation of the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land touching upon the line where such a sidewalk is ordered. This special taxation may be either by levying the whole or any part of the cost thereof upon each of the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land touching upon the line of the sidewalk, pro rata, according to their respective values. The values of the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land shall be determined by the last preceding assessment thereof for the purpose of state and county taxation. Or the whole or any part of the cost thereof may be levied upon such lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land in proportion to their frontage upon such sidewalk, or in proportion to their superficial area, as may be provided by ordinance ordering the laying down of the sidewalk. In case the ordinance only requires a part of the cost of the sidewalk to be paid by a special tax as provided in this section, the residue of the cost shall be paid out of any fund of the municipality raised by general taxation upon the property in the municipality and not otherwise appropriated. Such a municipality, by one and the same ordinance, may provide for the construction or repair of sidewalks under this article on 2 or more streets, or parts of streets, or on one or both sides of any street or streets, whenever the sidewalks are so connected, or otherwise related, as to constitute a single system of improvement. A duplicate copy of the ordinance, duly certified by law, shall be delivered by the clerk of the municipality to the recorder of deeds of each county in which any part of the property is located not less than 30 days before commencement of any construction by the municipality as specified hereinafter in this Division 84. Each recorder shall record the copy and keep it as part of the permanent records of the office of such recorder. Such special taxes are a lien upon the property against which they are charged from the date upon which a copy of said ordinance is filed or recorded, which lien is discharged when the tax has been paid or the property has been sold pursuant to Section 11-84-5 of this Act. When the tax has been fully paid, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall execute and record, in the recorder's office of the county in which the land is located, a release of the lien of the taxes so paid, and shall deliver a copy of the release to the owner of the property.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 85-1252.)