Ordinance 2025-03 UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE
KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-03
AN ORDINANCE OF THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE,KENDALL
COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMENDING THE YORKVILLE CITY CODE
(Municipal Utility Tax)
Passed by the City Council of the
United City of Yorkville,Kendall County, Illinois
This 14th day of January, 2025
Published in pamphlet form by the
authority of the Mayor and City Council
of the United City of Yorkville,Kendall
County,Illinois on January 17, 2025.
Ordinance No. 2025-03
AN ORDINANCE OF THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE, KENDALL
COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMENDING THE YORKVILLE CITY CODE
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and City Council of the United City of Yorkville,
Kendall County, Illinois, as follows:
Section 1. Section 3-2-4 B1.c(1)A of Title 3, Chapter 2 of the Yorkville City Code is
hereby amended by deleting said section in its entirety and replacing it with the following:
A. A tax is imposed on all persons engaged in the use or consumption of electricity within
the corporate limits of the City at the following rates calculated on a monthly basis for
each pair chosen:
i. For the first 2,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.562 cents per kilowatt-hour;
ii. For the next 48,000 kilo-watt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.369 cents per kilowatt-hour;
iii. For the next 50,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.332 cents per kilowatt-hour;
iv. For the next 400,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.323 cents per kilowatt-hour; •
v. For the next 500,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.313 cents per kilowatt-hour;
vi. For the next 2,000,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.295 cents per kilowatt-hour;
vii. For the next 2,000,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.290 cents per kilowatt-hour;
viii. For the next 5,000,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.286 cents per kilowatt-hour;
ix. For the next 10,000,000 kilowatt-hours used or consumed in a month;
0.281 cents per kilowatt-hour;
x. For all electricity used or consumed in excess of 20,000,000 kilowatt-hours in
a month; .0277 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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The tax rates set forth in the preceding table will be used at least through December 31, 2008, are
proportional to the rates enumerated in 65 ILCS 5/8-11-2 (as modified by Public Act 90-561), and
do not exceed the revenue that could have been collected during 1997 using the rates enumerated
in 65 ILCS 5/8-11-2 (prior to being modified by Public Act 90-561).
Section 2. Section 3-2-4H of Title 3, Chapter 2 of the Yorkville City Code is hereby
amended by deleting said section in its entirety and replacing it with the following:
H. None of the taxes authorized by this section may be imposed with respect to any
transaction in interstate commerce or otherwise to the extent to which the business or
privilege may not,under the Constitution and statutes of the United States,be made the
subject of taxation by this State or any political sub-division thereof; nor shall any
persons engaged in the business of distributing, supplying, furnishing, selling or
transmitting gas,water, electricity,or engaged in the business of transmitting messages,
or using or consuming electricity acquired in a purchase at retail,be subject to taxation
under the provisions of Ordinance for those transactions that are or may become subject
to taxation under the provisions of the "Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act"
authorized by Section 8-11-1; nor shall any tax authorized by this section be imposed
upon any person engaged in a business or on any privilege unless the tax is imposed in
like manner and at the same rate upon all persons engaged in businesses of the same
class in the City, whether privately or City owned or operated, or exercising the same
privilege within the City.
Section 3. Ordinance No. 2001-4 passed and approved by the Mayor and City Council
of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois on January 25, 2001, is hereby repealed.
Section 4. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
approval and publication as provided by law.
Passed by the City Council of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois
this 14th day of January,A.D. 2025.
TY CLERK
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KEN KOCH AYE DAN TRANSIER AYE
ARDEN JOE PLOCHER AYE CRAIG SOLING AYE
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER AYE MATT MAREK AYE
SEAVER TARULIS ABSENT RUSTY CORNEILS AYE
APPROVED by me, as Mayor of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois
this I day of �J(1i nUG ,A.D. 2025.
MAYOR
Attest:
EC/1A Al
Y CLERK
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