To: The Illinois State Senate
Unpaid Utility Bill? You Could Lose Your Vehicle
Say no to SB0036, sponsored by Senator Ira Silverstein, which says that if you fail to pay your utility bills, your vehicle will be booted, towed, and sold.
Why is this important?
Illinois State Senator Ira Silverstein is trying to pass a bill whereas if you have an unpaid utility bill in the City of Chicago, they can boot your car. If your car is booted you have 24 hours to pay the unpaid utility bill and boot fee otherwise your car will be towed and impounded. Once that happens you have 21 days to pay the entire utility bill, the boot fee, the tow fee and storage fee otherwise your car will be auctioned off.
As you can imagine I am pretty livid about this. How dare a STATE senator introduce a bill that (right now) only affects the City of Chicago (MOST of his district is northern suburbs, Skokie, Wilmette, etc.) and targets the least of us, our seniors living off social security, those with low income, unemployed and underemployed?! No one purposely does not pay their utilities, that is the first thing people will pay when they have the money; no one wants to be in the dark, cold or without water. With this new increase in city water, this could affect more people that we realize. It doesn’t matter if you live in a house or an apartment, if you have a utility bill, you are affected. Again, this only affects the City of Chicago, but I’m certain this is just the testing ground, it can and if we allow, will expand statewide and possibly nationwide, so you don’t need to live in the city to fight against this bill.
The bill was introduced January 10, 2013 and re-referred February 28, 2013 and the bill number is Illinois SB0036.
As you can imagine I am pretty livid about this. How dare a STATE senator introduce a bill that (right now) only affects the City of Chicago (MOST of his district is northern suburbs, Skokie, Wilmette, etc.) and targets the least of us, our seniors living off social security, those with low income, unemployed and underemployed?! No one purposely does not pay their utilities, that is the first thing people will pay when they have the money; no one wants to be in the dark, cold or without water. With this new increase in city water, this could affect more people that we realize. It doesn’t matter if you live in a house or an apartment, if you have a utility bill, you are affected. Again, this only affects the City of Chicago, but I’m certain this is just the testing ground, it can and if we allow, will expand statewide and possibly nationwide, so you don’t need to live in the city to fight against this bill.
The bill was introduced January 10, 2013 and re-referred February 28, 2013 and the bill number is Illinois SB0036.