Senate Bill S4737

Vetoed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the powers and duties of the receiver of taxes and assessments

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A6823 - Vetoed by Governor


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Vetoed By Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S4737 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6823
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง37, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4723, S7921, A4587
2019-2020: S1176

2015-S4737 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the powers and duties of the receiver of taxes and assessments and school boards.

2015-S4737 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4737 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4737

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to the powers  and  duties  of
  the receiver of taxes and assessments

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 37 of the town law, as amended  by
chapter 708 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  The  receiver of taxes and assessments, if the office be elective,
shall hold no other elective public office. Except as otherwise provided
in section twenty-five hundred six of the education law, he OR SHE shall
have and possess  and  exercise  in  the  manner  and  within  the  time
prescribed  by  law  all  the rights, powers, authority and jurisdiction
possessed and exercised  by  the  town  tax  collector  and  the  school
district  collectors in the town of which he OR SHE is receiver of taxes
and assessments and he OR SHE shall be subject to all of the  duties  of
such  officers.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in section twenty-five
hundred six of the education law, and unless [there has been  an  agree-
ment  between  the town board and the school board to the contrary,] THE
SCHOOL BOARD ADVISES THE TOWN'S RECEIVER OF TAXES IN WRITING  BY  CERTI-
FIED  MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, BY NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY FIRST OF
EACH YEAR THAT IT COLLECTS ITS OWN TAXES, it shall be the duty  of  such
receiver  of  taxes  and  assessments  to receive and collect all state,
county, town and school taxes, and all assessments that may be levied or
assessed in the town, and all fees thereon prescribed by law,  including
all other moneys provided by law to be paid to the town tax collector or
school  district collectors, except that the town board of a town may by
resolution authorize the receiver of taxes and  assessments  to  receive
taxes  for  thirty  days after the first day specified in the notice for
the payment of such taxes, at a charge of not more than one  per  centum
upon  such  taxes or without additional charge, and except that the town

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09803-01-5
              

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