Senate Bill S7921

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee


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

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2017-S7921 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4737
2019-2020: S1176

2017-S7921 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S7921 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7921 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7921
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 9, 2018
                                ___________
 
 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 SEPTEMBER FIRST OF
 EACH  YEAR  PRIOR  TO  COLLECTING 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
 board of a town may by resolution authorize the receiver  of  taxes  and
 assessments  to  receive  taxes  heretofore  payable  to school district
 collectors after the expiration of such thirty day period with such fee,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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