Assembly Bill A7375

                            
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    S. 3818                                                  A. 7375

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                              April 1, 2009
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IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE, LARKIN -- read twice and
  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
  Local Government

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Real Property Taxation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the real property tax law, in relation to service of
  petition in a challenge to a real  property  assessment  upon  a  fire
  district

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 708 of the real property tax  law,
as  amended  by  chapter  503 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. Except in a city in which there is a city school district  governed
by  the  provisions  of  article fifty-two of the education law, or in a
special assessing unit as defined in article eighteen  of  this  chapter
which  is  not  a  city or in a county governed by chapter three hundred
eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty, as amended by chapter one
hundred thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-five, one copy  of
the petition and notice shall be mailed within ten days from the date of
service  thereof  as  above provided to the superintendent of schools of
any school district within which any part of the real property on  which
the  assessment  to be reviewed is located and, in all instances, to the
treasurer of any county in which  any  part  of  the  real  property  is
located,  TO  THE  CHAIR  OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF ANY FIRE
DISTRICT IN WHICH ANY PART OF THE REAL PROPERTY IS LOCATED, and  to  the
clerk of a village which has enacted a local law as provided in subdivi-
sion  three  of  section  fourteen  hundred  two  of this chapter if the
assessment to be reviewed is on a parcel located  within  such  village.
Neither  the  school district nor any such county [or], village OR BOARD

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09722-01-9
              

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OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS shall thereby be deemed to have been made a  party
to  the proceeding. Proof of mailing one copy of the petition and notice
to the superintendent of schools, the treasurer of the  county  and  the
clerk  of  the  village  which has enacted a local law as provided above
shall be filed with the court within ten days of the mailing. Failure to
comply with the provisions of this section shall result in the dismissal
of the petition, unless excused for good cause shown.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.