S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9246
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
November 9, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to office hours
of local real property assessors
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 526 of the real property tax law,
as amended by chapter 609 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
follows:
2. The tentative assessment roll shall be available for public
inspection from the date the tentative roll is completed and filed until
and including the day or days the board of assessment review meets to
hear complaints. The assessor or his or her designee is required to be
in attendance with such roll at a specified place during a period of at
least four hours not necessarily continuous between nine o'clock in the
morning and ten o'clock in the evening on at least four days during the
public inspection period prior to the day such board is required to meet
to hear complaints; provided that at least two such days shall be at
least ten days subsequent to the filing of the tentative assessment
roll[, of which one day shall be a Saturday]. On at least one of the
four days the hours of attendance by the assessor or his or her designee
shall include not less than two hours after six o'clock in the evening.
Such [number of] days may INCLUDE A SATURDAY AND MAY be increased to
more than four by local law OR RESOLUTION.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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