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Senate Bill S74

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the status of a county real property tax service agency as an independently constituted agency

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2009-S74 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1530, RPT L

2009-S74 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a county real property tax service agency shall be an independently constituted agency or department, except that an agency which is part of a department may remain as a part of such department.

2009-S74 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S74 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   74

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation  to  establishing
  county  real  property  tax  service  agencies  as being independently
  constituted agencies

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

  Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 1530 of the real property
tax law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 440 of the laws of 1993 and
subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 12 of the laws of 1972, are  amended
to read as follows:
  1.   Selection and term of office. In each county that does not assess
real property for purposes of taxation, except a county wholly within  a
city,  there  shall  be a real property tax service agency.  SUCH AGENCY
SHALL BE AN INDEPENDENTLY CONSTITUTED AGENCY OR DEPARTMENT, EXCEPT  THAT
THOSE  AGENCIES WHICH ARE PART OF A DEPARTMENT AT THE TIME OF THE EFFEC-
TIVE DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND NINE WHICH  AMENDED
THIS  SUBDIVISION,  MAY REMAIN AS A PART OF SUCH DEPARTMENT. The head of
such agency shall be the director of real  property  tax  services,  who
shall  have a six year term of office commencing on October first, nine-
teen hundred seventy-one and on October first of each sixth year  there-
after.  The  director  shall be appointed by the legislative body of the
county except that in  a  county  in  which  heads  of  departments  are
appointed by the county executive or county manager, such director shall
be  appointed  by such county executive or county manager.  Any resident
of the state, otherwise eligible for appointment  as  director  of  real
property  tax  services,  may be appointed director of real property tax
services.
  2. Classification. The position  of  director  of  real  property  tax
services  shall  be  classified in the noncompetitive class of the civil

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

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