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Assembly Bill A1155

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Makes provisions with respect to service of real property assessment challenges upon fire districts

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2015-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1107
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง708, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7375, S3818
2011-2012: A523, S810
2013-2014: A2604, S2354
2017-2018: A4577, S4293

2015-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that real property assessment challenges shall be served upon a fire district by serving the chair of the board of fire commissioners of the fire district.

2015-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1155

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

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
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02668-01-5

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