Assembly Bill A6823

Vetoed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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

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2015-A6823 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4737
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4587, S4723, S7921
2019-2020: S1176

2015-A6823 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A6823 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6823

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 6, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Local Governments

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 FEBRUARY FIRST  OF
EACH  YEAR  THAT IT COLLECTS 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09803-01-5
              

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