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Senate Bill S4293

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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2017-S4293 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4577
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §708, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3818, A7375
2011-2012: S810, A523
2013-2014: S2354, A2604
2015-2016: S1107, A1155

2017-S4293 (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.

2017-S4293 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4293 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4293
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. LAVALLE, LARKIN -- 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  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.

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