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                                   4611
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real property tax law, in relation to requiring
   assessing authorities answer discovery demands in assessment review
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 8 of section 730 of the real property tax law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  556 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
 follows:
   8. The petitioner shall [mail] SERVE a copy of the petition within ten
 days from the date of filing with the clerk of the supreme court to: (a)
 the clerk of the assessing unit named in the petition, or if there be no
 such clerk, then to the officer who performs  the  customary  duties  of
 that  official, or to the president of the tax commission in a city with
 a population of more than one million and having a tax  commission;  (b)
 the assessor or chairman of the board of assessors of the assessing unit
 named  in  the  petition; (c) the clerk of any school district, except a
 school district governed by the provisions of article fifty-two  of  the
 education  law,  within which any part of the real property on which the
 assessment to be reviewed is located, or if there be  no  clerk  or  the
 clerk's  name and address cannot be obtained, then to a trustee; (d) the
 treasurer of any county in which  any  part  of  the  real  property  is
 located; and (e) the clerk of a village which has enacted a local law as
 provided  in  subdivision  three of section fourteen hundred two of this
 chapter if the assessment to be reviewed is on a parcel  located  within
 such  village.  Service  upon  the  clerk of the assessing unit or other
 appropriate official specified in  paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision
 shall  be made by personal delivery or by certified mail, return receipt
 requested. In the event that service is made by personal  delivery,  the
 clerk  of the assessing unit or other appropriate person shall provide a
 receipt for such service to the petitioner stating the date and time  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD08473-01-9

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 service.  [Neither the school district, county nor such village shall be
 deemed to have been made a party to the  proceeding.]  UPON  RECEIPT  OF
 SERVICE,  THE  ASSESSING  UNIT SHALL BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER ANY DISCOVERY
 DEMANDS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.