Bill Text: NY A02604 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-03-20 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [A02604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02604-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 2354                                                  A. 2604
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2013
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       IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE, LARKIN -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Local Government
       IN ASSEMBLY -- 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:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 708 of the real property tax  law,
    2  as  amended  by  chapter  503 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. Except in a city in which there is a city school district  governed
    5  by  the  provisions  of  article fifty-two of the education law, or in a
    6  special assessing unit as defined in article eighteen  of  this  chapter
    7  which  is  not  a  city or in a county governed by chapter three hundred
    8  eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty, as amended by chapter one
    9  hundred thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-five, one copy  of
   10  the petition and notice shall be mailed within ten days from the date of
   11  service  thereof  as  above provided to the superintendent of schools of
   12  any school district within which any part of the real property on  which
   13  the  assessment  to be reviewed is located and, in all instances, to the
   14  treasurer of any county in which  any  part  of  the  real  property  is
   15  located,  TO  THE  CHAIR  OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF ANY FIRE
   16  DISTRICT IN WHICH ANY PART OF THE REAL PROPERTY IS LOCATED, and  to  the
   17  clerk of a village which has enacted a local law as provided in subdivi-
   18  sion  three  of  section  fourteen  hundred  two  of this chapter if the
   19  assessment to be reviewed is on a parcel located  within  such  village.
   20  Neither  the  school district nor any such county [or], village OR BOARD
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06182-01-3
       S. 2354                             2                            A. 2604
    1  OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS shall thereby be deemed to have been made a  party
    2  to  the proceeding. Proof of mailing one copy of the petition and notice
    3  to the superintendent of schools, the treasurer of the  county  and  the
    4  clerk  of  the  village  which has enacted a local law as provided above
    5  shall be filed with the court within ten days of the mailing. Failure to
    6  comply with the provisions of this section shall result in the dismissal
    7  of the petition, unless excused for good cause shown.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.