S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5533 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to the position of assessor THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 3-301 of the 2 village law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1983, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 b. assessor or assessors, provided, however, that the board of trus- 5 tees by resolution or local law may consolidate the offices of clerk, 6 treasurer, and assessor or any two of such offices AND FURTHER PROVIDED 7 THAT IF THE POSITION OF ASSESSOR EXISTS AT THE TOWN LEVEL IN WHICH SUCH 8 VILLAGE IS LOCATED, THERE SHALL BE NO ASSESSOR FOR SUCH VILLAGE. The 9 board of trustees may also determine, by local law or resolution, that 10 such board of trustees shall act as the board of assessors or may 11 appoint such board from their members. Notwithstanding the foregoing 12 provisions of this paragraph, a village which has enacted a local law as 13 provided in subdivision three of section fourteen hundred two of the 14 real property tax law shall not have an assessor or assessors in any 15 year in which such local law is in effect. 16 S 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 17 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01449-01-5