Bill Text: NY S04293 | 2017-2018 | 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 (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04293 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04293-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4293
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 8, 2017
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        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:
     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
    21  of  fire commissioners shall thereby be deemed to have been made a party
    22  to the proceeding. Proof of mailing one copy of the petition and  notice
    23  to  the  superintendent  of schools, the treasurer of the county and the
    24  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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     1  shall be filed with the court within ten days of the mailing. Failure to
     2  comply with the provisions of this section shall result in the dismissal
     3  of the petition, unless excused for good cause shown.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.