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The Assessing year is from
July 1st to June 30th. Throughout the year property owners can come in and
meet personally with the Assessor, by appointment, to discuss their property
information. Our Taxable Status Date is March 1st [Exemption Application
filing deadline]. From March 1st through to May 1st there are processes that
the Assessor goes through in reviewing property assessments. A Tentative
Assessment Roll is filed as of May 1st and notices are sent out to those
property owners whose Assessed Values have been changed. At that point and
time you can come in and meet with the Assessor while he is "Sitting With
The Assessment Roll", that are on certain days at particular times. Beyond
that point is Grievance Day when you meet with the Board of Assessment
Review (a panel of three to five members) and grieve your assessment to the
Board, not the Assessor. The Assessor or his representative will be on hand
for the Assessment Board to ask questions of him/her, if needed. Once the
Assessment Board hears all grievances they go into a closed session and make
their determinations. Within a couple of weeks you will receive a notice
from the Board of Assessment Review as to whether they upheld the Assessor's
determination of assessment or if they adjusted the assessment. Beyond
Grievance is the Small Claims Hearing (see Small Claims...) for residential
properties*, your last stop. [NOTE: You can not go to Small Claims if you
have not gone through your Town's Grievance process.] You would need to file
a Petition at the County Clerk's Office, as well as other copies to other
offices, see Small Claims instructions.
Taxable Status Date - March 1st
Sitting With The
Assessment Roll
Grievance Day
http://www.orps.state.ny.us/ref/forms/pdf/rp524.pdf -
Grievance Application * You own and live in a one, two, or three-family home and use it exclusively for residential purposes. A seasonal residence can qualify provided that, during the period it is in use, the owner occupies it. In addition, vacant land parcels also can qualify provided they are not of sufficient size, as determined by the assessing unit, to contain a one, two, or three-family residential structure
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