A00122 Summary:

BILL NOA00122
 
SAME ASNo same as
 
SPONSORCahill
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S503, RPT L; amd S334, add S334-b, RP L
 
Requires landowner and licensed surveyor to notify adjacent property owners of survey and discrepancies between maps of a subdivided parcel before the sale and for the coordination of tax maps with surveyor maps; authorizes penalties for failure to notify.
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A00122 Actions:

BILL NOA00122
 
01/05/2011referred to real property taxation
01/04/2012referred to real property taxation
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A00122 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A00122 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           122
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 5, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Real Property Taxation
 
        AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law and the real property law, in
          relation to notifying certain property owners of record of changes  to

          a parcel and coordinating tax maps with surveyor maps
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 503 of the real property tax  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  472  of  the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. The originals of tax maps approved  under  this  section  shall  be
     5  filed  in  the  office  of  the  county  director  of  real property tax
     6  services. With the cooperation and  concurrence  of  the  assessor,  the
     7  county  director shall make such changes from year to year upon such tax
     8  maps as may be necessary to  maintain  the  maps  in  current  condition
     9  including  the  date  the  changes  were made and the name of the person
    10  making such changes; provided, however, if a survey is done on a parcel,

    11  such survey shall be coordinated with the tax map of the same parcel and
    12  if there is a discrepancy, all affected landowners shall be notified  by
    13  the  licensed land surveyor as provided in section three hundred thirty-
    14  four-b of the real property law.  The expense of  maintaining  such  tax
    15  maps  in  current condition shall be a county charge and shall be levied
    16  ad valorem upon all taxable property in the county. On such dates as are
    17  appropriate for use in connection with  the  preparation  of  assessment
    18  rolls,  the  county  director  shall furnish each city, town and village
    19  that assesses real property for purposes of taxation with a copy of  the
    20  approved tax map or pertinent portion thereof in current condition. Such
    21  copy  of  the  map  shall  be  a public record and shall be filed in the

    22  office of the assessor of the city, town or village; provided,  however,
    23  that  if  the  city, town or village does not maintain an office for the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00782-01-1

        A. 122                              2
 
     1  assessor, the map shall be filed in the office  of  the  city,  town  or
     2  village  clerk.  The  county director may file an additional copy of the
     3  tax map in the office of the county clerk and shall provide  such  addi-
     4  tional  copies to such county or other government agencies as the legis-
     5  lative body of the county may direct.
     6    § 2. The section heading of section 334 of the real property  law,  as

     7  amended  by section 687 of the laws of 2005, is amended, subdivisions 1,
     8  2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  and  8
     9  and a new subdivision 1 is added to read as follows:
    10    [Maps] Notice requirements; maps to be filed; penalty for nonfiling.
    11    1.  It  shall be the duty of every person or corporation who, as owner
    12  or agent, subdivides real property into lots, plots,  blocks  or  sites,
    13  with  or  without  streets,  for sale to the public to publish notice of
    14  such plan to survey or have surveyed such real property  prior  to  such
    15  subdividing  of  real  property.  Such  published notice shall be in two
    16  local newspapers, at least one in the English language, most  likely  to
    17  give  notice  to any interested persons, for a period of ten consecutive

    18  days prior to survey, and at least once a week in each of  four  succes-
    19  sive weeks after such survey has been made. It shall also be the duty of
    20  the  licensed  land  surveyor  to provide notice to the public of a land
    21  survey by posting signs on or near the property to be surveyed ten  days
    22  prior to, during, and for thirty days after the land survey.
    23    § 3. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 334-b to
    24  read as follows:
    25    §  334-b.  Discrepancy among land maps; penalty for failure to notify.
    26  It shall be the duty of the licensed land surveyor  to  provide  written
    27  notice  to his or her client within sixty days of a land survey, as well
    28  as all of the adjacent landowners, of any discrepancy between  the  land

    29  map  to  be  filed by such surveyor and the previously filed land map of
    30  such real property in the office of the county clerk where the  property
    31  is  situated.  The duty to provide notice of such discrepancy shall only
    32  apply where the parcel of real property surveyed is five acres  or  less
    33  and two percent or more of the property is affected by a discrepancy, or
    34  where  the  parcel of real property surveyed is more than five acres and
    35  ten percent or more of such property is affected  by  a  discrepancy.  A
    36  failure to provide notice of such discrepancy shall subject the surveyor
    37  to  a penalty to be determined and imposed by the commissioner of educa-
    38  tion on recommendations from the state board for  engineering  and  land
    39  surveying.

    40    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    41  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    42  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    43  tation  of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
    44  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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