Notice of Public Hearing: Exemption for Volunteer Firefighters and Volunteer Ambulance Workers

TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
PUBLIC NOTICE

    PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held before the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead, at Riverhead Town Hall, 200 Howell Avenue, Riverhead, New York, on the 7TH day of February, 2012 at 2:15 o’clock p.m. to consider a local law amending Chapter 95 entitled “Taxation” of the Riverhead Town Code as follows:

CHAPTER 95
TAXATION
ARTICLE VIII.  Exemption for Volunteer Fire Fighters and
     Volunteer Ambulance Workers

§95-36.  Exemptions granted.

G.  Any enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who accrues more than twenty years of active service and is so certified by the authority having jurisdiction for the incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service, shall be granted the ten percent exemption as authorized by this section for the remainder of his or her life as long as his or her primary residence is located within such a county provided that the governing body of a city, village, town, county or school district, after a public hearing, adopted a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor.    

§95-38.  Unmarried spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers killed in line of duty.

Any local law or ordinance adopted Ppursuant to and consistent with §§ 466, 466-a, 466-b, 466-c, 466-d or 466-e 466-f of the New York State Real Property Tax Law may be amended, or a local law, ordinance or resolution may be adopted, the Town Board hereby grants an exemption to an un-remarried spouse of a deceased enrolled member continue any exempted claimed under such statutes by an enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department, or incorporated volunteer ambulance service, to such deceased enrolled member’s unremarried spouse if such member is killed in the line of duty; provided, however, that:

A.  Such unremarried spouse is certified by the authority having jurisdiction for the incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated volunteer ambulance service as an unremarried spouse of an enrolled member of such incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who was killed in the line of duty; and

B.  Such deceased volunteer had been an enrolled member for at least 20 years.

C.  Such deceased volunteer and unremarried spouse had been receiving the exemption for such property prior to the death of such volunteer.

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Dated:  Riverhead, New York
      January 18, 2012
                           
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD
OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD

DIANE M. WILHELM, TOWN CLERK