Bill Text: NJ S1582 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S1582 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1582-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator STEVEN V. OROHO
District 24 (Sussex, Hunterdon and Morris)
SYNOPSIS
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning in-lieu of tax payments for local services provided to certain State property and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes and chapter 17B of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in this act:
"Eligible municipality" means a municipality in which qualified State property is situated.
"Qualified State property" means land and improvements owned or leased by the State:
a. For use by the State Police in the performance of their official duties or held for future use by the State Police in the performance of their official duties; and
b. Situate in a municipality where the State Police are providing full-time or part-time rural patrol, regardless of whether or not those lands and improvements are subject to any other State payment in lieu of taxes program.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, to compensate eligible municipalities for the costs of providing local services for qualified State property situated within their borders, all qualified State properties shall be assessed and subject to an in lieu tax payment as hereinafter provided in this act.
3. Commencing with the 2007 tax year, and annually thereafter, the assessor of each eligible municipality shall, on or before September 15, prepare and send to the Director of the Division of Taxation the taxable value assessment of each parcel of qualified State property situate within the eligible municipality. The taxable value assessment shall be sent by the assessor on a form and in a manner prescribed by the director.
4. The director shall review and, if appropriate, revise the list and assessment of any parcel of qualified State property. On or before November 15 of each year, the director shall notify the county board of taxation and the taxing district affected by any such change, addition or revision. The determination of the director shall be final and there shall be no appeal taken with respect thereto, except to correct typographical and mathematical errors.
5. After completing the review of assessments of qualified State property, the director shall compute the State's liability for in lieu tax payments. The in lieu tax payments shall be calculated each tax year by applying the effective local purpose tax rate of the municipality for that tax year to the aggregate assessed value of the qualified State property located within that municipality. The result of these calculations shall constitute the State's liability.
6. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit the total amount of the State's in lieu tax liability calculated under this section in the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund" established pursuant to section 7 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
7. There is created in the Department of Law and Public Safety a nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund." This fund shall be the repository for the moneys paid in lieu of taxes pursuant to section 6 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) and shall be administered by the Attorney General.
The moneys deposited in the fund, and any interest earned thereon, shall be used exclusively for the purpose of making grants to municipalities that are required to pay any portion of the costs assessed to the municipality by the State Police for providing full-time or part time rural patrol services.
Each year the moneys in the fund shall be proportionately distributed among the municipalities required to pay these assessed costs. Each eligible municipality's portion shall be determined by multiplying the fraction that results from dividing the amount a particular municipality is assessed by the aggregate amount assessed all such municipalities for the full-time and part-time rural services provided by the State Police times the total amount of moneys in the fund.
8. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill establishes a grant program to assist municipalities that are assessed any portion of the costs incurred by the State Police in providing full-time or part-time rural patrol services.
Under the provisions of the bill, the State is required to make in lieu of tax payments on any properties owned or leased for use by the State Police that are located in a municipality that is receiving full-time or part-time rural patrols by the State Police. The amount of the State's in lieu tax liability is to be determined by multiplying the assessed value of the owned or leased property by the effective local purpose tax rate of the municipality.
The resulting amount is to be deposited in the "Rural Police Services Relief Fun," which is to be administered by the Attorney General. Each year the moneys in the fund are to be distributed among the municipalities required to pay a portion of the costs incurred by the State Police in providing these municipalities with rural police services. Each eligible municipality's grant portion is to be determined by multiplying the fraction that results from dividing the amount a particular municipality is assessed by the aggregate amount assessed all municipalities for full-time and part-time rural services provided by the State Police times the total amount of moneys in the fund.
