Bill Text: PA SB472 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for appeal notices.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-02 - Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT [SB472 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB472-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 482
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 472 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, FERLO, BROWNE, HUGHES, LOGAN, ORIE, BOSCOLA, EARLL, ERICKSON, FONTANA, MUSTO, WAUGH AND BAKER, MARCH 2, 2009
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 2, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L.571, No.254), entitled, as
amended, "An act relating to assessment for taxation in
counties of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
classes; designating the subjects, property and persons
subject to and exempt from taxation for county, borough,
town, township, school, except in cities and county
institution district purposes; and providing for and
regulating the assessment and valuation thereof for such
purposes; creating in each such county a board for the
assessment and revision of taxes; defining the powers and
duties of such boards; providing for the acceptance of this
act by cities; regulating the office of ward, borough, town
and township assessors; abolishing the office of assistant
triennial assessor in townships of the first class; providing
for the appointment of a chief assessor, assistant assessors
and other employes; providing for their compensation payable
by such counties; prescribing certain duties of and certain
fees to be collected by the recorder of deeds and municipal
officers who issue building permits; imposing duties on
taxables making improvements on land and grantees of land;
prescribing penalties; and eliminating the triennial
assessment; and regulating certain assessments in all
counties," further providing for appeal notices.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 701(b) of the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L.
571, No.254), known as The Fourth to Eighth Class County
Assessment Law, amended December 13, 1982 (P.L.1173, No.270), is
amended to read:
Section 701. Appeal Notices.--* * *
(b) Any person aggrieved by any assessment whether or not
the value thereof shall have been changed since the preceding
annual assessment, or any taxing district having an interest
therein, may appeal to the board for relief. Notwithstanding any
other provision of law to the contrary, the board is prohibited
from imposing or assessing any type of fee relating to the
appeal. Any person or such taxing districts desiring to make an
appeal shall, on or before the first day of September, file with
the board an appeal, setting forth:
(1) The assessment or assessments by which such person feels
aggrieved;
(2) The address to which the board shall mail notice of when
and where to appear for hearing.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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