Chapter
370
2005 -- S 1148
Enacted 07/19/05
A N A C T
RELATING TO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF IN THE TOWN OF JAMESTOWN
Introduced By: Senator M. Teresa Paiva-Weed
Date
Introduced: June 01, 2005
It is
enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 1 of chapter 67 of the public laws of 1989, as amended, entitled
"An
Act Providing for Tax Relief for the Members of the Jamestown Volunteer
Ambulance
Corps Emergency Medical Services and Volunteer Fire
Department" is hereby amended to read
as
follows:
The
town council of Jamestown may, by ordinance, grant to every member of the
Jamestown
Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Services and the
Jamestown
Volunteer
Fire Department, who is a citizen and resident of the town of Jamestown, and to
the
surviving
spouse of any deceased member of the same, who is a citizen and resident of the
town
of
Jamestown, on proper claim being made therefore, a tax exemption.
The
town council of Jamestown may, from time to time, by ordinance, make such rules
and
regulations as they deem necessary to promote the purpose of this act.
The
schedule of exemptions shall be as follows: An exemption not to exceed fifty
seventy-five thousand dollars ($50,000) ($75,000) of
the assessed valuation; and such exemption
shall
be in addition to any other exemption to which said person shall be entitled.
Provided,
however,
that he or she shall have presented to the assessor a true and exact account of
his or her
ratable
estate as provided for in title 44, chapter 5, sections 15 and 16 of the
general laws of 1956,
as
amended, for the year for which exemption is claimed together with due evidence
that he or
she is
so entitled to such exemption.
SECTION
2. Any ordinance or amendment to any ordinance passed by the town council
of Jamestown
to provide tax relief for the surviving spouses of deceased members of the
Jamestown
Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Services and/or the
Jamestown
Volunteer
Fire Department shall become effective upon passage; provided, however, that
said
ordinance
shall provide tax relief only for taxes assessed December 31, 1990, and
thereafter; and
further
provided that such ordinance shall be preceded by a public hearing to be
advertised.
SECTION
3. The question of the acceptance or rejection of this act shall submitted to
the
qualified
electors of said town, entitled to vote upon a proposition to impose tax or for
the
expenditure
of money, at any special or regular financial town meeting to be held after the
passage
of the act, and no other action shall be taken under the authority of this act
unless a
majority
of said electors voting on said question at said town meeting vote to accept
this act.
However,
any action taken in the year 2002 2005 by the town meeting shall
be as valid
and
effective as if this act were in effect at the time of issue, posting and
publication of the
warrant
for such meeting and at the time of the taking such action.
The
town clerk of the town of Jamestown shall forthwith after said town meeting certify
to the
secretary of state the result of this vote upon the question at the 2002
2005 or a subsequent
financial
town meeting; any ordinance passed by the town council of Jamestown to provide
tax
relief
for the spouses of deceased members of the Jamestown Volunteer Ambulance
Corps
Emergency
Medical Services and Jamestown
Volunteer Fire Department shall become effective
upon
passage, provided, however, that such ordinance adoption shall be preceded by a
public
hearing.
SECTION
4. This section and section 3 of this act shall take effect upon passage, and
the
remaining
sections shall take effect if and when the electors of the town of Jamestown
qualified
to vote upon a proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money vote to accept this act.
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