Chapter 027
2009 -- H 5677 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 06/12/09
A N A C T
RELATING TO
PROPERTY TAX RELIEF IN THE TOWN OF
Introduced By: Representative Deborah L. Ruggiero
Date Introduced: February 25, 2009
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 67 of the public laws of
1989, as amended, and as
amended by Chapter 370 of the Public Laws of 2005 entitled "An Act Providing for Tax Relief
for the Members of the Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency
Medical Services
and Volunteer Fire Department" is hereby amended to
read as follows:
The
town council of
Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical
Services and the
Volunteer Fire Department,
who is a citizen and resident of the town of
surviving spouse of any deceased member of the same, who is a
citizen and resident of the town
of exemption abatement.
The
town council of
and regulations as they deem necessary to promote the
purpose of this act.
The
schedule of exemptions abatements shall be as follows: An
exemption A property tax
abatement in the amount of seven hundred dollars ($700);
not to exceed fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) of the
assessed valuation; and such exemption
abatement shall be in addition to any
other abatement or 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 the abatement
is claimed together with due evidence that he or she
is so entitled to such exemption abatement.
SECTION 2. Any ordinance or amendment to any ordinance
passed by the town council
of
Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical
Services and/or the
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 2009 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
to the secretary of state the result of this vote upon
the question at the 2002 2009 or a subsequent
financial town meeting; any ordinance passed by the town
council of
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
to vote upon a proposition to impose a tax or for the
expenditure of money vote to accept this act.
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LC01029/SUB A/2
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