AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION.
To (1) authorize water pollution control authorities to set alternative payment deadlines, (2) require disclosure of commercial or financial information in declarations of personal property to municipal officers upon request, (3) specify that a municipality may withhold and offset a tax refund against a taxpayer's delinquencies, (4) specify that pending assessment appeals shall not suspend a municipality's authority to file a lien continuance certificate, (5) increase from five dollars to twenty dollars the amount of a tax overpayment a municipality may retain, (6) increase from one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars the maximum amount of a tax bill that is billable in a single installment, (7) authorize tax collectors to give notice to pay taxes in any newspaper having general circulation in a municipality, (8) require municipalities to waive all or a portion of interest due on a delinquent tax payment upon the demonstration of the taxpayer that such payment was stolen, (9) require municipalities and district health departments to decline to issue certain licenses to businesses that are tax-delinquent, (10) specify that written demand for payment of certain municipal taxes and charges addressed to one person responsible for such payment shall serve as notice to all persons responsible for such payment, (11) specify that notice of a tax warrant on real estate sent to a deceased owner's estate or fiduciary shall be adequate notice to such decedent's heirs, devisees, representatives and other claimants, (12) specify that a tax sale may be adjourned to a time to be determined at a later date, (13) permit redemption of tax delinquent real property after receipt of notice of a tax warrant on such property, (14) specify that an applicant for payment of tax sale overages need not serve notice of such application on persons having an interest of record in the property if there are no such persons other than the applicant, (15) specify when a property that was the subject of a tax sale shall have a marketable and insurable title, (16) authorize municipalities to designate a place on any property tax bill for taxpayers to donate any amount to a local scholarship fund, (17) make the recording of lien continuance certificates by municipal tax collectors mandatory rather than optional, (18) specify that any municipality may enact an ordinance specifying the manner by which certificates continuing tax liens are incorporated into land records, (19) specify that notice of a tax lien shall not be effective if filed more than two years from the date such taxes were due, rather than two years from the date of assessment, (20) specify that the sale of an abandoned mobile home shall extinguish previous ownership and lien rights, except municipal tax liens, and (21) make minor and technical changes to statutes relating to municipal tax collection.
Introduced by:
Planning and Development Committee
