[Adopted 1-14-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
The Town Board of the Town of Pleasant Valley
hereby authorizes agreements with one or more financing agencies or
card issuers to provide for acceptance by the Town Clerk, the Receiver
of Taxes, the Zoning Administrator and the Recreation Director, and
their designees, as a means of payment for fines, penalties, rents,
rates, taxes, fees, changes, revenue, financial obligations and other
amounts, including penalties, special assessments or interest, owed
to the Town of Pleasant Valley via a municipal Internet website.
The agreements referred to in this article shall
govern the terms and conditions upon which a credit card proferred
as a means of payment of fines, civil penalties, rents, rates, taxes,
fees, charges, revenue, financial obligations and other amounts, including
penalties, special assessments or interest, shall be accepted or declined
and the manner in and conditions upon which the financing agency or
card issuer shall pay to the "Town of Pleasant Valley the amounts
of the fines, civil penalties, rents, rates, taxes, fees, charges,
revenue, financial obligations and other amounts, including penalties,
special assessments or interest, paid by means of a credit card, pursuant
to such agreement.
The agreements referred to in this article shall
provide that as a condition for accepting payment by credit card,
such person offering payment by credit card or charge card pay a service
fee to the Town of Pleasant Valley not to exceed the costs incurred
by the Town of Pleasant Valley in connection with the credit or charge
card payment transaction, including any fee owed by the Town of Pleasant
Valley to the financing agency or card issuer arising from that transaction.
The underlying debt, lien, obligation, bill,
account or other amount owed to the Town of Pleasant Valley for which
payment by credit card is accepted by the Town of Pleasant Valley
shall not be expunged, canceled, released, discharged or satisfied,
and any receipt or any other evidence of payment shall be deemed conditional,
until Pleasant Valley has received a final and unconditional payment
of the full amount due from the financing agency or card issuer for
such credit card transaction.