The Supervisor of the Town of Eaton is hereby empowered to enter
into an agreement with the Town(s) of Lebanon and Georgetown pursuant
to § 576 of the Real Property Tax Law, provided that one
Assessor shall be appointed to hold the Office of Assessor in all
the participating assessing units in the coordinated assessment program.
Such a cooperative assessment agreement shall provide for the joint
conduct of interviews of persons seeking the office of assessor, and
that the appointment of the Assessor must be approved by a majority
of each participating assessing unit's Town Boards. In addition,
the agreement shall provide for the compensation of the Assessor.
Each town shall enter into its own financial agreement with the appointed
Assessor.
Upon the expiration of the term of the appointed Assessor or in the
event that the Assessor so appointed resigns or is otherwise unable
to remain in office, one individual shall be appointed to succeed
him or her in all the participating assessing units.
Effective with the first assessment roll produced in cooperation
with the other participating assessing units in the coordinated assessment
program, all real property shall be assessed at the same uniform percentage
of value in each assessing unit participating in the coordinated assessment
program throughout the term of this cooperative assessment agreement.
The dates applicable to the assessment process in each participating
assessing unit, including taxable status date, and the dates for the
filing of the tentative and the final assessment rolls shall be the
same for each assessing unit participating in this coordinated assessment
program.