(House Bill No. 904, Special Act 95)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Assembly convened:
As long as the state tax commissioner shall approve, individual
assessment list of the Town of East Haddam need not contain a complete
description of real property subject to taxation within said Town,
provided such lists shall contain references to maps and other data
on file in either the office of the assessors or in the office of
the Town Clerk of said Town, containing such a complete description.
(Approved April 14, 1937)
(House Bill No. 840, Special Act 252)
(Senate Bill No. 413, special Act 102)
Sec. 1. The Board of Assessors of the Town of East Haddam is
abolished.
Sec. 2. There shall be a single assessor in said Town who shall
be appointed as hereinafter prescribed and shall have all the powers,
duties and rights conferred or imposed upon said Board of Assessors,
except as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 3. Appeals may be taken from assessments made by said assessor
in the same manner as from assessments made by the former Board of
Assessors.
Sec. 4. Said assessor shall be appointed by a majority vote
of the Board of Finance of said Town within thirty days after the
adoption of this act as hereinafter prescribed, and shall hold office
until the first Monday of October, 1948. Within a period of thirty
days preceding the first Monday of October, 1948, and biennally thereafter,
said Board of Finance, by a majority vote, shall appoint a successor
to the assessor whose term expires on such first Monday of October.
Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner by a majority vote
of the Board of Finance of said Town within thirty days after the
occurrence of such vacancy, and the person appointed to fill such
vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired portion of the term of
his predecessor. In the event of the temporary incapacity or inability
of said assessor, the Board of Finance, by a majority vote, may designate
any person employed in the office of said assessor, and if there be
no such employee, any other person, to act in his place during the
period of his incapacity or inability to act, but for a single period
of not more than three months. The person so designated during the
period of appointment shall have and perform all the powers, duties
and rights of said assessor.
Sec. 5. Any incumbent of said office may be removed by a majority
vote of the Board of Finance of said Town after a hearing upon written
charges of dishonesty or incompetence preferred by a member of the
Board of Selectmen or Board of Finance.
Sec. 6. Said assessor shall have power to appoint and to remove
at pleasure such number of assistants, clerical, engineering, appraisal
or otherwise, as may be authorized by the Board of Finance and for
which appropriations have been made. The assessor shall make such
rules and regulations for the conduct of his office as may be approved
by the Board of Finance. All records and maps of said assessor shall
be open to public inspection at reasonable times.
Sec. 7. The salary of said assessor and such assistants as he
may be authorized to engage shall be fixed by a majority vote of the
Board of Finance of said Town in the same manner as all other requests
for appropriations and shall be included in the Town budget and acted
upon at a Town meeting in the same manner as all other appropriations
recommended by the Board of Finance.
Sec. 8. Any provision of the General Statutes or the Special
Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall have no force
and effect so far as it relates to the assessment of property for
taxation in the Town of East Haddam.
Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its approval by a majority
vote of the electors of the Town of East Haddam voting at a Town meeting
to be held on the eighth Monday after the approval of this act by
the governor. The selectmen of said Town shall warn a Town meeting
to be held on said day for the purpose of voting upon the approval
of this act, it shall thereupon take effect and a certificate of approval
signed by the Town Clerk, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary
of the State. (Approved, May 21, 1947)
Voted, that the Town of East Haddam be permitted to conform
with the progressive action taken by other cities and towns by obtaining
a single Assessor to replace the present system of Assessors as provided
by Senate Bill No. 413, State of Connecticut. (Town Meeting, May 12,
1947).
Sec. 1. All persons required to file lists of property subject
to taxation with the assessors of the Town of East Haddam shall file
such lists not later than November first in each year, or if November
first shall be a Sunday or a legal holiday, then not later than the
next business day following. Such lists shall not include real estate
or motor vehicles.
Sec. 2. The assessors of said Town shall provide a form approved
by the state tax commissioner to be used by property owners in said
Town for listing property as required by section 1 of this act. (Approved
June 2, 1955).
A SPECIAL ACT SIGNED INTO LAW MAY 28, 1980.
An Act enabling East Haddam to reimburse or adjust for property
taxes related to pen space land on the 1978 Assessment List in excess
of the amount correctly determined for such land. Special Act No.
80-63.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Assembly convened: The Town of East Haddam, having used a
certain assessment procedure in preparing the 1978 assessment list
related to assessment of parcels of land classified as open space
land, which procedure was found to result in inequities and in respect
to which certain owners, having paid taxes levied on such parcels
as assessed in said 1978 assessment list, were reimbursed by said
Town to the extent that taxes paid in excess of the amount which would
have been payable but for said assessment procedure, in which total
acreage in each such parcel although qualified for classification
as open space land was not so assessed in its entirety, or in respect
to any such owners who had not paid such taxes and for whom the amounts
of such taxes due were adjusted accordingly, which reimbursement or
adjustment has been implemented in accordance with a stipulated judgment
agreed to by said Town and said owners who were parties to the action
in response to which said stipulated judgment was entered, is hereby
authorized, notwithstanding he requirements in section 2-1 of the
general statutes, to make such reimbursement or adjustment for any
owner of a parcel of land qualified for classification as open space
land who was not a party to said stipulated judgment and which land
was assessed and any such reimbursement for taxes paid or adjustment
for taxes due as authorized by this act is hereby validate.
Money appropriated by Special Town Meeting September 17, 1980.
