A policy is hereby established whereby the County will no longer
levy and continue remunerating payments to any local municipality,
water board or water district for unmetered water charges and vacant
land charges on properties that Albany County would otherwise levy
onto the tax rolls.
The Albany County Legislature reserves the right to in any event
refuse to levy any such unpaid water and/or sewer charges it determines
to have been imposed unlawfully, arbitrarily or without having taken
reasonable, timely action to terminate future water and sewer service
to the properties having been provided with such unpaid services.
Where a local municipality, water board or water district has
water and sewer charges imposed within its respective jurisdiction,
which have gone unpaid for three consecutive billing cycles, such
municipality, water board or water district shall provide, prior to
its annual tax levy, detailed information necessary for the Albany
County Department of Management and Budget to verify what action,
if any, was taken to terminate future water and sewer service to the
properties provided with such services, as well as whether any of
said properties are registered on its municipal vacant properties
registry.
The Albany County Department of Management and Budget shall
recoup from any local municipality, water board or water district
any and all unmetered water and sewer charges levied by the Albany
County Legislature and any charges on properties that no action was
taken to terminate future water and sewer service which have gone
unpaid for three consecutive billing cycles for any local municipality,
water board or water district which provided the County with a real
property tax levy request for tax year 2014.