"A Local Law to Add a New Article
XI, Grievance Day, to Chapter
127, Taxation, of the Code of the Town of New Paltz, Changing the Date Established for Grievance Day for Real Property Assessment Review."
The Town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster employs an Assessor
who is at the same time employed by another assessing unit. Pursuant
to the authority granted by § 512 (1-a) of the Real Property
Tax Law, the Town of New Paltz desires to establish a date for the
meeting of the Board of Assessment Review other than that provided
in Subdivision 1 of § 512 of the Real Property Tax Law.
The Town of New Paltz hereby adopts as and for its grievance
day the first Thursday after the fourth Tuesday of May and so many
days thereafter as the Board of Assessment Review shall deem necessary
to meet and to hear complaints in relation to assessments pursuant
to § 512 of the New York State Real Property Tax Law.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or
part of this article or the application thereof to any person, individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, entity or circumstance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, effect or invalidate
the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the
clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this
law, or in its application to the person, individual, corporation,
firm, partnership, entity or circumstance, directly involved in the
controversy in which such order or judgment shall be rendered.
If any part or provision of this article or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudicated invalid by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in
its operation to the part or provision or application directly involved
in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered
and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this
article or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances,
and the Town Board of the Town of New Paltz hereby declares that it
would have passed this article or the remainder thereof had such invalid
application or invalid provision been apparent.
All ordinances, local laws and parts thereof that are inconsistent
with this article are hereby repealed.
This article shall take effect immediately upon the filing in
the office of the New York State Secretary of State.