City of Hackensack, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 153 Taxation
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Article III Property Tax Refunds for Disabled Veterans
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Offices
- Ch 3A Hackensack Municipal Alliance
- Ch 3B Stigma Free Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Board of Education
- Ch 5 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 6 Building, Housing and Land Use Department
- Ch 7 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 9 Charges Against City Employees
- Ch 11 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Communications Department
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 13A Condominium, Cooperative and Multi-Unit Rental Buildings Advisory Board
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Economic Development Commission
- Ch 17 Employment
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission and Green Team
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Department
- Ch 24 Housing Authority
- Ch 24A Information Technology Department
- Ch 25 Insurance Fund
- Ch 26 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 27 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Parking System, Public
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Records, Public
- Ch 36 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 36A Cultural Arts, Department of
- Ch 37 Rules of Order
- Ch 38 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 40 Seal
- Ch 41 Senior Citizen Advisory Board
- Ch 42 Shade Tree Advisory Committee
- Ch 43 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 44 Abandoned and Nuisance Properties
- Ch 45 Advertising Materials
- Ch 45A Affordable Housing
- Ch 46 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 47 Alarm Devices
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Amusement Machines, Automatic
- Ch 52 Animals
- Ch 54 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 56 Automobile Driving Schools
- Ch 58 Automobile Sales, Used
- Ch 60 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 63 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Sleds
- Ch 64 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 66 Boarding and Rooming Houses; Nursing Homes
- Ch 67 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing, Permanent Cosmetics and Tattooing
- Ch 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 69 Cannabis Businesses
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 72 Checks, Fraudulent and Returned
- Ch 74 Child-Care Facilities
- Ch 75 Community Garden
- Ch 76 Drug and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 78 Dry-Cleaning Establishments and Laundries
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Exterminators; Fumigation; Vermin Control
- Ch 86 Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 88 Fire Prevention
- Ch 89 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 90 Food and Drink
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Gardeners, Landscapers, Horticulturists, and Snow Removal Business
- Ch 95 Graffiti
- Ch 96 Guarantees and Bonds
- Ch 97 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 98 Heating and Hot Water
- Ch 99 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 100 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 101 Insurance
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Secondhand
- Ch 104 Junkyards and Storage Yards
- Ch 106 Library
- Ch 107 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 108 Limousine Services
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 110 Mechanical Code
- Ch 111 Massage Establishments
- Ch 112 Noise
- Ch 114 Nuisances
- Ch 115 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 116 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 117 Parks
- Ch 119 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 121 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Poolrooms
- Ch 127 Private Property, Parking on
- Ch 129 Public Bathing Places
- Ch 132 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Ch 133 Relocation of Displaced Tenants
- Ch 134 Rent Stabilization
- Ch 138 Sales, Special
- Ch 140 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 141 Sewers
- Ch 143 Shopping Carts
- Ch 145 Smoke Emission
- Ch 146 Soil Removal
- Ch 147 Special Improvement District
- Ch 148 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Taxation
- Ch 153 Art III Property Tax Refunds for Disabled Veterans
- § 153-18 Totally disabled veteran and surviving spouse tax exemption.
- Ch 155 Taxicabs
- Ch 158 Tourist Lodges and Camps
- Ch 159 Towers and Wreckers
- Ch 159A Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 160 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 162 Trees
- Ch 165 Truck and Bus Terminals
- Ch 166 Uniform Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 168 Vehicles and Property, Abandoned
- Ch 170 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 173 Waterfront Cleanup Program
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Ch 176 Newsracks
- Appendix
- Ch A180 Building Lines
- Ch A181 Franchises
- Ch A182 9-1-1 Telephone System
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-19-2023 by Ord. No. 50-2023]
A.
The City will allow for either a veteran or surviving spouse of a
veteran to obtain municipal property tax relief upon proper claim
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 54:4-3 et seq. An eligible veteran shall be defined
as a member of the United States Armed Forces who was either honorably
discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service,
in time of war, in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States,
who has been or shall be declared by the United States Veterans Administration
or its successor to have a service-connected disability and to be
determined to be 100% permanently disabled. In order to qualify for
the municipal tax exemption, the veteran or someone on his/her behalf,
under oath, must file a written claim with the Tax Assessor's
office. The Tax Assessor's office will supply the applicant with
the appropriate paperwork and the applicant will be required to provide
the Tax Assessor's office with the following information:
(1)
Reason for exemption;
(2)
A description of the property for which the exemption is claimed;
(3)
A certificate of claimant's honorable discharge or release under
honorable circumstances from active service, in time of war and a
certificate/letter from the United States Veterans Administration
or its successors, certifying to a service-connected disability;
(4)
Any other documentation as required by law at the time the application
is made.
B.
In order for a surviving spouse of a veteran to qualify for the municipal
tax exemption, the spouse, under oath, must file a written claim with
the Tax Assessor's office. The Tax Assessor's office will
supply the surviving spouse with the appropriate paperwork and the
applicant will be required to provide the Tax Assessor's office
with the following information:
(1)
Proof to establish that the spouse is the owner of legal title to
the premises on which the exemption is made;
(2)
That the claimant occupies the dwelling house on said premises as
the claimant's legal residence in the State of New Jersey;
(3)
That the veteran has been declared by the United States Veterans
Administration, or its successor, to have a service-connected disability
or that the veteran shall have been declared to have died in active
service in time of war;
(4)
That the veteran is or would have been entitled to the exemption
at the time of death;
(5)
The claimant is a resident of the State of New Jersey and has not
remarried.
C.
In determining a grant of a municipal tax exemption under this section,
the City will prorate the exemption for the remainder of the year
in which application is made from the date the application is submitted
to the City of Hackensack's Tax Assessor. There shall be no further
retroactive refund granted, regardless of the disability date determination
of the United States Veterans Administration.
