[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Stanford 3-16-1971
by L.L. No. 1-1971; amended in its entirety 1-8-1998
by L.L. No. 1-1998. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Taxation — See Ch. 144.
The purpose of this chapter is that the Town Board of the Town of Stanford
elects, pursuant to New York Real Property Law § 328, to discontinue
the office of elective assessors for the Town of Stanford and to replace such
elective offices with an appointed Assessor.
The Town Board of the Town of Stanford exercises the option, pursuant
to New York Real Property Law § 328, that from and after the first
day of September 1998, there shall be an appointed Assessor, and such office
shall be an appointive office pursuant to New York Real Property Law § 310.
This chapter, pursuant to New York Real Property Tax Law § 328
and New York Municipal Home Rule Law § 24, shall be subject to a
permissive referendum and shall not take effect until the expiration of 45
days from the adoption of this chapter by the Town Board of the Town of Stanford,
nor until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified
electors of the Town of Stanford voting on a proposition for its approval
if, within 45 days after its adoption by the Town Board of the Town of Stanford,
there is filed with the Clerk a petition protesting against such chapter,
signed and authenticated as herein required by the qualified electors of the
Town of Stanford registered to vote therein at the last preceding general
election, in number equal to at least 10% of the total number of the votes
cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election in the Town of Stanford.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: No valid petition requesting such referendum having
been filed, this chapter took effect 2-23-1998.
