Bill Text: NJ S645 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases allowed amount of property tax refunds and certain cancellations that can be authorized without further action of municipal governing body.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [S645 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S645-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 645

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LATHAM TIVER

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Increases allowed amount of property tax refunds and certain cancellations that can be authorized without further action of municipal governing body.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning the processing of property tax refunds and delinquencies and amending P.L.1983, c.568.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  Section 1 of P.L.1983, c.568 (C.40A:5-17.1) is amended to read as follows:

     1.  a.  Notwithstanding the provision of any law to the contrary, the governing body of a municipality may adopt a resolution authorizing a municipal employee chosen by the governing body to process, without further action on the part of the governing body, any property tax refund of less than [$10.00] $20.

     b.    Notwithstanding subsection a. of this section or any provision of law to the contrary, the governing body of a municipality may adopt a resolution authorizing a municipal employee chosen by the governing body to process, without further action on the part of the governing body, the cancellation of any property tax refund, delinquency, or the charges and fees imposed by the municipality of less than [$10.00] $20.

(cf: P.L.2013, c.54, s.1)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would permit the governing body of a municipality to adopt a resolution authorizing a municipal employee, without any further action by the governing body, to process a property tax refund or the cancellation of a property tax refund or delinquency of less than $20.

     Under current law, the amount of refund or cancellation that can be processed by a municipal employee without further action by the governing body is $10.