Chapter 027

2009 -- H 5677 SUBSTITUTE A

Enacted 06/12/09

 

A N A C T

RELATING TO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF IN THE TOWN OF JAMESTOWN

          

     Introduced By: Representative Deborah L. Ruggiero

     Date Introduced: February 25, 2009

 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

 

     SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 67 of the public laws of 1989, as amended, and as

amended by Chapter 370 of the Public Laws of 2005 entitled "An Act Providing for Tax Relief

for the Members of the Jamestown Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Services

and Volunteer Fire Department" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     The town council of Jamestown may, by ordinance, grant to every member of the

Jamestown Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Services and the Jamestown

Volunteer Fire Department, who is a citizen and resident of the town of Jamestown, and to the

surviving spouse of any deceased member of the same, who is a citizen and resident of the town

of Jamestown, on proper claim being made therefore, a property tax exemption abatement.

     The town council of Jamestown may, from time to time, by ordinance, make such rules

and regulations as they deem necessary to promote the purpose of this act.

     The schedule of exemptions abatements shall be as follows: An exemption A property tax

abatement in the amount of seven hundred dollars ($700); not to exceed fifty thousand dollars

($50,000) of the assessed valuation; and such exemption abatement shall be in addition to any

other abatement or exemption to which said person shall be entitled. Provided, however, that he

or she shall have presented to the assessor a true and exact account of his or her ratable estate as

provided for in title 44, chapter 5, sections 15 and 16 of the general laws of 1956, as amended, for

the year for which exemption the abatement is claimed together with due evidence that he or she

is so entitled to such exemption abatement.

     SECTION 2. Any ordinance or amendment to any ordinance passed by the town council

of Jamestown to provide tax relief for the surviving spouses of deceased members of the

Jamestown Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Services and/or the Jamestown

Volunteer Fire Department shall become effective upon passage; provided, however, that said

ordinance shall provide tax relief only for taxes assessed December 31, 1990, and thereafter; and

further provided that such ordinance shall be preceded by a public hearing to be advertised.

     SECTION 3. The question of the acceptance or rejection of this act shall submitted to the

qualified electors of said town, entitled to vote upon a proposition to impose tax or for the

expenditure of money, at any special or regular financial town meeting to be held after the

passage of the act, and no other action shall be taken under the authority of this act unless a

majority of said electors voting on said question at said town meeting vote to accept this act.

     However, any action taken in the year 2002 2009 by the town meeting shall be as valid

and effective as if this act were in effect at the time of issue, posting and publication of the

warrant for such meeting and at the time of the taking such action.

     The town clerk of the town of Jamestown shall forthwith after said town meeting certify

to the secretary of state the result of this vote upon the question at the 2002 2009 or a subsequent

financial town meeting; any ordinance passed by the town council of Jamestown to provide tax

relief for the spouses of deceased members of the Jamestown Volunteer Ambulance Corps

Emergency Medical Services and Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department shall become effective

upon passage, provided, however, that such ordinance adoption shall be preceded by a public

hearing.

     SECTION 4. This section and section 3 of this act shall take effect upon passage, and the

remaining sections shall take effect if and when the electors of the town of Jamestown qualified

to vote upon a proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money vote to accept this act.

     

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