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THE COUNTY MUST REIMBURSE THE TOWNS FOR UNPAID PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND DEMOLITION CHARGES (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge DiFiore, reversing the Appellate Division, determined Monroe County was required to credit unpaid property maintenance and demolition charges assessed by the Town of Irondequoit and the Town of Brighton. The county is required to deduct the unpaid town charges from the sales tax owed by the towns to the county:

Requiring that these charges be credited pursuant to section [RPTL] 936 accords with the overall structure for the enforcement of property tax liens, including the legislative grant of exclusive authority to counties in RPTL 1123 to commence in rem proceedings to foreclose on real property to “enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges which have accumulated and become liens against certain property” … , permitting counties—but not towns—to initiate proceedings to enforce the types of liens at issue here. Indeed, Town Law § 64 (5-a) directs that these charges “levied” on “real property” are to “be collected in the same manner and at the same time as other town charges” by virtue of the normal process of levying and collecting town property taxes, in which towns make the first attempt at collection and after which enforcement shifts to the county … . It appears that the Legislature, recognizing that towns have little power to recoup their costs for unpaid real property tax liens, has shifted the risk of loss to counties, which are in the best position to recover the funds through in rem foreclosure proceedings. The same considerations apply to blighted properties, where the Legislature may have presumed that counties are in a better position to recover charges imposed on real property pursuant to the Town Law … . Thus, the County was required to credit the maintenance and demolition charges, and its determination to the contrary should have been annulled. Matter of Town of Irondequoit v County of Monroe, 2020 NY Slip Op 07689, CtApp 12-22-20

 

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