PRINTER'S NO. 2069
No. 1719 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY COLAIZZO, PETTIT, VAN HORNE, MELIO, DEMPSEY,
TRELLO, BATTISTO, WALKO, HENNESSEY, PESCI, CLARK, WOZNIAK,
KREBS, SANTONI, LAUGHLIN AND TRAVAGLIO, JUNE 8, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 8, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 22, 1933 (P.L.853, No.155), entitled "An
2 act relating to taxation; designating the subjects, property
3 and persons subject to and exempt from taxation for all local
4 purposes; providing for and regulating the assessment and
5 valuation of persons, property and subjects of taxation for
6 county purposes, and for the use of those municipal and
7 quasi-municipal corporations which levy their taxes on county
8 assessments and valuations; amending, revising and
9 consolidating the law relating thereto; and repealing
10 existing laws," providing for appraisal costs.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. The act of May 22, 1933 (P.L.853, No.155), known
14 as The General County Assessment Law, is amended by adding a
15 section to read:
16 Section 511.1. Appraisal Costs.--When an appeal is taken by
17 a municipality or school district of an assessment dealing with
18 commercial property, industrial property, multiple residential
19 property over twenty units or mobile home parks value made by
20 the board and a property appraisal is initiated after
21 consultation between representatives of the affected taxing
1 jurisdictions involved, the cost for the independent appraisal
2 to be used by the board in the appeal shall be paid in the
3 following manner: the cost shall be shared among the affected
4 county, the affected municipality or municipalities and the
5 affected school district or school districts in the same
6 proportion the millage rate of each entity is to the total
7 millage of such entities.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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