PRINTER'S NO. 1460
No. 1242 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY FRYER, STUBAN, SWEET, A. C. FOSTER, JR. AND LEVI,
JUNE 22, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 22, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 19, 1974 (P.L.973, No.319),
2 entitled "An act prescribing the procedure under which an
3 owner may have land devoted to agricultural use, agricultural
4 reserve use, or forest reserve use, valued for tax purposes
5 at the value it has for such uses, and providing for
6 reassessment and certain interest payments when such land is
7 applied to other uses and making editorial changes,"
8 requiring breaches of preferential assessments to be
9 recorded; and providing a fee for recordings.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 4(d) of the act of December 19, 1974
13 (P.L.973, No.319), known as the Pennsylvania Farmland and Forest
14 Land Assessment Act of 1974, added March 24, 1980 (P.L.45,
15 No.15), is amended to read:
16 Section 4. Applications for Preferential Assessments.--* * *
17 (d) The approved application for preferential assessment
18 shall be recorded by the county board for assessment appeals in
19 the office of the recorder of deeds for the county in a
20 preferential assessment docket. A breach of the preferential
21 assessment shall also be recorded by the county board for
1 assessment appeals in the office of the recorder of deeds. The
2 recorder shall charge a fee for the recordings in accordance
3 with the acts relating to the imposition of fees by recorders of
4 deeds.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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