The complaint for review and the notice of hearing by the State Board of Real Property Tax Services shall be substantially in the following forms:
COMPLAINT FOR REVIEW
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OF COUNTY EQUALIZATION
No.:
To the State Board of Real Property Tax Services:
The complaint for review of ____(name and post office address of complainant or complainants) in behalf of the taxpayers of the (town) (city) of____respectfully show:
(Add specific allegations as to the facts supporting the claim that the equalization is unjust and inequitable. Each subparagraph shall contain, so far as practicable, a single allegation, and shall be separately and consecutively lettered [e.g., subparagraph (a) (b), etc.]. Vagueness shall be avoided so that the respondents may be fully informed of those matters which the complainant intends to prove.)
or
Wherefore, your (complainant) (complainants) (prays) (pray) that said equalization so made as aforesaid by said (county legislature) (board of supervisors) (commissioners of equalization) (county tax commission) be annulled and set aside, and that a new, equitable and just equalization be made by the State Board of Real Property Tax Services and that the aggregate corrected value of the real property of each city and town of the county be corrected accordingly and that such other order and relief be granted as may be by law provided.
Dated at __this
_ day of _, 20_
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STATE OF NEW YORK
County of ____ss.:
______, being duly sworn, says that (he) (she) (they) (is) (are) the (complainant) (complainants) named in and who subscribed the foregoing complaint; that (he has) (she has) (they have) read the same and (knows) (know) the contents thereof and that the same is true of (his) (her) (their) knowledge except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief and that as to those matters (he) (she) (they) (believes) (believe) it to be true.
Sworn to before me this __
day of __, 20_
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(Notary Public) (Commissioner of Deeds)
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EXHIBIT "A"
(True copy of equalization table complained of and a statement of the aggregate assessed valuation of the taxable real property in each city and town within the county.)
EXHIBIT "B"
(True copy of statement of the amount of county taxes paid or payable in each city and town within the county.)
NOTICE OF HEARING
STATE OF NEW YORK
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State Board of Real Property Tax Services,
ss. :
No.:
In the Matter of the Review of the Equalization made by the (County Legislature) (Board of Supervisors) (Commissioners of Equalization) (County Tax Commission) of the County of __ in __, 20_; upon complaint of __(name of complainant or complainants) of the (town) (city) of ________
You will please take notice that the above complaint will be heard at ______ on the __ day of __, 20_
To: Clerk of Board of Supervisors,
STATE BOARD OF REAL
PROPERTY TAX SERVICES
County of____;
Complainant
____
;
By ________
Chief Executive Officer, each city
and town within county.
Dated: ______
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 20 §§ 8187-2.2