§ 555. Changes in descriptions of real property on final assessment rolls. The tax levying body of each municipal corporation other than a school district shall examine any final assessment roll properly before such body for its action, confirmation or review and shall make such changes in the descriptions of real property as may be necessary to render them sufficiently definite for the purpose of enforcement of collection of taxes by tax sale. If a sufficiently definite description cannot be obtained for the tax levy of the current year, the board shall cause the same to be obtained for the tax levy of the succeeding year. The real property shall not be taxed until such description is obtained, and it shall then be taxed for the year omitted in the manner provided for taxing omitted property.

Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 555

  • Assessment roll: means the assessment roll as it exists from the time of its tentative completion to the time of the annexation of a warrant for the collection of taxes. See N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 550
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Tax levying body: means the governing board of a municipal corporation which annexes a warrant for the collection of taxes to a final assessment roll. See N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 550
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