General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6657
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 2655
*02655*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
REP. SERRA, 33rd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6657
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 2655
*02655*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
REP. SERRA, 33rd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING COMPUTER-ASSISTED MASS APPRAISAL SYSTEMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That section 12-62f of the general statutes be amended to (1) provide that if a vendor, supplier or licensor of a computer-assisted mass appraisal system removes such system from a municipality between the municipal revaluation periods required by section 12-62 of the general statutes, such municipalities shall (A) use the real estate assessments from the previous grand list, increasing such assessments as necessary to account for new construction, subdivision or merger, until such municipality can install a new computer-assisted mass appraisal system; (B) not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, sections 1-200 to 1-259, inclusive, of the general statutes, for any real estate assessment information until a new computer-assisted mass appraisal system is installed; (C) be permitted to install a new computer-assisted mass appraisal system and to convert previous assessment data into such new system provided (i) any resulting assessments remain within one thousand dollars or two per cent of the previous assessment, whichever amount is less, and (ii) such conversion shall not constitute a revaluation under section 12-62 of the general statutes; and (D) be granted a five-month extension of its revaluation deadline upon written notification to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management; (2) allow any municipality having a revaluation deadline in 2014, 2015 or 2016 to delay such deadline to 2017 and to delay the subsequent revaluation deadline to 2022; and (3) prohibit any vendor, supplier or licensor of a computer-assisted mass appraisal system from removing software or revoking software licenses for such systems from a municipality between municipal revaluation periods, regardless of any contracts or agreements, provided the municipality may terminate any agreement or contract relating to a computer-assisted mass appraisal system for just cause.
Statement of Purpose:
To revise section 12-62f of the general statutes.