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SECTION 1330
Enforcement of taxes in districts other than city school districts
Real Property Tax (RPT) CHAPTER 50-A, ARTICLE 13
§ 1330. Enforcement of taxes in districts other than city school
districts. 1. In any school district other than a city school district,
if any taxes remain unpaid at the time the collecting officer is
required by law to return his warrant, he shall be credited with the
amount thereof, including the balance of the amount of taxes which an
owner of real property has elected to pay in installments pursuant to
section thirteen hundred forty of this chapter, upon delivery to the
school authorities of the tax roll and warrant and a statement,
subscribed and affirmed by him as true under the penalties of perjury,
of such unpaid taxes, containing a description of the real property upon
which such taxes remain unpaid. A collecting officer who received
compensation in lieu of fees shall include in such statement the amount
of interest on such unpaid taxes, except that no such interest shall be
added by the collecting officer to the balance of taxes which an owner
of real property has elected to pay in installments pursuant to section
thirteen hundred forty of this chapter.

2. Upon receiving such statement from the collecting officer, the
school authorities shall compare it with the original school tax roll,
and if they find it to be correct, they shall add to such statement
their certificate to the effect that they have compared it with the
original school tax roll and found it to be correct, and shall
immediately transmit the statement and certificate to the treasurer of
the county. Such statement and certificate shall be transmitted to the
county treasurer so that the same shall be received by him not later
than the fifteenth day of November following the levy of the tax.

3. Within fifteen days after any school tax roll and warrant have been
returned by a collecting officer to the school authorities, they shall
deliver the same to the school district clerk. The school district clerk
shall file the same in his office; provided, however, that in school
districts under the jurisdiction of a district superintendent of schools
the school authorities shall deliver such school tax roll and warrant
after its return by a collecting officer to the district superintendent
who in turn shall deliver the same to the school district clerk, on or
before July first of each year. Any school tax rolls previously
delivered to and filed by a town clerk shall be turned over to and filed
by the school district clerk. A copy of the school tax roll shall be
permanently retained as a public record.

4. The county treasurer shall, on or before the first day of April
following the receipt of the statement and certificate as provided in
subdivision two of this section, pay to the officer charged by law with
the custody of school district moneys, the amount of returned unpaid
school taxes, not including the amount of taxes paid pursuant to section
thirteen hundred forty-two of this chapter.

5. Such statement and certificate shall be transmitted by the county
treasurer to the board of supervisors, who shall cause the amount of
such unpaid taxes with seven per centum of the amount of principal and
interest in addition thereto, to be relevied upon the real property upon
which the same were imposed, except that in a school district in which
there is a resolution in effect pursuant to section thirteen hundred
thirty-six or section thirteen hundred thirty-seven of this chapter, the
amount of taxes which an owner of real property has elected to pay in
installments pursuant to section thirteen hundred forty of this chapter
shall not be relevied at such time, but the amount of such taxes as
shall have remained unpaid after the date upon which the last
installment was due, including the seven per centum as hereinabove
provided, shall be relevied at the annual levy for county and town
purposes following such last due date. When collected, the same shall be
returned to the county treasurer to reimburse the county for the amount
so advanced, with the expenses of collection.

6. Any person whose real property is included in any such statement
may pay the amount of taxes levied thereon, with five per centum added
thereto, to the county treasurer, at any time before the board of
supervisors shall have directed the same to be relevied, except as
otherwise provided in subdivision two of section thirteen hundred
twenty-eight of this chapter in relation to the payment of interest in
lieu of such five per centum.

7. The same proceedings in all respects shall be had for the
collection of the amount so directed to be raised by the board of
supervisors as are provided by law in relation to the county taxes.