1/20/2011 SEWER COMMISSION Minutes

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-15- BETTERMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Schedule of Events 1. City/Town/District takes action required by law to impose assessments such as accepting statutes, authorizing assessments for system, deciding on method for making assessments and on percentage of costs to be assessed. 2. Assessing Board records assessment order and other required information at Registry of Deeds within 90 days of order for betterments under G.L. Ch. 80 or forthwith for water, sewer and sidewalk assessments, unless the deferred recording procedure applies and is elected. 3. Assessing Board determines benefit and makes assessments within 6 months of project completion for betterments under G.L. Ch. 80 or within a reasonable time for water, sewer and sidewalk assessments. 4. Assessing Board certifies assessments to the Assessors within a reasonable time after making them. 5. The Assessors commit the assessments to the Collector forthwith. 6. The Collector mails the assessment notices. 7. The assessments are due and payable in frill within 30 days after they are committed, unless the property owner requests an apportionment. In that case, the assessments are payable in a maximum of 20 installments with interest. 8. Assessing Board records assessment order and other required information at Registry of Deeds if the deferred recording procedure applies and is elected. 9. The property owner has 6 months from the date the assessment notices are mailed to file an application for an abatement with the Assessing Board and/or to file an application for a deferral of the assessments. 10. The Assessing Board must notify the property owner within 10 days of making a decision to grant or deny the abatement request. 11. If the Assessing Board acts on the abatement application within 4 months after it is filed, the property owner has 30 days to file an appeal with the Superior Court or the County Commissioners. 12. If the Assessing Board did not act on the abatement application within 4 months after it is filed, the property owner has 60 days to file his appeal with the Superior Court or the County Commissioners.