CHAPTER 4.08: SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Section

   4.08.010   Purpose.

   4.08.020   Senior citizen defined.

   4.08.030   Qualification of senior citizens.

   4.08.040   Deferral of assessment.

   4.08.050   Investigation of status of land.

   4.08.060   Assessment to be a lien.

   4.08.070   Election.

§ 4.08.010 Purpose.

   The purpose of this chapter is to permit qualified senior citizens to have deferred the special assessments that may be levied against their residences for street, curb, gutter and related improvements.

§ 4.08.020 Senior citizen defined.

   A Senior Citizen is one who is 65 years of age or more on or before the first day of January of the year in which the assessment in question is to be levied.

§ 4.08.030 Qualification of senior citizens.

   To qualify for this senior citizens’ assessment deferral program:

   A.   The property to be assessed must be owned by a senior citizen or, if owned by a husband and wife, then only 1 of them needs to be a senior citizen;

   B.   The property to be assessed must be the residence of the senior citizen; and

   C.   The senior citizen shall have an income not to exceed $3,600, and if he or she is married then their joint income shall not exceed $4,100, and further not to exceed an increase of more than $400 for each additional dependent who is living with them during the calendar year preceding the one in which the assessment is to be levied.