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TAX ABATEMENT FOR CERTAIN OCCUPANTS
(A) Property taxes due for any tax year with respect to any residential dwelling occupied by the owner or owners and for whom the dwelling is the primary place of residence, may be abated to the extent that such property taxes exceed 8% or more of the total income from any source, adjusted for self-employed persons to reflect the allowance for expenses in determining adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes, of such owner or owners and any other person for whom such dwelling is the primary place of residence, for the calendar year immediately preceding the beginning of the tax year for which such taxes are due; and
(B) Applications for such abatement shall be made not later than 30 days preceding the tax due date for such tax year, provided if the amount of such taxes has not been determined on such date, within ten days following determination of the amount of such taxes.
(C) If the town approves such application for abatement, then not later than ten days following the tax due date for such taxes abated, the owner or owners shall deliver to the tax collector, an agreement, on a form executed and acknowledged in the form and manner required for the transfer of an interest in real property, to reimburse the town in the amount of the taxes abated, with interest at 6% annum (or such other rate as approved by the Council) that contains a legal description of the real property with respect to which such abatement is approved and shall be recorded in the lands records of the town.
(D) Such agreement shall constitute a lien on such real property, which shall remain valid until paid. Such lien shall be due and payable in full upon sale or transfer of such real property or upon the death of the owner, or if owned by more than one person at the time such lien is created, upon the death of the last of such owners surviving. Such lien shall be released by the tax collector in the town when the taxes are secured thereby and have been paid. No lien recorded under the provision of this subchapter shall take precedence over any mortgage recorded in the land records prior to such certificate of lien.
(E) Approval of any request for abatement pursuant to this subchapter shall be at the town's sole discretion and shall automatically cease upon transfer or sale of the property or the death of the owner(s).
(Ord. 549, passed 5-7-07)
HISTORIC PROPERTIES
Each property listed in Schedule A below is hereby established as an historic property. The boundaries of each property are fixed and defined in Schedule A.
SCHEDULE A: HISTORIC PROPERTY
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PROPERTY | BOUNDARIES |
Hamden Memorial Town Hall | South by Dixwell Avenue, 50 ft.; east by land of the Episcopal Church Society and the land of the Town of Hamden; north by land formerly of John H. Rochford, 53 feet; and west by land now or formerly belonging to Amadio Mantovani. The east and west lines being 215 feet each, more or less. |
(Ord. 472, passed 9-3-02)
(A) An Historic Properties Commission is hereby established to promote the purposes set forth in this subchapter and to perform all functions provided in this subchapter and as shall from time to time be prescribed under the Connecticut General Statutes relative to the property now or hereafter designated in § 154.66.
(B) The Commission shall consist of five regular and three alternate members who shall consist of electors of the town, holding no salaried municipal office in Hamden. The members of the Commission shall be appointed and may be removed by the Mayor. The regular members shall be appointed in such a manner that the term of at least one member shall expire each year, with their successors to be appointed in like manner for terms of five years. Alternate members shall be appointed for terms of three years. The Mayor is further empowered to make appointments to fill vacancies, which appointments shall be for the duration of the vacated unexpired term.
(C) Within a period of 30 days after the appointment of the original members of the Commission, the regular members shall meet and elect a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Alternate members shall not participate in the vote for election of officers of the Commission. In all other matters, in case of an inability to act because of absence, sickness or self-interest on the part of any member of the Commission, an alternate member shall take the Commissioner's place designated by the Chairperson.
(D) All members shall serve without compensation.
(Ord. 472, passed 9-3-02)
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