New Jersey Statutes 54:1-2.1. Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:1-2.1
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights shall set forth in simple and nontechnical terms that every property taxpayer has the right to understand their real property assessment and to appeal an assessment that a taxpayer believes is too high. The Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights shall specify that a property taxpayer has the following rights under State law:
The right to understand the real property assessment process and the requirements of the New Jersey Constitution concerning the assessment of real property;
The right to understand the calculation of the assessment on their real property;
The right to detailed information about how to appeal an assessment of real property; and
The right to view the real property assessment of any other parcel of real property in the municipality in which the taxpayer’s property is located.
The director shall require that the Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights be posted on the webpage of each county board of taxation and each municipality in the State with an Internet webpage.
L.2017, c.128, s.1.