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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:3-17

  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
  • taxing district: when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
54:3-17. Each county tax administrator shall annually ascertain and determine, according to his best knowledge and information, the general ratio or percentage of true value at which the real property of each taxing district is in fact assessed according to the tax lists laid before the board. On or before March 1 of each year, or on or before May 15 in the case of a county board of taxation participating in the demonstration program established in section 4 of P.L.2013, c.15 (C. 54:1-104), the county tax administrator, the county assessor in a county operating under the “Property Tax Assessment Reform Act,” P.L.2009, c.118 (C. 54:1-86 et seq.), and the county tax administrator in a county that has adopted, by resolution, the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2018, c.94 (C. 54:1-105) shall prepare and submit to the county board an equalization table showing, for each district, the following items:

(a) The percentage level established pursuant to law for expressing the taxable value of real property in the county;

(b) The aggregate assessed value of the real property, exclusive of class II railroad property;

(c) The ratio of aggregate assessed to aggregate true value of the real property, exclusive of class II railroad property;

(d) The aggregate true value of the real property, exclusive of class II railroad property;

(e) The amount by which the valuation in item (b) should be increased or decreased in order to correspond to item (d);

(f) The aggregate assessed value of machinery implements and equipment and all other personal property used in business;

(g) The aggregate true value of machinery, implements and equipment and all other personal property used in business;

(h) The aggregate equalized valuation of machinery, implements and equipment and all other personal property used in business, computed by multiplying the aggregate true value thereof by the lower of (1) that percentage level established pursuant to law for expressing the taxable value of real property in the county, or (2) the average ratio of assessed to true value of real property as promulgated by the director on October 1 of the pretax year, pursuant to chapter 86, laws of 1954, for State school aid purposes, as the same may have been modified by the Tax Court;

(i) The amount by which the valuation in item (f) should be increased or decreased in order to correspond to item (h).

A copy of the table shall be mailed to the assessor of each district, and to the Division of Taxation, and be posted at the courthouse, not later than March 1, or not later than May 15 in the cases of a county board of taxation participating in the demonstration program established in section 4 of P.L.2013, c.15 (C. 54:1-104), a county operating under the “Property Tax Assessment Reform Act, P.L.2009, c.118 (C. 54:1-86 et seq.), and a county board of taxation in a county that has adopted, by resolution, the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2018, c.94 (C. 54:1-105).

amended 1960, c.51, s.19; 1964, c.141, s.4; (1964, c.141; repealed 1966, c.138, s.12); 1966, c.138, s.8; 1979, c.499, s.11; 2013, c.15, s.7; 2017, c.306, s.2; 2018, c.94, s.3.