§ 5490.4b. Responsibilities of county assessor in establishing use values
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal AffairsEffective: July 20, 2016
Effective: July 20, 2016
72 P.S. § 5490.4b
§ 5490.4b. Responsibilities of county assessor in establishing use values
(a) For each application for preferential assessment, the county assessor shall establish a total use value for land in agricultural use, including farmstead land, and for land in agricultural reserve by considering available evidence of the capability of the land for its particular use utilizing the USDA-NRCS Agricultural Land Capability Classification system and other information available from USDA-ERS, The Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Service. Contributory value of farm buildings shall be used.
(b.1)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and subject to the provisions of subsections (c), (c.1), (c.2), (c.3) and (c.4), for any county in which preferential assessment of land enrolled in forest reserve is based on county-specific values established by the department under section (4.1)(c),1 a county assessor may apply a use value for land enrolled in forest reserve that equals the average of all subcategories of forest reserve use values established by the department.
(c.2) Subject to the limitation in subsection (c.4), a county assessor shall recalculate and apply for the year in which a countywide reassessment of real property values is being implemented use values for land in each land use category using the criteria established under subsections (a), (b) and (c). The use values determined by the county assessor under this subsection in the year that a countywide reassessment of real property values is implemented shall be applied as follows:
(c.3) The use value applied to land under subsection (c.1) or (c.2) may not be changed for any property until such time as a subsequent countywide reassessment of real property values is implemented, unless there is a reclassification of land or portion of land to a different land use category as otherwise provided for under this act, in which case the use value to be applied to that land or portion of land shall be the use value applicable to the particular land use category for which the land was reclassified.
Credits
1974, Dec. 19, P.L. 973, No. 319, § 4.2, added 1998, Dec. 21, P.L. 1225, No. 156, § 4, imd. effective. Amended 2004, Dec. 8, P.L. 1785, No. 235, § 3, effective Feb. 7, 2005; 2016, July 20, P.L. 811, No. 89, § 3, imd. effective.
Footnotes
72 P.S. § 5490.4a.
72 P.S. § 5490.4b, PA ST 72 P.S. § 5490.4b
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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