Presenter
Presented by Mr. Deasy
Title
Ordinance amending and Supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 265, Exemptions for Residential Improvements; Section 265.01, Definitions; paragraph (a), Board, and paragraph (v), Downtown District; and Section 265.06, Procedures for Obtaining Exemption, so as to clarify the identify of the agency responsible for administration of exemption applications and the location of properties included within the Downtown District, to provide for a filing period of one hundred-eighty (180) days, and also to add a prohibition pertaining to tax delinquency.
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 265, Exemptions for Residential Improvements, Section 265.01, Definitions; paragraph (a), Board, and paragraph (v), Downtown District, are hereby amended to read as follows:
(a) BOARD. [The Board of Property Assessment, Appeals and Review of Allegheny County] The Office of Property Assessments of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania or its successor(s), if any, responsible for assessing property in the City.
(v) DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. The area begins at 11th Street and Penn Avenue, and continues northward along 11th Street to the Allegheny River. The boundary line then follows the southern shore of the Allegheny River westward to Commonwealth Place, where it turns south and follows Commonwealth Place to the Monongahela River. The boundary then follows the northern shore of the Monongahela River eastward to the Crosstown Boulevard, where it turns northward on the Crosstown Boulevard to the intersection with Fifth Avenue. The boundary travels west on Fifth Avenue to Ross Street, goes north on Ross Street to Bigelow Boulevard, follows Bigelow Boulevard north to the Crosstown Boulevard, then north to Liberty Avenue. The boundary then proceeds west on Liberty Ave...
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