City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2009-1179

• File #: 2009-1179
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 3/10/2009
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• Final action: 9/15/2009
• Enactment date: 9/15/2009
• Enactment #: 25
• Effective date: 9/28/2009
• Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 263, Real Property Tax and Exemption; Section 263.20, Definitions; Section 263.21, Property Tax Relief; Section 263.22, Participation in the Property Tax Relief Program; and Section 263.23, City Treasurer Duties, so as to comply with the age restriction appearing in Act 77, to eliminate the requirement of filing an annual application and to define the form of relief available to eligible taxpayers.
• Sponsors: Patrick Dowd, Darlene M. Harris, Theresa Kail-Smith, Bruce A. Kraus
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 02 - FISCAL

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/29/2009	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
9/15/2009	2	City Council	AMENDED	Fail
9/15/2009	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
9/9/2009	2	Committee on Finance and Law	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
9/9/2009	2	Committee on Finance and Law	AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE	Pass
9/2/2009	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Held in Committee	Pass
7/29/2009	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Held in Committee	Pass
5/6/2009	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Held in Committee	Pass
3/25/2009	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Held for Cablecast Post Agenda	Pass
3/24/2009	1	City Council	RECOMMITTED	Pass
3/18/2009	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
3/10/2009	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 263, Real Property Tax and Exemption; Section 263.20, Definitions; Section 263.21, Property Tax Relief; Section 263.22, Participation in the Property Tax Relief Program; and Section 263.23, City Treasurer Duties, so as to comply with the age restriction appearing in Act 77, to eliminate the requirement of filing an annual application and to define the form of relief available to eligible taxpayers.

Body
Be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 263, Real Property Tax and Exemption; Section 263.20, Definitions, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 263.20 DEFINITIONS.

(a) ACT 77. The Act of December 22, 1993, Public Law 529, No. 77, codified as the Allegheny Regional Asset District Law, Pa. Stat. Ann. Tit. 16, § 6101-B et seq.

(b) ASSESSED VALUE. The taxable value of property as determined by the Office of Property Assessments of Allegheny County [Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment, Appeals and Review].

(c) COUNTY. Allegheny County.

[(d) DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENT. The Department of Property Assessment, Appeals, Review and Registry of Allegheny County.]

(d) [(e)] ELIGIBLE TAXPAYER. A longtime owner/occupant of a principal residence in the City of Pittsburgh who is:

(1) A single person whose birthday falls on or before December 31, 1959 or who is sixty (60) [fifty (50)] years of age or older during a calendar year in which City real property taxes are due and assessed; or

(2) Married persons if either spouse's birthday falls on or before December, 31 1959 or who is sixty (60) [fifty (50)] years of age or older during a calendar year in which City real property taxes are due and assessed; or

(3) A permanently disabled person eighteen (18) years of age or ...