2023 New York Laws › RPT - Real Property Tax › Article 3 - Taxable Real Property and Standard of Assessment › Title 2 - Assessors and Assessor Training › 310 - Assessor.

§  310.  Assessor.  1.  Selection. Each local government to which this
title applies which has the power to assess real property  for  purposes
of  taxation  shall  have  one assessor. An appointive assessor shall be
appointed by the legislative body of the local government except that in
a local government where department heads and other local  officers  are
appointed  by  the  chief  executive  officer,  such  assessor  shall be
appointed by such officer. Any resident of the state, otherwise eligible
for appointment as assessor, may be appointed assessor. An assessor  may
be   employed  by  the  local  government  in  any  other  position  not
incompatible with the office of assessor.
2. Term of office. The term of office of assessor shall be  six  years
except  as  otherwise provided in subdivision seven of this section. The
terms for appointive assessors  shall  commence  on  the  first  day  of
October,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one and each sixth year thereafter.
Where a town has exercised the option to elect one assessor, as provided
by section three hundred twenty-nine of this article, the term for  such
elected  assessor  shall  be  as  of  the first day of January, nineteen
hundred ninety-four and each sixth year thereafter.
3. Classification. The position of appointive assessor shall be in the
classified service, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (e) of
section thirty-five of the civil service law.
4. Minimum qualification standards. No person shall  be  eligible  for
appointment  as  assessor  unless  he  meets  the  minimum qualification
standards established for such office by the commissioner.
5. Certification and continuing education. (a) All assessors,  whether
appointed   or   elected,  must  obtain  commissioner  certification  of
successful completion of the basic  course  of  training  and  education
prescribed by the commissioner pursuant to this title.
(b)  In  addition  to  the basic course of training and education, all
appointive assessors and any assessor elected to a six-year  term  shall
also  complete additional courses in a continuing training and education
program prescribed by the commissioner pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
this title.
6.  Training;  services by state; county cooperation. The commissioner
shall provide training programs including but not limited to courses  of
training  and  education  required to be completed by local officers and
employees and by  candidates  for  certification  as  eligible  for  the
position  of  assessor  in accordance with the provisions of this title.
Such programs shall be provided by the commissioner for counties, cities
and towns to which this title is applicable.  Counties  shall  cooperate
with the commissioner in providing such programs.
7.  Indefinite  term  for assessors. Notwithstanding the provisions of
subdivision two of this section, the office of assessor  shall  have  an
indefinite term (a) where the office of assessor is a full time position
as  determined  by  the  local  legislative  body and on or after August
first, nineteen hundred seventy is classified in the  competitive  class
of the civil service at the request of the local legislative body or (b)
where  on  July  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy the office of
assessor is classified in the competitive class of the civil service and
has an indefinite term pursuant to law.