New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE › Chapter XVI - Real Property Tax Administration › Part 8188 - Minimum Qualification Standards, Training And Certification Of Local Assessment Administration Personnel › Subpart 8188-4 - County Directors › Section 8188-4.1 - Certification and orientation requirement for county directors, generally

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) A county
				  director must be certified and file his or her certificate with the clerk of
				  the county for which he or she serves within four years after he or she
				  commences his or her term of office, subject to the interim certification
				  requirements of section
				  8188-4.7  of
				  this Subpart.
(b) A county director
				  must be recertified upon a reappointment by successfully completing the ethics
				  component within one year. Where there has been an interruption of continuous
				  service of at least four years, a State certified county director must be
				  recertified upon a reappointment by attending the orientation seminar and
				  satisfying the certification criteria as provided in sections
				  8188-4.3,
				  8188-4.6
				  and
				  8188-4.7  of
				  this Subpart within four years of returning to office.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of
				  subdivision (a) of this section an uncertified county director serving in a
				  term of office which commenced prior to October 1, 2007 is required to complete
				  the certification requirements prescribed in section
				  8188-4.6 
				  of this Subpart. An uncertified county director must attain certification
				  within four years and is subject to the interim certification requirements
				  prescribed in section
				  8188-4.7  of
				  this Subpart.
(d) Any uncertified
				  county director serving during 2007 whose training requirement has commenced
				  may substitute the introduction to real estate appraisal component, the
				  valuation principles and procedures component and the introduction to income
				  valuation component to satisfy the cost, market and income approach to value
				  component. In addition, the introduction to mass appraisal component,
				  successfully completed prior to 2008 may be accepted for the introduction to
				  mass appraisal component. The introduction to farm appraisal component
				  successfully completed prior to 2008 may be accepted for the introduction to
				  farm appraisal component. The fundamentals of tax mapping component
				  successfully completed prior to 2008 may be accepted for the fundamentals of
				  tax mapping. The fundamentals of tax collection and enforcement successfully
				  completed prior to 2008 may be substituted for the fundamentals of tax
				  collection and enforcement. Successful completion of the assessment
				  administration, fundamentals of exemption administration and fundamentals of
				  equalization components prior to 2008 will constitute satisfaction of the
				  assessment administration component.
(e) In no event will successful completion of
				  the assessment administration component be accepted if it was completed more
				  than four years prior to the date that the county director became subject to
				  the provisions of this Subpart.
(f)
				  An individual may successfully complete an approved ethics component training
				  session prior to his or her reappointment to office. In no event will any
				  ethics training be accepted that was completed more than one year prior to his
				  or her reappointment to office, except as stated in subdivision (g) of this
				  section.
(g) If ethics training was
				  successfully completed by a county director fulfilling a basic certification
				  component and the county director is reappointed before attaining basic
				  certification, the ethics component does not need to be repeated if it was
				  successfully completed more than one year but less than four years prior to
				  reappointment.
(h) A county
				  director subject to the requirements of this Subpart shall not be required to
				  take any additional training solely because of his or her appointment as county
				  director in another county.