§ 523-b. Assessment review commission. 1. The county of Nassau acting\nthrough its local legislative body is hereby authorized and empowered to\nadopt the following as an alternative to section five hundred\ntwenty-three of this title.\n 2. (a) There shall be an assessment review commission to consist of\nnine commissioners who shall be appointed by the county executive\nsubject to approval of the legislature, for a term of five years except\nas specified in paragraph (c) of this subdivision. One commissioner\nshall be designated chairman and shall serve for a term of three years.\nEach commissioner shall have at least five years business experience in\nthe field of real estate or real estate law or experience in a public\nagency or municipal department and shall attend such training courses as\nshall be prescribed by the commissioner pursuant to section five hundred\ntwenty-three of this title. No more than six commissioners shall at any\none time be enrolled voters of the same political party.\n (b) The members of the board of assessment review serving immediately\nprior to the creation of the assessment review commission shall be\nappointed to initial terms as commissioners of the assessment review\ncommission.\n (c) The terms of the nine commissioners first appointed pursuant to\nthis section shall be two members for one year, two members for two\nyears, two members for three years, two members for four years, and one\nmember for five years.\n (d) The assessment review commission shall be charged with the duty of\nreviewing and correcting all assessments of real property made pursuant\nto the provisions of title one of this article.\n (e) The compensation for the commissioners of the assessment review\ncommission shall be determined and fixed by resolution of the local\nlegislative body.\n 3. (a) Every commissioner shall exercise such other powers and duties\nas the chairman may from time to time assign to such commissioner. The\nchairman may, at his or her discretion, permit individual commissioners\nto hear and determine complaints filed in accordance with this section.\n (b) Such commission shall recommend to the local legislative body any\nnecessary regulations of the commission, the rules of procedure of the\ncommission and rules for conduct of the commission not inconsistent with\nthe provisions of this chapter. The local legislative body shall adopt\nany such rules and regulations as it deems necessary.\n (c) The commission shall have the power, within the limits of the\nappropriation made by the local governing body, to employ or contract\nwith such appraisers and other employees as may be necessary in the\nperformance of the duties of the commission. However, any contract which\nexceeds a term of one year or is for an amount in excess of twenty-five\nthousand dollars shall be subject to such approval as the local\nlegislative body shall deem to be necessary. Similarly, no person, firm\nor entity shall be awarded any contracts the aggregate amount of\nexpenditures under which exceeds one hundred thousand dollars over any\none year period without such prior approval.\n (d) Commissioners and others appointed to the assessment review\ncommission shall be required to disclose on a form prescribed by the\ncommissioner any direct or indirect interest in a property for which a\ncomplaint has been filed. Such disclosure shall be filed with the\nchairman of the board of assessors of the taxing district for which they\nserve, on or before the date when the commission submits the statement\nof assessment changes pursuant to subdivision three of section five\nhundred twenty-five of this title. Any member of a commission who\nknowingly and intentionally fails to disclose such interest shall be\nsubject to a civil fine of two hundred fifty dollars for each such\nomission with respect to property for which a complaint has been filed.\nThe chairman of the board of assessors of the assessing unit may recover\nin the name o
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