Tax Mapping

First reach out to your local Planning Board to see if local Planning Board approval is needed. If the existing parcels were created through Planning Board subdivision approval(s), the merge must be approved by the Planning Board. If no Planning Board approval is required by the local municipality, reach out to your local assessor or an Attorney. They can provide guidance on how to merge parcels. If the assessor determines that they can merge parcels, submit a Parcel Merge Request form(DOC, 574KB) to the municipal Assessor. After the Assessor determines what conditions may apply and provides written approval of the request form, a Tax Mapper will revise the tax map.

You must first obtain municipal Planning Board approval. Please check with the local planning board for their subdivision approval requirements.

Will your subdivision include any new private roads servicing more than one lot? To ensure there are no duplicate road names, new roads should be preliminarily approved by Real Property Tax Service Agency and shown on the subdivision map before you submit the map to the planning board. You can request preliminary approval over the the phone. Formal approval of new road names should be requested after planning board approval.

After you receive planning board approval, you must obtain subdivision map certificates from both the Department of Finance and the Real Property Tax Service Agency.

Finance will certify that taxes on the property have been paid and are up to date for the past five years. Real Property will review your map and certify it has all the necessary authorizations and that filing fees have been paid (as authorized by Real Property Tax Law Section 503, subd. 7 and Ulster County Legislature Resolution No. 112 enacted May 14, 1992). The review process also includes assigning new tax map numbers and approving any new street names for 911.

Once you have your certificates, you can file your map with the Ulster County Clerk. You must do this within 61 days of local planning board approval. After the subdivision map has been filed with the Clerk's Office, Real Property Tax Mappers will split out the new parcels and notify the local Assessor.

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