Exemptions
Geographic Information Systems
Structural Integrity
History
Tax Collection
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This exemption, that provided basic relief from a portion of school taxes to eligible homeowners, closed its doors to new applicants in 2016.

What is School Tax Relief (STAR)?

100

43,560 square feet are equivalent to this other area measurement unit, more commonly used to describe land parcels.

What is Acre?

100

Building style #7 is this lavish type of structure, built without regard for cost, typically with more than 10 rooms and nearly 1 bathroom for every bedroom.

What is Mansion?

100

This area in the town of Constantia consists of hundreds of 20' x 60' lots that were originally raffled off as prizes at a supermarket.

What is Doris Park?

100

These taxes are typically collected from the months of September through October.

What are School Taxes?

200

Applicants wishing to receive the alternative veteran's exemptions must have served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, or during this conflict that began August 2nd 1990.

What is the Persian Gulf conflict?

200

Combining external data to GIS features is commonly done using this connecting term.

What is Join?

200

Building style #16 is hard to miss due to its unique shape that gives itself its alphabetic name.

What is A-Frame?

200

Parts of this Street in the City of Fulton were once a portion of the Blue Line of the Oswego Canal.

What is North 2nd Street?

200

Property taxes are due without penalty for about a month during this appropriately named period of time which ends January 31st for County taxes.

What is Interest Free Period?

300

The Senior Citizen's exemption counts all sources of income when determining eligibility, simplified by starting with this number found on the first page of the IRS 1040 tax form.

What is Federal Adjusted Gross Income (FAGI)?

300

This serpent-like programming language is one of the most commonly used in the field of GIS.

What is Python?

300

Building Style #1 is a singly story residence, usually with 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, and 1-1.5 bathrooms, sometimes mistaken for a double-wide trailer.

What is Ranch?

300

Kills of this animal often fetched a high price in many early settled towns in Oswego County: often tipping the scales at $15 - $20 per head!

What is the wolf?

300

All property is subject to taxation unless it is exempt or under this special kind of payment program typically reserved for the IDA.

What is PILOT?

400

An exemption code consists of 5 digits, the final digit signifying this.

What is taxing jurisdiction?

400

Mercator, Robinson, Gall-Peters, Equal Earth, Sinusoidal, and Equirectangular are all types of these.

What are Projections?

400

Building style #4 is this dwelling known for high-pitched roofs and iconic dormer windows popular in the Northeastern United States.

What is Cape Cod?

400

This town, once home to a bigoted road named for an equally racist pond, wisely changed the roadway's name to Little Pond Road.

What is Amboy?

400

Property taxes that are 2 years delinquent enter into the foreclosure process, unless they are this type of property which can go delinquent an additional 2 years.

What is Farm/Agricultural?

500

Exemptions granted under RPTL Section 487 exempts the entire value of solar, wind, and other renewable engery systems for 15 years, unless the system is attached to a structure where only part of the value will be exempted because of this cost ratio.

What is Incremental Cost?

500

Following the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 this President issued the directive that the US Department of Defense's NAVSTAR GPS system be made available for free civilian use.

Who was Ronald Reagan?

500

Building style #13 is a now obsolete residence that reached peak popularity in the 1920s and can be easily identified from its floor plan that includes the iconic "shotgun" hallway.

What is Bungalow?

500

Early surveying of the city of Oswego was performed under the direction of this man, New York's surveyor General from 1784 to 1835.

Who was Simeon DeWitt?

500

The second notice fee amount charged to cover the cost of printing a notice that taxes have not yet been paid cannot, by law, exceed this dollar amount.

What is $2?

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