Theresa Fish, Town Clerk/Tax Collector
Office: Minerva Town Hall, 5 Morse Memorial Highway, Minerva, NY 12851
Mailing: P.O. Box 909, Minerva, NY 12851
Phone: 518-251-2869 Ext. 101 | Email: [email protected]
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Typically the Town Clerk will be in the office on Wednesday mornings, from 8:30 a.m. until business is completed(generally before noon).
The Town Clerk can also be available, by appointment, in the evening or on weekends.
To schedule an appointment, please call; 518-251-2869, or email; [email protected].
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The Town Clerk is responsible for:
- Town Records
- Marriage Licenses (appointments are requested)
- Death records for the Town of Minerva
- Birth records for the Town of Minerva
- Processing of Handicap Parking Permits/Temporary and Permanent
- Processing of FOIL requests
- Sale of Conservation Licenses (Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping)
- Dog Licenses
- Minutes of Town Meetings
- Accepts payment for Town/County Taxes, and Water Bills
(Please contact Minerva Central School, at 518-251-2000, for current information on School Tax Collection)
FORMS:
Application for Copy of Birth Certificate
Application for Copy of Death Certificate
Application for Dog LicenseApplication for Genealogical Services
Application for Marriage License worksheet
Application for Copy of Marriage Record
Application for One-Day Marriage Officiant LicenseNYS Early Mail Ballet Application
NYS Absentee Ballet Application
Town and County Property Tax Collection Information:
- Property Tax Statements are mailed no later than the first business day in January.
- Payments are due on January 31st, without penalty.
- Payments after January 31st accrue a penalty each month.
- Payments are accepted until the 1st of May.
- Please pay via check or money order, cash is discouraged. Payments should be made out to Minerva Property Tax Collection.
- Only EXACT amounts are accepted. Unfortunately, a payment can not be processed if it is the wrong amount. Your payments will be returned if it is incorrect.
- I can accept one check for multiple properties if the payment is accurate. However, if it is incorrect no payment/s will be processed.
- Multiple checks on a single property will NOT be accepted, there is no way to record multiple payments, for one bill, in the processing program.
- Payments received after the collection period will be returned.
- For any payment after May 1st, contact the Essex County Treasurer at the end of May to make payment arrangements; at 518-873-3310
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For School Tax information please see the Minerva Central School Tax Collector webpage.
Minerva Central School
Danae Tucker, Tax Collector
P.O. Box 53
Olmsteadville NY 12857
518-251-3840 (T)
[email protected]