Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 12 - Taxation
62f - Minimum Standards for Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal
Section 12-62f-5 - Assessment administration module

(a) The assessment administration module shall have the ability to interface with the data management, valuation and tax collection modules. In addition, said module shall embody the following general functions: Ability to produce grand lists in OPM approved format; ability to maintain sales history file for each property; ability to provide multi-district coding for separate tax district grand list(s); ability to update files with respect to prorates for motor vehicle credits and new construction/demolition; ability to process assessment changes as made by the Board of Assessment Appeals, certificates of correction and any other lawful corrections and adjustments and update appropriate fields with such changes; calculate the percentage of tax credit with respect to the Elderly and Totally Disabled Homeowners Tax Relief Program; calculate the phase-in of assessments in accordance with subsection (e) of Sections 12-62a or 12-62c of the Connecticut General Statutes; allow for multi-year processing; provide two-level password protection; provide interactive updating to the data management module; provide multi-user capability to allow simultaneous file access for more than one user with record level lockout where applicable; with respect to systems having multiple terminals or personal computers, allow the simultaneous use of other software, such as word processing or spreadsheet applications; provide for an audit file; ability to allow inquiries and updating of real estate, personal property and motor vehicle records; and provide one or more built-in editing routines to flag potential error conditions (e.g. a total assessment that is not equal to line item breakdown, an exemption in an amount greater than $10,000, an invalid exemption code(s), and missing data related to owner's name, street address, city, state or zip code).

(b) Said module shall also be able to generate the following reports in hard copy and/or provide the required data to a magnetic diskette: Grand lists in the OPM approved format; assessment increase notices in accordance with Section 12-55 of the Connecticut General Statutes; a list of the twenty largest assessments for real estate and personal property; reports as required by assessor (e.g. volume and page of deed recording, last sales price, and sales date); and the following OPM reports: M-35B - Reimbursement of Revenue Loss-Owners, M-35P - Reductions to Owners Reimbursement, M-36P - Reductions to Freeze Reimbursement, M-59A - Additional Veterans Exemptions, M-37 - State-owned Property Payment-in-lieu of taxes, M-37 C&H - College and Hospitals Payment-in-lieu of taxes; and M-13 and M-13A - OPM Reports of Taxable and Tax Exempt Grand Lists. In addition, said module shall have the capacity of producing the following user-defined reports: Parcel owner information; map parcel identification; property location; district(s); item code(s); exemption code(s); use value code(s); census tract; building permit management; and any other user-definable reports based on data from the data management and valuation modules. Said module shall also have the capability to restart any incomplete report at the point where it was terminated.