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Rule *28 - Appeals From The Bucks County Board Of Assessment And Revision Of Taxes

(a) Appeals from orders of the Bucks County Board of Assessment and Revision of Taxes should be by petition, which shall be in substantially the following form:

In Re: Appeal of ___________________	:
(name of Appellant)	:
from the Bucks County Board of As-	:
sessment and Revision of Taxes	:
Tax Parcel No. ____________________	:	No. ____________
Municipality _______________________	:
Assessment for the year ____________	:
Property of _______________________	:

 

(b) The petition shall contain inter alia the following information:

(1) Identification and address of appellant.

(2) Date of filing appeal to Board of Assessment and amount of assessment originally fixed by the Board.

(3) The date of final decision of Board of Assessment and amount of assessment finally fixed by the Board.

(4) Reasons for appeal.

(c) The appellant shall attach to the appeal Petition a proposed form of Court Order fixing for record purposes only a date and place for hearing. Said Order shall also contain substantially the following language:

"The foregoing hearing date is fixed for record purposes only. Actual trial date is to be fixed subsequently pursuant to a request of a party or parties to this action."

(d) Within twenty days after the date of entry by the Court of the Order fixing the hearing date on the appeal, the appellant shall mail, by certified mail, a copy of the Petition and Order to the following: the Board of Assessment; the County Solicitor; the municipality in which the tax parcel is located; the school district in which the tax parcel is located; and the property owner. Within thirty days after the date of the Order of Court, the appellant shall file an affidavit of service with the prothonotary.

(e) Any person or governmental agency upon whom a copy of the Petition and Order is required to be served under paragraph (d) hereof, may intervene in the appeal proceedings as a matter of right by filing with the prothonotary within twenty days after receipt of the copy of the Petition and Order, a praecipe directing intervention either as an appellant or appellee. If such praecipe has not been filed by said person or governmental agency within the said twenty day period, intervention thereafter shall be governed by Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure 2326 through 2350 inclusive.