Cheshire Additional Veterans’ Exemption

Code § 17-13, effective March 14, 2008 for the October 2008 grand list, gives a veteran entitled under C.G.S. 12-81(19) an additional exemption of up to $10,000 off assessed value, for qualifying income of not more than $54,800 if single or a surviving spouse or $61,500 if married, and a surviving spouse entitled under 12-81(22) an additional $10,000, for income of not more than $51,500. An application on the assessor’s form is due by the assessment date with the federal return or other income evidence; after a first approval the applicant files biennially. Cheshire’s income limits are its own, above the 12-81l amounts. Code § 17-7, Ord. Enact. 11-13-90, adopts the 12-81h exemption of a motor vehicle specially equipped for a disabled veteran at 100 percent of assessed value from the October 1, 1990 grand list, and § 17-8 the same day adopts the 12-81(21)(C) exemption of the dwelling house and lot of a veteran who received special housing assistance under Title 38. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Cheshire as offering the 12-81g(b) exemption, three times the 12-81(20) amount for a veteran rated 100 percent, but answering no to the wartime local option the code’s § 17-13 grants, and no to the vehicle exemption § 17-7 grants. The survey is a legislative research canvass it could not verify; the code is Cheshire’s own record, read from the scan the assessor posts. No Cheshire ordinance adopting 12-81g(b) was found in the chapter.