Town of Tyre, New York

Town Supervisor

The town supervisor primarily acts as a member of the legislative branch of town government and possesses limited authority as leader of the town board. The town board is responsible for administering and deciding on all legislative and executive concerns, and its members are elected along with the town supervisor. The Town Supervisor presides over town board meetings and is also responsible for the town's finances by acting as the fiscal officer. The Town Supervisor represents the town at the county level as well.

Ronald F. McGreevy

1907 West Tyre Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9730
phone: (315) 568-2600
fax: (315) 568-8023
E-mail Ronald

Town Clerk / Registrar

The town clerk (or municipal clerk) handles a multitude of tasks that involve keeping an accurate record of various activities within a town. The amount of work a town clerk's office deals with is usually quite extensive.

Responsibilities include recording of town board meeting minutes; swearing in of elected and appointed officials; issuing sporstman licenses and dog licenses; safe-keeping of all official town certificates (birth, death, marriage) as well as the issuing of burial permits.

Elizabeth Sutterby

636 Sutterby Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9735
phone: (315) 568-6720

Code Enforcement Officer

The Town of Tyre adopted its Zoning Law as Local Law #1 of 1991 on July 18, 1991.

This Law was adopted to promote the health, safety, comfort, convenience, prosperity and other aspects of the general welfare of the Town of Tyre and its citizens.

Specifically, this Law provides for Planned Use and Development of the Town by Action of its Citizenry.

Except as may otherwise be provided in this Law, no building, structure, or land shall hereafter be used or occupied and no building, structure or part of a building shall hereafter be erected, reconstructed, altered or relocated unless in conformity with the regulations specified in this Law for the district in which it is located.

Please also note that a Town of Tyre Zoning Permit for your project may not be the only Permit that is required. Seneca County may also require a Building Permit.

David L. Page

722 Marsh Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9741
phone: (315) 224-3502
E-mail David

For further information please call (315) 539-1950. Someone will be happy to help you ascertain whether a County Permit is required.

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Town Justices

A judge has many responsibilities, which include interpreting the law, managing multiple legal cases, hearing motions and deciding verdicts.

Larry Mills

1703 Route 318
Waterloo, NY 13165
phone: (315) 539-3586
E-mail Judge Mills

Kathy Jans-Duffy

1315 Middle Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9756
phone: (315) 568-9417
fax: (315) 568-1221
E-mail Judge Jans-Duffy

Highway Department

The Town of Tyre Highway Department's responsibilities fall into three major categories: highway maintenance, snow and ice control, and general maintenance of town owned open space.

Highway Maintenance
Snow and Ice Control
Town Owned Open Space

John A. Worden

1748 W. Tyre Road
Waterloo, NY 13165-9544
phone: 315-568-9392

Department Office

Highway Department
614 Lamb Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9747
phone: (315) 568-8584
Directions

Planning Board

The duties of the Town Planning Board are to review site plans, special use permits and housing developments for compliance with environmental regulations, conformance with the Town's comprehensive plan and to safeguard the future growth of our community through a balance between commercial, industrial and residential uses.

Schedule:

Planning Board meets the 4th Tuesday each month at 7:30pm in the Band Hall Building, 616 Lamb Road in the summer -or- in the Highway Department, 614 Lamb Road in the winter.

Meeting Minutes:

Robert C. Seem

Chairman
2445 Traver Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9751
phone: (315) 568-5637
E-mail Robert

Alan Smith

Vice-Chairman
2613 Durling Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9713
phone: (315) 568-5422

Lawrence J. Kesel

Secretary
1234 Middle Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9753
phone: (315) 568-5330
E-mail Lawrence

Deborah J. Geary

1175 Middle Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9753
phone: (315) 568-6180
E-mail Deborah

Kenneth L. Hauenstein

703 Gravel Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9748
phone: (315) 568-6030
E-mail Kenneth

David Kain

694 Gravel Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9748
phone: (315) 568-0112
E-mail David

Neil Worden

713 Middle Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9737
phone: (315) 651-2644

Zoning Board of Appeals

The Zoning Board of Appeals has a number of duties and responsibilities. Those duties include: zoning interpretation, overturning interpretations made by the Code Enforcement Officer and the Zoning Board itself, approve special uses, grant variances, granting approval for building within the bed of mapped roads, granting of temporary uses and home occupation permits.

Town of Tyre Zoning Law [pdf]

Schedule:

Zoning Board of Appeals meets as required.

Zoning Map of Tyre:

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Meeting Agendas:

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Meeting Minutes:

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Richard Damaske

Chairman
752 Gravel Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9750
phone: (315) 568-6383
E-mail Richard

Dagmar P. Nearpass

Vice-Chairman
765 Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9731
phone: (315) 568-5708
E-mail Dagmar

Beverly Smith

Secretary
2613 Durling Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9713
phone: (315) 568-5422

Kenyon Dickens

2850 Armitage Road
Savannah, NY 13146-8768
phone: (315) 365-2249
E-mail Kenyon

Eileen M. Franco

P.O. Box 482
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-0482
phone: (315) 568-8011
E-mail Eileen

Town Attorney

The purpose of the town attorney’s office is to provide effective and efficient legal services, promote accountability, trust and openness in government, and focus on outcomes that are fair, equitable and balanced while protecting the best interests of the client.

Charles Shaffer

47 W. Bayard Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-1920
phone: (315) 568-9479
fax: (315) 568-6370

Town Assessor

The assessor's duties are specified in New York State Real Property Tax Law and generally focus on the maintenance of up-to-date inventory records used for the valuation of real property within the Town of Tyre. The assessor prepares an annual assessment roll, which is used to distribute the tax liability due from each parcel.

Philip Griswold

1310 Gassner Road
Waterloo, NY 13165-9418
phone: (315) 539-2711
fax: (315) 539-2117
E-mail Philip

Dog Control Officer

Duties of the dog control officer include seizing and impounding stray and dangerous dogs. They also receive and answer complaints from the public regarding dog nuisances using state statutes and local ordinances and laws as a guide. They issue appearance summons and arrest warrants and participates in court proceedings including the preparation of reports and providing information, testimony, and evidence. They also enforce quarantine laws and orders applicable to dogs. They investigate reports of cruelty to animals and reports sick or injured animals to veterinarians for corrective action.

Dorothy Comerford

2544 County Road 124
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9608
phone: (315) 549-7183

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Responsible Dog Ownership Law

Tax Collector / Water Clerk

The Tax Collector's Office is responsible for the collection of property taxes Town of Tyre parcels. All powers and duties of this office, as well as collection procedures, are statutory and defined in the New York State Real Property Tax Law.

Linda Worden

1748 West Tyre Road
Waterloo, NY 13165-9544
phone: (315) 568-9392

Town Historian

Every city, town and village is required to have a local historian, whose primary responsibility is to obtain and disseminate historical knowledge of the municipality. In addition town historians are required to promote the establishment and improvements of programs for the management and preservation of government records with enduring value for historical or other research; encourage the coordinated collection and preservation on nongovernmental historical records. The town historian may also research and write facets of the town's history; make presentations and educate the public on issues of local and regional history; preservation of buildings, manuscripts and records that document a town's past and identify historic structures and places of historical significance. The emphasis that the historian will place on each of these duties is discretionary and will vary with each town historian.

Kathy Jans-Duffy

1315 Middle Black Brook Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-9756
phone: (315) 568-9417
fax: (315) 568-1221
E-mail Kathy

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Seneca County Historian

Fire Service

The Magee Fire Dept. was created November 22, 1948. We provide Fire & Rescue protection for the Town of Tyre and the Seneca County section of the New York State Thruway. We operate with four trucks out of two firehouses in the Town of Tyre with our main station being at the intersection of State highway 318 & State highway 414.

Magee Fire Dept.

1807 Route 318
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
non-emergency: (315) 568-9417
emergency: 911

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Magee Fire Dept.