Fulton County Tax Calls Go Better With the SBL

Fulton County gives property owners a handy little code to learn: SBL. It stands for section, block, and lot. The county also calls it the Tax Map Number or Property ID Number, and it appears on assessment rolls, tax rolls, tax bills, and other property documents.

The Beacon/Schneider Image Mate map is the public lookup lane. Fulton County says it gives ownership, property inventory, assessed value, and other information, with updates made nightly.

Taxes paid are a separate question. During tax collection dates, Fulton points people to the local tax collector. Outside those dates, county and town tax questions go to the County Treasurer, while city or school tax questions stay with those collectors.

That split is easy to forget around Johnstown, Gloversville, Broadalbin, Mayfield, Caroga, and the lake towns. Keep the SBL, municipality, roll year, bill type, and collector name together. Image Mate helps identify the parcel, but the collector lane tells you where the payment question belongs.

For a full property history, Fulton says an abstract company prepares a legal abstract. The county lookup is a starting map, not the whole file.