STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 209--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels not located in a village; authorizing specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax in such villages; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 1202-dd to 2 read as follows: 3 § 1202-dd. Hotel or motel taxes in the town of Greenburgh and speci- 4 fied villages therein and in the village of Sleepy Hollow. (1) Notwith- 5 standing any other provisions of law to the contrary, the following 6 municipalities are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend 7 local laws imposing a tax on persons occupying rooms in hotels or motels 8 in such towns or villages therein, as the legislature has or would have 9 the power and authority to impose, in addition to any other tax author- 10 ized and imposed pursuant to this article: 11 a. the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county, in those portions of 12 such town not located within a village; 13 b. the villages of Tarrytown, Irvington, Ardsley, Elmsford, Dobbs 14 Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson situate in the town of Greenburgh; and 15 c. the village of Sleepy Hollow situate in the town of Mount Pleasant, 16 Westchester county. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02745-03-6