Bill Text: NY A00350 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency or supervising agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-12 - REFERRED TO AGING [A00350 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A00350-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 350--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, JACOBS, BENEDETTO, GOTTFRIED, ROSEN- THAL, ABBATE, MAISEL, COOK, ROBINSON, PERRY, CRESPO, RIVERA, GIBSON, WRIGHT, BOYLAND, MILLMAN, BARRON, BROOK-KRASNY, GOLDFEDER -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER, FARRELL, GLICK, HEASTIE, HEVESI, V. LOPEZ, MARKEY, McDONOUGH, MILLER, OAKS, SALADINO, TITONE, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to renewal notices for applications under the SCRIE program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax 2 law, as amended by chapter 651 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 4. The head of the household must apply every two years to the appro- 5 priate rent control agency or administrative agency for a tax abatement 6 certificate on a form prescribed by said agency. A tax abatement certif- 7 icate setting forth an amount not in excess of the increase in maximum 8 rent or legal regulated rent for the taxable period or such other amount 9 as shall be determined under subdivision three of this section shall be 10 issued by said agency to each head of the household who is found to be 11 eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by law 12 for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any 13 municipal corporation which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of 14 such certificate shall be issued to the owner of the real property 15 containing the dwelling unit of the head of the household and to the 16 collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each 17 municipal corporation which has granted the abatement of taxes author- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00932-03-3 A. 350--A 2 1 ized by this section. THE APPROPRIATE RENT CONTROL AGENCY OR ADMINIS- 2 TRATIVE AGENCY SHALL SEND A NOTICE OF REQUIRED RENEWAL TO EACH HEAD OF 3 HOUSEHOLD CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS SECTION VIA UNITED 4 STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE NO LESS THAN THIRTY 5 DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE. 6 S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as 7 added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows: 8 4. The head of the household must apply each year to the appropriate 9 rent control agency for a tax abatement certificate on a form prescribed 10 by said agency. A tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount not 11 in excess of the increase in maximum rent for the taxable period shall 12 be issued by said agency to each head of the household who is found to 13 be eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by 14 law for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any 15 city, town or village which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of 16 such certificate shall be issued to the owner of the real property 17 containing the dwelling unit of the head of the household and to the 18 collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each 19 city, town or village which has granted the abatement of taxes author- 20 ized by this section. THE APPROPRIATE RENT CONTROL AGENCY OR ADMINIS- 21 TRATIVE AGENCY SHALL SEND A NOTICE OF REQUIRED RENEWAL TO EACH HEAD OF 22 HOUSEHOLD CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS SECTION VIA UNITED 23 STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE NO LESS THAN THIRTY 24 DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE. 25 S 3. Subdivision 4 of section 467-c of the real property tax law, as 26 added by chapter 208 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows: 27 4. Any such local law or ordinance may provide that the eligible head 28 of the household shall apply annually to the supervising agency for a 29 rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate on a form to be 30 prescribed and made available by the supervising agency. The supervising 31 agency shall approve or disapprove applications and, if it approves, 32 shall issue a rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate. 33 Copies of such order/certificate shall be issued to the housing company 34 managing the dwelling unit of the eligible head of the household, to the 35 eligible head of the household and to the collecting officer charged 36 with the duty of collecting the taxes of the municipality. THE APPRO- 37 PRIATE SUPERVISING AGENCY SHALL SEND A NOTICE OF REQUIRED RENEWAL TO 38 EACH HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS 39 SECTION VIA UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE NO 40 LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE. 41 S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 42 have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 467-b of the 43 real property tax law made by section one of this act shall be subject 44 to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to section 17 45 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended, when upon such date the 46 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.