Bill Text: NY A01366 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Exempts a homeowner from any tax increases when installing a solar energy system on their home.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to real property taxation [A01366 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01366-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                        1366--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Real  Property  Taxation  --  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  exempting  a
         homeowner  from tax increases when installing a solar energy system on
         certain homes on or after January 1, 2016
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax law,
    2  as amended by chapter 366 of the laws of 2010, is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    5. The exemption granted pursuant to this section shall only be appli-
    5  cable to solar or wind energy systems or farm waste energy systems which
    6  are  (a)  existing  or constructed prior to July first, nineteen hundred
    7  eighty-eight [or], (b) constructed subsequent to January first, nineteen
    8  hundred ninety-one and prior to January first, two thousand  fifteen  OR
    9  (C)  SOLAR  ENERGY SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTED ON ONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR FAMILY
   10  HOMES ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04147-03-3
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