Bill Text: NY A01980 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring additional notice for real property tax exemptions for senior citizens.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-23 - signed chap.738 [A01980 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01980-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1980

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, WALLACE, BARRON -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Aging

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property tax law, in relation to required
          notice of tax exemptions for senior citizens

          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 of the real property tax law,
     2  as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of 1995, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  Every municipal corporation in which such real property is located
     5  shall notify, or cause to be notified, each  person  owning  residential
     6  real  property  in  such municipal corporation of the provisions of this
     7  section.  The provisions of this subdivision may be met by a  notice  or
     8  legend sent on or with each tax bill to such persons reading "You may be
     9  eligible  for  senior citizen tax exemptions. Senior citizens have until
    10  month.........., day.......,  year......, to apply for such  exemptions.
    11  For  information  please call or write....," followed by the name, tele-
    12  phone number and/or address of a person or department  selected  by  the
    13  municipal  corporation  to  explain the provisions of this section. Each
    14  cooperative apartment corporation shall notify  each  tenant-stockholder
    15  thereof in residence of such provisions as set forth herein.  Failure to
    16  notify,  or  cause to be notified any person who is in fact, eligible to
    17  receive the exemption provided by this section or the  failure  of  such
    18  person  to  receive  the same shall not prevent the levy, collection and
    19  enforcement of the payment of  the  taxes  on  property  owned  by  such
    20  person.  A  second copy of the notice required by this subdivision shall
    21  be sent thirty days prior to the filing deadline.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05552-01-1