Bill Text: NY A05314 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to place a moratorium on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales for a period of up to five years after the COVID-19 covered period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to real property taxation [A05314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05314-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5314

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, OTIS, ZEBROWSKI, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, CUSICK
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

        AN  ACT  in relation to authorizing municipalities to place a moratorium
          on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    For the purposes of this act, "COVID-19 covered period"
     2  means March 7, 2020 until the date on which none of the provisions  that
     3  closed or otherwise restricted public or private businesses or places of
     4  public  accommodation,  or  required postponement or cancellation of all
     5  non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for  any  reason  in
     6  executive  order  numbers  202.3,  202.4,  202.5,  202.6,  202.7, 202.8,
     7  202.10, 202.11, 202.13 or 202.14 of 2020, as extended by executive order
     8  numbers 202.28 and 202.31 and as further extended by any  future  execu-
     9  tive  order,  issued  in  response  to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to
    10  apply in the county where the real property is situated.
    11    § 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law,  or  any  local  law,
    12  ordinance,  resolution,  or  city or county charter to the contrary, for
    13  the duration of the COVID-19 covered period, at local option and after a
    14  public hearing, any village, town,  city,  school  district,  or  county
    15  which  conducts  tax foreclosures or tax lien sales may pass a local law
    16  or resolution to place a moratorium on such tax lien sales or tax  fore-
    17  closures  for  a  period  of up to five years after the COVID-19 covered
    18  period; provided however, that, consistent with the limitation  of  this
    19  section,  any  such  local law or resolution shall establish a date upon
    20  which tax lien sales and tax foreclosures may resume.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05011-01-1