Bill Text: NY A06609 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6609 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the limit upon real property tax levies by local governments; exempts real property owned by a city, town or village from taxes for infrastructure, road maintenance, snow removal, capital projects, consent order and smart growth initiative expenses and any extraordinary expenses required to respond to public health emergencies and pandemics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-12 - held for consideration in real property taxation [A06609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06609-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6609--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 27, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee  on  Real Property Taxation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the limit upon
         real property tax levies by local governments
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (g) of subdivision 2 of
    2  section 3-c of the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of  part
    3  A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (i)  a  tax  levy  necessary for expenditures resulting from (A) court
    5  orders or judgments against the local government  arising  out  of  tort
    6  actions for any amount that exceeds five percent of the total tax levied
    7  in the prior fiscal year OR (B) ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
    8    (1) INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS;
    9    (2) ROAD MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND RENOVATION;
   10    (3) SNOW REMOVAL;
   11    (4)  CAPITAL  PROJECTS  AND  INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN UTILITIES,
   12  TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION;
   13    (5) EXPENSES DERIVED FROM CONSENT ORDERS AND SMART GROWTH INITIATIVES;
   14  AND
   15    (6) ANY EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES REQUIRED TO RESPOND  TO  PUBLIC  HEALTH
   16  EMERGENCIES AND PANDEMICS;
   17    S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
   18  the amendments to section 3-c of  the  general  municipal  law  made  by
   19  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
   20  shall be deemed to be repealed therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10164-02-5