Bill Text: NY A08125 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires notification to be given to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation in the event that construction on a project for which an application for a certain tax exemption has been made ceases for a period exceeding one hundred twenty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-15 - 3RD READING CAL.841 [A08125 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08125-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8125--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 5, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- 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 real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
         notification to be given to the local housing agency in the event that
         cessation  of construction on a project for which an application for a
         certain tax exemption has been made  equals  or  exceeds  one  hundred
         twenty days
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 421-a of the real property tax law  is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
    3    5-A. IN THE EVENT THAT CONSTRUCTION ON A PROJECT FOR WHICH AN APPLICA-
    4  TION  FOR  TAX  EXEMPTION  UNDER THIS SECTION HAS BEEN MADE CEASES FOR A
    5  PERIOD EXCEEDING ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS,  THE  APPLICANT  FOR  THE  TAX
    6  EXEMPTION  SHALL  PROVIDE  WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE LOCAL HOUSING AGENCY OF
    7  THE CESSATION, THE REASONS FOR THE  CESSATION  AND  THE  PROJECTED  DATE
    8  CONSTRUCTION  ON  THE  PROJECT  IS TO RESUME. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE GIVEN
    9  PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAY PERIOD.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11524-04-9
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