Bill Text: NY A08128 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that in a city with a population of a million or more, any resident who is an eligible resident sixty-two years of age or older, and who has an income of fifty thousand dollars or less shall be eligible to be exempted from any future increases in water rate fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to cities [A08128 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08128-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8128
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 31, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Cities
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          certain  elderly individuals with an exemption from increases in water
          rates
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  real  property  tax  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 467-aa to read as follows:
     3    § 467-aa. Water rate freeze in a city with a population of one million
     4  or more. 1. Definitions.  As used in this section:
     5    (a) "qualified resident" means a person  who  is  at  least  sixty-two
     6  years  of  age  and  has had a total household income of less than fifty
     7  thousand dollars for two consecutive income tax years beginning  in  two
     8  thousand  fifteen,  as  verified  by  the  New  York  city department of
     9  finance;
    10    (b) "exemption" means the exemption to  future  water  rate  increases
    11  provided in subdivision two of this section; and
    12    (c)  "primary  domicile"  means  real  property  owned  by one or more
    13  persons, each of whom is sixty-five years of age or over, or real  prop-
    14  erty owned by husband and wife or by siblings, one of whom is sixty-five
    15  years  of  age  or  over, or real property owned by one or more persons,
    16  some of whom qualify under this section and the others of  whom  qualify
    17  under  section four hundred fifty-nine-c of this title. For the purposes
    18  of this section, sibling shall mean  a  brother  or  a  sister,  whether
    19  related through half blood, whole blood or adoption.
    20    2.  Exemption. A qualified resident of a city with a population of one
    21  million or more shall be eligible for an exemption to any  future  water
    22  rate  increases  at  the  primary dwelling of such individual; provided,
    23  however, that no individual shall be eligible for the exemption at  more
    24  than one dwelling unit.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    3.  Temporary  suspension of exemption. The exemption may be suspended
     2  for no more than one calendar year in the event of a drought or extraor-
     3  dinary catastrophic environmental event as  determined  jointly  by  the
     4  commissioner  of  environmental conservation and the commissioner of the
     5  department of environmental protection of the city of New York.
     6    4. Eligibility. An individual's enrollment in the senior citizen home-
     7  owner  exemption provided in section 11-245.3 of the administrative code
     8  of the city of New York or the exemption for persons  with  disabilities
     9  provided  in  section 11-245.4 of the administrative code of the city of
    10  New York shall not preclude an otherwise qualified resident from  eligi-
    11  bility for the exemption provided in this section.
    12    5. Preemption. The provisions of this section shall exclusively govern
    13  the  exemption  established  in subdivision two of this section notwith-
    14  standing the provisions of any other law to the contrary;  and  further,
    15  no  local  law shall be enacted which shall purport to expand or curtail
    16  the exemption established herein.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.