STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8403
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 13, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN  ACT  to authorize the Bais Rochel High School to file an application
          for exemption from water and sewer charges
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the  commissioner  of  the  New  York  city  department of environmental
     3  protection is hereby authorized to accept  from  the  Bais  Rochel  High
     4  School,  a not-for-profit corporation, an application for exemption from
     5  water and sewer charges pursuant to Chapter 696 of the laws of 1887,  as
     6  amended, for the fiscal years of 2015 through 2016, for the parcel owned
     7  by such corporation in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, desig-
     8  nated as block 2266, lot 1 in such borough. If accepted, the application
     9  shall  be  reviewed  as  if  it  had been received for fiscal years 2015
    10  through 2016.
    11    If satisfied that such corporation would otherwise be entitled to such
    12  exemption if such corporation had filed an application for exemption for
    13  fiscal years 2015 through 2016, the commissioner of the  New  York  city
    14  department  of environmental protection, upon approval by the city coun-
    15  cil of the city of New York, may grant  exemption  from  all  water  and
    16  sewer  charges  with  respect to the subject water and sewer charges due
    17  and owing by such corporation on the effective  date  of  this  act  and
    18  cancel charges, fines, penalties and interest remaining unpaid.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11817-01-7