Bill Text: NY A09223 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities; relates to providing notice to those eligible of the need for reapplication.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - signed chap.286 [A09223 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09223-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9223--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 7, 2012
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       Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS, V. LOPEZ, MILLMAN, WEINSTEIN, BARRON --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JACOBS -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Aging -- reported and referred to the Committee  on  Ways
         and  Means -- 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 tax  abatement
         for  rent-controlled  and  rent  regulated property occupied by senior
         citizens or persons with disabilities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 467-b of the real property tax law
    2  is amended by adding two new paragraphs c and d to read as follows:
    3    C.  THE  ENTITY  THAT  ADMINISTERS  THE TAX ABATEMENT PURSUANT TO THIS
    4  SECTION SHALL DEVELOP A SYSTEM TO  ENSURE  THAT  PARTICIPANTS  THAT  ARE
    5  ELIGIBLE  FOR  THIS  TAX  ABATEMENT  PROGRAM  PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH B OF
    6  SUBDIVISION THREE OF  THIS  SECTION  AND  SUBSEQUENTLY  BECOME  ELIGIBLE
    7  PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION, SHALL HAVE
    8  TIMELY  NOTICE  OF  THE  NEED  TO  REAPPLY FOR THE TAX ABATEMENT PROGRAM
    9  DURING THE FIRST REAPPLICATION  PERIOD  AFTER  MEETING  THE  ELIGIBILITY
   10  CRITERIA  OF  PARAGRAPH  A  OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION AND FOR
   11  EVERY REAPPLICATION THEREAFTER BASED ON THEIR  ELIGIBILITY  PURSUANT  TO
   12  PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   13    D.  AN ENTITY ADMINISTERING THIS PROGRAM SHALL NOT CONSIDER ANY ELIGI-
   14  BILITY CRITERIA THAT ARE NOT CONTAINED IN THIS  SECTION  IN  DETERMINING
   15  WHETHER TO APPROVE OR DENY AN APPLICATION FOR THE TAX ABATEMENT PROGRAM.
   16    S  2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
   17  ments to subdivision 5 of section 467-b of the  real  property  tax  law
   18  made  by  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the expiration and
   19  reversion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14359-02-2