Bill Text: NY A10518 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to place a moratorium on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales for a period of up to five years after the COVID-19 covered period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-27 - ordered to third reading rules cal.51 [A10518 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10518-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10518

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Galef) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

        AN ACT in relation to authorizing municipalities to place  a  moratorium
          on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  For the purposes of this act,  "COVID-19  covered  period"
     2  means  March 7, 2020 until the date on which none of the provisions that
     3  closed or otherwise restricted public or private businesses or places of
     4  public accommodation, or required postponement or  cancellation  of  all
     5  non-essential  gatherings  of  individuals of any size for any reason in
     6  executive order  numbers  202.3,  202.4,  202.5,  202.6,  202.7,  202.8,
     7  202.10, 202.11, 202.13 or 202.14 of 2020, as extended by executive order
     8  numbers  202.28  and 202.31 and as further extended by any future execu-
     9  tive order, issued in response to  the  COVID-19  pandemic  continue  to
    10  apply in the county where the real property is situated.
    11    §  2.  Notwithstanding  any  general or special law, or any local law,
    12  ordinance, resolution, or city or county charter to  the  contrary,  for
    13  the duration of the COVID-19 covered period, at local option and after a
    14  public  hearing,  any  village,  town,  city, school district, or county
    15  which conducts tax foreclosures or tax lien sales may pass a  local  law
    16  or  resolution to place a moratorium on such tax lien sales or tax fore-
    17  closures for a period of up to five years  after  the  COVID-19  covered
    18  period;  provided  however, that, consistent with the limitation of this
    19  section, any such local law or resolution shall establish  a  date  upon
    20  which tax lien sales and tax foreclosures may resume.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16508-02-0