Bill Text: NY A10921 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the state to pay local taxes on certain privately owned lands that the state requires to be fully exempt from property taxation without local consent.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-29 - referred to real property taxation [A10921 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10921-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10921 IN ASSEMBLY May 29, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law in relation to state payment of local taxes on certain privately owned lands that the state requires to be fully exempt from property taxation 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 537 to read as follows: 3 § 537. State payment of local taxes on certain privately owned lands. 4 (a) For all counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts in 5 which privately owned property is fully exempt from property taxation 6 for educational purposes without the requirement of local consent as 7 provided by section one of article sixteen of the state constitution, 8 and in which the proportion of fully exempt privately owned property 9 exceeds the mean for the state for the class of local government within 10 which that county, city, town, village or school district is included, 11 and is certified as performing the function or the functions of state- 12 owned public parkland by the secretary of state, and that can demon- 13 strate significant service to citizens of the state residing outside the 14 county in which the civil subdivision is located in accord with criteria 15 specified by the secretary, the state of New York shall pay all property 16 taxes in the same amounts and at the same time as it pays taxes on 17 certain state-owned properties as specified in section five hundred 18 thirty-two of this title. 19 (b) Owners or managers of all fully exempt private properties for 20 which the state pays property taxes under the provisions of this section 21 shall report on or before December thirty-first of each year to the 22 secretary of state, in a form and in accord with criteria specified by 23 the secretary, on the value of regional and statewide services provided 24 by those fully exempt properties, compared to the estimated value of the 25 state payment provided. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 27 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to 28 assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring 29 on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16076-01-8