Bill Text: NY S00016 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency or supervising agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGING [S00016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00016-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         16--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens.  DIAZ, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, SAMPSON -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Aging  --  reported favorably from said committee and committed to the
         Committee on Finance -- 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 renewal
         notices for applications under the SCRIE program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 467-b of the real property tax
    2  law, as amended by chapter 651 of the laws of 1988, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    4.  The head of the household must apply every two years to the appro-
    5  priate rent control agency or administrative agency for a tax  abatement
    6  certificate on a form prescribed by said agency. A tax abatement certif-
    7  icate  setting  forth an amount not in excess of the increase in maximum
    8  rent or legal regulated rent for the taxable period or such other amount
    9  as shall be determined under subdivision three of this section shall  be
   10  issued  by  said agency to each head of the household who is found to be
   11  eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by law
   12  for the payment of the taxes or the first  installment  thereof  of  any
   13  municipal corporation which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
   14  such  certificate  shall  be  issued  to  the owner of the real property
   15  containing the dwelling unit of the head of the  household  and  to  the
   16  collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
   17  municipal  corporation  which has granted the abatement of taxes author-
   18  ized by this section.  THE APPROPRIATE RENT CONTROL AGENCY  OR  ADMINIS-
   19  TRATIVE  AGENCY  SHALL SEND A NOTICE OF REQUIRED RENEWAL TO EACH HEAD OF
   20  HOUSEHOLD CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS SECTION VIA UNITED
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00932-02-3
       S. 16--A                            2
    1  STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE  NO  LESS  THAN  THIRTY
    2  DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE.
    3    S  2.  Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as
    4  added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
    5    4. The head of the household must apply each year to  the  appropriate
    6  rent control agency for a tax abatement certificate on a form prescribed
    7  by  said agency. A tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount not
    8  in excess of the increase in maximum rent for the taxable  period  shall
    9  be  issued  by said agency to each head of the household who is found to
   10  be eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed  by
   11  law for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
   12  city, town or village which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
   13  such  certificate  shall  be  issued  to  the owner of the real property
   14  containing the dwelling unit of the head of the  household  and  to  the
   15  collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
   16  city,  town  or village which has granted the abatement of taxes author-
   17  ized by this section.  THE APPROPRIATE RENT CONTROL AGENCY  OR  ADMINIS-
   18  TRATIVE  AGENCY  SHALL SEND A NOTICE OF REQUIRED RENEWAL TO EACH HEAD OF
   19  HOUSEHOLD CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS SECTION VIA UNITED
   20  STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE  NO  LESS  THAN  THIRTY
   21  DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE.
   22    S  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 467-c of the real property tax law, as
   23  added by chapter 208 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
   24    4. Any such local law or ordinance may provide that the eligible  head
   25  of  the  household  shall apply annually to the supervising agency for a
   26  rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate on a form to  be
   27  prescribed and made available by the supervising agency. The supervising
   28  agency  shall  approve  or  disapprove applications and, if it approves,
   29  shall issue a rent increase exemption order/tax  abatement  certificate.
   30  Copies  of such order/certificate shall be issued to the housing company
   31  managing the dwelling unit of the eligible head of the household, to the
   32  eligible head of the household and to  the  collecting  officer  charged
   33  with  the  duty of collecting the taxes of the municipality.  THE APPRO-
   34  PRIATE SUPERVISING AGENCY SHALL SEND A NOTICE  OF  REQUIRED  RENEWAL  TO
   35  EACH  HEAD  OF  HOUSEHOLD  CURRENTLY  RECEIVING  AN EXEMPTION UNDER THIS
   36  SECTION VIA UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO THEIR PRIMARY  RESIDENCE  NO
   37  LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION RENEWAL DATE.
   38    S  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   39  have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 467-b of  the
   40  real  property  tax law made by section one of this act shall be subject
   41  to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to  section  17
   42  of  chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended, when upon such date the
   43  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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