Bill Text: NY S00549 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes fire districts to impose ad valorem levies and special assessments on otherwise tax exempt real property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-05 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00549-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          549
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in  relation  to  authorizing
         fire districts to impose special ad valorem levies and special assess-
         ments against otherwise tax exempt real property
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 490 of the real property tax  law,  as  amended  by
    2  chapter 87 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  490.  Exemption  from special ad valorem levies and special assess-
    4  ments.  Real property exempt from taxation pursuant to  subdivision  two
    5  of  section  four hundred, subdivision one of section four hundred four,
    6  subdivision one of section  four  hundred  six,  sections  four  hundred
    7  eight,  four  hundred  ten, four hundred ten-a, four hundred ten-b, four
    8  hundred eighteen, four hundred twenty-a,  four  hundred  twenty-b,  four
    9  hundred  twenty-two, four hundred twenty-six, four hundred twenty-seven,
   10  four hundred twenty-eight, four hundred thirty, four hundred thirty-two,
   11  four hundred thirty-four, four hundred thirty-six, four hundred  thirty-
   12  eight,  four  hundred fifty, four hundred fifty-two, four hundred fifty-
   13  four, four hundred fifty-six,  four  hundred  sixty-four,  four  hundred
   14  seventy-two,  four  hundred seventy-four and four hundred eighty-five of
   15  this chapter shall also be exempt from special  ad  valorem  levies  and
   16  special  assessments  against  real  property located outside cities and
   17  villages for a special improvement or  service  or  a  special  district
   18  improvement or service and special ad valorem levies and special assess-
   19  ments  imposed  by a county improvement district or district corporation
   20  except (1) those levied to pay for the  costs,  including  interest  and
   21  incidental  and  preliminary  costs,  of  the acquisition, installation,
   22  construction, reconstruction and enlargement  of  or  additions  to  the
   23  following   improvements,  including  original  equipment,  furnishings,
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00147-01-1
       S. 549                              2
    1  machinery or apparatus, and the replacements thereof: water  supply  and
    2  distribution systems; sewer systems (either sanitary or surface drainage
    3  or  both, including purification, treatment or disposal plants or build-
    4  ings);  waterways  and  drainage improvements; street, highway, road and
    5  parkway improvements (including  sidewalks,  curbs,  gutters,  drainage,
    6  landscaping,  grading  or  improving the right of way) [and] (2) special
    7  assessments payable in installments on an indebtedness including  inter-
    8  est contracted prior to July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, pursu-
    9  ant  to section two hundred forty-two of the town law or pursuant to any
   10  other comparable provision of law AND (3) SPECIAL AD VALOREM LEVIES  AND
   11  SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR A SPECIAL DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT OR SERVICE LEVIED
   12  BY  A  FIRE  DISTRICT,  FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT OR A PROPERTY RECEIVING
   13  FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to special
   15  ad valorem levies and special  assessments  imposed  on  or  after  such
   16  effective date.
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