Bill Text: NY S04173 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a city of one million or more to provide tax and rent relief to senior citizens based on the metered use of water in a dwelling unit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04173 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04173-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4173
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 22, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to senior citizen
         water rate relief
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 467 of the real property tax law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E) IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE,  ANY  LOCAL
    4  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE
    5  AMENDED OR A LOCAL LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  MAY  BE  ADOPTED  TO
    6  PROVIDE  THAT  THE  EXEMPTION SHALL BE COMPUTED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY
    7  FEE OR ASSESSMENT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON THE METERED  USE  OF  WATER
    8  ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH REAL PROPERTY.
    9    S 2. Section 467-b of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
   10  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   11    10.  IN  A  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, ANY LOCAL
   12  LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  MAY  BE
   13  AMENDED  OR  A  LOCAL  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION MAY BE ADOPTED TO
   14  PROVIDE THAT AMOUNT OF REAL PROPERTY TAX ON WHICH THE TAX  ABATEMENT  IS
   15  CALCULATED  SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE AMOUNT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON THE
   16  METERED USE OF WATER ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH PROPERTY.
   17    S 3. Section 467-c of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
   18  new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   19    13. IN A CITY HAVING  A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE,  ANY  LOCAL
   20  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE
   21  AMENDED OR A LOCAL LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  MAY  BE  ADOPTED  TO
   22  PROVIDE THAT THE RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION/TAX ABATEMENT SHALL BE COMPUTED
   23  TO  TAKE  INTO  ACCOUNT ANY FEE OR ASSESSMENT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON
   24  THE METERED USE OF WATER ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH REAL PROPERTY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 4173                             2
    1    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    2  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law, provided that the
    3  amendments to section 467-b of the real property tax law made by section
    4  two of this act shall expire on the same date as  such  section  expires
    5  pursuant to section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended.