Bill Text: NY S05411 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows towns to adopt a local law or resolution to include reserve veterans for the veteran alternative exemption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-25 - SIGNED CHAP.141 [S05411 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05411-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5411
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to allowing towns
          to adopt a local law to  include  reserve  veterans  for  the  veteran
          alternative exemption
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 458-a of the  real  property  tax
     2  law,  as added by chapter 476 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    10. A county, city, town, village or school district may adopt a local
     5  law or resolution to include those military personnel who served in  the
     6  Reserve  component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on
     7  active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine-
     8  teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal  Register  5003,  dated  March  twenty-
     9  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and  later designated by the United
    10  States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, if  such  member
    11  was   discharged  or  released  therefrom  under  honorable  conditions,
    12  provided that such  veteran  meets  all  other  qualifications  of  this
    13  section.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
    15  ment  rolls  on  the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after
    16  the second day of January next succeeding the date  on  which  this  act
    17  shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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