Bill Text: NY S05834 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes Congregation Ginze Yosef, in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to ways and means [S05834 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5834
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to authorize Congregation Ginze Yosef to file an application  for
         exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
    2  the commissioner of  the  New  York  city  department  of  environmental
    3  protection is hereby authorized to accept from Congregation Ginze Yosef,
    4  a  not-for-profit  corporation,  an application for exemption from water
    5  and sewer charges pursuant to section 420-a of the real property tax law
    6  for the 2009 through 2014 assessment rolls, for the parcel owned by such
    7  corporation in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, designated  as
    8  block  6796,  lot 56 in such borough. If accepted, the application shall
    9  be reviewed as if it had been received on or before the  taxable  status
   10  date established for such assessment rolls.
   11    If satisfied that such corporation would otherwise be entitled to such
   12  exemption  if such corporation had filed an application for exemption by
   13  the appropriate taxable status date, the commissioner of  the  New  York
   14  city  department  of environmental protection, upon approval by the city
   15  council of the city of New York, may grant exemption from all water  and
   16  sewer  charges  with  respect  to the subject tax rolls due and owing by
   17  such corporation on the effective date of this act and  cancel  charges,
   18  fines,  penalties  and  interest  remaining unpaid, and make appropriate
   19  correction of the subject assessment rolls.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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