Bill Text: NY S06949 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that real property owned by private water-works corporations shall be wholly or partially exempt from taxation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06949 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06949-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6949 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE November 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to privately owned water-works corporations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 485-d of the real property tax law, as added by 2 chapter 726 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 485-d. Water-works corporations. 1. Real property situated in a city 4 with a population of one million or more owned by a water-works corpo- 5 ration subject to the provisions of the public service law and used 6 exclusively for the sale, furnishing and distribution of water for 7 domestic, commercial and public purposes, shall be wholly or partially 8 exempt from taxation provided that the local legislative body of such 9 city within which such property is situated adopts a local law so 10 providing. 11 2. Real property owned by a private water-works corporation subject to 12 the provisions of the public service law and used exclusively for the 13 sale, furnishing and distribution of water for domestic, commercial and 14 public purposes, shall be wholly or partially exempt from taxation 15 provided that the local legislative body of such city, county, town, 16 village or school district within which such property is situated adopts 17 a local law so providing. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13739-02-7