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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5320
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 18, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Aging
 
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to making certain
          tax abatement forms more readily available to seniors and  authorizing
          certain entities to assist in the completion of such forms
 
          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-b of the real property tax law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g. "Supervising agency" shall mean the appropriate rent control agency
     4  or administrative agency designated to administer the tax abatement  for
     5  rent-controlled  and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens
     6  or persons with disabilities pursuant to a  local  law,  resolution,  or
     7  ordinance passed pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
     8    § 2. Section 467-b of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
     9  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    10    3-a.  The  supervising  agency shall develop and implement a plan that
    11  will increase the ability of applicants and participants to  obtain  and
    12  complete its forms in a community setting. Additionally, the supervising
    13  agency shall make assistance available with respect to the completion of
    14  such forms. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to:
    15    a.  partnering  with  organizations,  where  available, that engage in
    16  outreach and provide supportive services to seniors within the community
    17  to make such forms available to potential applicants and current partic-
    18  ipants, as well as providing assistance with respect to  the  completion
    19  of  such  forms.  Organizations  that  have  contact with seniors in the
    20  community shall include, where applicable, but not be limited to  senior
    21  centers,  community-based  organizations,  community  boards established
    22  pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of the New York  city  charter,
    23  neighborhood  preservation  companies  established  pursuant  to article
    24  sixteen of the private  housing  finance  law,  and  rural  preservation
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  corporations  established  pursuant  to article seventeen of the private
     2  housing finance law;
     3    b. partnering with other municipal entities or agencies to disseminate
     4  information  and  forms for the tax abatement program as well as provide
     5  assistance with the completion of such forms;
     6    c. providing training for individuals  in  such  partnering  organiza-
     7  tions,  entities,  and agencies to assist individuals in completing such
     8  forms for the tax abatement program;
     9    d. authorizing organizations, entities, or agencies that offer assist-
    10  ance with forms pursuant to this subdivision to accept  completed  forms
    11  from  applicants  and  participants  and forward them to the supervising
    12  agency. The supervising agency shall treat such forms  as  if  they  had
    13  been received directly from the applicant or participant.
    14    §  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as
    15  amended by chapter 651 of the laws  of  1988,  is  amended  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    4.  The head of the household must apply every two years to the appro-
    18  priate rent control agency or administrative agency for a tax  abatement
    19  certificate  on  a  form  prescribed by said agency.  Such form shall be
    20  made available to any organization, entity, or  agency  partnering  with
    21  the  supervising agency pursuant to subdivision three-a of this section.
    22  Any completed application received pursuant to paragraph d  of  subdivi-
    23  sion three-a of this section shall be treated as if it had been received
    24  directly  from the applicant or participant. A tax abatement certificate
    25  setting forth an amount not in excess of the increase in maximum rent or
    26  legal regulated rent for the taxable period  or  such  other  amount  as
    27  shall  be  determined  under  subdivision three of this section shall be
    28  issued by said agency to each head of the household who is found  to  be
    29  eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by law
    30  for  the  payment  of  the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
    31  municipal corporation which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
    32  such certificate shall be issued to  the  owner  of  the  real  property
    33  containing  the  dwelling  unit  of the head of the household and to the
    34  collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
    35  municipal corporation which has granted the abatement of  taxes  author-
    36  ized by this section.
    37    §  4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    38  ments to section 467-b of the real property tax  law  made  by  sections
    39  one,  two  and three of this act shall not affect the expiration of such
    40  section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.