Authorizes Moses Jacobowitz Charitable Foundation, in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9789--B
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Real Property Taxation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
reference changed to the Committee on Cities -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to authorize Moses Jacobowitz Charitable Foundation to file an
application for exemption from water and sewer charges
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 Moses Jacobowitz Charita-
4 ble Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, an application for
5 exemption from water and sewer charges pursuant to Chapter 696 of the
6 laws of 1887, as amended, for the fiscal years of 2014 through 2015, for
7 the parcel owned by such corporation in the city of New York, borough of
8 Brooklyn, designated as block 1750, lot 21 in such borough. If accepted,
9 the application shall be reviewed as if it had been received for fiscal
10 years 2014 through 2015.
11 If satisfied that such corporation would otherwise be entitled to such
12 exemption if such corporation had filed an application for exemption for
13 fiscal years 2014 through 2015, the commissioner of the New York city
14 department of environmental protection, upon approval by the city coun-
15 cil of the city of New York, may grant exemption from all water and
16 sewer charges with respect to the subject water and sewer charges due
17 and owing by such corporation on the effective date of this act and
18 cancel charges, fines, penalties and interest remaining unpaid.
19 § 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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