Allows certain tax exemptions within the central Buffalo housing district; allows any property sold to an owner-occupant contractor, subcontractor or repairperson for use in erecting a building or improving existing property within the central Buffalo housing district to be exempt from sales tax.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1243
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. THOMPSON, ONORATO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
communications
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to allowing certain tax
exemptions within the central Buffalo housing district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph 15-a to read as follows:
3 (15-a) Any real property or property sold to a contractor, subcontrac-
4 tor or repairperson for use in (i) erecting a structure or building
5 within the central Buffalo housing district, as described in subdivision
6 seven of section four hundred twenty-one-p of the real property tax law,
7 as added by a chapter of the laws of two thousand nine, entitled "AN ACT
8 to amend the real property tax law, in relation to creating the central
9 Buffalo housing district and allowing certain tax exemptions and abate-
10 ments within such district", in which such contractor, subcontractor or
11 repairperson shall occupy or (ii) adding to, altering or improving
12 existing real property or property, within the central Buffalo housing
13 district, as the term real property and property are defined in the real
14 property tax law, in which such contractor, subcontractor or repairper-
15 son shall occupy; provided, however, no exemption shall exist under this
16 paragraph unless such erection, addition, alteration or improvement to
17 such real property or property constitutes a significant improvement to
18 such real property or property.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date as a chapter of the
20 laws of 2009 entitled "AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in
21 relation to creating the central Buffalo housing district and allowing
22 certain tax exemptions and abatements within such district" takes
23 effect, and shall apply to tax years and taxable status dates beginning
24 on or after January 1, 2010; provided, however, that effective imme-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regu-
2 lations necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
3 date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
4 such effective date.
