STATE OF NEW YORK
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4627--B
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 1, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs
in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to real property
tax exemptions for certain disabled veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 458-a of the real property tax law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of
4 this subdivision, a county, city, town, village or school district
5 acting by and through its governing body, may grant to a veteran, or the
6 unmarried surviving spouse of such veteran, who served in a combat thea-
7 tre or combat zone of operations, as documented by the award of a United
8 States campaign ribbon or service medal, or the armed forces expedition-
9 ary medal, navy expeditionary medal, marine corps expeditionary medal,
10 or global war on terrorism expeditionary medal, and who is one hundred
11 percent disabled as a result of military service, a one hundred percent
12 exemption from real property taxation. The local maximum exemption
13 allowance adopted by a local law pursuant to paragraph (d) of this
14 subdivision shall not apply such exemptions of one hundred percent disa-
15 bled veterans.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
17 ment rolls prepared on and after January 1, 2016.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00640-06-6
