Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 90 days prior to the application renewal date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6853
IN SENATE
February 16, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to renewal
notices for applications under the SCRIE program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax
2 law, as amended by chapter 651 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 4. The head of the household must apply every two years to the appro-
5 priate rent control agency or administrative agency for a tax abatement
6 certificate on a form prescribed by said agency. A tax abatement certif-
7 icate setting forth an amount not in excess of the increase in maximum
8 rent or legal regulated rent for the taxable period or such other amount
9 as shall be determined under subdivision three of this section shall be
10 issued by said agency to each head of the household who is found to be
11 eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by law
12 for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
13 municipal corporation which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
14 such certificate shall be issued to the owner of the real property
15 containing the dwelling unit of the head of the household and to the
16 collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
17 municipal corporation which has granted the abatement of taxes author-
18 ized by this section. The appropriate rent control agency or adminis-
19 trative agency shall send a notice of required renewal to each head of
20 household currently receiving an exemption under this section via United
21 States Postal Service to their primary residence no less than ninety
22 days prior to the application renewal date.
23 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as
24 added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
25 4. The head of the household must apply each year to the appropriate
26 rent control agency for a tax abatement certificate on a form prescribed
27 by said agency. A tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount not
28 in excess of the increase in maximum rent for the taxable period shall
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 be issued by said agency to each head of the household who is found to
2 be eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by
3 law for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
4 city, town or village which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
5 such certificate shall be issued to the owner of the real property
6 containing the dwelling unit of the head of the household and to the
7 collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
8 city, town or village which has granted the abatement of taxes author-
9 ized by this section. The appropriate rent control agency or adminis-
10 trative agency shall send a notice of required renewal to each head of
11 household currently receiving an exemption under this section via United
12 States Postal Service to their primary residence no less than ninety
13 days prior to the application renewal date.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect ninety days after it shall have become
15 a law; provided that the amendments to section 467-b of the real proper-
16 ty tax law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expi-
17 ration and reversion of such section pursuant to section 17 of chapter
18 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended, when upon such date the provisions
19 of section two of this act shall take effect.
