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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           222
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means
 
        AN  ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to extending the period during
          which the city of White Plains is authorized to impose  an  additional
          one-half of one percent, an additional one-quarter of one percent rate
          of sales and compensating use tax and an additional one-quarter of one
          percent rate of sales and compensating use tax
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Clause 3 of subparagraph (ii) of the opening  paragraph  of
     2  section  1210  of  the  tax law, as amended by chapter 44 of the laws of
     3  2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (3) the  city  of  White  Plains  is  hereby  further  authorized  and
     5  empowered  to  adopt  and  amend  local  laws, ordinances or resolutions
     6  imposing such taxes at a rate which is:  (i)  one-half  of  one  percent
     7  additional  to the three percent rate authorized above in this paragraph
     8  for such city for the period beginning September first, nineteen hundred
     9  ninety-three and ending  August  thirty-first,  two  thousand  [fifteen]
    10  seventeen; and (ii) an additional one-quarter of one percent in addition
    11  to  the  other  rates authorized in this paragraph for such city for the
    12  period beginning March first, two thousand eight and ending August thir-
    13  ty-first, two thousand [fifteen]  seventeen;  and  (iii)  an  additional
    14  one-quarter  of one percent in addition to the other rates authorized in
    15  this paragraph for such city for the period beginning  June  first,  two
    16  thousand  ten  and  ending  August  thirty-first, two thousand [fifteen]
    17  seventeen;
    18    § 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1210
    19  of the tax law or any other provision of law, local law, rule  or  regu-
    20  lation  to the contrary, a local law, ordinance or resolution enacted or
    21  amended pursuant to the authority of this act,  imposing  an  additional
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00067-01-5
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     1  rate  of  tax  in  the  city  of White Plains, shall become effective in
     2  accordance with the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the
     3  tax law, except that the certified copy of such local law, ordinance  or
     4  resolution  which  must be mailed by certified or registered mail to the
     5  commissioner of taxation and finance at  the  commissioner's  office  in
     6  Albany  must  be so mailed at least twenty-one days prior to the date on
     7  which such local law, ordinance or resolution is to take effect.
     8    § 3. The estimated revenue from  the  additional  one-quarter  of  one
     9  percent rate of tax first authorized by chapter seventy-four of the laws
    10  of  two thousand ten to be imposed by the city of White Plains, which is
    11  expected to be received during a fiscal year of such city and  which  is
    12  included  in  the  annual  budget, as finally adopted, of such city, for
    13  that  fiscal year, shall be paid into the contingency and tax stabiliza-
    14  tion reserve fund of such city as provided by budgetary appropriation of
    15  such city, subject to  all  the  limitations  and  other  provisions  of
    16  section 6-e of the general municipal law.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.