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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         350--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, JACOBS, BENEDETTO, GOTTFRIED, ROSEN-
          THAL, ABBATE, MAISEL, COOK, ROBINSON, PERRY, CRESPO,  RIVERA,  GIBSON,
          WRIGHT,  BOYLAND,  MILLMAN,  BARRON, BROOK-KRASNY, GOLDFEDER -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER, FARRELL, GLICK,  HEASTIE,  HEVESI,

          V. LOPEZ, MARKEY, McDONOUGH, MILLER, OAKS, SALADINO, TITONE, WEINSTEIN
          --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Aging -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
 
        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-
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00932-03-3
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     1  ized  by  this section.  The appropriate rent control agency or adminis-
     2  trative agency shall send a notice of required renewal to each  head  of
     3  household currently receiving an exemption under this section via United
     4  States  Postal  Service  to  their primary residence no less than thirty
     5  days prior to the application renewal date.
     6    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax  law,  as
     7  added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:

     8    4.  The  head of the household must apply each year to the appropriate
     9  rent control agency for a tax abatement certificate on a form prescribed
    10  by said agency. A tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount  not
    11  in  excess  of the increase in maximum rent for the taxable period shall
    12  be issued by said agency to each head of the household who is  found  to
    13  be  eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed by
    14  law for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
    15  city, town or village which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
    16  such certificate shall be issued to  the  owner  of  the  real  property
    17  containing  the  dwelling  unit  of the head of the household and to the
    18  collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
    19  city, town or village which has granted the abatement of  taxes  author-

    20  ized  by  this section.  The appropriate rent control agency or adminis-
    21  trative agency shall send a notice of required renewal to each  head  of
    22  household currently receiving an exemption under this section via United
    23  States  Postal  Service  to  their primary residence no less than thirty
    24  days prior to the application renewal date.
    25    § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 467-c of the real property tax  law,  as
    26  added by chapter 208 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
    27    4.  Any such local law or ordinance may provide that the eligible head
    28  of the household shall apply annually to the supervising  agency  for  a
    29  rent  increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate on a form to be
    30  prescribed and made available by the supervising agency. The supervising

    31  agency shall approve or disapprove applications  and,  if  it  approves,
    32  shall  issue  a rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate.
    33  Copies of such order/certificate shall be issued to the housing  company
    34  managing the dwelling unit of the eligible head of the household, to the
    35  eligible  head  of  the  household and to the collecting officer charged
    36  with the duty of collecting the taxes of the municipality.   The  appro-
    37  priate  supervising  agency  shall  send a notice of required renewal to
    38  each head of household  currently  receiving  an  exemption  under  this
    39  section  via  United States Postal Service to their primary residence no
    40  less than thirty days prior to the application renewal date.
    41    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall

    42  have  become a law; provided that the amendments to section 467-b of the
    43  real property tax law made by section one of this act shall  be  subject
    44  to  the  expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to section 17
    45  of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended, when upon such date  the
    46  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.