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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1087
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ,  BENEDETTO,  GOTTFRIED, ROSENTHAL,
          ABBATE, COOK, ROBINSON, CRESPO, PERRY, WRIGHT,  RIVERA,  BROOK-KRASNY,
          GOLDFEDER,  SIMANOWITZ,  WEPRIN, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. DenDEKKER, FARRELL,  GLICK,  HEASTIE,  HEVESI,  MARKEY,  McDONOUGH,
          MILLER,  OAKS,  SALADINO,  TITONE  --  read  once  and referred 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
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  States  Postal  Service  to  their primary residence no less than thirty
     2  days prior to the application renewal date.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision 4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as
     4  added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
     5    4. The head of the household must apply each year to  the  appropriate
     6  rent control agency for a tax abatement certificate on a form prescribed
     7  by  said agency. A tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount not
     8  in excess of the increase in maximum rent for the taxable  period  shall
     9  be  issued  by said agency to each head of the household who is found to
    10  be eligible under this section on or before the last date prescribed  by
    11  law for the payment of the taxes or the first installment thereof of any
    12  city, town or village which has granted an abatement of taxes. Copies of
    13  such  certificate  shall  be  issued  to  the owner of the real property
    14  containing the dwelling unit of the head of the  household  and  to  the
    15  collecting officer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes of each
    16  city,  town  or village which has granted the abatement of taxes author-
    17  ized by this section.  The appropriate rent control agency  or  adminis-
    18  trative  agency  shall send a notice of required renewal to each head of
    19  household currently receiving an exemption under this section via United
    20  States Postal Service to their primary residence  no  less  than  thirty
    21  days prior to the application renewal date.
    22    §  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 467-c of the real property tax law, as
    23  added by chapter 208 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
    24    4. Any such local law or ordinance may provide that the eligible  head
    25  of  the  household  shall apply annually to the supervising agency for a
    26  rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate on a form to  be
    27  prescribed and made available by the supervising agency. The supervising
    28  agency  shall  approve  or  disapprove applications and, if it approves,
    29  shall issue a rent increase exemption order/tax  abatement  certificate.
    30  Copies  of such order/certificate shall be issued to the housing company
    31  managing the dwelling unit of the eligible head of the household, to the
    32  eligible head of the household and to  the  collecting  officer  charged
    33  with  the  duty of collecting the taxes of the municipality.  The appro-
    34  priate supervising agency shall send a notice  of  required  renewal  to
    35  each  head  of  household  currently  receiving  an exemption under this
    36  section via United States Postal Service to their primary  residence  no
    37  less than thirty days prior to the application renewal date.
    38    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    39  have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 467-b of  the
    40  real  property  tax law made by section one of this act shall be subject
    41  to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to  section  17
    42  of  chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended, when upon such date the
    43  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.