Reduces the years of active service necessary for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers to receive a real property tax exemption from twenty to fifteen years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3148
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to years of
active service
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 466-c of the real property tax
2 law, as added by chapter 450 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Any enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire
5 department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who accrues more
6 than [twenty] fifteen years of active service and is so certified by the
7 authority having jurisdiction for the incorporated volunteer fire compa-
8 ny, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service, shall
9 be granted the ten percent exemption as authorized by this section for
10 the remainder of his or her life as long as his or her primary residence
11 is located within such a county provided that the governing body of a
12 city, village, town, county or school district, after a public hearing,
13 adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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