STATE OF NEW YORK
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6140--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Veterans' Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 tax exemptions
for certain veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 458-a of the real property tax law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. A county, city, village or school district may adopt a local law
4 or resolution to include those military personnel who served in the
5 Reserve component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on
6 active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine-
7 teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal Register 5003, dated March twenty-
8 fourth, nineteen hundred seventy and later designated by the United
9 States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, if such member
10 was discharged or released therefrom under honorable conditions,
11 provided that such veteran meets all other qualifications of this
12 section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
14 ment rolls on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after
15 the second day of January next succeeding the date on which this act
16 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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