Authorizes municipalities to place a moratorium on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales for a period of up to five years after the COVID-19 covered period.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Galef) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT in relation to authorizing municipalities to place a moratorium
on tax foreclosures and tax lien sales
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. For the purposes of this act, "COVID-19 covered period"
2 means March 7, 2020 until the date on which none of the provisions that
3 closed or otherwise restricted public or private businesses or places of
4 public accommodation, or required postponement or cancellation of all
5 non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason in
6 executive order numbers 202.3, 202.4, 202.5, 202.6, 202.7, 202.8,
7 202.10, 202.11, 202.13 or 202.14 of 2020, as extended by executive order
8 numbers 202.28 and 202.31 and as further extended by any future execu-
9 tive order, issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to
10 apply in the county where the real property is situated.
11 § 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law, or any local law,
12 ordinance, resolution, or city or county charter to the contrary, for
13 the duration of the COVID-19 covered period, at local option and after a
14 public hearing, any village, town, city, school district, or county
15 which conducts tax foreclosures or tax lien sales may pass a local law
16 or resolution to place a moratorium on such tax lien sales or tax fore-
17 closures for a period of up to five years after the COVID-19 covered
18 period; provided however, that, consistent with the limitation of this
19 section, any such local law or resolution shall establish a date upon
20 which tax lien sales and tax foreclosures may resume.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16508-02-0
