Authorizes municipalities to offer real property tax credits to certain volunteers who live in one municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1317--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. GAUGHRAN, BORRELLO, BROOKS, COMRIE, HELMING,
HINCHEY, JACKSON, JORDAN, KAPLAN, KENNEDY, THOMAS -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Local Government -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government
in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to volunteer
firefighter and ambulance credits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property tax law is amended by adding a new
2 section 466-l to read as follows:
3 § 466-l. Extension of benefits. Any governing body of a city, village,
4 town, county, or school district that has provided a real property tax
5 credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers serving
6 the municipality in which they reside, notwithstanding any provision of
7 this title to the contrary, is hereby authorized to extend such real
8 property tax credit to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance
9 worker who provides such volunteer services to a neighboring city,
10 village, town, county, or school district.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03863-02-2
