STATE OF NEW YORK
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3922
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to senior citizen
water rate relief
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 467 of the real property tax law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) In a city having a population of one million or more, any local
4 law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to this section may be
5 amended or a local law, ordinance or resolution may be adopted to
6 provide that the exemption shall be computed to take into account any
7 fee or assessment paid to such city based on the metered use of water
8 attributable to such real property.
9 § 2. Section 467-b of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
10 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
11 10. In a city having a population of one million or more, any local
12 law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to this section may be
13 amended or a local law, ordinance or resolution may be adopted to
14 provide that amount of real property tax on which the tax abatement is
15 calculated shall also include the amount paid to such city based on the
16 metered use of water attributable to such property.
17 § 3. Section 467-c of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
18 new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
19 13. In a city having a population of one million or more, any local
20 law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to this section may be
21 amended or a local law, ordinance or resolution may be adopted to
22 provide that the rent increase exemption/tax abatement shall be computed
23 to take into account any fee or assessment paid to such city based on
24 the metered use of water attributable to such real property.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
2 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided that the
3 amendments to section 467-b of the real property tax law made by section
4 two of this act shall expire on the same date as such section expires
5 pursuant to section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended.
