STATE OF NEW YORK
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4479
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 6, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law law, in relation to establish-
ing the real property tax relief and local government mandate reform
act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Legislative findings and declarations. The legislature
2 hereby finds and determines that real property taxes in New York state
3 are too high, and that the burden that they place upon our citizens,
4 homeowners and businesses, is making it difficult for New York state to
5 thrive, prosper and succeed.
6 The legislature further finds and determines that the only way to
7 realistically reduce the real property tax burden upon our citizens,
8 homeowners and businesses, is to place a comprehensive approach in state
9 law which controls costs and spending for local governments, and
10 provides significant mandate relief with respect to their fiscal obli-
11 gations.
12 The legislature also finds and determines that the real property tax
13 relief and local government mandate reform must be achieved by a compre-
14 hensive approach to reduce real property taxes across the state,
15 controlling government costs, and the provision of significant mandate
16 relief to local governments.
17 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 101 of the general municipal law, as
18 amended by section 1 of part MM of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is
19 amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
20 1. Except as otherwise provided in section two hundred twenty-two of
21 the labor law, or subdivision one-a of this section, every officer,
22 board or agency of a political subdivision or of any district therein,
23 charged with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding or enter-
24 ing into contracts for the erection, construction, reconstruction or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 alteration of buildings, when the entire cost of such public work shall
2 exceed [three] ten million dollars in the counties of the Bronx, Kings,
3 New York, Queens, and Richmond; [one] seven million five hundred thou-
4 sand dollars in the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester; and
5 five [hundred thousand] million dollars in all other counties within the
6 state, shall prepare separate specifications for the following three
7 subdivisions of the work to be performed:
8 a. Plumbing and gas fitting;
9 b. Steam heating, hot water heating, ventilating and air conditioning
10 apparatus; and
11 c. Electric wiring and standard illuminating fixtures.
12 1-a. No officer, board or agency of a political subdivision or of any
13 district therein, charged with the duty of preparing specifications or
14 awarding or entering into contracts for the erection, construction,
15 reconstruction or alteration of buildings, shall be required to prepare
16 separate specifications for plumbing and gas fitting; steam heating, hot
17 water heating, ventilating and air conditioning apparatus; and electric
18 wiring and standard illuminating fixtures, of the work to be performed,
19 if there is in place, prior to the awarding or entering into contracts
20 for the erection, construction, reconstruction or alteration of build-
21 ings, a project labor agreement.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
