Provides that the current real property tax exemption for persons over 65 may also be extended to those persons who are totally and permanently disabled; provides that municipalities shall provide by local law that such shall be granted to either those 65 years of age or older or to those who are totally and permanently disabled, or to both categories of persons.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4679
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 14, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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 granting
partial exemption from real property taxation to persons who are
totally and permanently disabled
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 467 of the real
2 property tax law, as amended by chapter 348 of the laws of 2007, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Real property owned by one or more persons, each of whom is
5 sixty-five years of age or over, or real property owned by husband and
6 wife or by siblings, one of whom is sixty-five years of age or over or
7 totally and permanently disabled, or real property owned by one or more
8 persons, some of whom qualify under this section and the others of whom
9 qualify under section four hundred fifty-nine-c of this title, shall be
10 exempt from taxation by any municipal corporation in which located to
11 the extent of fifty per centum of the assessed valuation thereof,
12 provided the governing board of such municipality, after public hearing,
13 adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing [therefor] that
14 such exemption shall be granted to either those sixty-five years of age
15 or over, or to those totally and permanently disabled, or to both cate-
16 gories. For the purposes of this section, sibling shall mean a brother
17 or a sister, whether related through half blood, whole blood or
18 adoption.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
20 ing the date on which it 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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