STATE OF NEW YORK
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9138
IN SENATE
July 20, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to allowing
former National Guard members to apply for the veterans alternative
exemption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
2 property tax law, as amended by chapter 384 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (e) "Veteran" means a person (i) who served in the active military,
5 naval, or air service during a period of war, or who was a recipient of
6 the armed forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary medal, marine
7 corps expeditionary medal, or global war on terrorism expeditionary
8 medal, and who was discharged or released therefrom under honorable
9 conditions, (ii) who was employed by the War Shipping Administration or
10 Office of Defense Transportation or their agents as a merchant seaman
11 documented by the United States Coast Guard or Department of Commerce,
12 or as a civil servant employed by the United States Army Transport
13 Service (later redesignated as the United States Army Transportation
14 Corps, Water Division) or the Naval Transportation Service; and who
15 served satisfactorily as a crew member during the period of armed
16 conflict, December seventh, nineteen hundred forty-one, to August
17 fifteenth, nineteen hundred forty-five, aboard merchant vessels in
18 oceangoing, i.e., foreign, intercoastal, or coastwise service as such
19 terms are defined under federal law (46 USCA 10301 & 10501) and further
20 to include "near foreign" voyages between the United States and Canada,
21 Mexico, or the West Indies via ocean routes, or public vessels in ocean-
22 going service or foreign waters and who has received a Certificate of
23 Release or Discharge from Active Duty and a discharge certificate, or an
24 Honorable Service Certificate/Report of Casualty, from the department of
25 defense, (iii) who served as a United States civilian employed by the
26 American Field Service and served overseas under United States Armies
27 and United States Army Groups in world war II during the period of armed
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 conflict, December seventh, nineteen hundred forty-one through May
2 eighth, nineteen hundred forty-five, and who was discharged or released
3 therefrom under honorable conditions, (iv) who served as a United States
4 civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employee of Pan Ameri-
5 can World Airways or one of its subsidiaries or its affiliates and
6 served overseas as a result of Pan American's contract with Air Trans-
7 port Command or Naval Air Transport Service during the period of armed
8 conflict, December fourteenth, nineteen hundred forty-one through August
9 fourteenth, nineteen hundred forty-five, and who was discharged or
10 released therefrom under honorable conditions, [or] (v) notwithstanding
11 any other provision of law to the contrary, who are members of the
12 reserve components of the armed forces of the United States who received
13 an honorable discharge or release therefrom under honorable conditions,
14 but are still members of the reserve components of the armed forces of
15 the United States provided that such members meet all other qualifica-
16 tions under the provisions of this section, or (vi) who served as a
17 member of the state national guard or air national guard.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
