Allows a city of one million or more to provide tax and rent relief to senior citizens based on the metered use of water in a dwelling unit.

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A1801-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to aging
• Jan 12, 2011: referred to aging

A1801-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    1801

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 12, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred 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:


    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 467 of the real property tax law
  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:

    (E) IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE,  ANY  LOCAL
  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE
  AMENDED OR A LOCAL LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  MAY  BE  ADOPTED  TO
  PROVIDE  THAT  THE  EXEMPTION SHALL BE COMPUTED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY
  FEE OR ASSESSMENT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON THE METERED  USE  OF  WATER
  ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH REAL PROPERTY.
    S 2. Section 467-b of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:

    10.  IN  A  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, ANY LOCAL
  LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  MAY  BE
  AMENDED  OR  A  LOCAL  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION MAY BE ADOPTED TO
  PROVIDE THAT AMOUNT OF REAL PROPERTY TAX ON WHICH THE TAX  ABATEMENT  IS
  CALCULATED  SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE AMOUNT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON THE
  METERED USE OF WATER ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH PROPERTY.
    S 3. Section 467-c of the real property tax law is amended by adding a
  new subdivision 13 to read as follows:

    13. IN A CITY HAVING  A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE,  ANY  LOCAL
  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE
  AMENDED OR A LOCAL LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION  MAY  BE  ADOPTED  TO
  PROVIDE THAT THE RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION/TAX ABATEMENT SHALL BE COMPUTED
  TO  TAKE  INTO  ACCOUNT ANY FEE OR ASSESSMENT PAID TO SUCH CITY BASED ON
  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.
                                                             LBD05089-01-1

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    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law, provided that the
  amendments to section 467-b of the real property tax law made by section
  two of this act shall expire on the same date as  such  section  expires
  pursuant to section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended.