Assembly Bill A5872

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that the hotel room occupancy tax cannot be imposed in the county of Richmond

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5872 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Richmond County
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 161 of 1970
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3526
2011-2012: A5777
2013-2014: A4445
2015-2016: A6118, A10323

2017-A5872 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the hotel room occupancy tax cannot be imposed in the county of Richmond.

2017-A5872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   5872
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CASTORINA  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 161 of the laws of 1970,  relating  to  enabling
   any  city  having  a  population  of one million or more to impose and
   collect taxes on occupancy of hotel rooms in such city, in relation to
   exempting the county of Richmond from the imposition of such taxes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  opening  paragraph  of subdivision 1 of section 1 of
 chapter 161 of the laws of 1970, relating to enabling any city having  a
 population  of  one million or more to impose and collect taxes on occu-
 pancy of hotel rooms in such city, as amended by chapter 253 of the laws
 of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, EXCEPT  IN
 THE  COUNTY  OF RICHMOND, any city having a population of one million or
 more is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and  amend  local  laws
 imposing  in  any  such city a tax in addition to any tax authorized and
 imposed pursuant to article twenty-nine of  the  tax  law  such  as  the
 legislature  has  or  would  have  the  power and authority to impose on
 persons occupying hotel rooms in such city. The rates of such tax  shall
 be  either  the  rates  contained  in the following paragraph (a) or the
 rates contained in the following paragraph (b):
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08308-01-7

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