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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Cities

AN  ACT  to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the right of
  the commissioner of finance of the city of New York to  seek  judicial
  review of decisions of the New York city tax appeals tribunal

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision b of section 171 of the New York city  charter,
as  amended  by  chapter  808 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
follows:
  b.  Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions d and  e  of  section
one  hundred sixty-nine of the charter, each decision of the tribunal[,]
shall finally and irrevocably  decide  all  the  issues  raised  in  the
proceedings  before it, unless the petitioner who commenced the proceed-
ing OR THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE seeks judicial  review  of  any  such
decision  in  the  manner provided in article seventy-eight of the civil
practice law and rules within four months after the giving of the notice
of such decision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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