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Assembly Bill A4797

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Enacts the "Long Island affordable workforce housing and community improvement program"

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2009-A4797 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1115, Tax L

2009-A4797 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Long Island affordable workforce housing and community improvement program"; provides tax incentives for the construction of affordable workforce housing in certain counties.

2009-A4797 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4797

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Ways and Means

AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to enacting the "Long Island
  affordable workforce housing and  community  improvement  program"  by
  providing  tax incentives for the construction of affordable workforce
  housing; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expira-
  tion thereof

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

  Section 1. This act shall be known or may be cited as the "Long Island
affordable workforce housing and community improvement program".
  S 2. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the  tax  law  is  amended  by
adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
  (44)  (A) TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY SOLD TO A CONTRACTOR, SUBCONTRAC-
TOR OR REPAIRMAN FOR USE IN ERECTING ONE OR MORE STRUCTURES OR BUILDINGS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FIVE  OR  MORE  SINGLE  FAMILY  RESIDENTIAL
HOMES,  FIVE OR MORE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL UNITS, OR ANY COMBINATION
OF SUCH HOMES OR UNITS THAT TOTAL FIVE OR MORE; PROVIDED THAT:
  (I) TEN PERCENT OF SUCH HOMES, UNITS OR COMBINATION  THEREOF,  ROUNDED
UP  TO  THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER, SHALL BE RESERVED FOR AFFORDABLE WORK-
FORCE HOUSING;
  (II) SUCH HOMES, UNITS OR COMBINATION THEREOF RESERVED FOR  AFFORDABLE
WORKFORCE  HOUSING  SHALL  BE  OF A DESIGN THAT IS REASONABLY CONSISTENT
WITH NON-AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING; AND
  (III) SUCH STRUCTURES OR BUILDINGS SHALL BE ERECTED IN A COUNTY WITH A
POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED  THIRTY-FOUR  THOUSAND
AND LESS THAN ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND OR A COUNTY
WITH  A  POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED NINETEEN THOU-
SAND AND LESS THAN ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND ACCORDING TO
THE TWO THOUSAND FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08082-01-9

              

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